1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Queen of Wands

Minor Arcana · Wands

Queen of Wands

• friendly
• loving
• honourable
• success in business

Upright meaning

A warm, magnetic presence: Waite calls her friendly, loving and honourable, with a certain success in business.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite reads good, economical, obliging, serviceable: warmth turned practical, but worth checking it is not spread too thin.

• economical
• obliging
• serviceable

Symbolism

A queen on a throne holds a leafing staff and a sunflower; a cat sits before her.

Group

Minor Arcana · Wands

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.