1. Tarot
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3. Two of Wands

Minor Arcana · Wands

Two of Wands

• riches
• magnificence

Upright meaning

A figure looks out over his domain, globe in hand. Waite admits two readings that cannot be reconciled; we read it as standing at a high point and weighing what comes next.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite gives surprise, wonder and emotion: a plan meeting the unexpected.

• surprise
• wonder
• emotion

Symbolism

A tall man on a battlement holds a globe and looks over sea and shore.

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.