Tarot · Wands
King of Wands
King of Wands - Fire
Correspondences
- Element
- Fire
- Planet
- Mars
- Sign
- Aries
- Number
- 14
- Yes / no
- Yes upright, No reversed
Traditional Golden Dawn attributions. The yes / no value is a convention for single-card questions, not a prediction.
Upright
Decisive, visionary leadership is what will move this forward.
King of Wands. Decisive, visionary leadership is what will move this forward. A King of Wands is vision with the authority to enforce it: someone who moves first and expects the room to follow. Under Mars, it works by force and initiative, direct and fast and wholly indifferent to whether the timing is comfortable. Being Fire, it resolves through action rather than deliberation. Its keyword range runs through bold leadership, visionary drive, entrepreneurial spirit, and commanding presence.
Reversed
Leadership has tipped into domineering, impatient demands.
King of Wands reversed. Leadership has tipped into domineering, impatient demands. Its sign is Aries, which begins: initiative taken before permission is granted, and heat that does not wait to be certain. Reversed here, it has overrun its own measure, the same force carried past the point where it served you and into the point where it costs you. Its keyword range, to be read here as difficulty, delay, or a lesson not yet learned: impulsiveness, ruthlessness, overbearing demands, and unrealistic expectations.
About the Tarot
A 15th-century Italian card game that was turned to fortune-telling only 350 years later.
The upright and reversed meanings here follow the mainstream Rider-Waite-Smith reading tradition. A reversed card is treated as the same force blocked, turned inward, or overexpressed - not simply as its opposite.
Full history →Meanings are a guide to a symbolic tradition, offered for reflection and entertainment. They do not predict the future or describe real people or events. See the Terms.