Wands Tarot Cards and Meanings

Wands are the fire suit. On every card in the suit someone is holding, planting, carrying or fighting with a living staff, still sprouting green leaves, and that detail tells you what the suit is about: energy that is alive and wants to grow. Wands cover ambition, creative projects, travel, competition and the spark of attraction, the things you do because you can’t not do them.

A reading full of Wands moves fast. It points to plans taking off, to restlessness, to a fight for position or to a passion that needs somewhere to go. The trouble with fire is that it burns out or burns too much, so the harder cards of the suit, the Five’s scuffle, the Nine’s exhaustion and the Ten’s heavy load, are about drive that has lost its balance.

Start with the Ace, the first spark, or pick any card below.