Queen of Wands: tarot card meaning

In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Queen of Wands upright means: A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman, she is interested in the Querent. Also, love of money, or a certain success in business. Reversed: Good, economical, obliging, serviceable. Signifies also (but in certain positions and in the neighbourhood of other cards tending in such directions) opposition, jealousy, even deceit and infidelity.

The picture

“The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality corresponds to that of the King, but is more magnetic.” A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910

Upright

A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman, she is interested in the Querent. Also, love of money, or a certain success in business.

Waite's additional meanings: A good harvest, which may be taken in several senses.

Reversed

Good, economical, obliging, serviceable. Signifies also (but in certain positions and in the neighbourhood of other cards tending in such directions) opposition, jealousy, even deceit and infidelity.

Waite's additional meanings, reversed: Good will towards the Querent, but without the opportunity to exercise it.

In one line

Warm, loving and honourable: a friend to the house. (Esbat's own summary of Waite's meaning and picture.)

Where it sits in the deck

The Queen of Wands is the thirteenth card of the suit of Wands, one of the 56 Minor Arcana. The other Queens: Queen of Cups, Queen of Swords, Queen of Pentacles.

In Esbat

Esbat deals a card of the day, face down until you turn it, and holds all 78 cards in the 1910 pictures with Waite's meanings, upright and reversed. The Queen of Wands can be shared as a picture. All 78 tarot card meanings.

Sources

Meanings and picture descriptions: A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1910), public domain, checked against the Wikisource transcription. Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, 1910, public domain. Like the app, this page records what the book says; it does not promise outcomes.

Last updated October 25, 2026.

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