WANDS · Queen
Queen of Wands
Warm authority. You do not have to raise your voice to own the room; inhabit the fire until others can stand near it without burning.
- ELEMENT
- fire
- NUMBER
- Court — inhabit: warm authority. Fire as climate, not as performance.
- MODE
- Inhabit — the quality lived from inside
- SYMBOLS
- a seated figure with a sunflower, heat that can grow a garden · lions on the throne, strength as furniture · a black cat at the feet, familiar of will · a desert behind, the queen having made a green seat in it · a stave held at ease, command that does not lean forward
UPRIGHT
- +confidence that includes other people
- +creative hospitality
- +desire owned without apology or spectacle
- −charisma used as weather control
- −jealousy of anyone else's sun
- −warmth that is conditional on being admired
- IN LOVE
- A magnetic, grown heat. Invite, do not consume. Let the cat at your feet be independence, not a test.
- IN WORK
- Lead by climate: culture, vision, the room people want to work in. Check your shadow when someone else blooms.
- IN SELF
- You can be the source of warmth. You are not required to be on fire for an audience.
REVERSED
The sunflower droops or scorches — confidence collapsed, or a throne that demands tribute.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Shadow — the unused face of the card.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
Blocked Queen of Wands has forgotten her heat. Excess Queen needs the room. Shadow Queen punishes anyone who does not orbit.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- StrengthThe EmpressKing of WandsNine of Pentacles
- TENSES WITH
- The DevilFive of WandsThe Moon
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- a dramatic woman
- be more confident, just glow
- she's jealous and hysterical