About these meanings: the traditional descriptions and meanings on this public reference page are taken from material associated with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck. Some of the language is historical, severe, or old-fashioned. Slogit Tarot modernises this terminology and greatly expands the meanings, examples and interpretations inside the Arcana Nexus learning course.

Minor Arcana · Wands

Ace of Wands

Card Code W1

Suit Wands

Rank Ace

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Description & Symbolism

Ace of Wands

A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.

Divinatory Meaning

Upright

Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of enterprises; according to another account, money, fortune, inheritance.

Calamities of all kinds.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish also a certain clouded joy.

A sign of birth.