What is the suit of Wands in Tarot? |

The suit of Wands is what represents the spiritual and motivational plane and symbolizes honorable attitudes and ideals and favorable undertakings. This suit warns against directing a lot of energy to a single issue, which can end up being an exaggerated and obsessive attitude. It declares the need for us to know how to measure our attitudes, to fall into reality and be more serene.

When a person draws a card from the suit of Clubs, he must know that psychic phenomena are involved. It is the universe of personal power, of knowing how to develop situations and of the strength invested in building something.

The Four Element Theory

The four elements refer to the natural elements: Fire, Water, Air and Earth, essential to human life on the planet. The concept of the four elements is very old. It goes back to the culture of India and China and is therefore at the foundation of Buddhism and Hinduism. But the roots of the Western theory of the four elements are in Ancient Greece, when pre-Socratic philosophers attested that these were the four basic forces that constitute matter.

The idea lasted until the Middle Ages and ended up being disseminated during the Renaissance period, when it seems to have influenced the structure of Tarot decks. They are present and decisive in various artistic and philosophical segments such as Literature, Alchemy and Astrology, for example. Each system appropriates the four elements and offers an almost unanimous interpretation of them, since they are universal forces that constitute and also affect the nature of the human being inside and outside.

Suit consisting of 14 cards represents the Fire element

In addition to the four court cards – King, Queen, Knight and Page (click here to learn more about them) – the Clubs suit is composed of another 10 numbered cards: ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten of Wands. The Kingdom corresponds to the element of Fire, according to the Theory of the Four Elements, whose symbols are the rod, the staff, the hot colors, the stake, etc.

Key words

Enterprise; Honor; Integrity; True; Progress; Plenty; Trust; Personal strength; Imposition; Anxiety; Naivety.

The teaching brought by the suit of Wands

The Wands cards are linked to practical life, to the attitudes that must be taken to the detriment of so many reflections. They teach you to take charge of situations instead of getting lost in any indecision.

Attitude is the key concept of the suit of Wands, which also grants increasingly significant opportunities to those who are predisposed to question and even change their own reality.

What to ask when this suit is drawn?

What attitudes does life demand of me right now? How much energy do I put into what I want/believe? Should I behave energetically in the face of this situation?

What is Tarot used for?

Bearing in mind the idea that the Tarot is a framework of symbols, it is easy to see that it basically works as a representation of situations or people. In the forecast approach, it serves to predict the future, analyze past events and assess what is at stake in the present, but always depending on the context in which it is used. The orientation approach analyzes the cards, associating them with the stages we are in at a certain moment and how we can solve problems, take the right actions and enjoy what is important.

Reading the Tarot is projecting what we want to know about a moment, situation or person, representing the object and defining its course or the most prudent attitude towards it.