Tarot Journey with Leisa ReFalo

Rank: King
Card Title: King of Wands
Esoteric Title: Prince of the Chariot of Fire
Astrological Attribution: Leo (fixed fire)
Decans: Strength
Dates & Timing: 20° Cancer to 20° Leo
Corresponding Trump: July 12 to August 11
Elemental Attributions: Air (hot, wet) Fire (hot, dry)
Elemental Combination: The Intellect strengthens the Will
Qabalistic World: Tipareth in Atziluth
Translation of World: The Beauty of Emanation
Suit Color: Wands-Red

Keywords: Rapid, Intense, Entrepreneur, Headstrong, Self-Starter, Daring, Headstrong, Idealistic, Energetic, Motivated, Strong, Generous, Impulsive, Ambitions, Self-assertive, Creative Man Of Vision, Not Afraid To Talk, Self-Made Man, Faithful.

Ill-Dignified: Selfish, Power Hungry, Intolerant, Driven By Desire, And Impulsive. Quick-Tempered, Temperamental, Impulsive, Impatient, Daredevil.

Interpretation

Temperament: Rapid, Intense, Entrepreneur, Headstrong, Self-Starter, Daring, Headstrong, Idealistic, Energetic, Motivated, Strong, Generous, Impulsive, Ambitions, Self-assertive, Creative Man Of Vision, Not Afraid To Talk, Self-Made Man, Faithful.

Professions: Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Planning, Construction.

Starting: The planning of a great trip, the idea for some grand new career, being motivated to go into politics or take charge. Depending where it is in the spread, it can indicate that the Querent has decided to take command, to overthrow the old with his new, bold ideas.

Meanings: Business success, unexpected heritage, promoting new ideas, new business ventures or coming changes. Dynamic forward movement. Make an important contact. Gradual progress. Unexpected money. Weighted down with responsibility. Every challenge helps me grow. Every storm strengthens my roots.

Reversed Interpretation

Temperament: Selfish, Power Hungry, Intolerant, Driven By Desire, And Impulsive. Quick-Tempered, Temperamental, Impulsive, Impatient, Daredevil.

Meanings: Involved in get rich quick schemes. Latches on to them with high hopes only to be disappointed. Beware of hasty judgments. Disagreements.

Rider-Waite Imagery

Court cards can represent your personality, someone close to you and situations you find yourself in. Usually they describe all three at once.

The King of Wands sits on his Gold throne that is decorated with lions and salamanders. The lions are his astrological attribution of Fixed Fire – Leo. He is the king of the salamanders. The salamander is the animal associated with the element of fire. The king is shown in profile. He is holding a wand in his right hand as his scepter. He has a fiery crown on his head and a lion necklace. His gown is orange with yellow fiery cuffs. the cowl is green, his cloak is yellow with black salamanders, his slippers are green. There is a green salamander on the ground on the right side of the card. The sky is blue and there is a brown mountain in the background on the left.

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)

The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three correspondences in the remaining suits, what is called a cap of maintenance beneath his crown. He connects with the symbol of the lion, which is emblazoned on the back of his throne. Divinatory Meanings: Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty, and may mean news concerning an unexpected heritage to fall in before very long. Reversed: Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.

4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

King.–Generally favourable may signify a good marriage. Reversed: Advice that should be followed.

The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing

In the Natural Position: 4 Kings = great honour; 3 Kings = consultation; 2 Kings = minor counsel.
Reversed: 4 Kings = celerity; 3 Kings = commerce 2 Kings = projects.

The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]

Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot

SCEPTRES: Creation. Enterprise. Agriculture.

KING. The King of Sceptres symbolizes a dark man, a friend. He generally represents a married man, the father of a family

The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]

Meanings of the Cards

22. King of Sceptres.–Man living in the country, Country Gentleman, Knowledge, Education; R. A naturally good but severe man, Counsel, Advice, Deliberation.

Additional Remarks

The following additional remarks may be serviceable to the to the inexperienced Cartomancer. They are chiefly taken from Etteilla.

The Court-Cards, and especially the Kings and Queens, may be taken to represent persons; in this case their additional meaning should not be read. The Swords represent very dark people; Pentacles, those not so dark; Cups, rather fair people; Wands or Sceptres, those much fairer, and so on. Many Wands together might signify feasting, many Cups lovemaking, Swords quarrelling and trouble, Coins or Pentacles money.

Where the mode of reading the cards requires that the person consulting should be represented, he should take one of the Kings to represent himself, according to his complexion. If a lady consults the cards, let her take one of the Queens; if she be rather fair, the Queen of Cups; if she be very fair, the Queen of Wands or Sceptres. If the inquirer be quite a youth or a boy, let him take one of the Knights; if a very young girl, let her take the Knave, etc. Etteilla’s plan was to take two of the Keys for Significators, that answering to the Pope for a man, that answering to the High Priestess for a woman; but I do not think this is so well. The worst of Etteilla’s system is that he so completely destroys the meanings of the Keys in his attempted rearrangement of them, as to make them practically useless for higher occult purposes.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim

Book “T” The Tarot

The Four Princes
These Princes are Figures seated in Chariots, and thus borne forward. They represent the Vau Forces of the Name in each suit: the Mighty Son of the King and Queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of Force. A Prince, the son of a King and Queen, yet a Prince of Princes, and a King of Kings: an Emperor whose effect is at once rapid (though not so swift as that of the Queen) and enduring. It is, therefore, symbolized by a Figure borne in a Chariot, and clothed in Armour. Yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in Motion by his Father and Mother.

Princes and Queens shew almost always actual men and women connected with the matter.

VII. The Prince of the Chariot of Fire
King of Wands
A KINGLY Figure with a golden, winged crown, seated on a chariot. He has large white wings. One wheel of his chariot is shewn. He wears corslet and buskins of scale armour decorated with a winged lion’s head, which symbol also surmounts his crown. His chariot is drawn by a lion. His arms are bare, save for the shoulder-pieces of the corslet, and he bears a torch or fire-wand, somewhat similar to that of the Zelator Adeptus Minor. Beneath the chariot are flames, some waved, some salient.

Swift, strong, hasty; rather violent, yet just and generous; noble and scorning meanness.
If ill dignified — cruel, intolerant, prejudiced and ill natured.
He rules the heavens from above the last Decan of Cancer to the second Decan of Leo; hence he includes most of Leo Minor.
Air of Fire

Prince and Emperor of Salamanders.

Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:

• A Majority of Wands Energy, opposition, quarrel.
• A Majority of Court Cards Society, meetings of many persons.
• 4 Princes Meetings with the great.
• 3 Princes Rank and honour