02 Two of Wands
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Number: 2
Card Title: Two of Wands
Esoteric Title: Lord of Domination
Numerical Keywords: 2: Expansion, Duality, Life Force
Numerical Attributions: Zodiac, Gray, Year, End
Intelligence: Illuminating Intelligence
Element: Fire (hot, dry)
Elemental Keywords: Energy, Action, Inception
Elemental Attributions: South, Summer, Noon
Astrological Attribution: Mars in Aries
Dates & Timing: March 21 to March 30
Qabalistic World: Chokmah in Atziluth
Translation of World: The Wisdom of Nobility
Suit Color: Wands-Red
Keywords: Creative growth, authority, control, success, bold, ambitions, negotiation, planning, preparation, partnership, vision, capable, self-assured, King, Boss.
Ill-Dignified:Restlessness, Indecision, Obstinacy, Proud, Quick Temper, Turbulent, Unforgiving
Interpretation: Calculated risk. Meeting of minds. A situation that requires leadership and decision making. Venturing forth with power. Setting plans in motion. Manifestation of the spark of the Ace.
Reversed Interpretation: Good beginnings might not bear fruit. Domination by others, ambitions clouds judgment. Split passion.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The Number two is related to the 2nd Kabalistic world called Chochmah and is called wisdom.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore; he holds a globe in his right hand, while a staff in his left rests on the battlement; another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily should be noticed on the left side. Divinatory Meanings: Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible; on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; on the other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design gives one suggestion; here is a lord overlooking his dominion and alternately contemplating a globe; it looks like the malady, the mortification, the sadness of Alexander amidst the grandeur of this world’s wealth. Reversed: Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Two.A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Twos = contention; 3 Twos = security; 2 Twos = accord.
Reversed: 4 Twos = reconciliation; 3 Twos apprehension; 2 Twos = mistrust.
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.
TWO. Opposition to the commencement of the Enterprise. The Enterprise is commenced when an unexpected obstacle suddenly prevents its execution.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
34. Deuce of Sceptres.–Riches, Fortune, Opulence, Magnificence, Grandeur; R. Surprise, Astonishment, Event, Extraordinary Occurrence.
Additional Remarks
The following additional remarks may be serviceable to the to the inexperienced Cartomancer. They are chiefly taken from Etteilla.
34. Deuce of Sceptres.R. If the cards fall 49 R., 34 R., you
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Aries I
A black man, standing and cloathed in a white garment, girdled about, of a great body, with reddish eyes, and great strength, and like one that is angry; and this image signifieth and causeth boldness, fortitude, loftiness and shamelesness;
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XLV. The Lord of Dominion
Two of Wands
A WHITE Radiating Angelic hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping two crossed wands. Flames issue from the point of junction. On two small wands above and below, with flames of five issuing therefrom, are the symbols of Mars and Aries for the Decan.
Strength, domination, harmony of rule and of justice. Boldness, courage, fierceness, shamelessness, revenge, resolution, generous, proud, sensitive, ambitious, refined, restless, turbulent, sagacious withal, yet unforgiving and obstinate.
Chokmah of HB:Y (Influence over others, authority, power, dominion).
Therein the Angels HB:VHVAL and HB:DNYAL bear rule.
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.
4 Twos Conferences, conversations.
3 Twos Reorganization, recommendation.
