A man rides through a crowd on a white horse. He is wearing a laurel victory wreath and has another wreath on the wand in his right hand.

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

A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side.

Divinatory Meanings: The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such as might be carried in state by the King’s courier; it is expectation crowned with its own desire, the crown of hope, and so forth.

Reversed: Apprehension, fear, as of a victorious enemy at the gate; treachery, disloyalty, as of gates being opened to the enemy; also indefinite delay.

4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

Six.–Servants may lose the confidence of their masters; a young lady may be betrayed by a friend. Reversed: Fulfilment of deferred hope.

The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing

In the Natural Position: 4 Sixes = abundance; 3 Sixes = success; 2 Sixes = irritability.
Reversed: 4 Sixes = care; 3 Sixes = satisfaction 2 Sixes = downfall.

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.

SIX Realization of the opposition. At last the obstacles succeed. Failure of the Enterprise in the midst of its execution.

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

Meanings of the Cards

30. Six of Sceptres.–Attempt, Hope, Desire, Wish, Expectation; R. Infidelity, Treachery, Disloyalty, Perfidy.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Leo II

With hands lifted up, and a man on whose head is a Crown; he hath the appearance of an angry man, and one that threatneth, having in his right hand a Sword drawn out of the scabbard, & in his left a buckler; it hath signification upon hidden contentions, and unknown victories, & upon base men, and upon the occasions of quarrels and battels [battles]:

Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim

Book "T" The Tarot

XXII. The Lord of Victory – Six of Wands
TWO hands in grip as the last, holding six wands crossed three and three. Flames issue from the point of junction. Above and below are short wands with flames issuing, surmounted respectively by the symbols of Jupiter and Leo, representing the Decan.

Victory after strife: Love: pleasure gained by labour: carefulness, sociability and avoiding of strife, yet victory therein: also insolence, and pride of riches and success, etc. The whole dependent on the dignity.

Tiphareth of HB:Y (Gain).

Hereunto are allotted the great Angels HB:SYTAL and HB:a’aLMYH of the Schemhamphorash.

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 Sixes Pleasure.
• 3 Sixes Gain, success.