Queen of Wands
Wands
How This Card Is Derived
Papus gives no separate description of this card. It is derived from his system: Wands is Yod (י), the active, originating principle, acting in Atziluth, the archetypal world; the Queen is He, the suit's passive principle embodied — it receives and reflects. The meaning below is that combination read out, not a quotation from him.
Upright
The receptive principle inside the active suit: the person who sustains an enterprise rather than starting it. Papus's He does not originate, and the Queen of Wands is exact about that — her authority lies in holding a venture's warmth steady through the parts where nobody feels enthusiastic. Staff in one hand, sunflower in the other. She receives other people's initiative and hands it back to them usable.
Reversed
Warmth withdrawn selectively, which in the active world is a real instrument of power. Or sustaining everyone else's ventures so completely that her own is never begun.
Correspondences
- Suit
- Wands — Yod (י), Atziluth, the archetypal world
- Suit principle
- the active, originating principle
- Rank
- Queen — He
- Rank role
- the suit's passive principle embodied — it receives and reflects
In a Spread
At the commencement, the matter begins because someone kept a flagging thing alive. In opposition, a person whose confidence is carrying the room. At equilibrium she is why the enterprise still has energy in it. As the result: the thing endures, because somebody sustained it.