What does the King of Wands tarot card mean?

This card represents personal efforts leading to success. These can be promising business projects, career growth, and the opportunity to achieve a great deal professionally. The situation described by the King of Wands is generally favorable for the querent. The spirit of this card is the blossom of social realization, power, and achieving results. It can indicate a high position in society, earned respect, valuable connections, broad opportunities, fame, and glory. The arrival of good news regarding a business or financial enterprise.

What does the King of Wands reversed mean?

The upright King of Wands does something because he believes in it. The reversed King of Wands does it because he wants to prove something to someone, because... he himself does not believe. Astrological equivalents: Saturn, Capricorn, the Tenth House, "the fall of an empire".

What does the King of Wands mean in love?

The King of Wands is perhaps the most passionate of the Tarot Kings. In his youth, he was the restless Knight of Wands, and even now he is characterized by charisma, a tendency to accelerate and dramatize events, make grand gestures, and behave in a striking and memorable way. He likes to be the center of attention, receive recognition, and be noticed. Modesty and timidity are absolutely not his element, and he is drawn to the fire in others as well. In love, he is just as independent and brave as in everything else. He will not clench his jaw for years, keeping his feelings to himself, or tediously manipulate step by step. This person opens his heart, and then is ready to act, as they say, according to the situation. In general, he knows how to inspire affection for himself alongside genuine respect, and the latter turns out to be inexhaustible—the flame of passion may safely burn out, but that very respect remains completely unchanged until the end of his days. This is the case where his grave is surrounded in solidarity by comrades-in-arms and enemies, widows and mistresses, and children from three marriages, and everyone truly remembers him kindly and pays their respects from the bottom of their hearts, secretly dreaming deep down of making a movie about him or at the very least writing decent memoirs. The King of Wands is a gift on life's path; he knows how to transform existence and give an enormous amount, not solely or primarily in terms of material goods, but in the form of something that no one will ever be able to take away from us. There is one limitation—clinging to this gift makes no sense. It is like clinging to the sunlight. Take as much as you can, and do not hinder him from shining on everyone who is also entitled to this gift. From the point of view of karma, giving the King of Wands entirely to just one person is an unaffordable luxury. He must benefit many and become a ray of light in the dark kingdom for many.

What does the King of Wands mean for career?

A wonderful time to take some actions for business development. Business luck. A reliable partnership. This card can describe some ambitious and promising business venture that will require great maturity, consistency, energy, and single-mindedness. Bringing it to success with "little blood" (that is, without demonstrating the highest business qualities at every stage) will not work. The King of Wands can herald the need for hard work in the name of one's achievements.

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King of Wands

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