Your Chosen Card – Ace of Wands Upright Golden Deck
When upright, the Ace of Wands suggests new beginnings and promises success related to enterprise, ambition, identity formation, career, and self-realization. Your creative juices are flowing. You may be expanding your career, starting a new job, or initiating a business venture. This is a time characterized by enthusiasm, inventiveness, ambitious goals, and innovative projects. Wands are associated with the element Fire, the spark of life. This ace sometimes signals a pregnancy or the birth of a child. In the Prometheus myth, the fire this mythical figure steals from the gods signifies the awakening of the human mind.
Keywords Upright: Birth, creation, inspiration, excitement, passion, initial spark, commencement, inception, new life, pregnancy, source, beginning, the seed of Fire, the sprouting of a seed, conception, self-actualization, career opportunities.
Timing: Astrologically, Fire is linked to springtime.
Astrology: Root-force of Fire, the element associated with the season of spring.
Number Symbolism: 1 – initial spark, will, creation, beginnings, new life.
In Llewellyns Classic Tarot a hand emerging from a cloud on the left-hand side of the card holds a wooden staff upright in the light blue sky. The knuckles of the hand face the viewer. The cloud dips down and touches the surface of the water. The staff must have been carved recently from a living tree because fresh green leaves are sprouting along its length, symbols of vitality and new life. Beneath the staff is a country landscape of verdant pastures and trees in bloom. A river cuts through the scene on its way to a large body of water, perhaps a lake or the sea. A stony crag at the edge of the water supports a well-appointed castle overlooking the entire landscape.
When Ace of Wands is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Ace of Wands is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Ace of Wands is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for Ace of Wands using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Complete Book of Tarot: According to the Golden Dawn, several major arcana are associated with the element Water and the watery suit of Cups. These include:
Portable Magic: All the traditional planets rule two signs each, except for the Sun and the Moon, which each rule only one sign. The planets added to modern astrology, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, have no place in the Golden Dawn correspondences for the trumps, which are based on traditional astrology.
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Portable Magic: All the traditional planets rule two signs each, except for the Sun and the Moon, which each rule only one sign. The planets added to modern astrology, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, have no place in the Golden Dawn correspondences for the trumps, which are based on traditional astrology.