24-Three of Wands – Reversed Rider Waite Deck

When reversed, the Three of Wands suggests that something is holding you back from starting a new venture or from taking the proper steps for your future growth and development. Perhaps your goals are unrealistic, or the advice you have followed is unsound. Your efforts may have been careless or misguided. You need to reevaluate the situation and re-assess your skills and commitment as well as those of the people you have selected as associates. Have you planned optimally and created the proper structure to increase your chances for success?

Keywords Reversed: poor planning, lack of foresight, carelessness, arrogance, half-baked schemes, unrealistic goals, missed opportunities, false starts, foolish risks, lack of cooperation, unreliable partners, unsound advice, misguided effort, neglect, the need to reassess the situation.

Timing: 10 Aries–20 Aries. Tropical, 30 March–9 April. Sidereal, 24 April–3 May
Astrology: The mighty Sun (exalted) in the second decan of fiery Aries, realm of the Queen of Wands (Water of Fire) and the Emperor (Aries). The exaltation of the Sun in Aries enhances its power, virtue, pride and strength.
Number Symbolism: 3 – fertility, a creative environment, a triadic relationship, the first fruits of a joint venture.

Three Of Wands: Putting Your Ducks In A Row

When Three of Wands is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Three of Wands is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Three 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 reversed card reading for Three of Wands using cards from the Rider Waite 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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Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot: The fifteenth-century Renaissance artists who created the tarot added a fifth suit of trump cards (trionfi) to the traditional playing card deck that originally came to Europe via Mamluk, Egypt. This additional suit of trumps, now called the major arcana (‘greater secrets’) consists of twenty-two allegorical images inspired by Greek and Roman mythology and the Bible. Many tarot readers view the sequence of trump cards as a series of moral lessons the Fool must master on his journey to salvation. Occultists often refer to the cards as ‘keys’ because of a 1781 speculation by Antoine Court de Gébelin that each major arcana card represents a key to the ancient magical wisdom of the Egyptian god Thoth, whose mysteries are encoded in the symbolism of the cards.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: When reversed, the Three of Wands suggests that something is holding you back from starting a new venture or from taking the proper steps for your future growth and development. Perhaps your goals are unrealistic, or the advice you have followed is unsound. Your efforts may have been careless or misguided. You need to reevaluate the situation and re-assess your skills and commitment as well as those of the people you have selected as associates. Have you planned optimally and created the proper structure to increase your chances for success?

Complete Book of Tarot: Myth 1: The tarot is a picture book written by priests of the Egyptian god Thoth Hermes Trismegistus that was later brought to Europe by the gypsies. A concise statement of this myth appears in The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall:

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Complete Book of Tarot: In the dialogue Phaedrus, Plato, the most famous student of Socrates, called his teacher the wisest, most just, and best of all men he had ever known. According to Robert Place, the Renaissance artists who designed the Chariot card were inspired by Plato’s metaphor of the human soul as a rational charioteer trying to control the unruly horses of appetite and will. In this metaphor, Plato represented Socrates’s idea that being truly human implies ‘the capacity to transcend instinct and desire and to make conscious, ethical choices.’ 14