Western Tarot symbolism
Six of Wands
A laurelled horseman carries a wand bearing another laurel crown, with footmen beside him. The main description makes victory one reading and also suggests important news conveyed ceremonially. The additional upright meanings include betrayed confidence, while its reversed reading gives fulfilment of deferred hope. This differs markedly from the main reversed list of fear, disloyalty and delay.
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The card account
LiteraryA laurelled horseman carries a wand bearing another laurel crown, with footmen beside him. The main description makes victory one reading and also suggests important news conveyed ceremonially.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe additional upright meanings include betrayed confidence, while its reversed reading gives fulfilment of deferred hope. This differs markedly from the main reversed list of fear, disloyalty and delay.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown ; footmen with staves are at his side. Divinatory Meanings: The card has been soOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 100
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0100
- Original scan leaf
- 106
- Recorded leaf number
- 106
- Current Reader position
- 100
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Fulfilment of deferred hope. Five.—Success in financial speculation. Reversed: Quarrels may be turned to advantage. Four.—Unexpected good fortune. Reversed: A married woman will have beautiful children.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 150
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0150
- Original scan leaf
- 156
- Recorded leaf number
- 156
- Current Reader position
- 150
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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A hand from a cloud presents the suit's single stout wand.
Shared source pageEight of Wands
Flying wands carry the numbered suit into an image of swift motion.
Shared source pageFive of Wands
Five youths brandish staves in a scene described as mock combat.
Shared source pageFour of Wands
A garland joins four foreground staves beside a bridge and a house.