Card Meaning: Two Of Wands
General
The figure stands on an elevated position, watching the world below with
a
globe in his hand. He is obviously in the position of power, gazing on something
that is of great interest to him. It seems that this person is finding a new
vision in this moment, probably a new goal that he is striving for. The fire
identity of the Wands suit just urges for goals, purposes and ideas. This is the
first card in the suit that tries to transform the initial motivation of the
Ace
of Wands into something more concrete, something that we can achieve in this
world. We see so many times mentioned the blue mountain in the background. In this
card we can interprete it as the true goal, but the person is watching the other
way, suggesting that the energy of this card has yet to assume maturity. The
person obviously doesn't know his true goal yet, but he is sensing that he is
ready to go to an adventure. We see the red flowers and white lilies on the
stone wall, that motif we can see also on
The Magician card clearly implying
some connection. The Magician card is telling us about the application of the
Will, this card also has the same theme but on a more mundane level.
Reading
Positive:
courage, personal power, vision, new goals or attanment of the old goals,
prosperity, strength of will, authority, daring.
Negative: low ambition, improper means, loss of faith, desire for power, lack of
enthusiasm, futility.
A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore; he holds a
globe in his right hand, while a staff in his left rests on the battlement;
another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily should be noticed on the
left side. Divinatory Meanings: Between the alternative readings there is
no marriage possible; on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; on the
other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design
gives one suggestion; here is a lord overlooking his dominion and alternately
contemplating a globe; it looks like the malady, the mortification, the sadness
of Alexander amidst the grandeur of this world's wealth. Reversed:
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
— The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by A.E. Waite