The Three of Wands, or Three of Batons, is a playing card of the suit of wands. In tarot, it is a Minor Arcana card.
Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games . [1] In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. [1] [2]
 |
A calm onlooker facing towards the sea. There's a possibility that he is a merchant or looking forward to a journey. The three represents creation – looking forward to something with optimism – a mission. This card symbolizes enterprise, trade, or commerce.
Keynotes: achievement – venture – traveling – pursuing a journey
If the card is in reversed, it means the end of a task, toil, a cessation, and disappointment.
The key meanings of the Three of Wands: [3]
In the 1922 poem The Waste Land , T. S. Eliot associates The Man with Three Staves with the Fisher King, "quite arbitrarily". [4]
The Two of Wands is a Minor Arcana tarot card.
The Four of Wands is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana".
Five of Wands or Five of Batons is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana".
The Six of Wands, or Six of Batons, is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards, which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana," the six of wands cards in divination decks with illustrated pip cards, displays a laureled horseman bearing a staff adorned with laurel crown. Footmen with staves are at his side.
The Seven of Wands is a Minor Arcana tarot card.
The Eight of Wands is a Minor Arcana tarot card. In the Rider–Waite deck, the card shows eight diagonal staves of staggered length angled across an open landscape with river, as designed by artist Pamela Colman Smith.
The Nine of Wands is a Minor Arcana tarot card.
The Ten of Wands is a Minor Arcana Tarot card of the suit of wands.
The Page of Wands is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the Minor Arcana.
Knight of Wands or Knight of Batons is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the Minor Arcana. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games.
The Queen of Wands is a court card in the Minor Arcana set of the tarot.
The King of Wands, or King of Batons, is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include Italian, Spanish, and tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana".
The Three of Swords is the third card of the suit of swords. The suit is present in Italian, Spanish, and tarot decks.
Ace of Coins is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards, which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana" The coins suit is often called "Pentacles" by tarot readers.
The Three of Coins is the third card in the suit of coins. The suit is used in Spanish, Italian, and tarot decks.
The Seven of Coins is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana".
Eight of Coins is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana"
The suit of wands is one of four suits in tarot, collectively known as the Minor Arcana. Like the other tarot suits, the suit of wands contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page and knight, queen and king. When Tarot cards are to play Tarot card games, where wands corresponds to the suit of batons. Tarot cards came to be utilized for divinatory purposes by esotericists such as Eliphas Levi and were regularized into the divinatory form most known today by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Rider–Waite Tarot, created by a Golden Dawn member.
The suit of goblets, more often known in modern times as the Suit of Cups, is one of four suits of tarot which, collectively, make up the Minor Arcana. They are sometimes referred to as chalices. Like the other suits of the Minor Arcana, it contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. Historically, the suit represented the First Estate. Tarot cards were originally designed for card play and are still used throughout much of Europe to play various Tarot card games. However, in English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. In modern card games, the equivalent suits are Hearts or Cups.
Gertrude Charlotte Moakley was an American librarian and a Tarot scholar. Moakley is notable for having written the earliest and most significant account of the iconography of Tarot, a card game which originated in the Italian Renaissance. She had worked at the New York Public Library.
| Occultists | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major Arcana numbered cards |
| ||||||||
| Minor Arcana suit cards |
| ||||||||
| Decks | |||||||||
| Related | |||||||||
 | This tarot-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
