Three of Wands

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Three of Batons ("bastos") from a Spanish deck

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.

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Three of Wands from the Rider–Waite tarot deck

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]

Divination usage

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 reversed, it means the end of a task, toil, a cessation, and disappointment.

Key meanings

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]

References

  1. 1 2 Dummett, Michael (1980). The Game of Tarot. Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. ISBN   0-7156-1014-7.
  2. ↑ Huson, Paul (2004). Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage. Vermont: Destiny Books. ISBN   0-89281-190-0.
  3. ↑ Trusted Tarot (2010) Three of Wands
  4. ↑ "Eliot, T. S. 1922. The Waste Land". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
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