Knight of Wands
Knight of Wands
Number 12 Fire knight
A wands card: drive, work, and what you are building.
Upright
chargecharmhasteadventure
Fast, charming, and not entirely thought through. The Knight of Wands is the person who books the flight, the decision made at speed and carried off on sheer nerve. It works more often than it should, and when it does not it is spectacular.
Reversed
recklessnessunreliabilityburning out
The speed has become the problem. Reversed, this is someone unreliable in an entertaining way, a decision made too fast to unpick, or energy spent at a rate nothing can sustain.
What is in the picture
A knight on a rearing horse, armour and plumes, salamanders on his tunic. The horse is off the ground and he is entirely unbothered.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: move fast and charmingly. It suits this situation.
Reversed: speed is costing you more than it is gaining.
Love and relationships
Upright: passionate, fast, and a bit of a gamble. You know that.
Reversed: someone who arrives magnificently and leaves without notice.
Work and direction
Upright: take the bold approach. Safe will lose here.
Reversed: a colleague who overpromises, or you doing it.
Money and security
Upright: a calculated gamble, emphasis on calculated.
Reversed: spending at a rate you have not looked at.
Me, honestly
Upright: your appetite for this is the asset. Use it before it cools.
Reversed: you burn hot and then flat. Plan for the flat bit.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes, and go now rather than perfectly.
Reversed: slow down. This is the sort of thing you regret at speed.
If this card leads
Go now and adjust on the way.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, no.
“Bold is a reasonable strategy.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
