Queen of Wands
Bright, warm confidence draws people toward you like a magnet. When you step forward and take the lead, you are likely to get an enthusiastic response.
Jealousy or impatience may start to cloud your natural charm and make your warmth harder for others to see.
The card's advice: Show off what you do well with confidence.
Queen of Wands: reading the picture
Down in the lower left, a black cat with round yellow eyes stares straight out at us. It meets your eyes before anything else does. From there, a red hanbok, traditional Korean dress, pours down the steps, and above it sits the queen in a gold crown, a round golden sun behind her head. Golden lions guard the throne. In one hand she holds a leafy wand, in the other a single sunflower, and more sunflowers crowd around her. Lions, sunflowers, sun: everything is bright and hot except one black cat. She keeps it at her feet in plain view. That ease with her own shadow is part of why people approach her.
Queen of Wands in love, work and money
- Love and relationships
Your bright, self-assured presence naturally attracts people now. Instead of shrinking while you watch for the other person's reaction, let your charm show freely and comfortably.
- Work and study
Presenting or bringing people together earns you a positive reception. You have a knack for juggling many things, so volunteer first for the area where you shine.
- Money
You gain the confidence to make money decisions decisively. Cut back on spending meant to impress others, and put your money toward what genuinely brings you joy.
First Saturday at the farmers market booth
Her first Saturday at a farmers market booth didn't go as planned. A 35-year-old who makes small-batch hot sauce, she's funny with friends, but with strangers she froze and recited a pitch copied from a video, and it came out stiff. That evening the Queen of Wands showed up in her reading. The queen with the sunflower isn't imitating anyone; she sits in her own light. The reading points to dropping the script, keeping one true story about why she started making sauce, and trusting the cat's instinct: noticing which shoppers want to chat and which only want a sample.
Questions to ask yourself after drawing Queen of Wands
- What's your sunflower, the strength people notice in you before you even try?
- Beneath the bright face, how are you treating the sensitive side that sits at your feet like that cat?
- Where are you borrowing someone else's style and hiding your own voice in the process?
Queen of Wands as a yes or no
Yes This card is led by warm confidence, so stepping forward boldly brings you close to a good outcome.
Easy to confuse with The Empress
Both are warm women on thrones. The Empress sits at ease beside ripe wheat and pines: the power to nurture, tend and help things grow. The Queen of Wands sits upright on a lion throne, sunflower in hand, with a confidence that steps in front of people and sets the mood. Needing to nurture points to the Empress; needing to shine points to the Queen.
A common misreading of Queen of Wands
The black cat sometimes makes readers think this is an unlucky card. In the 1909 tradition, the cat is the queen's companion, a sign of intuition and independence. It adds a private, perceptive side to a lively card. It isn't an omen of trouble.
Symbols in Queen of Wands
The lion-carved throne and the wand in her hand show bold strength, while the sunflower in her other hand reflects a bright, warm nature. The black cat at her feet reveals the sharp intuition and private inner world beneath her lively surface.
How we drew Queen of Wands
- Kept from the 1909 card
The lion-decorated throne, a wand in one hand, a sunflower in the other, the black cat at her feet
- What we changed
The queen wears hanbok and a gold crown in place of the floral crown.