Minor Arcana · Asa As
A pure new impulse of drive, creativity and action.
Upright: fire, drive, creativity and action
Reversed: blocked, excess
A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.
Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of enterprises; according to another account, money, fortune, inheritance.
Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish; also a certain clouded joy.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.