Eight of Wands

Minor Arcana · Asa Sekiz

Movement and mastery in drive, creativity and action.

Upright: fire, drive, creativity and action

Reversed: blocked, excess

Waite's description

The card represents motion through the immovable—a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even on the threshold.

Divinatory Meanings

Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, as that of an express messenger; great haste, great hope, speed towards an end which promises assured felicity; generally, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.

Reversed

Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.

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