Minor Arcana · Asa Kral
Authoritative command of drive, creativity and action.
Upright: fire, drive, creativity and action
Reversed: blocked, excess
The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three correspondences in the remaining suits, what is called a cap of maintenance beneath his crown. He connects with the symbol of the lion, which is emblazoned on the back of his throne.
Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty, and may mean news concerning an unexpected heritage to fall in before very long.
Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.