Minor Arcana · Asa Altı
Harmony and progress in drive, creativity and action.
Upright: fire, drive, creativity and action
Reversed: blocked, excess
A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side.
The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such as might be carried in state by the King's courier; it is expectation crowned with its own desire, the crown of hope, and so forth.
Apprehension, fear, as of a victorious enemy at the gate; treachery, disloyalty, as of gates being opened to the enemy; also indefinite delay.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.