Seeing Tarot Episode 8: The Queen of Wands

is our first queen that we are encountering, and this is the queen of the element of fire.

So here is where we see fire reaching a level of mastery that in all of the queens is like a mastery of creativity, of flexibility, of innovation.

It's like more of an embodied and... sort of free-flowing sense of mastery than a top-down prescriptive and like regimented type of mastery that we see in the king cards so the confluence of those two things with the queen of wands brings us this like really charismatic archetype where we have a lot of energy and passion that is channeled seemingly effortlessly into an abundance of things and in the imagery I mean I'm so I'm so interested in the fact that this was one that we just really like ran with it didn't feel like it needed a lot of um deliberation and I feel like that's such a like wands experience so I'm like tickled that it kind of

enacted itself in in its fashion

through our process and And here, you know, as we've traveled through the wand suit and the court cards, we see what happens when we finally sit down.

The queens and the kings, they are seated on thrones.

So there is this sense of arrival and what you can do once you have run the gamut, had the experiences, done the work, and now you have all these tools and talents at your disposal.

So I'm curious, what was your first impression, your first encounter with this card?

Oh, that's awesome.

I love what you said about it coming together without it really needing too much working through.

I definitely felt that way.

I was really...

Yeah, I hadn't connected with the wands as much as I do with this card, and I really...

The presence of the queen...

So I always come at it from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck... just looking at the picture um so I was like I love this lady I love how many cats there are there's lots of uh lions and lion imagery and then there's a living cat like a house cat or whatever in front of her like kind of guarding her and it's kind of like hissing um So, yeah, the cats really evoked, like, independence and kind of, like, a detached cruelty that I love.

And, yeah, what you said about the, like, it taking its form so easily without, like, back and forth or without too much, you know...

Without too much back and forth, I really felt that and we had talked about this with the other ones, but I really understood it in a different way was the like getting stuff done of the fire and the wands.

Yes.

That I really came to understand with her.

And there's a certain, like, mercenary attitude that comes along with that that I love.

And I never...

You're a fire girl.

I love that.

I'm...

Definitely not.