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4.1 Open Wands

Wands

Activity

  1. Review the Significations of Pentacles below.
  2. Organize your Pentacles from Ace to King.
  3. Take some time to look at each card and feel the story of the Pentacles.
  4. OPTIONAL: Make the headings for the 14 encyclopedia entries for Pentacles. You will have the chance to fill them out as you go through the following lessons.

Signification of Wands

The Suit of Wands corresponds to the Will, which is the creative intelligence and Divine Spark in each of us. As such it has a variety of connections, such as:

  • Intuition and creativity
  • Originality and ambition
  • Passion, enthusiasm, and sexuality.
  • Spirituality and expansion

The Wands also take us on a journey building ourselves up, the world challenging us, being reborn stronger and more capable, until we surrender to our true purpose. The Court of Wands represents an envisioner (Princess), promoter (Knight), muse (Queen), and leader (King).

The Wands have several other correspondences that can be helpful to keep in mind:

  • The element of Fire
  • The North
  • The 10 Sefirah in the Realm of Atziluth, or Archetypal World. (Reference this lesson for more on the Tree of Life.)
  • The Zodiac Signs of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.

In developing our intuitive understanding of the Wands, these correspondences can give us meaningful hints at how they relate to the question at hand.