Queen of Wands upright
You like to take the leading role, with a taste for the theatrical, and you want a life full of passion and enthusiasm. This card is Fire in its feminine form: Fire lived as a feeling and an understanding of life, more than as a social use of force. You love life and people, and you see no value in control or domination. Among the Queens, you are the one with the strongest sense of command and a firm determination to make your own decisions, while staying friendly and optimistic. You are honest and sincere, and you see no point in deceiving or being nasty.
When you act in this spirit, you pursue your desires diligently, you express your passionate nature frankly and you confidently pass on your original ideas and creative visions. You can chair a committee or oversee a big production. You are full of ideas, with plenty of spirit and a good opinion of yourself. You can put your entrepreneurial spirit to work promoting a product or a service. If you are more turned toward personal growth, you may be drawn to spiritual paths and philosophies that inspire. You pursue your own interests vigorously and you also have the power to influence others. You have a head for business and you can succeed in that field.
Your strengths
- You adapt, you have a drive that lasts and a calm authority that you know how to use to increase your power of attraction.
- You apply steady force to what you undertake and you lead with constancy.
- You have great power of attraction and command, and people like you in spite of it.
- You are kind and generous as long as no one opposes you.
- You have a great capacity for friendship and love, always on your own initiative.
- You are independent, in command of yourself and opposed to any constraint.
- You can be fierce when you are attacked or when you defend others.
- You are ardent in love.
- You are radiant and open, and you like being at the center of the stage.
- You have charm and grace, sympathy, understanding, courtesy and good manners.
What holds you back
- You tolerate opposition poorly and you get impatient.
- You have a lot of pride, which can turn into self-satisfied vanity and snobbery.
- You are very self-centered.
- You tend to brood, to draw a bad decision from it and to react with great violence.
- When you are deceived, you become obstinate and tyrannical.
- You take offense quickly and hold a grudge without good reason.
- You can turn against your best friends with no understandable excuse.
- You can carry out a job with clarity and constancy, but only when called on and led by a creative mind other than your own.
- You are sometimes inconstant, even disloyal: the ideas you obey do not leave a deep mark on you.
- You have moments of melancholy and ill-considered fits of anger.
- You sometimes defend yourself with brutality, with passionate anger and stubbornness.
- You can become haughty and domineering.
What helps
- Relying on your calm authority to strengthen your appeal.
- Confidently expressing your original ideas and creative visions.
- Keeping your love of life and people rather than your taste for control.
Love
You have a great capacity for friendship and love, always on your own initiative. You are ardent in love. You are loving.
Money
You like money, you are thrifty and you can succeed in business.
Family
As a mother and as a partner, you are warm, courageous and loving. You can become haughty and domineering, and run your children's lives and futures too much. You are often a serious woman and a very good adviser, and often the mother of a family.
Body and energy
You have plenty of spirit and vitality when you feel full of ideas.
Queen of Wands reversed
Upright, the Queen of Wands is passionate, warm and optimistic. She has a gift for command and insists on deciding for herself. Reversed, these qualities meet obstacles or change shape. Your drive and success are held back, and your path of personal growth becomes tense and difficult. You may lack chances to test yourself. Your projects can be sabotaged by jealous people or by people who want to keep you in your place, and rivalry breeds resentment. Your strength of character can earn you hostile labels. You can turn jealous and vindictive when you feel slighted or dispossessed of what you created.
Faced with these obstacles, you react in two opposite ways. Either you feel directionless and without will, or you become self-centered, domineering and angry. You may also withdraw into solitude, or give up your self-determination and become ineffectual. There is a degree of unpredictability: you blow hot and cold depending on your drive of the moment. If the card describes a person around you, that person is disturbed, blocked, or a bad influence.
Your strengths
You can set your own needs aside to serve others. You have a great capacity for friendship and love, which you offer on your own initiative. You are adaptable and show a calm authority that makes you attractive.
What holds you back
- You come across as self-satisfied, in a hurry to impose your point of view and spiteful in what you say.
- You become volatile and dramatize situations. Exchanges quickly escalate into confrontation.
- You scatter yourself, or your untamable will drives you to exhaustion.
- You focus so much on possibilities ahead that you neglect the present situation and your immediate needs.
- You procrastinate, avoid deciding or put off changes.
- Your generosity can be misplaced, and you can be a spendthrift.
- You brood, make a bad decision and then react with great brutality.
- You take offense quickly, hold grudges without good reason, and can turn on your best friends with no explanation.
- You are easily deceived, and you then become obstinate and tyrannical.
- You can fall into pride, vanity and snobbery.
What helps
The card also represents a force that cuts down whatever takes up too much room, and that is sometimes necessary.
Love
In love, you can get carried away by excessive fervor that leads to infidelity or deceit. Upright, the card says you can be ardent in love.
Family
As a mother or partner, you can be too domineering, angry and irritable, sure you are right and focused on yourself, or unavailable.
Children
Upright, the card says you can over-manage your children's lives and futures.
What the card shows
What the image shows
The queen is the only one of the four queens to sit with her legs apart, which means sexual energy. Her scepter is a sunflower, which shows a radiant character, open to others, at ease at the center of the stage and fond of drama. A black cat guards her throne. It shows independence, self-mastery and a refusal of constraint. It also shows that when you love life, it seems to answer by protecting you and bringing joyful experiences.
What it means
The Queen of Wands stands for Fire in its fluid part, with its flexibility and color. She expresses the feminine side of Fire, with the traits of the fire signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. She corresponds to Aries, a cardinal sign, and her domain runs from the end of Pisces to the 20th degree of Aries. The queens show the receptive qualities of the element: they appreciate it and translate it into feeling and understanding, where the kings use it in the service of society. They are neither weak nor inactive. These qualities apply to a woman as to a man.
The queen adapts and applies steady force to what she undertakes. She has a calm authority that she knows how to use to strengthen her appeal, great attractive power and a power to command, and yet she is loved. She is good and generous as long as no one opposes her. She loves life with warmth and passion, firmly rooted in the world. She is honest and sincere, and sees no point in deceiving or being cruel. She is more sensitive than the king: she allows herself to love life and other people. She wants a life full of passion and excitement, and she likes to play the leading role with a sense of theater. More than the other queens, she has a sense of command and a determination to decide alone and do things her own way, while staying friendly and optimistic. She has a great capacity for friendship and love, but always on her own initiative. As a partner and as a mother, she is generally warm, courageous and loving. She is ardent in love, and fierce when attacked or when she defends others.
Your strengths
You adapt, you last over time and you have a persistent energy. You conceive things clearly and you pursue your work steadily. You communicate original ideas and creative projects with confidence, with energy and good self-esteem. You can chair a committee, direct a large production or promote a product or a service. Even while pursuing your own interests, you have the power to influence others. If you are working on personal development, you may be drawn to spiritual life and to inspiring philosophies. In a crisis, your good nature and energy make you valuable: you take charge of someone's home, you advise and support out of natural impulse rather than duty.
What holds you back
- You can fall into pride, self-satisfied vanity and snobbery.
- You tolerate opposition poorly: you become stubborn, resentful, domineering and tyrannical, and you can turn against someone for no reason.
- You can brood, make a bad decision from it and react with violence.
- You can be fooled easily, then dig in your heels.
- You can be inconstant, even disloyal, because the ideas you follow do not mark you deeply.
- You have fits of melancholy and thoughtless outbursts of anger.
- You can become haughty, domineering, and manage your children's lives and futures too much.
- Faced with too much opposition or misfortune, you think life is unfair, and an unpleasant side can appear: deception, jealousy, infidelity, bitterness.
