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Queen of Wands Tarot Meanings

The Queen of Wands is a card that is true to her passion, she follows her heart and explores the full spectrum of her creativity. This card often represents someone who creates from a place of emotion, such as artists or composers. They channel their feelings into something practical in order to make those emotions tangible.

The Queen of Wands can be a very empowering card, one that puts wellbeing and her own needs first, making sure to create habits and routines that stay mindful of the internal world just as much as the external one.

Queen of Wands Tarot Meanings Confidence

Queen of Wands Upright Meanings

In the upright position, the Queen of Wands nurtures that fire energy, she makes sure that it is controlled but also has the space to burn brightly. Some of the key meanings of the Queen of Wands are:

Nurturing ambition
Emotional habits
Birthing creativity
Confident in sexuality

The Queen of Wands is the water of fire, the nurturer of creativity and passion. With that in mind, we can take all the things that fire energy represents in the wands e.g. power, action, creativity and energy, and imagine nurturing those things, encouraging them and giving them the perfect environment to thrive and that equals the energy of the Queen of Wands.

Queen of Wands Reversed Meanings

In the reversed position, the Queen of Wands takes on the trickier aspects of that emotional fire energy. Some of the main reversed meanings of the Queen of Wands are:

Bossy
Domineering
Hot-tempered
Jealous
Insecure
Selfish

The Queen of Wands in reverse is someone that turns their emotional reactions up to 11. Irrational thinking and impulsive actions become the norm and that fiery energy starts to spiral out of control.

Reading Queen of Wands in a Tarot Spread

When the Queen of Wands appears in a spread, it can often be a sign to embrace the creative energy that is trying to break free, but sometimes it may be that those more unstable properties are getting in the way of progress.

In order to determine whether the Queen of Wands is there to support or warn you of your actions and behaviours, take a look at the other cards around her and see which way she’s facing. If she’s looking towards the other cards, then she is collaborating with that card’s energy. If she is facing away from the other card, it could be that her energy is in conflict with the other card.

Queen of Wands as An Invitation

When the Queen of Wands shows up as an invitation, we are encouraged to nurture that fiery energy inside of us. To embrace bursts of creativity, to find comfort in authority and power.

For Queen of Wands, this invitation could be the following:

An invitation to see your ambition as an asset and nurture it so it can grow
An invitation to check on your emotional habits and make sure they are in your best interest
An invitation to embrace sexuality
An invitation to review insecurities and start to work through them

Queen of Wands as Sage Advice

The advice given by the Queen of Wands often revolves around knowing and understanding your fire energy. It helps us figure out when to relax and let go and when to check-in and assess negative behaviours.

Some advice Queen of Wands may offer is:

Giving life to a creative idea is a messy process, but don’t let that deter you from getting stuck in and allowing a bit of chaos to rule for a short time
There’s a difference between being bossy and being a boss. Don’t allow yourself to tip too far into self-importance when taking the lead
Taking care of our emotional health is just as much a practical task as it is a mental on

Queen of Wands as a Lesson

The Queen of Wands is the mother figure of the wands, so she can teach us a lot about compassion and intuition when it comes to our own power and creativity.

Some lessons that Queen of Wands may offer you are:

A lesson in creating habits that take care of your wellbeing while also allowing you room to play and channel your passions in a healthy way
A lesson in dominance and what dominance looks like in your own actions
A lesson in ambition and how to feed it enough to grow, but also keep it grounded
A lesson in dealing with insecurities and how to work through them

Queen of Wands as a Redirection

If the Queen of Wands comes to redirect you, it often means that you are allowing that fire energy to take too much of a lead in the situation. There is a need for a more emotionally connected approach or a need for more creative freedom.

As a redirection, Queen of Wands could symbolise a need to:

Check your current habits and behaviours and make necessary changes to ensure you are looking after your emotional world in equal measure
Follow and listen to both your intuition and instinctual gut feelings
Take a step back and apply a softer approach to your leadership role
Notice your temper and take actions to control impulsive emotions in order to regain order

Wands

The wands are the tool of the Tarot deck, they help us to manifest and create. They also offer us immense power and help us to make our passions a reality.

With the wands comes a great deal of responsibility also. We have to make sure that we are directing its power into the right areas or face the chance of destruction. Too much wand energy can get out of control and cause us to feel powerless. We see this in the Ten of Wands, where the immense power we have collected threatens to consume us.

Queen of Wands Tarot Meanings - Elemental

Fire + Water

The wands are the element of fire, meaning they inherit the properties of the element of fire in its meanings. The queens in the Tarot have the element of water. This means with the Queen of Wands, we have the primary elemental energy of fire, and the secondary energy of water.

In order to understand what this elemental combination means for the Queen of Wands we have to think about how the two interact. For example, fire can cause water to boil, or it can create a gentle simmer. It depends on how the fire is handled as to which results you will get.

Queens

The Queens in the Tarot deck provide a nurturing and compassionate energy to their suit. They are emotional and intuitive and apply those properties to how their suit works.

For the Queen of Wands, we have a nurturer of passion, power, creativity and manifestation. The Queen of Wands believes that you can create anything your heart desires. She’s your biggest cheerleader, but her fiery nature can also cause her to be somewhat pushy. She wants to encourage you to dream bigger, but this can sometimes come across as having high expectations.