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Small cards, Wands

Ace of Wands

The first available energy

A spark is not yet a project. Notice what feels alive enough to begin, and give it one small action through which to discover its direction.

What wants a beginning rather than a promise?

Correspondences

Suit element
Fire
Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
Kether
Sources

The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.

Book T (1912) · printed p. 153 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Ace of Wands ↗

Symbols

In the Book T design

A branching torch with ten terminal flames and twenty-two surrounding flames.

Two accounts

Book T: Root of the Powers of Fire.

Thoth: Ace of Wands.

Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.

Read Book T ↗

Related cards

Sources

Book T (1912) · printed p. 153 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Ace of Wands ↗