Small cards, Wands
Eight of Wands
Swiftness
A message or opportunity can move faster than your usual deliberation. Make the next communication clear enough that speed does not create needless correction later.
What needs to be said simply and promptly?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Mercury in Sagittarius
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Hod
- Ten-degree span
- 0-10 Sagittarius
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. 186 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Eight of Wands ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Eight wands cross in two groups of four, held by four hands.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 186 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Swiftness.
A sudden expenditure of energy produces speed, boldness and hurried messages. The same force may be excessive and brief, exhausting itself before it can be sustained.
Thoth: Eight 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.