Courts, Wands
Knight of Wands
Act on the spark
Enthusiasm can open a route before you have every detail. Give the first rush a definite purpose and decide how the work will continue when that rush passes.
What deserves your immediate energy?
Correspondences
- Element within element
- Fire of Fire
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chokmah
- Zodiacal span
- 20° Scorpio to 20° Sagittarius
Sources
The elemental combination and court span belong to the court descriptions. The two elements name the court’s mode and its suit, respectively.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 159 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part III, Knight 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
A rider on a black horse carries a flaming club; flames surround the horse’s feet.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 159 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Knight of Wands.
Thoth: Knight of Wands.
Book T’s p. 159 footnote distinguishes the mounted father from the charioted son: its card headings call them Knight and King. Thoth calls them Knight and Prince. Read the figure and elemental role before equating court names across decks.