Small cards, Wands
Nine of Wands
Strength
Persistence has accumulated into something dependable. Work with the reserves you actually have, and let recovery be part of the method that keeps them available.
What helps your effort remain steady?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Moon in Sagittarius
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Yesod
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 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. 187 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Nine 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 ninth upright wand runs through the junction of eight others.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 187 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Great Strength.
The account emphasizes persistent strength and success achieved through effort despite earlier fear. It also allows that firmness to become inflexibility.
Thoth: Nine 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.