Small cards, Wands
Three of Wands
Virtue
An intention is starting to become a consistent practice. Notice which choices strengthen that consistency and which merely make it look impressive.
What would make your next action agree with your stated values?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Sun in Aries
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Binah
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 Aries
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. 195 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Three 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
Three wands share a fiery centre; one stands upright through the other two.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 195 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Established Strength.
The account describes effort becoming established and hopes realized after difficulty. It also includes self-importance and obstinacy; a bracketed note judges the card more favourably than the preceding description.
Thoth: Three 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.