Small cards, Wands
Two of Wands
Dominion
Choose a direction and take responsibility for the first move. Power becomes more useful when you can say what it serves and where its limits lie.
What is yours to initiate?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Mars in Aries
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chokmah
- Ten-degree span
- 0-10 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. 194 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Two 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
Two crossed wands meet in flame; Mars and Aries mark the decan.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 194 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Dominion.
Book T associates this card with authority and the capacity to direct others. Its force can appear as courage and fair rule, or as pride, turbulence and an unwillingness to yield.
Thoth: Two 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.