Waite–Smith, Wands
Ace of Wands
What you can see
A hand extends from a cloud and grips a sprouting staff. Loose leaves appear beside it, above a distant building and landscape.
What Waite says
Waite gathers beginnings, invention, enterprise and origin around the emerging wand. These are possibilities in his divinatory account, rather than a single promised event.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 196 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.