Waite–Smith, Wands
Five of Wands
What you can see
Five figures raise and cross leafy staffs in a crowded, uneven arrangement. No single figure has a visibly settled advantage.
What Waite says
Waite calls the scene a mimic battle, connecting it with competition and the struggle for advantage. His account leaves room for sport-like imitation as well as serious rivalry.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 188 ↗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.