Waite–Smith, Wands
Knight of Wands
What you can see
A rider holds a short leafy staff as the horse lifts its forelegs. Pointed hills stand behind the moving pair.
What Waite says
Waite treats the horse’s movement as a clue to the rider’s precipitancy. The account concerns departure and changes of residence, while explicitly saying that the journey is not a warlike errand.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 174 ↗In the Thoth deck
Waite’s courts are King, Queen, Knight and Page. Thoth has Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess, so a rank does not carry straight across. See both ways to match them.
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.