Waite–Smith, Trump 1
The Magician
What you can see
A standing figure raises a wand and points downward beside a table bearing the four suit emblems. A horizontal loop floats above the head, with flowers above and below.
What Waite says
Waite reads the two gestures as a passage of grace from above to below. The suit emblems become the elements of ordinary life available to the adept; his explanation concerns spiritual purpose and directed will.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 72–75 ↗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.