Waite–Smith, Wands
Nine of Wands
What you can see
A bandaged figure grips one staff and looks sideways. Eight more staffs stand in a row behind.
What Waite says
Waite emphasizes the ability to withstand opposition, accompanied by possible delay or suspension. The scene supplies an attitude of readiness rather than a promise that resistance will never be needed.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 180 ↗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.