Waite–Smith, Wands
Page of Wands
What you can see
A standing figure looks up along a leafy staff held upright in both hands. Pointed hills appear in the otherwise open landscape.
What Waite says
Waite describes an act of proclamation and the arrival of unfamiliar news. He connects the page with an envoy or messenger, while his reversed list includes unstable or troubling announcements.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 176 ↗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.