Waite–Smith, Wands
Two of Wands
What you can see
A figure on a battlement holds a small globe and one staff, while another staff is fixed nearby. A floral emblem appears on the wall.
What Waite says
Waite preserves incompatible readings of splendour and dissatisfaction. His example is someone whose worldly dominion does not prevent sadness; he does not resolve the card into uncomplicated ambition.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 194 ↗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.