Queen of Wands

Element: Fire

Upright

·confidence
·determination
·warmth
·charisma

Reversed

·jealousy
·insecurity
·self-doubt
·demanding

Upright

She keeps the warm chair nearest the hearth and never once asks whether she belongs in it. This is warmth that does not seek permission, confident and generous and magnetic, certain that her presence is a welcome thing in any room. Take the chair beside her. Stand in the same heat. The card says the shop is large enough to hold your whole brightness, so let it be seen.

Reversed

The chair still warm but the warmth turned guarded, the glow gone brittle. Reversed, this is heat soured to jealousy or insecurity, the demand that the room turn around you, or the opposite, the warmth pulled back because someone made you feel it was not safe to give, and the card asks where your fire is actually going.

In the imagery

A poised figure sits in a deep velvet chair by the hearth, one dried wand in hand and a single sunflower in the other, a black cat curled at her feet. Candlelight and the fire's glow gather gold around her, and the deep green dusk softens the dark wood behind. The easy throne, the steady flower, and the warm cat carry confidence that needs no permission.

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