The Three of Wands, or Three of Batons, is a playing card of the suit of wands. In tarot, it is a Minor Arcana card.
Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.
Divination usage
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A calm onlooker facing towards the sea. There's a possibility that he is a merchant or looking forward to a journey. The three represents creation – looking forward to something with optimism – a mission. This card symbolizes enterprise, trade, or commerce.
Keynotes: achievement – venture – traveling – pursuing a journey
If the card is reversed, it means the end of a task, toil, a cessation, and disappointment.
Key meanings
The key meanings of the Three of Wands:
- Achievement
- Fresh starts
- Long-term success
- Partnerships
- Trade
In popular culture
In the 1922 poem The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot associates The Man with Three Staves with the Fisher King, "quite arbitrarily".
References
- ^ Dummett, Michael (1980). The Game of Tarot. Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. ISBN 0-7156-1014-7.
- Huson, Paul (2004). Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage. Vermont: Destiny Books. ISBN 0-89281-190-0.
- Trusted Tarot (2010) Three of Wands
- "Eliot, T. S. 1922. The Waste Land". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
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