Tarot card

Eight of Wands

Eight of Wands: movement accelerating toward a definite destination. The card joins the fire nature of Wands to its place in the numbered sequence.

2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source · Eight of Wands in full

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The oldest attribution here is Suit and element Fire, first attested 1888 CE.

Suit and element

  • Fire

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    Wands express the powers of Fire: initiative, animation, desire, enterprise and force set in motion.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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Sephirah and number

  • Hod

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    The Eights concentrate skill on the matter at hand. They can work with real precision and success, though the result may reach no farther than the immediate task.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — General meanings of the small cards under the Sephiroth, p. 27

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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