wands · Minor Arcana
Six of Wands
The suit · Wands
drive, work you chose, the thing you want to build
Where it sits
Something crosses over.
How this suit behaves
Fast and hot. Wands problems are usually about too much at once, not too little.
Take it into a reading
You want recognition from someone you chose. Say what you did that worked. Ask what landed and what didn't. Stop performing and start naming. The cost: once you ask for credit, you can't pretend you didn't want it.
I drew Six of Wands about this relationship. What is actually stuck?
Ask this →WorkA piece of work you drove is crossing over into public view. Claim it by name before someone else does. Send the update, list who did what. The price is that visibility invites correction. Expect it and keep your name on it anyway.
I drew Six of Wands about work. Where do I move first?
Ask this →MoneyMoney follows visible work here, not quiet effort. Put a number on what you delivered and say it out loud to whoever pays. If you wait to be noticed, you won't be. Name your rate, then hold it while it's discussed.
I drew Six of Wands about money. Is it actually short, or am I afraid to spend it?
Ask this →How you areYou're at the point where effort turns into something others can see. That shift feels good and exposes you. Pick the one thing worth showing, put it where people can find it, and let the response come back. Don't add more to the pile.
If Six of Wands is naming a state I am in, should I rest first or move first?
Ask this →Questions
What does the suit of Wands cover in Six of Wands?
drive, work you chose, the thing you want to build Fast and hot. Wands problems are usually about too much at once, not too little.
Is Six of Wands a good card?
There are no good or bad cards here, only which side of one you are standing on. Upright: Something crosses over. Reversed: Fast and hot. Wands problems are usually about too much at once, not too little.
Where this comes from
The 78 illustrations are the 1909 Rider–Waite deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith (1878–1951). More than seventy years after her death it is in the public domain in the US, the EU and Japan — the licence tag on every single file was checked on Wikimedia Commons. The original scans have had their outer border and title band trimmed, and one pass of tone laid over them so they sit with the frame. The frame, the banner and the card back were made here. The reader portraits are public-domain paintings — several decorative panels by Mucha (1860–1939), plus Copernicus by Matejko (1873), The Alchymist by Wright (1771) and The Crystal Ball by Waterhouse (1902). Their licence tags were checked one by one on Wikimedia Commons too, then cropped and toned to match.
The wording on this page is editorial — this site's reading of the card, not a quotation from Waite. Waite's own divinatory meanings are in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain.