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Minor Arcana · Suit of Wands · Number card
Six · Wands
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightVictoryRecognitionGood news
↓ ReversedApplause withheldDoubtful loyaltySuccess delayed
What it means
↑ Upright
Laurel on his head and on his staff, a horseman rides through the crowd: success that is seen and acknowledged. It is a card of recognition, good news and a hope that has been met. Accept the praise without shrinking from it, and remember the men walking beside the horse — thank everyone whose work went into the win.
↓ Reversed
The parade is put off. Waite's reversed reading is uneasy: a victorious rival at the gate, a doubt about who in your own camp can be trusted, a delay with no end given. Before suspecting anyone, ask whether you are waiting for applause in order to believe the work was good, and judge it on its own terms.
Six brings recovery, and in Wands it is the reward of a contest won: effort that has finally paid off in public. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a rider on a white horse wearing a laurel crown, a second wreath tied to his staff, with men on foot carrying staves beside him. Laurel was the ancient sign of victory; the escort shows that the success is seen, and that others share in it.
Upright
The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such as might be carried in state by the King's courier; it is expectation crowned with its own desire, the crown of hope, and so forth.
Reversed
Apprehension, fear, as of a victorious enemy at the gate; treachery, disloyalty, as of gates being opened to the enemy; also indefinite delay.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.