Ace of Wands
Minor Arcana · Wands · Fire · Root of Fire
Upright
Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of enterprises; according to another account, money, fortune, inheritance.
Reversed
Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish also a certain clouded joy.
The picture
A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.
Correspondences
Book T title
The Root of the Powers of Fire
Meanings quoted from A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), public domain. Correspondences follow the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Book T.