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King of Wandsfor Sagittarius ยท Self and Identity

King of Wands tarot card

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On the card

A king sits on a throne surveying his domain. Wands represent passion and the king card represents mastery and masculine energy. Typically the face cards represent a person/event (or a part of yourself embodied). Together this card means a a creative genius or visionary entrepreneur: they are passionate and quick to action as well as wise and demanding.

Upright
Visionary LeadershipEntrepreneurshipBold ActionCharisma

You have reached a level of success that allows you to guide others and execute on your passions/goals with authority (or are spending a lot of time with someone who has reached a high level of success/power). Romantically this can mean a more mature relationship built off of shared goals, or a bit of butting heads around things you are passionate about. This card signifies an entrepreneurial energy, you have started something important and are executing on it. Be honest and just with your power.

Reversed

You have reached a high level of success/authority (or are interacting with someone that is high power). High power/authority has allowed for an entitled energy to bubble up. The demands being made are harsh and unreasonable and no one feels comfortable objecting. Perhaps this comes from a chip on the shoulder energy that got you to where you are, but is no longer serving you here. Investigate the roots of this overbearing energy and reign it into a healthy place.

Its place in the deck.

Court cardKing
One of the 16 court cards: a Page, Knight, Queen and King in each suit. A court card often stands for a person in your life, or a side of yourself you are showing right now.
SuitWands ยท Fire
Wands are the suit of Fire: drive and spirit. A Wands card is always, underneath, about what you want badly enough to act on.
RankOutward authority
The King is outward authority: wields the element in the world, at the cost of feeling it.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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FireElement
Energy, passion, and action. In tarot: Wands.
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King of Wands for Sagittarius in Self and Identity

The Seeker

Wands are the fire suit, so the King of Wands sits in Sagittarius. That makes this Sagittarius's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Sagittarius already believes it is good at: spend the energy on one thing today. Upright, this is the element used out in the world, at the cost of still feeling it.

When reading about yourself through a Sagittarius lens, the King of Wands says that you feel like you are someone who figures things out and moves forward, a person who does not get stuck, and someone who has to keep moving or the sadness catches up. This has either made you resourceful and adaptable or has left you running from yourself in a thousand different cities. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Sagittarius blind spot in it is the specific weight of a single commitment, the slowness of actually building something, the possibility that it might not be enough.

In practice that can look like wanting something again, or restlessness with a direction. Whatever form it takes, it is being decided by whoever holds the authority.

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