In traditional tarot interpretations, Queens indicate a) adult women, b) personality traits linked to the Empress, who is creative and nurturing, or c) some sort of development, growth. Here, I'd like to focus on the personality characteristics we can associate with each court card.

 

Characteristics of the Queen of Wands (energy, passion) are:

• warm, charismatic

• determined

• ambitious

 

The nurturing, loving aspect of this Queen may not always express itself gently:

 

ANGER is the deepest form of compassion, for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all our ideals, all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt. Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is the purest form of care, the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for. What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when we are overwhelmed by its accompanying vulnerability, when it reaches the lost surface of our mind or our body’s incapacity to hold it, or when it touches the limits of our understanding. What we name as anger is actually only the incoherent physical incapacity to sustain this deep form of care in our outer daily life; the unwillingness to be large enough and generous enough to hold what we love helplessly in our bodies or our mind with the clarity and breadth of our whole being.

 

- Poet and philosopher David Whyte