Six of Wands
The Six of Wands is the card of a rider crowned with laurel coming through a crowd. Readers traditionally take it as recognition, success and public praise, and Waite gives it the victor triumphant and good news arriving.
- Suit
- Wands (Minor Arcana)
- Golden Dawn
- Jupiter in Leo
- Upright
- recognition, success, public praise
- Reversed
- self-doubt, ego, a fall from favor
Upright
Laurel on the head and laurel on the staff: the rider is being celebrated, and the crowd knows why. Readers link this card to recognition after effort, a win that other people can see and a boost in confidence. It suits promotions, awards and good reviews. The fire here is public, and it reads as pride that has been earned.
Reversed
Self-doubt creeps in when this card turns over. Readers see praise that fails to arrive, a win that goes to someone else, or a fall from favor. It can also mean ego running ahead of the actual achievement, so the reversed Six often asks for a quieter look at what was done.
In love and at work
Feeling admired, or being proud to be seen with a partner, is how readers often apply the card to love. For a career it points to recognition from bosses or peers, a successful launch or a reputation on the rise. Readers describe the mood of the moment and stop short of saying the praise lasts.
In the picture
A man wearing a laurel wreath rides a white horse draped in green. His wand carries a second wreath tied with ribbon. Around him, men on foot hold up their own staves, marching alongside like an escort. The Golden Dawn assigned this card to Jupiter in Leo.
In a Caelumia profile
When Six of Wands comes up upright in a Caelumia reading, it counts toward these themes for that day, alongside the rest of the profile: Leadership, Self-expression.
Sources
- A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910). Waite's own guide to the deck he designed with Pamela Colman Smith, with each card's divinatory meanings.
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Book T: The Tarot (1890s, published by Israel Regardie in The Golden Dawn (1937 to 1940)). The source of the planetary, zodiac and elemental attributions of the cards.
Updated September 28, 2026.
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