1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 144
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QUEEN OF WANDS
The Queen of Wands represents the watery part of Fire, its fluidity and colour. Also, she
rules in the Zodiac from the 21st degree of Pisces to the 20th degree of Aries. Her crown is
topped with the winged globe and rayed with flame. Her long red golden hair flows down
upon her armour of scaled mail. She is seated upon a throne of flame, ordered into geometri‐
cal light by her material power. Beneath the throne the surging flames are steady. She bears a
wand in her left hand; but it is topped with a cone suggestive of the mysteries of Bacchus. She
is attended by a couchant leopard upon whose head she lays her hand. Her face expresses the
ecstasy of one whose mind is well in‐drawn to the mystery borne beneath her bosom.
The characteristics of the Queen are adaptability, persistent energy, calm authority
which she knows how to use to enhance her attractiveness. She is kindly and generous, but
impatient of opposition. She has immense capacity for friendship and for love, but always on
her own initiative.
There is as much pride in this card as in the Knight, but it lacks the spontaneous nobil‐
ity which excuses that error. It is not true pride, but self‐complacent vanity and even snob‐
bery.
The other side of her character is that she may have a tendency to brood, come to a
wrong decision thereon, and react with great savagery. She may be easily deceived; then she is
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