"Queen of Wands"Thoth Tarot card: analysis and reading.

 

Despite the strong feminine imagery of a crowned Queen sitting upon a throne of geometric flames, with a chain mail vest, holding a wand with a Bacchus pine cone at its tip, which represents Bacchus, the Roman God of wine.  With her left hand perched upon a leopard, which is protecting her.  Her face radiating ecstacy.  Aleister Crowley's (d1947) renown chauvinist and at times misogynistic leanings are revealed, paradoxically, in his own interpretation of "The Queen of Wands" from the Book of the Thoth, as follows: "There is as much pride in this card as in the Knight, but it lacks the spontaneous nobility which excuses that error. It is not true pride, but self-complacent vanity and even snobbery. 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 likely to shew herself stupid, obstinate, tyrannical. She may be quick to take offense, and harbour revenge without good cause. She might turn and snap at her best friends without intelligible excuse. Also, when she misses her bite, she breaks her jaw!"  I rest my case.  So, I will redefine the reading of Queen of Wands, in its correlation of the card's imagery, with very slight aspects of Crowley praising the card from a more revering angle.  And I'll create a more suitable reading.

Reading:

There are Two powers that can be possessed, albeit in its transience, however they are not from the material world.  The are the Feminine and Masculine of completeness.  That can only be conjured from meditation and techniques of transcendental practise.  From ceremonial bliss, one maybe able to attain this, but must be carefully trained, otherwise the knife edge of intoxication, and sexual gratification can lead into an abyss of repetition and ego gratification.  The human mind is infinity capable of taking experience for granted, until it is taken away from it.  And, thus it becomes tormented.  The Queen of Wands represents desire at its most intense, study her features, note that her eyes are closed, yet she is conscious of her ecstasy, the internal sexual energy of the feminine is unrivaled, to which the masculine also possess, yet holds an external posturing, which must be controlled.   The flames have not engulfed her, instead they have become, manifested through the deepest of meditations.  The leopard protects the privacy of the feminine energy, and ensures that the partner does not see this as an ego driven desire, and the experience should not be recorded or verbalized thereafter.   The Wand, in her right hand points North, to the infinite cosmos, the Left, sitting upon her protector, is of the Earth.  Bound by material limitations, the blissful energy of the carnal, one leaves one's own body as neither a male or female.  To view the self, in this act of the amatory, even if one is surrounded by turmoil.  The meditation will be complete.   

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(A.Glass 2024)

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