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Eight of Wands, from the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Eight of Wands

Activity in undertakingsSwiftnessGreat hasteArrows of love

Upright

Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, as that of an express messenger; great haste, great hope, speed towards an end which promises assured felicity; generally, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.

Reversed

Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

The card represents motion through the immovable—a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even on the threshold.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Domestic disputes for a married person.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.