Knight of Wands

DepartureAbsenceFlightEmigration

Upright

Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.

Reversed

Rupture, division, interruption, discord.

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

The picture

He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids. The motion of the horse is a key to the character of its rider, and suggests the precipitate mood, or things connected therewith.

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

Older readings

A bad card; according to some readings, alienation. Reversed: For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.

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.