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Minor Arcana · Suit of Wands · Number card
Three · Wands
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightExpansionShips at seaAble partners
↓ ReversedA welcome lullTroubles easingReturns delayed
What it means
↑ Upright
From the cliff edge he watches his own ships go out: the venture is launched, and its first returns are on the water. Trade, reach and partnership are favored here, especially partners who can carry what you cannot carry alone. Keep your eye on the horizon, and accept help when someone beside you offers it.
↓ Reversed
The labor pauses and the troubles with it, though the ships are not yet home: a lull between sending out and getting back. Adversity eases, disappointment loosens its grip, and nothing presses. Use the quiet to rest and to check what is still at sea, rather than hurrying more ships after it.
Three in Wands is growth: the first plan has been put into the world and is beginning to spread. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a man seen from behind on a clifftop, leaning on one of three planted staves above a golden sea where ships are under sail. Because his back is turned, the viewer stands where he stands and looks outward with him; the ships are ventures already sent, their returns still to come.
Upright
He symbolizes established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery; those are his ships, bearing his merchandise, which are sailing over the sea. The card also signifies able co-operation in business, as if the successful merchant prince were looking from his side towards yours with a view to help you.
Reversed
The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.