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==General description== | ==General description== | ||
In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck, [[Pamela Colman Smith]] depicts the Knight of Wands as a knight 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. | In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck, [[Pamela Colman Smith]] depicts the Knight of Wands as a knight upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids in the background (a reference to the primordial landscape of the Sola Busca Tarot's court cards). The motion of the horse is a key to the character of its rider, and suggests the precipitate mood, or things connected therewith. | ||
The Sola Busca Tarot identifies this card as the [[demon]] [[Abaddon]]. | |||
==Divinatory meaning== | ==Divinatory meaning== | ||