Ace of Wands

Ace of Wands  ©  C. & S.T. Cicero

Aces behave different to other Minor Arcana. They are not assigned to any decanates so no planetary energy is manifested through them.

Aces are attributed to Kether and therefore they represent the highest vibration of energy in its purest form, energy of unlimited potential although not yet manifested. They are the Primum Mobile and the source of everything and therefore they bear the title of the "Roots of the Powers". Their property is that of a seed which, barely visible, contains all the information and power to manifest itself as a complex and magnificent being.

Ace of Wands represents the influence of Kether on the level of pure Spirit. It is called the "Root of the Powers of Fire". The card shows a masculine angelic hand holding a root flaming with fire - three flames on each of the side branches and four on the middle one. Each flame consists of four colours - each colour representing one of the Qabalistic Worlds and each flame representing a Sephira on the Tree of Life, while twenty two leaping Yod-shaped flames represent paths between Sephiroth. The root has sigils of Four Worlds inscribed on it.

Ace of Wands represents therefore not only the source of Fire but all Minor Arcana - the True and Pure Source of All. The keyword for this Tarot card is ignition - not a fire yet but the first spark that creates flames, explosion and motion.

Red Clouds relate to element of Fire in the suit of Wands and brilliant white - colour of Kether in the World of Atziluth - is set as the background.

Here is the excerpt from the "Book T" relating to Ace of Wands:

THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE

A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping a heavy club, which has three branches in the colours, and with the sigils, of the scales. The Right-and Left-hand branches end respectively in three Flames, and the Centre one in four Flames: thus yielding Ten: the Number of the Sephiroth. Two-and-twenty leaping Flames, or Yodh, surround it, answering to the Paths; of these, three fall below the Right branch for Aleph, Men, and Shin, seven above the Central branch for the double letters; and between it and that of the Right twelve: six above and six below about the Left-hand branch. The whole is a great and flaming Torch. It symbolizes Force - strength, rush, vigour, energy, and it governs, according to its nature, various works and questions.

It implies Natural, as opposed to Invoked, Force.