Princess of Wands
Earth of Fire
The Princess of the Shining Flame; the Rose of the Palace of Fire
Rider-Waite: Page of Wands
Earth of Fire: the flame given a body, daring, radiant, all in.
| Formula | Earth of Fire: Princess is Earth, Wands are Fire |
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| Mix | Neutral elements that neither help nor hinder |
| Letters | Heh final of Yod (the Name, YHVH) |
| Sephirah | Malkuth, sphere of the Princesses |
| Rules | The quadrant of the earth called Asia; the heavens around the North Pole above Cancer, Leo and Virgo; throne of the Ace of Wands |
| I Ching | Hexagram 27, I, the Corners of the Mouth (Mountain over Thunder) |
| Rider-Waite | Page of Wands |
In a reading
Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger and in love, ambitious, vengeful, theatrical; a person who is all display and all sincerity at once. Badly placed: superficial, cruel, unstable, domineering.
Working with the card
| As a person | Someone brilliant and impulsive, fearless, quick to anger and to love. |
|---|---|
| As a situation | A new passion, or news that sets everything alight. |
| Advice | Follow the enthusiasm and give it something real to burn. |
| Do | Throw yourself into it without reservation. |
| Bring | Courage, enthusiasm, appetite for life. |
| Beware | Drama, vengeance, burning what you love. |
| Ask | What am I on fire for? |
Correspondences
On the card
A naked young woman with flames for hair leaps with a tiger beside her, holding a sun-wand; behind her an altar burns with the fire of the ram-headed god, and her crest is a tiger's head.
Kabbalah and astrology
The final Heh of the Yod: Earth of Fire, the fire made body, the flame as fuel. She is the throne of the Ace of Wands and rules the quadrant of the earth called Asia, counted from the meridian of the Great Pyramid. Crowley's hexagram for her is 27, Nourishment, the fire that feeds.
The Princesses rule no decans. Each holds the throne of her suit's Ace and governs one quadrant of the earth, counted from the meridian of the Great Pyramid, and the corresponding quadrant of the heavens around the North Pole.
I Ching
Crowley builds each court's hexagram from two trigrams, the suit below and the rank above: Wands give Thunder, Princesss give Mountain. The result is hexagram 27, I, the Corners of the Mouth (Mountain over Thunder). See I Ching and the courts.
Depth psychology
Intuition embodied: the vision lived out in the flesh, with all the risk that carries. As an inner figure, the anima as spark and dare. The four ranks are often read as the four ways the suit's function can be lived: the Knight extraverted and initiating, the Queen introverted and sustaining, the Prince as its intellectual form, the Princess as its embodied form.
Thoth and Rider-Waite
This card corresponds to the Rider-Waite Page of Wands. Crowley renamed the ranks to follow the letters of the Name: Knight (Yod), Queen (Heh), Prince (Vau), Princess (final Heh), so that the Thoth Knight is the Waite King and the Thoth Prince the Waite Knight. The figures' mounts follow the Golden Dawn: Knights on horses, Queens on thrones, Princes in chariots, Princesses on foot.
Related cards
Throne of
The other Princesss
- הPrincess of Cups Earth of WaterEarth of Water
- וPrincess of Swords Earth of AirEarth of Air
- הPrincess of Disks Earth of EarthEarth of Earth
The court of Wands
Correspondences follow the Golden Dawn system as used in Crowley's Book of Thoth and Liber 777. Paintings by Lady Frieda Harris, © Ordo Templi Orientis. Where sources differ.