The Three of Wands, or Three of Batons, is a playing card of the suit of wands. In tarot, it is a Minor Arcana card.
Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games.[1] In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.[1][2]
A calm onlooker facing towards the sea. There's a possibility that he is a merchant or looking forward to a journey. The three represents creation – looking forward to something with optimism – a mission. This card symbolizes enterprise, trade, or commerce.
Keynotes: achievement – venture – traveling – pursuing a journey
If the card is in reversed, it means the end of a task, toil, a cessation, and disappointment.
The key meanings of the Three of Wands:[3]
In the 1922 poem The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot associates The Man with Three Staves with the Fisher King, "quite arbitrarily".[4]