King of Wands

Upright

Vision plus the authority to execute it. Leadership that other people willingly follow.

Reversed

Vision without follow-through, or leading by force because the willingness ran out.

Its element

Fire — drive, nerve, the thing that gets started. Fire is generous with energy and terrible at admitting when it has run out.

Air of it — the element pointed outward and put to work. Kings get called authoritative; the useful version is simply someone who has decided, and can say why.

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