Clarification Card—Knight of Wands: This Clarifies the Outcome Card’s Meaning When the outcome card is puzzling, I ask the querent to draw an additional card to clarify the meaning of the tenth card. Some readers use card 10 (or any card from the original spread) as the significator for a second Celtic Cross spread to “open up” the meaning of the card in question. In describing the Celtic Cross spread, Waite noted that a court card appearing in the tenth position means the outcome is in the hands of the person represented by the card. He then used the court card of the outcome position as the significator for a new Celtic Cross spread to determine how that court card would influence the outcome. I don’t often use this “opening up” technique because I find pondering the original ten cards plus an eleventh clarification card to be about as much as my brain can handle. For me, more The Knight of Wands is often less. On the other hand, if the clarification card is puz(Classic Tarot). zling, Waite’s advice to do a clarification spread is worth following. Jane and I did not have time to do an additional spread. If Jane returns for another reading, there is nothing to prevent us from doing a ten-card clarification spread to better understand the Knight of Swords, which appeared in the outcome position of her original spread. To repeat Waite’s advice: If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him. In this event also it is useful to take the Court Card in question as the Significator in a fresh operation, and discover what is the nature of his influence in the matter and to what issue he will bring it. 28
28 Waite, Pictorial Key online. 28 • ONE