Minor Arcana, Wands
Queen of Wands
warmth, confidence, friendliness, standards
Upright
A crowned figure sits between lions, holding a sunflower, with a black cat at the foot of the throne. Waite speaks of someone friendly, loving and honorable, and adds a certain success in business.
This is a model of warmth with a spine. In a team or a household, it suggests leading by being openly interested in people while keeping your own standards. Think of one person who could use your encouragement, and one request you should stop agreeing to.
Reversed
Waite splits this one. The reversal can mean good, thrifty and helpful, and near certain cards it turns to opposition, jealousy and deceit.
Being useful to everyone can sour over time into resentment. Ask whether your generosity at work or at home still feels freely given. Where you suspect someone of dishonesty, look for facts first, and say your concern to them directly.
A card is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
In Waite's words
Upright: A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman, she is interested in the Querent. Also, love of money, or a certain success in business.
Reversed: Good, economical, obliging, serviceable. Signifies also—but in certain positions and in the neighbourhood of other cards tending in such directions—opposition, jealousy, even deceit and infidelity.
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part 3, on Wikisource. The meanings above are by Cast & Chart.
Card art by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.