King of Wands

Upright

vision · leadership · risk taken well

A leader who bets on people and enterprises, and mostly wins because they commit.

Reversed

arrogance · impulsiveness · tyranny

Boldness curdled into dominance, or vision announced with nothing built under it.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so King of Wands is air of fire — a planet working through a particular third of a sign. Aces are the root of their element and the courts carry it as temperament.