Rider Waite Card Meaning - The Magician

I - The Magician - Knowledge and Mastery

The Magician stands before a table laden with icons of the four suits of the Tarot, representing four branches of human knowledge. He is a master of this knowledge, a sage with one hand pointing to heaven and the other to earth. He is grounded and firm in the knowledge that as it is above, it is below. He knows all the teachings and can perform miracles. The Magician is a personification of knowledge and mastery.

The Magician describes a person who has complete mastery in some area and denotes skill, adeptness, craft, and knowledge. A new opportunity appears with this card, and support will come to launch the new project. With self-confidence, tap into these available universal forces and move quickly to seize the opportunity.

Reversed, the Magician tells us someone is working without enough knowledge or information: ignorance. Opportunities may be missed, or ventures entered into blindly without full knowledge of the facts, and in day-to-day matters, important facts may be inadvertently or deliberately withheld, causing complications and difficulties.