Wands Suit

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The Suit of Wands in the Phantasmagoria

The Wands are the spark that ignites the illusion.
They are the flickering torches carried into the dark theater of the mind —
each flame casting long, trembling shadows on the walls of imagination.

In a Phantasmagoria, the audience is both terrified and enthralled by projections of light and smoke. In the same way, the Wands show us how desire, inspiration, and willpower can create whole worlds — radiant, intoxicating, and sometimes deceptive.
They represent the creative fire that animates the phantasm itself.

Where other suits explore emotion, reason, or material reality, the Wands dwell in the visionary space between spirit and illusion. They are the artists, dreamers, and conjurers, summoning something out of nothing — the magician’s first act before the image takes form.

But this fire is unstable. Just as the old lantern slides could twist into grotesque shapes, the Wands warn of what happens when passion burns too brightly — when creation turns to obsession, or inspiration to mania.
In the Phantasmagoria deck, the Wands might shimmer with luminous energy, painted in hues of candlelight, smoke, and motion — a dance between brilliance and distortion.

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Symbolic Key for My Deck

• Element: Fire → the flame that casts the illusion

• Theme: Creation, vitality, projection, inspiration, will

• Shadow Aspect: Illusion of grandeur, burnout, self-delusion through one’s own “light show”

• Phantasmagoria Parallel: The act of summoning visions — where imagination blurs with reality

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