In the Golden Dawn's restructured court that the Thoth deck follows, the figure corresponding to Waite's Knight of Wands is the Prince of Wands, assigned the elemental pairing Air of Fire, the suit's fire expressed through intellect and motion rather than through fire's own raw force, which the system reserves for the King. The Golden Dawn's full title, the Prince of the Chariot of Fire, and his astrological span, the final ten degrees of Scorpio through the first twenty of Sagittarius, place him at the threshold where Sagittarius's mutable fire begins, one of three such thirty-degree spans the fire suit's senior court ranks divide among themselves.
Pamela Colman Smith's picture, an armored figure charging on a rearing horse, salamanders on his tunic marking the fire element, gives him considerably more visible motion than the Marseille Cavalier de Batons, which like all four Marseille knights is a static heraldic horseman holding the suit emblem with no sense of charge or urgency at all; the rearing posture and the salamanders are entirely Rider-Waite-Smith additions.
Crowley's Thoth card keeps the Golden Dawn name Prince of Wands and depicts him mounted in a fire-drawn chariot rather than on a rearing horse, closer to the literal Chariot of Fire of his full Golden Dawn title than Smith's more conventional cavalry charge; Harris's rendering keeps the sense of headlong motion while adding the chariot's more explicitly mythic frame.