Within Waite's four-rank court, the Queen of Wands is the fire suit's inward, nurturing mastery; the Golden Dawn's structure that the Thoth deck follows keeps her rank and largely her name, assigning the elemental pairing Water of Fire, will and confidence held and stabilized rather than fire's more active Knight or Prince expressions. Her full Golden Dawn title, the Queen of the Thrones of Flame, and her astrological span, the final ten degrees of Pisces through the first twenty of Aries, place her at the threshold where cardinal fire begins, framing Aries's onset rather than sitting inside any one sign.
Pamela Colman Smith's picture, a queen enthroned between carved lions and sunflowers, a wand in one hand and a sunflower in the other, a black cat seated at her feet, is considerably more particular in its symbolism than the Marseille Reine de Batons, a static heraldic figure holding the suit emblem with no throne carving, flowers or animal companion at all; the sunflower and the black cat are Rider-Waite-Smith additions with no older precedent in the pattern.
The Thoth deck is one of relatively few court cards where Crowley and Harris keep the exact name Queen of Wands rather than substituting a Golden Dawn title; Harris's rendering keeps the leonine and solar motifs Smith established but reworks them into her characteristic geometric idiom.