The Magician as How Someone Sees You: Capable, Impressive and Possibly Too Smooth

Written by Chaya the Medium.

The Magician as how someone sees you means they see the table with every tool on it. Here is what the picture includes, upright and reversed.

If you want the short answer, the Magician as how someone sees you means they see you as capable: skilled, confident, persuasive, someone who can make things happen and usually does. It is an admiring picture. It can also be a slightly wary one, because people who can make anything happen are not always trusted to mean what they make.

This is you as the figure at the table with the wand, cup, sword and coin. They see the competence. They may be wondering what it is for.

The Magician upright as how someone sees you

Tina Gong's the Magician guide at Labyrinthos associates the upright card with willpower, manifestation, resourcefulness and skill. When the card lands in a position that asks how someone sees you, I read those meanings as the image the person holds of you, which is not the same as who you are and not the same as what they feel. the Magician as feelings covers what they feel; the Magician as intentions covers what they plan. This page covers the picture. The Major Arcana overview at Biddy Tarot is a useful second reference.

Upright, I read the Magician as a person who sees you as impressive and effective: good at things, good with words, good at getting a yes. They admire it. In the upright card they also trust it, more or less, and the trust is the part to keep an eye on.

What I would not read into it is that they see your sincerity by default. The Magician's tools work for honesty and for technique alike, and the person may not have decided which you are using.

What the card does not tell you

The card does not confirm the person finds you warm, that they believe what you say, or that the admiration is accompanied by comfort. No card lets a reader see inside another person's head. What a card can do is describe the kind of image that fits the person's behaviour toward you, and give you something to check against how they actually treat you.

The Magician reversed as how someone sees you

Reversed, the Magician as how someone sees you means the picture has gone from capable to slippery: they see you as manipulative, a performer, someone whose charm is a method, whose words are too good. The skill they admired has started to feel like a trick.

In your own question, ask whether the person has lately seemed sceptical of your gestures, or whether they have asked what you really want. A reversed card here is a prompt to notice whether the picture the person holds has gone sour or gone wrong, not a verdict on you.

The Magician as how an ex sees you

Asked how an ex sees you, the Magician suggests they remember you as impressive, capable and a little hard to pin down, the one who could always talk their way through. It is a picture with admiration and suspicion in it, and which wins depends on whether the tools were ever used on them. My guide to asking a psychic whether an ex will come back explains what a reading can and cannot say about that question.

The Magician as how a new person sees you

For someone new, this card means they are impressed and possibly a little dazzled. Let them see something you cannot do, and the picture gains a person.

How to check the picture against reality

Look at whether the person asks you plain questions and accepts plain answers. Look at whether they relax around you or stay slightly on guard. A Magician picture is admiring and watchful; the way to soften it is to be ordinary in front of them.

What to record before drawing again

Keep three short notes: the question you asked, what the person seems to admire, and whether they have ever seen you fail at something. The third note is where the Magician becomes someone they can trust.

For comparison, the King of Wands as how someone sees you and the High Priestess as how someone sees you describe different pictures. The the Magician card meaning page covers the card in full, and the Magician as a person covers the card when it describes a temperament rather than an image. For a personal interpretation, my guide to a love psychic reading online explains how I work, and the three-card tarot listing and customer reviews are worth reading before deciding whether to order.