Kings are associated with control, discipline, resolve and mastery.  Wands are associated with inspiration, energy, passion, feeling, enterprise, ambition, matters pertaining to the "spark of life", and the element of fire.  The King of Wands is a charismatic, passionate and exciting man who is disciplined, masterful, in control and confident about his skills.  He has the charm and personality to convince others to follow him and he knows when and how to use force, if necessary.

"You're letting go of an old self-image.  Regardless of how others have seen you, you've had a particular image of yourself that it's time to end.  You may want to do a private ritual to symbolically release the old familiar self that doesn't feel like you anymore." - Gail Fairfield

Mastery and dominion, resolve and discipline of my own creative energy, my inner flame - what a potent gift that is to have.  That is what the King of Wands is offering to me.  The All Hallows King of Wands looks a bit like a pirate - he steers the course of his own fate according to the stars in the sky.  The skeletal figure on the Wormweird Lord of Flames is the golden corpse of King Midas - a reminder that the transformation of mind and body is the true goal of alchemy, not the acquisition or even transformation of dross metal into gold.  It is the human spirit that is priceless and worth tempering.  

Perhaps the truth is that the pursuit of material treasure (such as a pirate or King Midas might have done) is not a worthy pursuit.  The worthiest of human endeavors is to transform my spirit, my divine spark into something worth of that connection to the divine.  It's about mastering myself; of allowing my creative and divine spark to find its fullest expression in life.

This ties in with the previous cards I've drawn this month.  It reinforces the message that its time to look deep within myself and see how I can get out there and be the best damn Debbie I can be (to paraphrase Homer Simpson).  Before I can present this new me to the world, I have to decide who I want this new me to be.  It's not that I think she will be a dramatic departure from the old me, but she will be refined and transformed in both obvious and subtle ways.  I really have been getting a sense of change in myself.  I'm realizing that thing I've clung to as important in my life don't seem quite as desirable or valuable anymore.  I may not be ready to make a 180 degree change in my life, but perhaps a 90 degree change would be beneficial and recommended.