Is King of Wands a yes or a no?

This card leans yes. It carries forward movement, and in a straight yes/no draw most readers take it affirmatively.

The King of Wands is vision made operational.

The entrepreneur, the founder, the natural leader who sees the whole thing and can get other people to build it.

A live salamander sits at his feet. The throne is carved with lions and salamanders and he is turned slightly away as if mid-decision, and the detail that matters is that the fire is not only symbolic on the furniture. It is present in the room.

Yes/no readings are the most popular use of tarot and the one it is worst suited to. A seventy-eight card deck built to describe nuance is being asked for one bit of information, and most of what it knows is discarded in the process.

A more useful version of the same draw: read King of Wands as what shape this takes, not whether it happens. Leadership with vision behind it. Take charge.

Long-range thinking backed by the authority to execute, which is the combination that distinguishes him from the Knight: the same fire, aimed, and answerable for where it lands.

Bold, decisive, and genuinely responsible for the outcome. That last part is what makes him a king rather than an enthusiast, and it is the part that is hardest to sustain.

Reversed, the lean weakens or inverts. Domineering, impatient with anybody slower, all vision and no delivery.

The impatience is the most common and the most costly, because it removes exactly the people who would have executed the vision.

Also read for a leader who has stopped listening, which usually begins as confidence that was earned and hardens into an assumption that the room has nothing to add.