Is Queen 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 Queen of Wands is warmth with authority.

Confident, magnetic, socially fluent, and entirely unbothered by whether she is liked, which is generally why she is.

A black cat sits at her feet, the only one in the deck. It is Smith's addition with no Golden Dawn source, which is part of why it draws so much interpretation, and the standard reading is the acknowledged, unhidden shadow of a very bright figure. She faces forward with a sunflower in one hand and a wand in the other.

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 Queen of Wands as what shape this takes, not whether it happens. Self-assurance and charisma. Lead by presence.

Sociable, generous, courageous. She holds a room without raising her voice and she knows exactly what she is worth, which is the quality people find either magnetic or difficult and rarely neutral.

In an advice position she says take up the room you actually occupy, which is aimed at people who have spent years making themselves smaller and calling it modesty.

Reversed, the lean weakens or inverts. Confidence hollowed into performance.

Jealousy, or insecurity managed by demanding attention. The reversal is the same brightness with nothing underneath it, and it is exhausting for her before it is exhausting for anybody else.

Also read for warmth withdrawn as punishment, which is her particular capacity for damage: somebody this warm going cold is a very effective sanction and it is rarely named as one.