Eight of Wands - Magician
talking and acting
talking - Eight of Wands
and acting - Magician
Eight of Wands is--without any support for that from the picture--the main card about communication of any kind, even written, even texting. Call it a member of the speak/tell/say Tarot tribe, so here it's talking.
Magician as the 1, according to the beliefs of the authors of what we know as the Rider Waite deck, is acting on the physical plane and only receptive on the higher planes. When I made the Taro...