He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids. The motion of the horse is a key to the character of its rider, and suggests the precipitate mood, or things connected therewith.
the plate, in waite's words · the painted card will hang here in time
In divination
Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.
Mailed but not on any warlike errand, the Knight rides past mounds or pyramids at a pace Waite reads directly off the horse's motion, "the precipitate mood, or things connected therewith." He carries wands' vitality forward as departure rather than arrival, "flight, emigration, change of residence," the suit's energy given legs and a destination rather than a household to guard, unlike the Page one rank below him or the King two ranks above.
a young page · the keeper's voice pass on the note is still to come