There is no one in this card at all. Eight wands fly in a slanting line across open sky, with a river and rolling land below. They are all heading the same way and look as if they are about to land. The Eight of Wands is the point where stalled things suddenly speed up and news arrives in a rush.
When it shows up, things usually come at once. Emails that sat unanswered for weeks all get replies on the same afternoon, a contract that kept slipping moves in a day, the trip you only talked about suddenly has dates. The empty landscape can be read as a sign that the pace is out of your hands now. What you can do is not sit on your replies while the momentum is there.
Reversed, there are two readings. One is news that runs late, or messages that keep crossing — what you sent and what they sent are answering different questions. The other runs the opposite way: haste. Frustration makes you fire something off without checking, and the knot gets tighter.
A useful exercise is to list what you owe a reply to, and separately, whose reply you are waiting on. That alone keeps the speed from carrying you off.
People often read it as 'everything will go quickly and well'. Quickly, yes. But fast is not the same as good. This card is about speed, not direction, and the direction has to be read from the cards around it.
With the Wheel of Fortune, the whole board turns at once. With the Two of Cups, read it as messages flying back and forth between two people who are warming to each other.