Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Four of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Four of Wands upright means “They are for once almost on the surface—country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of these”, and reversed “The meaning remains unaltered; it is prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment”.
Upright
They are for once almost on the surface—country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of these.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
The meaning remains unaltered; it is prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
From the four great staves planted in the foreground there is a great garland suspended; two female figures uplift nose-gays; at their side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old manorial house.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Four of Wands fall in a reading?
Four of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.