About these meanings: the traditional descriptions and meanings on this public reference page are taken from material associated with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck. Some of the language is historical, severe, or old-fashioned. Slogit Tarot modernises this terminology and greatly expands the meanings, examples and interpretations inside the Arcana Nexus learning course.

Minor Arcana · Wands

Four of Wands

Card Code W4

Suit Wands

Rank Four

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Description & Symbolism

Four of Wands

From the four great staves, planted in the foreground there is a great garland suspended; two female figures uplift nosegays; at their side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old manorial house.

Divinatory Meaning

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.

Unexpected good fortune.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

The meaning remains unaltered; it is prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.

A married woman will have beautiful children.