The deck · Wands · Fire

Four of Wands, from the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Four of Wands

Country lifeHaven of refugeReposeConcord

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.

Reversed

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

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

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.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Unexpected good fortune. Reversed: A married woman will have beautiful children.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.