Four of Wands Art and Meaning
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.
About the Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present.
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Meaning of Four of Wands from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck
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.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Obstacles to be prepared for.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Unexpected good fortune.
Reversed
A married woman will have beautiful children.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Society, Union, Association, Concord, Harmony
Reversed
Prosperity, Success, Happiness, Advantage.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
you will be slandered and deceived, but it will turn out for your advantage. At a certain place there is some one waiting for you – let him not wait in vain.