Hi there I'm Amelia and welcome to my tiny Taro practice today's card is the four of Wands.

After our conversation about the 3 of Wands as a card inviting you to break your own heart to make radical change even if it feels like leaping off a cliff into the unknown.

The four greets us with a celebration
the number for evokes a square

and the stability of being grounded on four sides of a firm foundation and in the rider Waite Smith

version of the tarot the four of Wands features beautiful sort of.

Bauer of four wands and the foreground with flowers and Greenery stock strung up between them and then away in the distance we see

two figures who are

dressed in robes and waving green Bunches of greens over their head they look like they're headed to a celebration and there are others following behind them and then in the far distance there is a walled City.

We can see a high wall and spires behind it and so with this card and this imagery we see people headed from this enclosed City to an open celebration.

We see perhaps what can happen if you take the leap toward the radical change that is calling you.

There are different ways that people read this card but often it's related to a domestic environment to your home or to your work environment to where you live your life and do your things each day.

And as such there's a real threat of like belonging and stability here,

this isn't you know wild party this isn't the moon this isn't that like rawness it's a for It's A Beautiful the stability of fire the warmth of a hearth

the celebration and being around ourselves and those we love
and celebrating spring together.

In these four poles I often feel a maypole that type of celebration of newness and joy.

I also love the version of this card from the True Heart intuitive tarot that's brings the two people to the foreground instead of having them far away that the two figures are in the front and they're holding hands.

The four of Wands in that deck almost feels like a card of matrimony to me.

And it's full of many more Lush pinks and even more flowers.

Something that Rachel Pollock in 78.

Degrees of wisdom points out is that the figures in the four of Wands are dressed very similarly to the two figures that we see in the tower card falling out of the tower being thrown from the tower upon its

demise its destruction maybe the better word.

And I think that's a really interesting connection to make Rachel Pollack kind of reads it as this idea of what happens if you are too bound to the walled City.

If you are too I would say like stuck in a system or in a way of being if you're not willing to go beyond.

Then it will crumble I mean inevitably things always crumble we live lives that are.

Bounded by death and change.

But I think the four of want in the four of Wands we see the beauty of the mundanity of celebration of again of the Hearth the warmth and joy of coming together creatively.

And and yes maybe those moments there will be will we eventually get to the Tower things will fall but that doesn't make those simple Joys any less sweet.

So for this card I'm just invite us all to just to bask in small celebrations.

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