Tarot card

Four of Wands

Four of Wands: stability expressed as celebration, refuge and shared completion. The card joins the fire nature of Wands to its place in the numbered sequence.

2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source · Four of Wands in full

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The oldest attribution here is Sephirah and number Chesed, first attested 1888 CE.

Sephirah and number

  • Chesed

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    The Fours settle the suit into order and stability. Its force has found a form that can be established and held.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — General meanings of the small cards under the Sephiroth, p. 27

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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Suit and element

  • Fire

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    Wands express the powers of Fire: initiative, animation, desire, enterprise and force set in motion.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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