What does Four of Wands mean reversed?

The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading: Success that is unstable or not enjoyed; an anxiety to move on, postponed celebrations, foundations that need reinforcing.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Four of Wands?

In the Golden Dawn system Four of Wands corresponds to the sephirah Chesed, the element Fire and Venus in Aries in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Four of Wands — Completion

Completion

completion · stability · harmony · celebration · order

A reflective starting point

What is Four of Wands — Completion asking you to look at?

Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.

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Upright

A goal is reached: celebrate and consolidate what you have built before setting off again.

At first sight

Work accomplished, harmony, celebration, stability reached. It points to feasts, milestones, and solid homes and relationships.

Within you

The satisfaction of someone who has concluded a cycle and can enjoy it without losing vitality; the pleasure of feeling in your rightful place.

On the path

Fire in Chesed, Mercy that organises, with Venus in Aries in the third decan: Venusian sweetness tempers Martial impetus. Completion is energy becoming order and benevolent rule.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals complacency, stasis, loss of momentum, premature conclusions.

Reversed

In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.

Success that is unstable or not enjoyed; an anxiety to move on, postponed celebrations, foundations that need reinforcing.

In love, work and spirit

Love. A stable union, living together, engagements or celebrations.

Work. A completed project, closed contracts, a harmonious working environment.

Spirit. The peace that follows work accomplished, to be lived as a base and not as an end.

Correspondences

Chesed · Fire · Venus in Aries

Crowley's note

In the Thoth deck the four wands end in ram's heads and doves, symbols of Mars and Venus, arranged in a wheel: strength and love joined in a perfect circle.