Wands · Fire
Four of Wandsfor Aquarius · Self and Identity
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Two figures uplift bouquets; at their side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old manorial house. Wands represent passion and four represents stability. Together the four of wand represents a celebration, a respite from relentless pursuit of your goals.This card also harkens to marriage and the symbolic celebration of a wedding.
A formal celebration is coming up-- a graduation, a birthday, a holiday, a wedding. Take a pause to give thanks to those that helped get you here and to celebrate all the things you've built and the people you've built it with.
You don't feel that you deserve the celebrations happening around you. You feel insecure and cannot appreciate all the things you have built for yourself or the celebrations feel hollow. Try to let go of the self judgment, don't let it steal your joy.
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Four of Wands for Aquarius in Self and Identity
The Visionary
Wands are the fire suit, so the Four of Wands sits in Aries. Aries sextiles Aquarius, which is help that has to be taken up rather than help that arrives. What it asks for is this: spend the energy on one thing today. Aquarius is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. Upright, the structure is holding. Holding is not the same as being right.
When reading about yourself through an Aquarius lens, the Four of Wands says that you feel like your own mind is the most reliable thing you have, a maze you navigate alone, and a machine that works better when you are not feeling too much. This has either made you brilliantly self-sufficient, or cut you off from the one thing that might actually change you. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Aquarius blind spot in it is being ordinary, or worse, being needed in a way that pins them down.
In practice that can look like wanting something again, or restlessness with a direction. Whatever form it takes, it has settled into something stable enough to hide in.
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