Wands · Fire
Four of Wandsfor Aries · Love and Relationships
"Celebration isn't the question. What you do next is."
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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 Aries in Love and Relationships
The Initiator
Wands are the fire suit, so the Four of Wands sits in Aries. That makes this Aries's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Aries already believes it is good at: spend the energy on one thing today. Upright, the structure is holding. Holding is not the same as being right.
When reading about relationships through an Aries lens, the Four of Wands says that you feel like your person is the spark that tells you that you are alive, the mirror you look in to check if you are still winning (or losing), and something you can set on fire and rebuild constantly. This has either created a partnership where you both move fast and break things together, or left you chasing the feeling of the first three months with person after person. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Aries blind spot in it is the feeling that nothing you do makes any difference, that you are not the center of the story.
In practice that can look like wanting more than you said you did. Whatever form it takes, it has settled into something stable enough to hide in.
Keep the thread
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