Wands · Fire
Four of Wandsfor Aries · Money and Wealth
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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 Money and Wealth
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 money through an Aries lens, the Four of Wands says that you feel like money is the thing you need to move forward, a problem to solve immediately (or spend away), and something that only matters if it is stopping you from doing the next thing. This has either made you resourceful enough to start with nothing and build fast, or left you broke from betting on yourself before you were ready. You have not looked at your full financial picture all at once, and the not-looking costs more than the looking would. 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 a risk with money, or earning from something you actually like. Whatever form it takes, it has settled into something stable enough to hide in.
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