Wands · Fire
Four of Wandsfor Leo · Self and Identity
"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 Leo in Self and Identity
The Creator
Wands are the fire suit, so the Four of Wands sits in Leo. That makes this Leo'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 Leo 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 yourself through a Leo lens, the Four of Wands says that you feel like your image is the thing you are always refining, something that could always be more impressive (or more real), and the constant distance between who you are and who you appear. This has either built genuine self-awareness through the practice of refinement, or left you exhausted from maintaining two different people. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Leo blind spot in it is being ordinary, being forgotten, being the one no one thought to invite, being seen doing something mediocre.
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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