Wands · Fire
Four of Wandsfor Sagittarius · 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 Sagittarius in Self and Identity
The Seeker
Wands are the fire suit, so the Four of Wands sits in Sagittarius. That makes this Sagittarius'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 Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius lens, the Four of Wands says that you feel like you are someone who figures things out and moves forward, a person who does not get stuck, and someone who has to keep moving or the sadness catches up. This has either made you resourceful and adaptable or has left you running from yourself in a thousand different cities. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Sagittarius blind spot in it is the specific weight of a single commitment, the slowness of actually building something, the possibility that it might not be enough.
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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