Small cards, Wands
Four of Wands
Completion
A stage of work has a recognisable shape. Mark what has been accomplished before deciding whether the arrangement needs expansion, maintenance or a graceful ending.
What is sufficiently complete to be enjoyed?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Venus in Aries
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chesed
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Aries
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 195 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Four of Wands ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Four crossed wands gather at one flaming junction.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 195 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Perfected Work.
Work reaches a settled form, bringing enjoyment and relief after effort. The account also allows anxiety and haste to disturb that completion.
Thoth: Four of Wands.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.