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Waite–Smith, Wands

Four of Wands

Four staffs hold a hanging garland before two figures raising flowers. Buildings and other people appear beyond the open frame.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 204 ↗

What you can see

Four staffs hold a hanging garland before two figures raising flowers. Buildings and other people appear beyond the open frame.

What Waite says

Waite emphasizes refuge, domestic celebration, harmony and completed work. Unusually, he says the reversed card retains the same favourable meaning rather than becoming its opposite.

Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 190 ↗
Edition and image credits

Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.