TAROTS: Lesson 5
My Love Affair with the Tarots
When the End Is Its Own New Beginning.
We are at the fours, even though we took a couple of excursions into the planets on your Tarot board as well as the mindset the reader should strive for.
In earlier posts, you saw how the Aces were active, the twos were passive, the threes rested in equilibrium … and now won’t you celebrate the result of all that each suit was destined to be from the beginning?
The Four of Wands
It is such a gloriously sunshiny day. I wish you could see the sunlight on this card as I do. The imaged card doesn’t do it justice. I hope by now you have your own Rider Pack so you can see the colors as they are intended.
Onward!
Two maidens clad in white gowns overlaid in colorful veils — powder blue on the one to our left, red on the one to our right — are approaching the Four upright Wands with garlands held high.
Two of the Wands closest to the maidens are already decorated with the vegetation, since, as we can see, they are tied with a bow. The two farthest from them are not yet decorated.
Should we make anything of that? [The illustrator, Pamela Coleman Smith, under the direct eye of Arthur Waite, could…
