Known also as the Lord of Perfected Works and aligned with Venus in Aries, the Four of Wands represents completion of an important phase of creativity and hence new beginnings.
Venus represents attraction, beauty and love, and in the sign of fiery Aries brings a dynamic creativity that produces something beautiful and new.
There is the opportunity for new understandings and growth in an important relationship, and the chance to make it more concrete and permanent.
Where there have been differences in standards or values now seems less divisive as there is a willingness to meet halfway over difficulties.
Since this is a card of harmonious completion and new beginnings, there are all sorts of possibilities that will present themselves to you for consideration in your future. Take the time to enjoy what you have built up now, and don't be in too much of a hurry to rush into the next thing, although the desire will be strong.
This is a joyful harvest card, and brings satisfaction and rewards after striving and hard work. The benefits of these rewards give you breathing space to relax a little and enjoy the fruits of your labour. There may be a change of residence or updating your current one, or even securing a second home.
This card also represents the comforts of home, so you can expect to find solace and rest and pleasure in your home, wherever that may be in whatever form it may take.
Whatever the level of success and completion you achieve now, be sure to mark this as an important milestone - we need rituals such as this in life to enable us to create more of the same and also to allow us to move on to an ever higher phase.
"Celebrate what you want to see more of." - Thomas J. Peters
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