Western Tarot symbolism
Four of Wands
A garland joins four foreground staves beside a bridge and a house.
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Divinatory systems arrange signs into patterns of meaning. Explore the cards, symbols and correspondences described in particular works, and examine how their writers explain interpretation.
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Western Tarot symbolism
A garland joins four foreground staves beside a bridge and a house.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan associates Gemini with the arms and shoulders and the colour red and white.
Western Tarot symbolism
A trumpet’s summons calls the figures from their tombs.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan describes jupiter as favourable and assigns its house or houses to Sagittarius and Pisces.
Western Tarot symbolism
Accountability according to deeds, distinguished from spiritual election.
Western Tarot symbolism
A cup-bearing king sits amid sea imagery, with a ship and a leaping dolphin.
Western Tarot symbolism
Bull-head throne symbols accompany a pentacle interpreted through the elements.
Western Tarot symbolism
A judging king holds the unsheathed sword as an emblem of authority and office.
Western Tarot symbolism
A flowering staff and lion throne place this court figure within the animated Wands suit.
Western Tarot symbolism
A quietly riding knight carries the cup suit into a scene of approach and invitation.
Western Tarot symbolism
A slow horse and an exhibited pentacle give the Knight an image of steady external service.
Western Tarot symbolism
A rider in full course is compared with the ideal hero of romantic chivalry.
Western Tarot symbolism
A moving horse makes travel and haste central to this court card's description.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan associates Leo with the heart, back and neck and the colour red and green.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan associates Libra with the loins and the colour black, crimson and tawny.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan describes mars as dry and assigns its house or houses to Aries and Scorpio.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan describes mercury as of common or conditional influence and assigns its house or houses to Gemini and Virgo.
Western Tarot symbolism
A satisfied seated figure appears before an arched counter stocked with cups.
Western Tarot symbolism
A garden and a wrist-borne bird accompany a deliberately tentative claim about ownership.
Western Tarot symbolism
A lamenting figure beneath swords gives the card an image of desolation.
Western Tarot symbolism
Eight upright staves stand behind a watchful figure leaning on a ninth.
Baughan’s historical astrology
An angular relationship in the book’s fivefold scheme of aspects.
Western Tarot symbolism
A fish emerging from a cup turns the Page's contemplation into an image of thoughts taking form.
Western Tarot symbolism
An absorbed Page studies a hovering pentacle while moving slowly.