Western Tarot symbolism
Four of Wands
Two figures raise flowers near the garland, while a bridge over a moat leads toward a manorial house. The source connects this scene with refuge, domestic celebration, concord and repose. The main text says the reversed meaning remains much the same. The later list instead gives unexpected good fortune upright and a specific family prediction reversed.
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The card account
LiteraryTwo figures raise flowers near the garland, while a bridge over a moat leads toward a manorial house. The source connects this scene with refuge, domestic celebration, concord and repose.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe main text says the reversed meaning remains much the same. The later list instead gives unexpected good fortune upright and a specific family prediction reversed.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
great garland suspended ; two female figures uplift nosegays ; at their side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old manorial house. DivinatoryOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 102
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0102
- Original scan leaf
- 108
- Recorded leaf number
- 108
- Current Reader position
- 102
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Four.—Unexpected good fortune. Reversed: A married woman will have beautiful children. Three.—A very good card ; collaboration will favor enterprise. Tivo.—A young lady may expect trivialOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 150
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0150
- Original scan leaf
- 156
- Recorded leaf number
- 156
- Current Reader position
- 150
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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