From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Four of Wands
Meanings
A happy home. Friends and family. Health, harmony and happiness. Hard work, good planning and clever use of resources resulting in a fine harvest. Affluence, luxury, satisfaction.
Reversed (?)
A fine harvest is assured. The fruit of your labors will take time to grow and ripen, but the bounty will be plentiful.
Description
A young woman with dark hair and eyes looks at the viewer with a coy smile. Around her neck she has a double string of pearls, and she wears a fine red and black gown trimmed with lace. There is something slightly untidy about her appearance, as though she has just been dancing or frolicking. In her right hand she holds a small red book, marking a page with her finger. In the background is a lush, forested hill topped with a castle on a cliff. Behind her, another woman dances under a garland of flowers hanging from four wands. More flowers lie scattered on the floor.
Artwork
- Wand: TIZIANO, Vecellio (Titian), St Christopher, 1524, Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
- Wand leaves: PONTORMO, Jacopo, Cosimo il Vecchio, c.1520, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Castle, trees, sky: SPRANGER, Bartholomeus, Venus and Adonis, c.1586-07, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Ground, garlands: LASTMAN, Pieter, Orestes and Pylades Disputing at the Altar, 1614, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Dancing girl: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns, 1638-40, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
- Main woman: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, Isabella Brandt, c.1626, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Red sleeves: Master of the Holy Blood, Lucretia, c.1530, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
- Cat: HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van, The Anaemic Lady, c. 1660-70, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
There's a cat in her arms now!
Yep, I replaced the kitten with a brazier in the Ace of Wands and didn't have the heart to kick him out of the deck. He looks very happy in her arms though, I think he likes his new home.
He looks very happy, not merely content.