An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

Wands · IV

Four of Wands

Lord of Perfected Work

The face of Four of Wands, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of Perfected Work.

A threshold crossed. Celebrate it, then make it home.

Upright

Celebration, homecoming and stability earned. A milestone worth marking with others.

Reversed

Transition at home, or celebration postponed until everything is perfect.

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The spirit work

In the Goetia, Ronove gives favour with friends and foes by day; Andras, who sows discord, rules the night. Keep the feast and guard the gate.

Where the card sits

Correspondences

DecanVenus in Aries, 20° to 30°, the third face
Tree of LifeChesed in Atziluth
Governing angelsNanael by day, Nithael by night
Image of the decanA pale man with red hair, in red, holding a golden bracelet and a wooden staff.
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Day spiritRonove, marquis
The seal of Ronove

Appears as a monster. Teaches rhetoric and tongues and wins favour with friends and foes. Goetia 27.

Night spiritAndras, marquis
The seal of Andras

Appears as an angel with a raven’s head on a black wolf, sword aloft. Sows discord, and slays a careless operator and his fellows. Goetia 63.

Four of Wands in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.