The Four of Wands as Intentions: To Bring You In and Celebrate It

Written by Chaya the Medium.

The Four of Wands as intentions is a plan to hang the garlands. Here is what I would read in it, upright and reversed, and why public welcome is a commitment.

If you want the short answer, I would read the Four of Wands as intentions that are glad, open and inclusive. In an intentions position the card suggests the person means to bring you into their life properly: to introduce you, to include you, to celebrate what is between you where other people can see it. The intention is a milestone. It is public, and public is a commitment of its own.

This is the garland strung between four poles with people celebrating. They intend a welcome. People do not hang garlands for someone they mean to hide.

The Four of Wands upright as intentions

Tina Gong's the Four of Wands guide at Labyrinthos associates the upright card with celebration, homecoming, harmony and community. When the card lands in a position that asks what someone intends toward you, I read those meanings as the shape of their plan rather than as a promise about what they will do. Feelings and intentions are different questions; the Four of Wands as feelings covers the first, and this page covers the second. The general card meanings at Biddy Tarot are a useful second reference.

Upright, I read the Four of Wands as a person who intends to make you part of their world: to have you at the gathering, to meet their people, to mark a stage. If they intend more, engagement, moving in, a home, it will be this card's natural next step. They are not planning to keep you to one side.

What I would not read into it is finality. The Four of Wands intends a milestone, not the whole road. It says you are welcome. It does not say for how long.

What the card does not tell you

The card does not confirm long-term commitment, that the welcome is romantic rather than warmly inclusive, or that the celebration will survive ordinary days. No card lets a reader see another person's plans. What a card can do is describe the kind of intention that fits the person's behaviour, and give you something to check against what they actually do.

The Four of Wands reversed as intentions

Reversed, the Four of Wands as intentions describes a welcome withheld: a person who feels warmly and intends to keep it private, who will not bring you into their life, or whose plans for a milestone have been cancelled by instability at home. The garlands are down or were never hung.

In your own question, ask whether the person keeps you separate from their life while being warm in private, or whether something at home has made the celebration impossible for now. A reversed card as intentions is a prompt to compare what is said with what is done, not a diagnosis of bad faith.

The Four of Wands as an ex's intentions

Asked about an ex, the Four of Wands as intentions can suggest they intend warmth toward you in company, a glad welcome if you met, perhaps a friendship within the old circle. Less often it describes a wish to bring you home again. The difference is whether they do anything about it. My guide to asking a psychic whether an ex will come back explains what a reading can and cannot say about that question.

The Four of Wands as a new person's intentions

For someone new, this is a lovely card: they intend to show you to their world and are glad about you. Accept the invitations. How they behave when you are among their people tells you what kind of welcome it is.

What their intentions look like in action

Look for inclusion and visible gladness: invitations to things that matter, introductions, a sense of being brought in. A Four of Wands intention is seen in the open. If the person is warm in private and absent in public, read the reversal.

What to record before drawing again

Keep three short notes: the question you asked, who the person has introduced you to and what they have invited you into, and whether the welcome has been steady or occasional. The second note is the garland.

For comparison, the Three of Cups as intentions and the Ten of Cups as intentions describe different intentions. The the Four of Wands card meaning page covers the card in full, and the Four of Wands as timing and the Four of Wands as a yes or no cover the other questions people most often ask of it. For a personal interpretation, my guide to a love psychic reading online explains how I work, and the three-card tarot listing and customer reviews are worth reading before deciding whether to order.