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welcome to Terro Bites. I'm Teresa Reed the Terro Lady. I'm the author of the Terro

coloring book and your host for this podcast series. This is episode 46 of tarro bites.

The podcast were I to shout short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to read tarot.

For today's episode, our topic is the Four of Wands. Let's begin.

Okay guys, I love, love this card. Like the Sun it's a symbol of happiness and joy. I mean all you got to do is you look at the card and you can see those good vibes

happening it's a party right and the beauty of this card is that it's

positive no matter whether it's right side up or upside down. How awesome is that?

Well anyhow, let's look at a few of the symbols here. So if you look at the cards, you're going to notice that there's a garland on top of the four wands. The garland is a symbol of victory.

And by the way, this Garland on top of these four wands reminds me of a touchdown.

Oftentimes when I look at that, that's one of my interpretations.

Touchdown.

I don't even watch football, but even I know what a touchdown is.

Anyhow, the four wands also form a gate.

Now a gate is a symbol of a passage or a new direction. It can also

indicate an initiation or an opening of sorts. In the background you're going to

notice that there is a castle.

And castles are symbols of protection but also big achievements.

Now in 78 degrees of wisdom, Rachel Pollack says that the card represents a domestic environment filled with fire optimism, eagerness and celebration.

As in the six, we see people following the dancers.

Unlike that card, however, where the soldiers followed the charismatic leader,

the people here are swept along by joy. By the way, she's talking about the Six of Wands, which we will be looking at in a

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