Three of Wands and Four of Wands

The ships coming in. The Three is the wait; the Four is the threshold reached, the garlanded gateway, the thing worth marking. The tradition reads this run as the most straightforwardly good sequence in the suit, and as a genuine arrival rather than a final one.

Associated with a relationship reaching a recognised stage: moving in, an engagement, being introduced properly.

The venture returning something. Read as the completion of a phase and as the point most likely to be skipped past.

The Four of Wands is a card about stopping to mark a thing. This pair reads a refusal to celebrate as the mistake, which is unusual for the deck.