What does Four of Wands mean for career and work?

A milestone reached, a team that works, a workplace that feels like somewhere you belong.

It covers the completion celebrated properly: the launch, the contract, the end of something long, and the colleagues who were part of it.

Reversed, instability under a settled surface, which in an organisation usually means a good announcement covering an unresolved problem everybody can already see.

Homecoming, marriage, a milestone, a threshold crossed with people who care.

Stability worth marking, and the marking is the instruction rather than a decoration of it. Take the celebration seriously, because the card treats an unmarked achievement as an incomplete one.

In an advice position it is one of the few that will tell you to stop working and hold a party, and it means it literally.

A celebration that feels hollow, or a homecoming to somewhere that is not home.

Transition without the settled feeling, which is common after a move, a wedding or a promotion: everything is correct and nothing has landed.

Also read for tension within family or community, particularly around the occasions that are supposed to be happy. The card is unsurprised by that combination.

Upright: celebration, homecoming, stability, community, milestone

Reversed: hollow celebration, instability, family tension, transition

• What have I achieved that I never actually celebrated?
• Where do I belong, and when did I last go there?