Is Four of Wands a yes or a no?

This card leans yes. It carries forward movement, and in a straight yes/no draw most readers take it affirmatively.

The Four is arrival and celebration: a stable foundation reached, and a community that shows up for it.

One of the warmest cards in the deck and one of the least complicated.

Four wands form a garland-hung canopy, read by almost everybody as a wedding canopy, with two figures raising bouquets beneath it. The structure is open on all sides. This shelter does not enclose anybody, which is the difference between a threshold and a wall.

Yes/no readings are the most popular use of tarot and the one it is worst suited to. A seventy-eight card deck built to describe nuance is being asked for one bit of information, and most of what it knows is discarded in the process.

A more useful version of the same draw: read Four of Wands as what shape this takes, not whether it happens. 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.

Reversed, the lean weakens or inverts. 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.