Celebrate Everything, the Fire Element, and the Four of Wands
By Lalia Wilson
I was browsing in the library recently and came across the book Celebrate Everything: Fun Ideas to Bring Your Parties to Life by Darcy Miller (published by William Morrow) and immediately thought about the Four of Wands. Indeed, the cover of Celebrate Everything is right in step with the Four of Wands, a card of celebrations, holidays, parties and other community activities and ceremonies. Wands in general have to do with the spark of life, enthusiasm and energy. The Four of Wands indicates a time to celebrate our lives, our accomplishments, and our aliveness.
Celebrate Everything is a party planner’s guide that indicates literally thousands of ways that common and uncommon milestones can be honored. For anyone out of touch with the Fire element (Wands) this is a primer on how to evoke Fire, the energy of celebration, into your life or into an event. Those who are more in touch with their own inner Fire may see this as just an aid to party-planning.
While the Four of Wands is only one of the 78 cards in the traditional tarot deck, it is a positive and easily understood card that is easily paired with an event. Most people who have studied tarot have received the advice to “meditate” on individual cards. Some of them have learned that by consciously bringing the card into their experience they can tap into the archetypal energy displayed or represented in the card. The Four of Wands is a positive energy just about anyone can harmlessly evoke, making their lives and the lives of others happier.
Given the multiple meanings of each of tarot’s 78 cards, and that some are positive and others negative, one could likely take a whole library and sort it into 78 categories representing the cards. To do this would be a difficult work as some books and some cards become very abstract. My preference is to let the world, including books in the library, speak up for themselves. Here Celebrate Everything is one exemplar. What books, movies, TV shows, poems, and other arts speak to you of different tarot cards?