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Ipeo Tarot Card Meaning and Art Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Designation

Ipeo

About the Deck

Sola Busca Tarot Deck

The oldest complete tarot deck we possess, and one of the only early decks to be fully illustrated.

It is by no means certain, but it has been alleged that the Sola Busca tarot deck was commissioned to honor Alfonso d'Este on the occasion of his wedding to Anna Sforza, granddaughter of Bianca Maria Visconti.

Provenance

Italy, c.1491.

Tags

trumps-17, ipeo

Meaning of Ipeo from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Upright

Jack of All Trades. One who can provide himself with anything he needs.

Reversed

One who knows how to best use the talents of others. A maven.

According to Many Schools of Thought

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Star, Dog-Star, or Sirius, also called fantastically the Star of the Magi. Grouped about it are seven minor luminaries, and beneath it is a naked female figure, with her left knee upon the earth and her right foot upon the water. She is in the act of pouring fluids from two vessels. A bird is perched on a tree near her; for this a butterfly on a rose has been substituted in some later cards. So also the Star has been called that of Hope. This is one of the cards which Court de Gebelin describes as wholly Egyptian-that is to say, in his own reverie.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Hope, Expectation, Bright promises

Reversed

Hopes not fulfilled, Expectations disappointed or fulfilled in a minor degree.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Hope.