Carbone Tarot Card Meaning and Art Sola Busca Tarot Deck
Designation
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.
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Meaning of Carbone from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck
Upright
Flight. Running away.
Reversed
Capture. Facing the music.
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Hanged Man. This is the symbol which is supposed to represent Prudence, and Eliphas Levi says, in his most shallow and plausible manner, that it is the adept bound by his engagements. The figure of a man is suspended head-downwards from a gibbet, to which he is attached by a rope about one of his ankles. The arms are bound behind him, and one leg is crossed over the other. According to another, and indeed the prevailing interpretation, he signifies sacrifice, but all current meanings attributed to this card are cartomancists' intuitions, apart from any real value on the symbolical side. The fortune-tellers of the eighteenth century who circulated Tarots, depict a semi-feminine youth in jerkin, poised erect on one foot and loosely attached to a short stake driven into the ground.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound
Reversed
Selfishness, Unbound, Partial sacrifice.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Trials. Sacrifice.
