Four of Swords Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment
Designation
About the Deck
Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment
(aka Cary-Yale Tarot Deck or Visconti di Madrone Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Cary Yale Visconti Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it. Like the other Visconti decks, it features numerous heraldic devices. Unlike the other Visconti decks, it features a maid and a lady among the court cards.
Traditionally said to have been commissioned by Fillipo Maria Visconti for the 1441 marriage of Bianca Maria Visconti to Francesco Sforza I.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1441.
Tags
swords-4, four-of-swords, four, swords
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Enemy defeated.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
A bad card, but if reversed a qualified success may be expected by wise administration of affairs.
Reversed
A certain success following wise administration.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Solitude, Retreat, Abandonment, Solitary, Hermit
Reversed
Economy, Precaution, Regulation of Expenditure.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
there is among your circle of acquaintances some one who wishes to be united to you in marriage; consent, and you will not repent it.
