The Pope Tarot Card Meaning and Art Tarot Genoves Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Tarot Genoves Deck
A reproduction of an authentic Genovean Tarot exhibited at the Fournier Playing Card Museum.
Provenance
Genova, Italy. 1887.
Description
He is crowned with the papal tiara, and seated between the two pillars of Hermes and of Solomon, with his right hand he makes the sign of esoterism, and with his left he leans upon a staff surmounted by a triple cross. (Before him kneel two ministers.) He is the symbol of Mercy and Beneficence.Meaning of The Pope from the Tarot Genoves Deck
Upright
Mercy, Beneficence Kindness, Goodness;
Reversed
Over-kindness, weakness, Foolish exercise of generosity.
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The High Priest or Hierophant, called also Spiritual Father, and more commonly and obviously the Pope. It seems even to have been named the Abbot, and then its correspondence, the High Priestess, was the Abbess or Mother of the Convent. Both are arbitrary names. The insignia of the figures are papal, and in such case the High Priestess is and can be only the Church, to whom Pope and priests are married by the spiritual rite of ordination. I think, however, that in its primitive form this card did not represent the Roman Pontiff.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Mercy, Beneficence Kindness, Goodness
Reversed
Over-kindness, weakness, Foolish exercise of generosity.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Inspiration.
