Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

About the Deck

Created by the famous seer Etteilla, this deck features the tarot card meanings right on the card, which was a new innovation at the time.

Provenance

Jean Baptiste Alliette. France, 1788.

Meaning of Eight of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck Deck

Upright

Criticism

Reversed

Incidents

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Enemy only partially successful.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

For a woman, scandal spread in her respect.

Reversed

Departure of a relative.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

Social position. Constant love. Unimportant position. Bad companions.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Sickness, Calumny, Criticism, Blame

Reversed

Treachery in the Past, Event, Accident, Remarkable Incident.

P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Coming illness

Reversed

an engagement cancelled or a rejected proposal, dissipation.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

the goal which you strive to reach is very near; an event may happen at any moment which will lead you to it at once.