Ace of Swords Art and Meaning Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment
From an uncut sheet found in a museum in Barcelona. This deck provides an important link between the Mamluk deck pattern and the Mediterranean deck pattern, because it shares features of both; in general it looks fairly European, but the wands look like Polo Sticks and the Cups still look like Myriads, harking back to Ancient Chinese money-suited cards.
Provenance
Spain, c. 1414.
Tags
swords-1, ace-of-swords, ace, swords
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Commencement of enmity.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Great prosperity or great misery.
Reversed
Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
The inquirer, if male.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
The inquirer, if female.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Triumph, Fecundity, Fertility, Prosperity
Reversed
Embarrassment, Foolish and Hopeless Love, Obstacle, Hindrance.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Emotional enjoyment
Reversed
news of a death, sorrow.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
if you keep it a secret that you dye your hair (or beard) a certain person will bestow his (her) heart upon you.
