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Tarot Reading What lies in my future?

Reading Performed 01/20/2019 at 6:54 AM

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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards

Card One

Two of Wands from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Intellectual partnership; assistance.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.

Card Two

Queen of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

(Polisena) Tolerance. Acceptance of the ideas of others.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A rich marriage for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.

Card Three

Nine of Swords from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Apprenticeship

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.

Card Four

Six of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Hard Labor. Loss of recognition.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A check on the Querent's ambition.

Card Five

Four of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Financial hardship.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

For a bachelor, pleasant news from a lady.

Card Six

Catulo from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Poetic words.

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.

Card Seven

Three of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Obfuscation. Unnecessary abstraction. Inconvenience.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Unexpected advancement for a military man.

Card Eight

Seven of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Physical or material perfection. Artistic ideals. Aesthetics.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement.

Card Nine

Nenbroto from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Innocence lost.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

The Last judgment. I have spoken of this symbol already, the form of which is essentially invariable, even in the Etteilla set. An angel sounds his trumpet per sepulchra regionum, and the dead arise. It matters little that Etteilla omits the angel, or that Dr. Papus substitutes a ridiculous figure, which is, however, in consonance with the general motive of that Tarot set which accompanies his latest work. Before rejecting the transparent interpretation of the symbolism which is conveyed by the name of the card and by the picture which it presents to the eye, we should feel very sure of our ground. On the surface, at least, it is and can be only the resurrection of that triad--father, mother, child-whom we have met with already in the eighth card. M. Bourgeat hazards the suggestion that esoterically it is the symbol of evolution--of which it carries none of the signs. Others say that it signifies renewal, which is obvious enough; that it is the triad of human life; that it is the "generative force of the earth... and eternal life." Court de Gebelin makes himself impossible as usual, and points out that if the grave-stones were removed it could be accepted as a symbol of creation.

Card Ten

Page of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Gambling, or wasting time on foolish pursuits. Unnecessary risk.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage.

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Card Eleven

Page of Swords from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

A violent youth.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Astonishing news.

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Card Twelve

Two of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Codependency.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Passion.

Card Thirteen

Nine of Wands from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

The unknowable; the other.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Generally speaking, a bad card.

Card Fourteen

Nine of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Money or advantage taken from others. Careers built on the backs of workers.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.

Card Fifteen

Six of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Hubris. Disaster.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Inheritance to fall in quickly.

Card Sixteen

Eight of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Treasure waiting to be found

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.

Card Seventeen

Venturio from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Art for the love of art.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

The Wheel of Fortune. There is a current Manual of Cartomancy which has obtained a considerable vogue in England, and amidst a great scattermeal of curious things to no purpose has intersected a few serious subjects. In its last and largest edition it treats in one section of the Tarot; which--if I interpret the author rightly--it regards from beginning to end as the Wheel of Fortune, this expression being understood in my own sense. I have no objection to such an inclusive though conventional description; it obtains in all the worlds, and I wonder that it has not been adopted previously as the most appropriate name on the side of common fortune-telling. It is also the title of one of the Trumps Major--that indeed of our concern at the moment, as my sub-title shews. Of recent years this has suffered many fantastic presentations and one hypothetical reconstruction which is suggestive in its symbolism. The wheel has seven radii; in the eighteenth century the ascending and descending animals were really of nondescript character, one of them having a human head. At the summit was another monster with the body of an indeterminate beast, wings on shoulders and a crown on head. It carried two wands in its claws. These are replaced in the reconstruction by a Hermanubis rising with the wheel, a Sphinx couchant at the summit and a Typhon on the descending side. Here is another instance of an invention in support of a hypothesis; but if the latter be set aside the grouping is symbolically correct and can pass as such.

Card Eighteen

Catone from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Censorship.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

Death. The method of presentation is almost invariable, and embodies a bourgeois form of symbolism. The scene is the field of life, and amidst ordinary rank vegetation there are living arms and heads protruding from the ground. One of the heads is crowned, and a skeleton with a great scythe is in the act of mowing it. The transparent and unescapable meaning is death, but the alternatives allocated to the symbol are change and transformation. Other heads have been swept from their place previously, but it is, in its current and patent meaning, more especially a card of the death of Kings. In the exotic sense it has been said to signify the ascent of the spirit in the divine spheres, creation and destruction, perpetual movement, and so forth.

Card Nineteen

Seven of Swords from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Rationalized violence.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Good advice, probably neglected.

Card Twenty

Five of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Plagiarism. Fake performances.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise.

Card Twenty One

Five of Swords from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Threat of violence.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A sign of sorrow and mourning.

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