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Tarot Reading What’s Derek’s thoughts about me?

Reading Performed 02/20/2019 at 10:46 PM

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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards

Past

What has already occurred; the past.

Wheel of Fortune from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Increase, abundance, superfluity.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Ill-Fortune, Failure, Unexpected Ill-Luck.

Card Description

In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of Eliphas Levi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate--as I have intimated--to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our purpose, provided that no theory of origin is implied therein. I have, however, presented Typhon in his serpent form. The symbolism is, of course, not exclusively Egyptian, as the four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card, and the wheel itself follows other indications of Levi in respect of Ezekiel\'s vision, as illustrative of the particular Tarot Key. With the French occultist, and in the design itself, the symbolic picture stands for the perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is the equilibrium therein. The transliteration of Taro as Rota is inscribed on the wheel, counterchanged with the letters of the Divine Name--to shew that Providence is imphed through all. But this is the Divine intention within, and the similar intention without is exemplified by the four Living Creatures. Sometimes the sphinx is represented couchant on a pedestal above, which defrauds the symbolism by stultifying the essential idea of stability amidst movement. Behind the general notion expressed in the symbol there lies the denial of chance and the fatality which is implied therein. It may be added that, from the days of Levi onward, the occult explanations of this card are--even for occultism itself--of a singularly fatuous kind. It has been said to mean principle, fecundity, virile honour, ruling authority, etc. The findings of common fortune-telling are better than this on their own plane.

Present

What is occurring now; the present.

Eight of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

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

Card Description

A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.

Future

What has not yet occurred; the future.

Four of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

They are for once almost on the surface--country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of these.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Society, Union, Association, Concord, Harmony

Card Description

From the four great staves planted in the foreground there is a great garland suspended; two female figures uplift nosegays; at their side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old manorial house.

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