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Tarot Reading What lies in my future?

Reading Performed 05/25/2019 at 6:09 AM

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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards

This Covers You

This card gives the influence which is affecting the person or matter of inquiry generally, the atmosphere of it in which the other currents work.

Queen of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The accounts vary; good woman; otherwise, distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour, depravity.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

A Woman in good position, but intermeddling, and to be distrusted; Success, but with some attendant trouble.

Card Description

Beautiful, fair, dreamy--as one who sees visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream.

This Crosses You

It shows the nature of the obstacles in the matter. If it is a favourable card, the opposing forces will not be serious, or it may indicate that something good in itself will not be productive of good in the particular connexion.

Six of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such as might be carried in state by the King's courier; it is expectation crowned with its own desire, the crown of hope, and so forth.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Attempt, Hope, Desire, Wish, Expectation

Card Description

A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side.

This Crowns You

It represents (a) the Querent's aim or ideal in the matter; (b) the best that can be achieved under the circumstances, but that which has not yet been made actual.

Three of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Success, Triumph, Victory, Favourable issue

Card Description

Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another.

This is Beneath You

It shows the foundation or basis of the matter, that which has already passed into actuality and which the Significator has made his own.

Eight of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, as that of an express messenger; great haste, great hope, speed towards an end which promises assured felicity; generally, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Understanding, Observation, Direction

Card Description

The card represents motion through the immovable-a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even on the threshold.

This is Behind You

It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.

Four of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Economy, Precaution, Regulation of Expenditure.

Card Description

The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.

This is Before You

It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.

Ace of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Change, Novelty, Metamorphosis, Inconstancy.

Card Description

The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana.

Your Self

Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.

Three of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Metier, trade, skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Nobility, Elevation, Dignity, Rank, Power

Card Description

A sculptor at his work in a monastery. Compare the design which illustrates the Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or amateur therein has received his reward and is now at work in earnest.

Your House

Your environment and the tendencies at work therein which have an effect on the matter €”for instance, your position in life, the influence of immediate friends, and so forth.

The Devil from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Fatality for Evil.

Card Description

The design is an accommodation, mean or harmony, between several motives mentioned in the first part. The Horned Goat of Mendes, with wings like those of a bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit of the stomach there is the sign of Mercury. The right hand is upraised and extended, being the reverse of that benediction which is given by the Hierophant in the fifth card. In the left hand there is a great flaming torch, inverted towards the earth. A reversed pentagram is on the forehead. There is a ring in front of the altar, from which two chains are carried to the necks of two figures, male and female. These are analogous with those of the fifth card, as if Adam and Eve after the Fall. Hereof is the chain and fatality of the material life. The figures are tailed, to signify the animal nature, but there is human intelligence in the faces, and he who is exalted above them is not to be their master for ever. Even now, he is also a bondsman, sustained by the evil that is in him and blind to the liberty of service. With more than his usual derision for the arts which he pretended to respect and interpret as a master therein, Eliphas Levi affirms that the Baphometic figure is occult science and magic. Another commentator says that in the Divine world it signifies predestination, but there is no correspondence in that world with the things which below are of the brute. What it does signify is the Dweller on the Threshold without the Mystical Garden when those are driven forth therefrom who have eaten the forbidden fruit.

Your Hopes and Fears

Seven of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Desire, will, determination, project.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Plan, Design, Resolution, Decision.

Card Description

Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit.

The Final Result

The culmination which is brought about by the influences shewn by the other cards that have been turned up in the divination.

Four of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Suspense, delay, opposition.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Obstacles, Hindrances.

Card Description

A crowned figure, having a pentacle over his crown, clasps another with hands and arms; two pentacles are under his feet. He holds to that which he has.

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