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Reading Performed 07/14/2019 at 12:51 AM
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Card One
Three of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, the flight of her lover.
Card Two
Queen of Coins from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An illness.
Card Three
Ace of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.
Card Four
Nine of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen.
Card Five
The Devil from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Devil. In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been rather a symbol of merely animal impudicity. Except for a fantastic head-dress, the chief figure is entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the hands and feet are represented by the claws of a bird. In the right hand there is a sceptre terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire. The figure as a whole is not particularly evil; it has no tail, and the commentators who have said that the claws are those of a harpy have spoken at random. There is no better ground for the alternative suggestion that they are eagle's claws. Attached, by a cord depending from their collars, to the pedestal on which the figure is mounted, are two small demons, presumably male and female. These are tailed, but not winged. Since 1856 the influence of Eliphas Levi and his doctrine of occultism has changed the face of this card, and it now appears as a pseudo-Baphometic figure with the head of a goat and a great torch between the horns; it is seated instead of erect, and in place of the generative organs there is the Hermetic caduceus. In Le Tarot Divinatoire of Papus the small demons are replaced by naked human beings, male and female who are yoked only to each other. The author may be felicitated on this improved symbolism.
Card Six
Ace of Clubs from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Calamities of all kinds.
Card Seven
Two of Clubs from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
Card Eight
King of Coins from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor.
Card Nine
Wheel of Fortune from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Ten
The Tower from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Tower struck by Lightning. Its alternative titles are: Castle of Plutus, God's House and the Tower of Babel. In the last case, the figures falling therefrom are held to be Nimrod and his minister. It is assuredly a card of confusion, and the design corresponds, broadly speaking, to any of the designations except Maison Dieu, unless we are to understand that the House of God has been abandoned and the veil of the temple rent. It is a little surprising that the device has not so far been allocated to the destruction Of Solomon's Temple, when the lightning would symbolize the fire and sword with which that edifice was visited by the King of the Chaldees.
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Card Eleven
Page of Cups from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Obstacles of all kinds.
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Card Twelve
Queen of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A bad woman, with ill-will towards the Querent.
Card Thirteen
The Emperor from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Emperor, by imputation the spouse of the former. He is occasionally represented as wearing, in addition to his personal insignia, the stars or ribbons of some order of chivalry. I mention this to shew that the cards are a medley of old and new emblems. Those who insist upon the evidence of the one may deal, if they can, with the other. No effectual argument for the antiquity of a particular design can be drawn from the fact that it incorporates old material; but there is also none which can be based on sporadic novelties, the intervention of which may signify only the unintelligent hand of an editor or of a late draughtsman.
Card Fourteen
Six of Coins from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A check on the Querent's ambition.
Card Fifteen
Two of Cups from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Favourable in things of pleasure and business, as well as love; also wealth and honour.
Card Sixteen
Five of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A sign of sorrow and mourning.
Card Seventeen
The Empress from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Empress, who is sometimes represented with full face, while her correspondence, the Emperor, is in profile. As there has been some tendency to ascribe a symbolical significance to this distinction, it seems desirable to say that it carries no inner meaning. The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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Card Eighteen
Nine of Cups from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
Card Nineteen
The Pope from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
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 Twenty
Ten of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Victory and consequent fortune for a soldier in war.
Card Twenty One
The Chariot from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Chariot. This is represented in some extant codices as being drawn by two sphinxes, and the device is in consonance with the symbolism, but it must not be supposed that such was its original form; the variation was invented to support a particular historical hypothesis. In the eighteenth century white horses were yoked to the car. As regards its usual name, the lesser stands for the greater; it is really the King in his triumph, typifying, however, the victory which creates kingship as its natural consequence and not the vested royalty of the fourth card. M. Court de Gebelin said that it was Osiris Triumphing, the conquering sun in spring-time having vanquished the obstacles of winter. We know now that Osiris rising from the dead is not represented by such obvious symbolism. Other animals than horses have also been used to draw the currus triumphalis, as, for example, a lion and a leopard.
The Meanings of these Tarot Cards
Card One
Three of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, the flight of her lover.
Card Two
Queen of Coins from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An illness.
Card Three
Ace of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.
Card Four
Nine of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen.
Card Five
The Devil from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Devil. In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been rather a symbol of merely animal impudicity. Except for a fantastic head-dress, the chief figure is entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the hands and feet are represented by the claws of a bird. In the right hand there is a sceptre terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire. The figure as a whole is not particularly evil; it has no tail, and the commentators who have said that the claws are those of a harpy have spoken at random. There is no better ground for the alternative suggestion that they are eagle's claws. Attached, by a cord depending from their collars, to the pedestal on which the figure is mounted, are two small demons, presumably male and female. These are tailed, but not winged. Since 1856 the influence of Eliphas Levi and his doctrine of occultism has changed the face of this card, and it now appears as a pseudo-Baphometic figure with the head of a goat and a great torch between the horns; it is seated instead of erect, and in place of the generative organs there is the Hermetic caduceus. In Le Tarot Divinatoire of Papus the small demons are replaced by naked human beings, male and female who are yoked only to each other. The author may be felicitated on this improved symbolism.
Card Six
Ace of Clubs from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Calamities of all kinds.
Card Seven
Two of Clubs from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
Card Eight
King of Coins from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor.
Card Nine
Wheel of Fortune from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Ten
The Tower from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Tower struck by Lightning. Its alternative titles are: Castle of Plutus, God's House and the Tower of Babel. In the last case, the figures falling therefrom are held to be Nimrod and his minister. It is assuredly a card of confusion, and the design corresponds, broadly speaking, to any of the designations except Maison Dieu, unless we are to understand that the House of God has been abandoned and the veil of the temple rent. It is a little surprising that the device has not so far been allocated to the destruction Of Solomon's Temple, when the lightning would symbolize the fire and sword with which that edifice was visited by the King of the Chaldees.
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Card Eleven
Page of Cups from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Obstacles of all kinds.
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Card Twelve
Queen of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A bad woman, with ill-will towards the Querent.
Card Thirteen
The Emperor from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Emperor, by imputation the spouse of the former. He is occasionally represented as wearing, in addition to his personal insignia, the stars or ribbons of some order of chivalry. I mention this to shew that the cards are a medley of old and new emblems. Those who insist upon the evidence of the one may deal, if they can, with the other. No effectual argument for the antiquity of a particular design can be drawn from the fact that it incorporates old material; but there is also none which can be based on sporadic novelties, the intervention of which may signify only the unintelligent hand of an editor or of a late draughtsman.
Card Fourteen
Six of Coins from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A check on the Querent's ambition.
Card Fifteen
Two of Cups from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Favourable in things of pleasure and business, as well as love; also wealth and honour.
Card Sixteen
Five of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A sign of sorrow and mourning.
Card Seventeen
The Empress from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Empress, who is sometimes represented with full face, while her correspondence, the Emperor, is in profile. As there has been some tendency to ascribe a symbolical significance to this distinction, it seems desirable to say that it carries no inner meaning. The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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Card Eighteen
Nine of Cups from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
Card Nineteen
The Pope from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
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 Twenty
Ten of Swords from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Victory and consequent fortune for a soldier in war.
Card Twenty One
The Chariot from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Chariot. This is represented in some extant codices as being drawn by two sphinxes, and the device is in consonance with the symbolism, but it must not be supposed that such was its original form; the variation was invented to support a particular historical hypothesis. In the eighteenth century white horses were yoked to the car. As regards its usual name, the lesser stands for the greater; it is really the King in his triumph, typifying, however, the victory which creates kingship as its natural consequence and not the vested royalty of the fourth card. M. Court de Gebelin said that it was Osiris Triumphing, the conquering sun in spring-time having vanquished the obstacles of winter. We know now that Osiris rising from the dead is not represented by such obvious symbolism. Other animals than horses have also been used to draw the currus triumphalis, as, for example, a lion and a leopard.
