Queen of Tarot

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Tarot Reading What does the high priestess represent for me and my relationship?

Reading Performed 08/31/2019 at 9:47 AM

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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards

Past

What has already occurred; the past.

Wheel of Fortune from the Tarot Genoves Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Good Fortune, Success, Unexpected Luck;

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 Description

A wheel of seven spokes (the two halves of the double-headed cards make it eight spokes, which is incorrect) revolving (between two uprights), On the ascending side is an animal ascending, and on the descending side is a sort of monkey descending; both forms are bound to the wheel. Above it is the form of an angel (or a sphinx in some) holding a sword in one hand and a crown in the other. This very complicated symbol is much disfigured, and has been well restored by Levi. It symbolises Fortune, good or bad.

Present

What is occurring now; the present.

Five of Cups from the Tarot Genoves Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Union, Junction, Marriage, Inheritance;

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

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

Future

What has not yet occurred; the future.

Queen of Cups from the Tarot Genoves Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

A fair Woman, Success, Happiness, Advantage, Pleasure;

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Sometimes denotes a woman of equivocal character.

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