Tarot Reading How best to honor my love of my friend and lover?
Reading Performed 11/26/2019 at 5:44 AM
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Card One
Page of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Affection
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Obstacles of all kinds.
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Card Two
Six of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
The Past
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Pleasant memories.
Card Three
Queen of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Rich Woman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a young man.
Card Four
19 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Prison
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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 Five
Three of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Enterprises
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.
Card Six
18 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Betrayal
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Hermit, as he is termed in common parlance, stands next on the list; he is also the Capuchin, and in more philosophical language the Sage. He is said to be in search of that Truth which is located far off in the sequence, and of justice which has preceded him on the way. But this is a card of attainment, as we shall see later, rather than a card of quest. It is said also that his lantern contains the Light of Occult Science and that his staff is a Magic Wand. These interpretations are comparable in every respect to the divinatory and fortune-telling meanings with which I shall have to deal in their turn. The diabolism of both is that they are true after their own manner, but that they miss all the high things to which the Greater Arcana should be allocated. It is as if a man who knows in his heart that all roads lead to the heights, and that God is at the great height of all, should choose the way of perdition or the way of folly as the path of his own attainment. Eliphas Levi has allocated this card to Prudence, but in so doing he has been actuated by the wish to fill a gap which would otherwise occur in the symbolism. The four cardinal virtues are necessary to an idealogical sequence like the Trumps Major, but they must not be taken only in that first sense which exists for the use and consolation of him who in these days of halfpenny journalism is called the man in the street. In their proper understanding they are the correlatives of the counsels of perfection when these have been similarly re-expressed, and they read as follows: (a) Transcendental justice, the counter-equilibrium of the scales, when they have been overweighted so that they dip heavily on the side of God. The corresponding counsel is to use loaded dice when you play for high stakes with Diabolus. The axiom is Aut Deus, aut nihil. (b) Divine Ecstacy, as a counterpoise to something called Temperance, the sign of which is, I believe, the extinction of lights in the tavern. The corresponding counsel is to drink only of new wine in the Kingdom of the Father, because God is all in all. The axiom is that man being a reasonable being must get intoxicated with God; the imputed case in point is Spinoza. (c) The state of Royal Fortitude, which is the state of a Tower of Ivory and a House of Gold, but it is God and not the man who has become Turris fortitudinis a facie inimici, and out of that House the enemy has been cast. The corresponding counsel is that a man must not spare himself even in the presence of death, but he must be certain that his sacrifice shall be-of any open course-the best that will ensure his end. The axiom is that the strength which is raised to such a degree that a man dares lose himself shall shew him how God is found, and as to such refuge--dare therefore and learn. (d) Prudence is the economy which follows the line of least resistance, that the soul may get back whence it came. It is a doctrine of divine parsimony and conservation of energy, because of the stress, the terror and the manifest impertinences of this life. The corresponding counsel is that true prudence is concerned with the one thing needful, and the axiom is: Waste not, want not. The conclusion of the whole matter is a business proposition founded on the law of exchange: You cannot help getting what you seek in respect of the things that are Divine: it is the law of supply and demand. I have mentioned these few matters at this point for two simple reasons: (a) because in proportion to the impartiality of the mind it seems sometimes more difficult to determine whether it is vice or vulgarity which lays waste the present world more piteously; (b) because in order to remedy the imperfections of the old notions it is highly needful, on occasion, to empty terms and phrases of their accepted significance, that they may receive a new and more adequate meaning.
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Card Seven
Ace of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Pregnancy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.
Card Eight
Nine of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Success
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
Card Nine
King of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Indulgence
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Advice that should be followed.
Card Ten
Seven of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Indecision
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A dark child.
Card Eleven
Nine of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fulfillment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.
Card Twelve
Five of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Loss
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An attack on the fortune of the Querent.
Card Thirteen
Three of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fame
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
If for a man, celebrity for his eldest son.
Card Fourteen
Two of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Deceit
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dealings with rogues.
Card Fifteen
10 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Temperance
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Temperance. The winged figure of a female--who, in opposition to all doctrine concerning the hierarchy of angels, is usually allocated to this order of ministering spirits--is pouring liquid from one pitcher to another. In his last work on the Tarot, Dr. Papus abandons the traditional form and depicts a woman wearing an Egyptian head-dress. The first thing which seems clear on the surface is that the entire symbol has no especial connexion with Temperance, and the fact that this designation has always obtained for the card offers a very obvious instance of a meaning behind meaning, which is the title in chief to consideration in respect of the Tarot as a whole.
Card Sixteen
7 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Protection
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 Seventeen
4 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Behavior
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Star, Dog-Star, or Sirius, also called fantastically the Star of the Magi. Grouped about it are seven minor luminaries, and beneath it is a naked female figure, with her left knee upon the earth and her right foot upon the water. She is in the act of pouring fluids from two vessels. A bird is perched on a tree near her; for this a butterfly on a rose has been substituted in some later cards. So also the Star has been called that of Hope. This is one of the cards which Court de Gebelin describes as wholly Egyptian-that is to say, in his own reverie.
Card Eighteen
13 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Love Affair
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Lovers or Marriage. This symbol has undergone many variations, as might be expected from its subject. In the eighteenth century form, by which it first became known to the world of archaeological research, it is really a card of married life, shewing father and mother, with their child placed between them; and the pagan Cupid above, in the act of flying his shaft, is, of course, a misapplied emblem. The Cupid is of love beginning rather than of love in its fulness, guarding the fruit thereof. The card is said to have been entitled Simulacyum fidei, the symbol of conjugal faith, for which the rainbow as a sign of the covenant would have been a more appropriate concomitant. The figures are also held to have signified Truth, Honour and Love, but I suspect that this was, so to speak, the gloss of a commentator moralizing. It has these, but it has other and higher aspects.
Card Nineteen
1 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Ideal
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
Queen of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Dissolute Woman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rich marriage for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.
Card Twenty One
Four of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Misfortune
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Presentiment.
The Meanings of these Tarot Cards
Card One
Page of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Affection
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Obstacles of all kinds.
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Card Two
Six of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
The Past
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Pleasant memories.
Card Three
Queen of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Rich Woman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a young man.
Card Four
19 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Prison
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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 Five
Three of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Enterprises
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.
Card Six
18 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Betrayal
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Hermit, as he is termed in common parlance, stands next on the list; he is also the Capuchin, and in more philosophical language the Sage. He is said to be in search of that Truth which is located far off in the sequence, and of justice which has preceded him on the way. But this is a card of attainment, as we shall see later, rather than a card of quest. It is said also that his lantern contains the Light of Occult Science and that his staff is a Magic Wand. These interpretations are comparable in every respect to the divinatory and fortune-telling meanings with which I shall have to deal in their turn. The diabolism of both is that they are true after their own manner, but that they miss all the high things to which the Greater Arcana should be allocated. It is as if a man who knows in his heart that all roads lead to the heights, and that God is at the great height of all, should choose the way of perdition or the way of folly as the path of his own attainment. Eliphas Levi has allocated this card to Prudence, but in so doing he has been actuated by the wish to fill a gap which would otherwise occur in the symbolism. The four cardinal virtues are necessary to an idealogical sequence like the Trumps Major, but they must not be taken only in that first sense which exists for the use and consolation of him who in these days of halfpenny journalism is called the man in the street. In their proper understanding they are the correlatives of the counsels of perfection when these have been similarly re-expressed, and they read as follows: (a) Transcendental justice, the counter-equilibrium of the scales, when they have been overweighted so that they dip heavily on the side of God. The corresponding counsel is to use loaded dice when you play for high stakes with Diabolus. The axiom is Aut Deus, aut nihil. (b) Divine Ecstacy, as a counterpoise to something called Temperance, the sign of which is, I believe, the extinction of lights in the tavern. The corresponding counsel is to drink only of new wine in the Kingdom of the Father, because God is all in all. The axiom is that man being a reasonable being must get intoxicated with God; the imputed case in point is Spinoza. (c) The state of Royal Fortitude, which is the state of a Tower of Ivory and a House of Gold, but it is God and not the man who has become Turris fortitudinis a facie inimici, and out of that House the enemy has been cast. The corresponding counsel is that a man must not spare himself even in the presence of death, but he must be certain that his sacrifice shall be-of any open course-the best that will ensure his end. The axiom is that the strength which is raised to such a degree that a man dares lose himself shall shew him how God is found, and as to such refuge--dare therefore and learn. (d) Prudence is the economy which follows the line of least resistance, that the soul may get back whence it came. It is a doctrine of divine parsimony and conservation of energy, because of the stress, the terror and the manifest impertinences of this life. The corresponding counsel is that true prudence is concerned with the one thing needful, and the axiom is: Waste not, want not. The conclusion of the whole matter is a business proposition founded on the law of exchange: You cannot help getting what you seek in respect of the things that are Divine: it is the law of supply and demand. I have mentioned these few matters at this point for two simple reasons: (a) because in proportion to the impartiality of the mind it seems sometimes more difficult to determine whether it is vice or vulgarity which lays waste the present world more piteously; (b) because in order to remedy the imperfections of the old notions it is highly needful, on occasion, to empty terms and phrases of their accepted significance, that they may receive a new and more adequate meaning.
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Card Seven
Ace of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Pregnancy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.
Card Eight
Nine of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Success
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
Card Nine
King of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Indulgence
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Advice that should be followed.
Card Ten
Seven of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Indecision
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A dark child.
Card Eleven
Nine of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fulfillment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.
Card Twelve
Five of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Loss
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An attack on the fortune of the Querent.
Card Thirteen
Three of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fame
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
If for a man, celebrity for his eldest son.
Card Fourteen
Two of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Deceit
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dealings with rogues.
Card Fifteen
10 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Temperance
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Temperance. The winged figure of a female--who, in opposition to all doctrine concerning the hierarchy of angels, is usually allocated to this order of ministering spirits--is pouring liquid from one pitcher to another. In his last work on the Tarot, Dr. Papus abandons the traditional form and depicts a woman wearing an Egyptian head-dress. The first thing which seems clear on the surface is that the entire symbol has no especial connexion with Temperance, and the fact that this designation has always obtained for the card offers a very obvious instance of a meaning behind meaning, which is the title in chief to consideration in respect of the Tarot as a whole.
Card Sixteen
7 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Protection
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 Seventeen
4 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Behavior
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Star, Dog-Star, or Sirius, also called fantastically the Star of the Magi. Grouped about it are seven minor luminaries, and beneath it is a naked female figure, with her left knee upon the earth and her right foot upon the water. She is in the act of pouring fluids from two vessels. A bird is perched on a tree near her; for this a butterfly on a rose has been substituted in some later cards. So also the Star has been called that of Hope. This is one of the cards which Court de Gebelin describes as wholly Egyptian-that is to say, in his own reverie.
Card Eighteen
13 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Love Affair
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Lovers or Marriage. This symbol has undergone many variations, as might be expected from its subject. In the eighteenth century form, by which it first became known to the world of archaeological research, it is really a card of married life, shewing father and mother, with their child placed between them; and the pagan Cupid above, in the act of flying his shaft, is, of course, a misapplied emblem. The Cupid is of love beginning rather than of love in its fulness, guarding the fruit thereof. The card is said to have been entitled Simulacyum fidei, the symbol of conjugal faith, for which the rainbow as a sign of the covenant would have been a more appropriate concomitant. The figures are also held to have signified Truth, Honour and Love, but I suspect that this was, so to speak, the gloss of a commentator moralizing. It has these, but it has other and higher aspects.
Card Nineteen
1 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Ideal
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
Queen of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Dissolute Woman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rich marriage for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.
Card Twenty One
Four of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Misfortune
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Presentiment.
