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Reading Performed 02/14/2020 at 10:00 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.

Two of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

Opposition to the beginning of an enterprise.

Card Description

A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore; he holds a globe in his right hand, while a staff in his left rests on the battlement; another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily should be noticed on the left side.

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.

Nine of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

The card signifies strength in opposition. If attacked, the person will meet an onslaught boldly; and his build shews, that he may prove a formidable antagonist. With this main significance there are all its possible adjuncts--delay, suspension, adjournment.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Great success.

Card Description

The figure leans upon his staff and has an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy. Behind are eight other staves--erect, in orderly disposition, like a palisade.

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.

Eight of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Partial success. Great loss of money at last moment.

Card Description

An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies.

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.

Page of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

A fair child. A messenger. A letter.

Card Description

A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.

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This is Behind You

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

King of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

A fair man. A friend. A barrister, judge, or ecclesiastic. A bachelor.

Card Description

He holds a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right; his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the Sign of the Cup naturally refers to water, which appears in all the court cards.

This is Before You

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

Page of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman. Beside a man, he will bear favourable testimony concerning him. A dangerous rival, if followed by the Page of Cups. Has the chief qualities of his suit. He may signify family intelligence.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

A dark child. A friend. Also represents a message or letter from a near relation.

Card Description

In a scene similar to the former, a young man stands in the act of proclamation. He is unknown but faithful, and his tidings are strange.

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Your Self

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

Ten of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

Uncertainty.

Card Description

Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene beyond.

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.

King of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Whatsoever arises out of the idea of judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown, and so forth.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Dark bad man. A soldier, an enemy, or one to be mistrusted.

Card Description

He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the power of life and death, in virtue of his office.

Your Hopes and Fears

King of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

A dark man. A friend. Generally married. The father of a family.

Card Description

The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three correspondences in the remaining suits, what is called a cap of maintenance beneath his crown. He connects with the symbol of the lion, which is emblazoned on the back of his throne.

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.

The Hanged Man from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

Trials. Sacrifice.

Card Description

The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure--from the position of the legs--forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. It is a card of profound significance, but all the significance is veiled. One of his editors suggests that Eliphas Levi did not know the meaning, which is unquestionable nor did the editor himself. It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a card of the Great Work, a card of duty; but we may exhaust all published interpretations and find only vanity. I will say very simply on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the Universe. He who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection.

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