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Tarot Reading When will love find me?

Reading Performed 02/15/2021 at 6:41 AM

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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards

Card One

Postumio from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Loss due to betrayal.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

The High Priestess, the Pope Joan, or Female Pontiff; early expositors have sought to term this card the Mother, or Pope's Wife, which is opposed to the symbolism. It is sometimes held to represent the Divine Law and the Gnosis, in which case the Priestess corresponds to the idea of the Shekinah. She is the Secret Tradition and the higher sense of the instituted Mysteries.

Card Two

King of Swords from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

(Alecxandro M) One who cannot be interfered with physically.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A lawyer, senator, doctor.

Card Three

Mato from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Insanity

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

The Fool, Mate, or Unwise Man. Court de Gebelin places it at the head of the whole series as the zero or negative which is presupposed by numeration, and as this is a simpler so also it is a better arrangement. It has been abandoned because in later times the cards have been attributed to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and there has been apparently some difficulty about allocating the zero symbol satisfactorily in a sequence of letters all of which signify numbers. In the present reference of the card to the letter Shin, which corresponds to 200, the difficulty or the unreason remains. The truth is that the real arrangement of the cards has never transpired. The Fool carries a wallet; he is looking over his shoulder and does not know that he is on the brink of a precipice; but a dog or other animal--some call it a tiger--is attacking him from behind, and he is hurried to his destruction unawares. Etteilla has given a justifiable variation of this card--as generally understood--in the form of a court jester, with cap, bells and motley garb. The other descriptions say that the wallet contains the bearer's follies and vices, which seems bourgeois and arbitrary.

Card Four

Metelo from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Internal struggles. Fighting between friendly parties.

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 Five

Two of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Taxes, or what is due to the authorities.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Bad omen, ignorance, injustice.

Card Six

Ace of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Passivity. Being pulled along by fate or the will of others.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A share in the finding of treasure.

Card Seven

King of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

(Lucio Cecilioir) One who supports the arts.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Beware of ill-will on the part of a man of position, and of hypocrisy pretending to help.

Card Eight

King of Wands from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

(Levio Plautor) A patron of education. A mentor, teacher, or professor.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Generally favourable may signify a good marriage.

Card Nine

Knight of Wands from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

(Apolino) Chivalry. An attractive male.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.

Card Ten

Seven of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

A nest egg.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.

Card Eleven

Ten of Swords from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Violent deeds.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Followed by Ace and King, imprisonment; for girl or wife, treason on the part of friends.

Card Twelve

Ace of Swords from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The beginnings of violence.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.

Card Thirteen

Nine of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The beginnings of financial freedom

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.

Card Fourteen

Deotauro from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Historical obscurity.

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.

Card Fifteen

Five of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Financial security. Professional or commercial robustness.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Conquest of fortune by reason.

Card Sixteen

Seven of Cups from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Narcissism; undue pride. Vanity.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Success, if accompanied by the Three of Cups.

Card Seventeen

Lentulo from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Repeated transgressions.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

The Moon. Some eighteenth-century cards shew the luminary on its waning side; in the debased edition of Etteilla, it is the moon at night in her plenitude, set in a heaven of stars; of recent years the moon is shewn on the side of her increase. In nearly all presentations she is shining brightly and shedding the moisture of fertilizing dew in great drops. Beneath there are two towers, between which a path winds to the verge of the horizon. Two dogs, or alternatively a wolf and dog, are baying at the moon, and in the foreground there is water, through which a crayfish moves towards the land.

Card Eighteen

Nine of Wands from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

An understanding of the other. Sexual comfortability.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

Generally speaking, a bad card.

Card Nineteen

Olivo from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Parenthood.

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 Twenty

Nerone from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Malicious neglect.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Fortitude. This is one of the cardinal virtues, of which I shall speak later. The female figure is usually represented as closing the mouth of a lion. In the earlier form which is printed by Court de Gebelin, she is obviously opening it. The first alternative is better symbolically, but either is an instance of strength in its conventional understanding, and conveys the idea of mastery. It has been said that the figure represents organic force, moral force and the principle of all force.

Card Twenty One

Four of Coins from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Unexpected assistance.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Observation, hindrances.

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