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Tarot Reading What lies in my future?

Reading Performed 12/01/2021 at 8:12 PM

Click or scroll down for the meaning of each position and the interpretation of its card.

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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.

Three of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery: those are his ships, bearing his merchandise, at sail.

Card Description

A calm, stately figure looks from a cliff's edge at ships passing over the sea. His back is turned. Three staves are planted in the ground, and he leans slightly on one of them.

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.

Knight of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Skill, bravery, capacity, defense; hostility, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. This may sometimes signify death, but it carries this meaning only when near other cards of fatality.

Card Description

A knight rides at full speed, as if scattering his enemies. He is the prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is clean of heart.

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.

Nine of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Death, failure, malfunction, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.

Card Description

A woman sits on her bed, sobbing, with swords on the wall above her. She grieves as if she knows of no sorrow like hers. It is a card of utter desolation.

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.

Four of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Vigilance, retreat, solitude, isolation, exile, tomb and coffin.

Card Description

The corpse of a knight in a position of prayer, laid out upon his tomb.

This is Behind You

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

Ace of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Creation, invention, enterprise, and the powers producing these; guiding principles, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and perhaps the virility behind them; the starting point of enterprises; possibly money, fortune, inheritance.

Card Description

A hand extending from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.

This is Before You

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

The Tower from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Misery, distress, extreme poverty, adversity, disasters, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe.

Card Description

A Tower struck by Lightning. It is definitely a card of confusion, and the design can correspond to any well-known catastrophe. It may also depict the House of God, abandoned, and the Veil of the Temple, rent.

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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.

Four of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary annoyances; also mixed pleasure.

Card Description

A young man sits under a tree, contemplating three cups on the grass before him. An arm extends from a cloud to offer him another cup. His appears discontent, as if the wine of this world had barely satisfied him. Another wine—a fairy gift—is now offered to the vagabond, but he sees no consolation in it, either.

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.

Two of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

This card has contradictory meanings: on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; on the other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design gives a suggestion to resolve the contradiction; here is a lord overlooking his dominion while contemplating a globe. He resembles the sadness and mortification of Alexander, amid the grandeur of this world's wealth.

Card Description

A tall man looks from a roof with battlements, overlooking sea and shore. He holds a globe in his right hand, and a staff in his left hand rests on the battlement. Another staff is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily appears on the left side.

Your Hopes and Fears

Page of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Application, study, scholarship, reflection; also command, management.

Card Description

A youthful figure looks intently at the pentacle that hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, ignoring what is around him.

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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.

Death from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrification, sleepwalking; hope destroyed.

Card Description

Death appears here as one of the apocalyptic visions rather than a grim reaper—to show change, transformation, and a passage from lower to higher. In the background lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. In the foreground, the mysterious horseman moves slowly, bearing a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which signifies life. Between two pillars on the horizon shines the sun of immortality. The horseman carries no visible weapon, but king and child and maiden fall before him, while a bishop with clasped hands awaits his end. The natural transition of man to the next stage of his being is one form of his progress. While still in this life, the exotic and almost unknown entrance into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness. It is the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor the gate.

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