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Tarot Reading Should I accept the job in Abingdon

Reading Performed 03/24/2022 at 8:18 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.

Six of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Desire, greed, envy, jealousy, illusion.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A check on the Querent's ambition.

Card Description

A merchant weighs money in a pair of scales, and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart.

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 Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.

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 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.

King of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Judgement and its associations; power, command, authority, military intelligence, law, offices of the state.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A lawyer, senator, doctor.

Card Description

He sits in judgement, holding the sign of his suit. He recalls the Justice card from the Major Arcana, and he may represent this virtue, but he possesses earthly power over life and death, because he is King.

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.

Three of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Occupation, trade, skilled labor; also nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

If for a man, celebrity for his eldest son.

Card Description

This card shows a sculptor working in a monastery. Compare with the Eight of Pentacles: the apprentice or amateur in that card has received his reward and is now at work in earnest.

This is Behind You

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

Queen of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a young man.

Card Description

A dark woman who seems to display greatness of soul and grave intelligence contemplates her symbol, as if she sees worlds within it.

This is Before You

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

Knight of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Inertia, idleness, inactivity, stagnation; also stillness, discouragement, carelessness.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A brave man out of employment.

Card Description

A knight rides a slow, heavy horse, similar in appearance to himself. He displays his symbol, but does not look at it.

Your Self

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

The High Priestess from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Passion, moral or physical ardor, arrogance, surface knowledge.

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 Description

She has the lunar crescent at her feet, a horned circlet on her head with a globe at its center, and a large solar cross on her chest. The scroll in her hands is inscribed with the word Torah, signifying the Greater Law, the Secret Law, and the second sense of the Word. It is partly covered by her mantle, to show that some things are implied and some spoken. She is seated between the black and white pillars—labeled B. and J.—of the mystic Temple. The veil of the Temple is behind her, embroidered with palms and pomegranates. Her clothing is flowing and gauzy, and her mantle suggests light—a shimmering radiance. She is the Secret Church, the House of God and man. She is the spiritual Bride and Mother, the daughter of the stars and the Higher Garden of Eden. She is the Queen of the borrowed light, which is the light of all. She is the Moon nourished by the milk of the Celestial Mother. In a way, she is also the Celestial Mother herself—the bright reflection of the moon. She is the Spiritual Bride of the Just Man. When the Just Man reads the Law (Torah), she gives the Divine meaning. There are some respects in which this card is the highest and holiest of the Major Arcana.

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.

Three of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Removal, absence, delay, division, separation, dispersion, and all that the design naturally signifies.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

For a woman, the flight of her lover.

Card Description

Three swords pierce a heart; there are clouds and rain behind.

Your Hopes and Fears

Two of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

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

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

A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.

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.

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 Magician from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Skill, diplomacy, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, the traps of enemies; self-confidence, will; the Querent, if male.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Magus, Magician, or juggler, the caster of the dice and mountebank, in the world of vulgar trickery. This is the colportage interpretation, and it has the same correspondence with the real symbolical meaning that the use of the Tarot in fortune-telling has with its mystic construction according to the secret science of symbolism. I should add that many independent students of the subject, following their own lights, have produced individual sequences of meaning in respect of the Trumps Major, and their lights are sometimes suggestive, but they are not the true lights. For example, Eliphas Levi says that the Magus signifies that unity which is the mother of numbers; others say that it is the Divine Unity; and one of the latest French commentators considers that in its general sense it is the will.

Card Description

A youthful figure in the robe of a magician, having the appearance of divine Apollo, with a smile of confidence and shining eyes. Above his head is the mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit, the sign of life, like an endless cord, forming the figure 8 in a horizontal position. About his waist is a serpent-sash, the serpent appearing to devour its own tail. This is familiar to most as a symbol of eternity, but here it indicates the eternity of attainment in the Spirit. In the Magician's right hand is a wand raised toward heaven, while the left hand is pointing to the earth. This dual sign indicates the descent of grace, virtue and light, drawn from things above and passed to things below. The suggestion throughout is therefore the possession and communication of the Powers and Gifts of the Spirit. On the table in front of the Magician are the symbols of the four Tarot suits, signifying the elements of natural life, which lie like tools before the adept, and he uses them as he wills. Beneath the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley (see Song of Solomon 2:1), changed into garden flowers, depicting the culture of self-improvement. This card signifies the divine motive in man, reflecting God.

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