Queen of Tarot

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Tarot Reading What about family with carol

Reading Performed 05/21/2024 at 1:20 PM

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Querent

The querent is the card that this user felt represented them or their situation best.

The Hanged Man

Card Meaning When Upright

Wisdom, prudence, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.

Card Description

The figure of a man hangs head down from a gallows, to which he is attached by a rope around one of his ankles. His arms are bound behind him, and one leg is crossed over the other. The gallows from which he hangs forms a Tau cross, while the figure—from the position of the legs--forms a cross. There is a halo around the head of the apparent martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves on it; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, not death.

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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.

Nine of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Goodwill, contentment, physical well-being; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for the Querent.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Of good augury for military men.

Card Description

A stout man has feasted to his heart's content. An abundant supply of wine is behind him, as if to show that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material side of assurance only: it does not reflect the spiritual.

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 Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Arrival, approach—sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, temptation.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A visit from a friend, who will bring unexpected money to the Querent.

Card Description

A graceful but not warlike figure rides quietly. He wears a winged helmet to symbolize the imagination. He is a dreamer, and the images of sensory things haunt him in his vision.

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.

Page of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The more evil side of these qualities; surprises, being an unprepared state; sickness is also hinted at.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Astonishing news.

Card Description

An agile, active figure holds a sword upright in both hands. He walks swiftly over rugged land, and around him the clouds are moving wildly. He is alert and watchful, looking this way and that, as if an expected enemy might appear at any moment.

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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.

Knight of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Recklessness, disability, wastefulness.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Dispute with an imbecile person; for a woman, struggle with a rival, who will be conquered.

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 is Behind You

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

Ten of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Gain, riches; family matters, archives, ancestry, the home of a family.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.

Card Description

A man and woman beneath an archway that leads to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs greeting an old man in the foreground. The child's hand rests on one of the dogs.

This is Before You

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

Ten of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Opposition, difficulties, conspiracies.

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

Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card.

Card Description

A man carries ten staves, burdened down by their weight. It represents the burden of material wealth. It may also represent false-seeming, disguise, corruption, as if the place the man approaches will suffer beatings from the rods he carries.

Your Self

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

The Star from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Loss, theft, deprivation, abandonment.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

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 Description

A large, radiant star of eight points, surrounded by seven lesser stars—also of eight points. The female figure in the foreground is entirely naked. Her left knee is on the land and her right foot on the water. She pours the Water of Life from two great pitchers, irrigating sea and land. Behind her is rising ground, and on the right a shrub on which a bird perches. The figure expresses eternal youth and beauty. The star is l'etoile flamboyante, a symbol of Freemasonry. The figure communicates to the earth around her the substance of the heavens and the elements.

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.

Four of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Prosperity, growth, cheerfulness, beauty, embellishment.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A married woman will have beautiful children.

Card Description

From four staves planted in the foreground, a great garland hangs. Two female figures hold up bouquets. To one side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old mansion.

Your Hopes and Fears

The Empress from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Light, truth, the unraveling of complex matters, public rejoicing, indecision.

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.

Card Description

A stately seated figure, having rich clothing and royal appearance, a daughter of heaven and earth. Her circlet holds twelve stars gathered in a cluster. The symbol of Venus is on the shield, which rests near her. A field of corn is ripening in front of her, and beyond there is a waterfall. The scepter she bears is topped by the globe of this world.

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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.

Five of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Imitation, as in a pretend fight, but also the battle of life—strenuous competition and the struggle of the search for riches and fortune. Thus, possibly a card of gold, gain, luxury.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Success in financial speculation.

Card Description

A group of youths brandish staves, as if in sport. They play at mock warfare, and the divinatory meanings match this.

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