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Tarot Reading What should I do about the demoness disguised as an angel in my life?

Reading Performed 07/28/2024 at 10:11 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.

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 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.

Six of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The future, renewal, events soon to come.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Inheritance to fall in quickly.

Card Description

Children play in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers. A card of the past and of memories, as if looking back on childhood.

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 Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Mischief, deception, failed project, bad faith.

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

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

Card Description

A woman with a bird on her wrist stands among an abundance of grapevines in the garden of a mansion. Behind her is a wide landscape, suggesting plenty in all things. Possibly, the land is her own possession, and testifies to material well-being.

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 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 Behind You

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

Eight of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Voided ambition, vanity, greed, extortion, loan-sharking; also the possession of skill—the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.

Card Description

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

This is Before You

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

Five of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

News, alliances, affection, affiliation, ancestry, return.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.

Card Description

A dark, cloaked figure looks sideways at three cups lying on the ground. Two others stand upright behind him. A bridge in the background leads to a small keep or holding. This is a card of loss, but something remains at the end; three have been taken, but two are left.

Your Self

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

Eight of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

The decline of a matter; something thought to be important is really of slight consequence—either for good or evil.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Marriage with a fair woman.

Card Description

A dejected-looking man abandons the cups of his celebrations. They symbolize an enterprise, undertaking, or previous concern.

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.

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.

Your Hopes and Fears

The Sun from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Material success, fortunate marriage, contentment.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Sun. The luminary is distinguished in older cards by chief rays that are waved and salient alternately and by secondary salient rays. It appears to shed its influence on earth not only by light and heat, but--like the moon--by drops of dew. Court de Gebelin termed these tears of gold and of pearl, just as he identified the lunar dew with the tears of Isis. Beneath the dog-star there is a wall suggesting an enclosure-as it might be, a walled garden-wherein are two children, either naked or lightly clothed, facing a water, and gambolling, or running hand in hand. Eliphas Levi says that these are sometimes replaced by a spinner unwinding destinies, and otherwise by a much better symbol-a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard.

Card Description

A naked child mounted on a white horse displays a red banner. The sun shining above represents consciousness in the Spirit—with direct, as opposed to reflected, light. The archetype of humanity has become a little child beneath its rays—a child in the sense of simplicity, with innocence in the sense of wisdom. In that simplicity, he bears the seal of Nature and Art; in that innocence, he signifies the restored world. When the self-knowing spirit has dawned in the consciousness above the natural mind, that mind is renewed and directs the animal nature in a state of perfect conformity.

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.

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

Death. The method of presentation is almost invariable, and embodies a bourgeois form of symbolism. The scene is the field of life, and amidst ordinary rank vegetation there are living arms and heads protruding from the ground. One of the heads is crowned, and a skeleton with a great scythe is in the act of mowing it. The transparent and unescapable meaning is death, but the alternatives allocated to the symbol are change and transformation. Other heads have been swept from their place previously, but it is, in its current and patent meaning, more especially a card of the death of Kings. In the exotic sense it has been said to signify the ascent of the spirit in the divine spheres, creation and destruction, perpetual movement, and so forth.

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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