Queen of Tarot

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Tarot Reading Where can I find strength

Reading Performed 01/02/2025 at 7:02 PM

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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.

Queen of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Malice, bigotry, conspiracies, prudishness, antagonism, deceit.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A bad woman, with ill-will towards the Querent.

Card Description

Her right hand holds her weapon vertical, and the hilt rests on an arm of her throne. Her left hand is extended, the arm raised. Her expression is stern but humble; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and despite her sword, she is not a symbol of power.

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.

Ace of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The same, but the results are disastrous; also conception, childbirth, development, plurality.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

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

Card Description

A hand extends from a cloud, grasping a sword, the point of which is encircled by a crown.

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.

Judgement from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Change of position, renewal, the outcome.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Last judgment. I have spoken of this symbol already, the form of which is essentially invariable, even in the Etteilla set. An angel sounds his trumpet per sepulchra regionum, and the dead arise. It matters little that Etteilla omits the angel, or that Dr. Papus substitutes a ridiculous figure, which is, however, in consonance with the general motive of that Tarot set which accompanies his latest work. Before rejecting the transparent interpretation of the symbolism which is conveyed by the name of the card and by the picture which it presents to the eye, we should feel very sure of our ground. On the surface, at least, it is and can be only the resurrection of that triad--father, mother, child-whom we have met with already in the eighth card. M. Bourgeat hazards the suggestion that esoterically it is the symbol of evolution--of which it carries none of the signs. Others say that it signifies renewal, which is obvious enough; that it is the triad of human life; that it is the "generative force of the earth... and eternal life." Court de Gebelin makes himself impossible as usual, and points out that if the grave-stones were removed it could be accepted as a symbol of creation.

Card Description

A great angel is surrounded by clouds. He blows a trumpet with a banner displaying and a cross. Beneath, the dead are rising from their tombs—a woman on the right, a man on the left, and between them their child, whose back is turned. In the background are more dead who are restored. All the figures stand as one in the wonder, adoration, and ecstasy expressed by their postures. This card represents the accomplishment of the great work of transformation, in answer to the summons of the Celestial, heard and answered from within.

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.

The Emperor from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Benevolence, compassion, recognition; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.

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

The Emperor, by imputation the spouse of the former. He is occasionally represented as wearing, in addition to his personal insignia, the stars or ribbons of some order of chivalry. I mention this to shew that the cards are a medley of old and new emblems. Those who insist upon the evidence of the one may deal, if they can, with the other. No effectual argument for the antiquity of a particular design can be drawn from the fact that it incorporates old material; but there is also none which can be based on sporadic novelties, the intervention of which may signify only the unintelligent hand of an editor or of a late draughtsman.

Card Description

He has a form of the Crux ansata (like an Ankh) for his scepter and a globe in his left hand. He is a crowned monarch—commanding, stately, seated on a throne. The arms of his throne have rams' heads on the front. He is execution and realization, the power of this world, clothed with the highest of its natural attributes. He is the virile power to which the Empress responds, and in this sense, he is the one who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains a virgin.

This is Behind You

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

Three of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Adventure, speed, achievement, end; excess in physical enjoyment; the pleasures of the senses.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Consolation, cure, end of the business.

Card Description

Ladies stand in a garden with cups held high, as if making a promise to one another.

This is Before You

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

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.

Your Self

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

Queen of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

A dark woman, from your hometown or country; she is friendly, chaste, loving, and honorable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed toward him; if a woman, she is interested in the Querent. Also, love of money, or certain success in business.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A good harvest, which may be taken in several senses.

Card Description

Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality is dark, charismatic, magnetic.

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 Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Elation and recreation; also news and messages in writing, as obstacles; agitation, trouble, entanglement.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Troubles are more imaginary than real.

Card Description

A young man dances with a pentacle in either hand. They are joined by an endless cord: the number 8 on its side.

Your Hopes and Fears

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.

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.

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.

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