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Tarot Reading How can I ensure this next relationship is healthy, and what is the full dynamic of this new love?

Reading Performed 05/25/2026 at 11:18 PM

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Querent

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

Four of Swords

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.

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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.

Five of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Deterioration, destruction, revocation, disgrace, dishonor, loss.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

An attack on the fortune of the Querent.

Card Description

A scornful man watches two retreating and dejected figures, whose swords lie on the ground. He carries two others on his left shoulder. A third sword in his right hand points to earth. He is the master in possession of the field.

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.

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.

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.

Eight of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Great joy, happiness, feasting.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Perfect satisfaction.

Card Description

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

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.

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 Behind You

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

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.

This is Before You

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

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.

Your Self

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

Wheel of Fortune from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Growth, abundance, surplus.

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

The Wheel of Fortune. There is a current Manual of Cartomancy which has obtained a considerable vogue in England, and amidst a great scattermeal of curious things to no purpose has intersected a few serious subjects. In its last and largest edition it treats in one section of the Tarot; which--if I interpret the author rightly--it regards from beginning to end as the Wheel of Fortune, this expression being understood in my own sense. I have no objection to such an inclusive though conventional description; it obtains in all the worlds, and I wonder that it has not been adopted previously as the most appropriate name on the side of common fortune-telling. It is also the title of one of the Trumps Major--that indeed of our concern at the moment, as my sub-title shews. Of recent years this has suffered many fantastic presentations and one hypothetical reconstruction which is suggestive in its symbolism. The wheel has seven radii; in the eighteenth century the ascending and descending animals were really of nondescript character, one of them having a human head. At the summit was another monster with the body of an indeterminate beast, wings on shoulders and a crown on head. It carried two wands in its claws. These are replaced in the reconstruction by a Hermanubis rising with the wheel, a Sphinx couchant at the summit and a Typhon on the descending side. Here is another instance of an invention in support of a hypothesis; but if the latter be set aside the grouping is symbolically correct and can pass as such.

Card Description

The four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the corners of the card. The symbols on the disc in the center stand for the perpetual motion of an ever-changing universe and for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is equilibrium within that state of change. The letters of Taro or Rota are inscribed on the wheel, interspersed with the Hebrew letters of the Divine Name—to show that Providence is implied through all existence. However, this is the Divine intention within, and the similar intention on the surface is represented by the four Living Creatures.

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.

Nine of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Signifies strength in opposition—if attacked, the person will meet that attack boldly. Possibly delay, suspension, adjournment.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Generally speaking, a bad card.

Card Description

A man leans upon his staff with an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy. His build indicates that he may prove a formidable opponent. Behind are eight other staves—upright, in orderly arrangement, like a fence.

Your Hopes and Fears

Ace of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much higher significance than usual in fortune-telling.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Great prosperity or great misery.

Card Description

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

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.

Four of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Security of possessions, keeping what one has, gifts, legacy, inheritance.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

For a bachelor, pleasant news from a lady.

Card Description

A crowned figure with a pentacle over his head clasps another pentacle with his hands and arms. Two pentacles lie beneath his feet. He holds on to what he has.

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