Tarot Reading How shall I come to terms with my predicament?
Reading Performed 01/29/2013 at 6:56 PM
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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.
The Traitor from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
dissatisfaction, apathy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Hanged Man. This is the symbol which is supposed to represent Prudence, and Eliphas Levi says, in his most shallow and plausible manner, that it is the adept bound by his engagements. The figure of a man is suspended head-downwards from a gibbet, to which he is attached by a rope about one of his ankles. The arms are bound behind him, and one leg is crossed over the other. According to another, and indeed the prevailing interpretation, he signifies sacrifice, but all current meanings attributed to this card are cartomancists' intuitions, apart from any real value on the symbolical side. The fortune-tellers of the eighteenth century who circulated Tarots, depict a semi-feminine youth in jerkin, poised erect on one foot and loosely attached to a short stake driven into the ground.
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.
Ten of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
family support, friends, inheritance
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.
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.
Seven of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
despondency, failure, abandonment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.
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.
Death from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
change, ending, new life
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
The Star from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
peace, healing, rest
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
Eight of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
skilled work, crafts, self-employment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
Five of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
humiliation, bullying, deception
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A sign of sorrow and mourning.
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.
Eight of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
great restriction, need for change
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Departure of a relative.
Your Hopes and Fears
Seven of Cups from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
delusion, fantasy, bewilderment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Success, if accompanied by the Three of Cups.
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 Pope from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
bad advice, misinformation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The High Priest or Hierophant, called also Spiritual Father, and more commonly and obviously the Pope. It seems even to have been named the Abbot, and then its correspondence, the High Priestess, was the Abbess or Mother of the Convent. Both are arbitrary names. The insignia of the figures are papal, and in such case the High Priestess is and can be only the Church, to whom Pope and priests are married by the spiritual rite of ordination. I think, however, that in its primitive form this card did not represent the Roman Pontiff.
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.
The Traitor from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
dissatisfaction, apathy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Hanged Man. This is the symbol which is supposed to represent Prudence, and Eliphas Levi says, in his most shallow and plausible manner, that it is the adept bound by his engagements. The figure of a man is suspended head-downwards from a gibbet, to which he is attached by a rope about one of his ankles. The arms are bound behind him, and one leg is crossed over the other. According to another, and indeed the prevailing interpretation, he signifies sacrifice, but all current meanings attributed to this card are cartomancists' intuitions, apart from any real value on the symbolical side. The fortune-tellers of the eighteenth century who circulated Tarots, depict a semi-feminine youth in jerkin, poised erect on one foot and loosely attached to a short stake driven into the ground.
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.
Ten of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
family support, friends, inheritance
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.
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.
Seven of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
despondency, failure, abandonment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.
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.
Death from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
change, ending, new life
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
The Star from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
peace, healing, rest
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
Eight of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
skilled work, crafts, self-employment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
Five of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
humiliation, bullying, deception
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A sign of sorrow and mourning.
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.
Eight of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
great restriction, need for change
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Departure of a relative.
Your Hopes and Fears
Seven of Cups from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
delusion, fantasy, bewilderment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Success, if accompanied by the Three of Cups.
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 Pope from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
bad advice, misinformation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The High Priest or Hierophant, called also Spiritual Father, and more commonly and obviously the Pope. It seems even to have been named the Abbot, and then its correspondence, the High Priestess, was the Abbess or Mother of the Convent. Both are arbitrary names. The insignia of the figures are papal, and in such case the High Priestess is and can be only the Church, to whom Pope and priests are married by the spiritual rite of ordination. I think, however, that in its primitive form this card did not represent the Roman Pontiff.
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