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Reading Performed 02/06/2013 at 9:28 AM
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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.
Two of Clubs from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
decision, initial success, self-doubt
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
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 Clubs from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
a warrior, generous, hasty
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.
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.
The Fool from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
sponteneity, trust, taking a risk
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Fool, Mate, or Unwise Man. Court de Gebelin places it at the head of the whole series as the zero or negative which is presupposed by numeration, and as this is a simpler so also it is a better arrangement. It has been abandoned because in later times the cards have been attributed to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and there has been apparently some difficulty about allocating the zero symbol satisfactorily in a sequence of letters all of which signify numbers. In the present reference of the card to the letter Shin, which corresponds to 200, the difficulty or the unreason remains. The truth is that the real arrangement of the cards has never transpired. The Fool carries a wallet; he is looking over his shoulder and does not know that he is on the brink of a precipice; but a dog or other animal--some call it a tiger--is attacking him from behind, and he is hurried to his destruction unawares. Etteilla has given a justifiable variation of this card--as generally understood--in the form of a court jester, with cap, bells and motley garb. The other descriptions say that the wallet contains the bearer's follies and vices, which seems bourgeois and arbitrary.
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.
Three of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
work, employment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
If for a man, celebrity for his eldest son.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
Five of Clubs from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
minor problems, struggle
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Success in financial speculation.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
Five of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
defeat, humiliation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An attack on the fortune of the Querent.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
Six of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
improvement, passage, journey
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The voyage will be pleasant.
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.
The Devil from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
anger, oppressiveness, restriction
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Devil. In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been rather a symbol of merely animal impudicity. Except for a fantastic head-dress, the chief figure is entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the hands and feet are represented by the claws of a bird. In the right hand there is a sceptre terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire. The figure as a whole is not particularly evil; it has no tail, and the commentators who have said that the claws are those of a harpy have spoken at random. There is no better ground for the alternative suggestion that they are eagle's claws. Attached, by a cord depending from their collars, to the pedestal on which the figure is mounted, are two small demons, presumably male and female. These are tailed, but not winged. Since 1856 the influence of Eliphas Levi and his doctrine of occultism has changed the face of this card, and it now appears as a pseudo-Baphometic figure with the head of a goat and a great torch between the horns; it is seated instead of erect, and in place of the generative organs there is the Hermetic caduceus. In Le Tarot Divinatoire of Papus the small demons are replaced by naked human beings, male and female who are yoked only to each other. The author may be felicitated on this improved symbolism.
Your Hopes and Fears
Eight of Cups from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
moving on, personal; development, sacrifice
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Marriage with a fair woman.
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.
Temperance from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
balanced personality, tactfulness
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Temperance. The winged figure of a female--who, in opposition to all doctrine concerning the hierarchy of angels, is usually allocated to this order of ministering spirits--is pouring liquid from one pitcher to another. In his last work on the Tarot, Dr. Papus abandons the traditional form and depicts a woman wearing an Egyptian head-dress. The first thing which seems clear on the surface is that the entire symbol has no especial connexion with Temperance, and the fact that this designation has always obtained for the card offers a very obvious instance of a meaning behind meaning, which is the title in chief to consideration in respect of the Tarot as a whole.
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.
Two of Clubs from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
decision, initial success, self-doubt
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
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 Clubs from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
a warrior, generous, hasty
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.
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.
The Fool from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
sponteneity, trust, taking a risk
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Fool, Mate, or Unwise Man. Court de Gebelin places it at the head of the whole series as the zero or negative which is presupposed by numeration, and as this is a simpler so also it is a better arrangement. It has been abandoned because in later times the cards have been attributed to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and there has been apparently some difficulty about allocating the zero symbol satisfactorily in a sequence of letters all of which signify numbers. In the present reference of the card to the letter Shin, which corresponds to 200, the difficulty or the unreason remains. The truth is that the real arrangement of the cards has never transpired. The Fool carries a wallet; he is looking over his shoulder and does not know that he is on the brink of a precipice; but a dog or other animal--some call it a tiger--is attacking him from behind, and he is hurried to his destruction unawares. Etteilla has given a justifiable variation of this card--as generally understood--in the form of a court jester, with cap, bells and motley garb. The other descriptions say that the wallet contains the bearer's follies and vices, which seems bourgeois and arbitrary.
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.
Three of Coins from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
work, employment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
If for a man, celebrity for his eldest son.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
Five of Clubs from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
minor problems, struggle
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Success in financial speculation.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
Five of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
defeat, humiliation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An attack on the fortune of the Querent.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
Six of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
improvement, passage, journey
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The voyage will be pleasant.
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.
The Devil from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
anger, oppressiveness, restriction
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Devil. In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been rather a symbol of merely animal impudicity. Except for a fantastic head-dress, the chief figure is entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the hands and feet are represented by the claws of a bird. In the right hand there is a sceptre terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire. The figure as a whole is not particularly evil; it has no tail, and the commentators who have said that the claws are those of a harpy have spoken at random. There is no better ground for the alternative suggestion that they are eagle's claws. Attached, by a cord depending from their collars, to the pedestal on which the figure is mounted, are two small demons, presumably male and female. These are tailed, but not winged. Since 1856 the influence of Eliphas Levi and his doctrine of occultism has changed the face of this card, and it now appears as a pseudo-Baphometic figure with the head of a goat and a great torch between the horns; it is seated instead of erect, and in place of the generative organs there is the Hermetic caduceus. In Le Tarot Divinatoire of Papus the small demons are replaced by naked human beings, male and female who are yoked only to each other. The author may be felicitated on this improved symbolism.
Your Hopes and Fears
Eight of Cups from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
moving on, personal; development, sacrifice
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Marriage with a fair woman.
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.
Temperance from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
balanced personality, tactfulness
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Temperance. The winged figure of a female--who, in opposition to all doctrine concerning the hierarchy of angels, is usually allocated to this order of ministering spirits--is pouring liquid from one pitcher to another. In his last work on the Tarot, Dr. Papus abandons the traditional form and depicts a woman wearing an Egyptian head-dress. The first thing which seems clear on the surface is that the entire symbol has no especial connexion with Temperance, and the fact that this designation has always obtained for the card offers a very obvious instance of a meaning behind meaning, which is the title in chief to consideration in respect of the Tarot as a whole.
