Queen of Tarot

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Tarot Reading what hear from bad news; 31101955

Reading Performed 02/11/2013 at 1:11 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.

Death from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

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 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.

The Magician from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Magus, Magician, or juggler, the caster of the dice and mountebank, in the world of vulgar trickery. This is the colportage interpretation, and it has the same correspondence with the real symbolical meaning that the use of the Tarot in fortune-telling has with its mystic construction according to the secret science of symbolism. I should add that many independent students of the subject, following their own lights, have produced individual sequences of meaning in respect of the Trumps Major, and their lights are sometimes suggestive, but they are not the true lights. For example, Eliphas Levi says that the Magus signifies that unity which is the mother of numbers; others say that it is the Divine Unity; and one of the latest French commentators considers that in its general sense it is the will.

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.

Five of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Conquest of fortune by reason.

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.

Ace of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The most favourable of all cards.

This is Behind You

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

Nine of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen.

This is Before You

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

King of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A bad man; also a caution to put an end to a ruinous lawsuit.

Your Self

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

Ace of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Inflexible will, unalterable law.

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.

Seven of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

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

A dark child.

Your Hopes and Fears

The Papess from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The High Priestess, the Pope Joan, or Female Pontiff; early expositors have sought to term this card the Mother, or Pope's Wife, which is opposed to the symbolism. It is sometimes held to represent the Divine Law and the Gnosis, in which case the Priestess corresponds to the idea of the Shekinah. She is the Secret Tradition and the higher sense of the instituted Mysteries.

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.

Seven of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Success, if accompanied by the Three of Cups.

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