Tarot Reading What lies in my future?
Reading Performed 09/28/2015 at 5:25 PM
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Card One
King of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Loss.
Card Two
Three of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, the flight of her lover.
Card Three
Seven of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dark girl; a good card; it promises a country life after a competence has been secured.
Card Four
Page of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child.
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Card Five
The World from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The four living creatures of the Apocalypse and Ezekiel's vision, attributed to the evangelists in Christian symbolism, are grouped about an elliptic garland, as if it were a chain of flowers intended to symbolize all sensible things; within this garland there is the figure of a woman, whom the wind has girt about the loins with a light scarf, and this is all her vesture. She is in the act of dancing, and has a wand in either hand. It is eloquent as an image of the swirl of the sensitive life, of joy attained in the body, of the soul's intoxication in the earthly paradise, but still guarded by the Divine Watchers, as if by the powers and the graces of the Holy Name, Tetragammaton, JVHV--those four ineffable letters which are sometimes attributed to the mystical beasts. Eliphas Levi calls the garland a crown, and reports that the figure represents Truth. Dr. Papus connects it with the Absolute and the realization of the Great Work; for yet others it is a symbol of humanity and the eternal reward of a life that has been spent well. It should be noted that in the four quarters of the garland there are four flowers distinctively marked. According to P. Christian, the garland should be formed of roses, and this is the kind of chain which Eliphas Levi says is less easily broken than a chain of iron. Perhaps by antithesis, but for the same reason, the iron crown of Peter may he more lightly on the heads of sovereign pontiffs than the crown of gold on kings.
Card Six
The Sun from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Sun. The luminary is distinguished in older cards by chief rays that are waved and salient alternately and by secondary salient rays. It appears to shed its influence on earth not only by light and heat, but--like the moon--by drops of dew. Court de Gebelin termed these tears of gold and of pearl, just as he identified the lunar dew with the tears of Isis. Beneath the dog-star there is a wall suggesting an enclosure-as it might be, a walled garden-wherein are two children, either naked or lightly clothed, facing a water, and gambolling, or running hand in hand. Eliphas Levi says that these are sometimes replaced by a spinner unwinding destinies, and otherwise by a much better symbol-a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard.
Card Seven
The Traitor from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
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.
Card Eight
The Emperor from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Nine
Three of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unexpected advancement for a military man.
Card Ten
Six of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Servants may lose the confidence of their masters; a young lady may be betrayed by a friend.
Card Eleven
Justice from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Fortitude. This is one of the cardinal virtues, of which I shall speak later. The female figure is usually represented as closing the mouth of a lion. In the earlier form which is printed by Court de Gebelin, she is obviously opening it. The first alternative is better symbolically, but either is an instance of strength in its conventional understanding, and conveys the idea of mastery. It has been said that the figure represents organic force, moral force and the principle of all force.
Card Twelve
Queen of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A bad woman, with ill-will towards the Querent.
Card Thirteen
Nine of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Generally speaking, a bad card.
Card Fourteen
Six of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A check on the Querent's ambition.
Card Fifteen
Six of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Inheritance to fall in quickly.
Card Sixteen
Ten of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.
Card Seventeen
Ace of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Great prosperity or great misery.
Card Eighteen
Four of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Observation, hindrances.
Card Nineteen
Judgement from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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 Twenty
Five of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.
Card Twenty One
Six of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unfavourable issue of lawsuit.
The Meanings of these Tarot Cards
Card One
King of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Loss.
Card Two
Three of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, the flight of her lover.
Card Three
Seven of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dark girl; a good card; it promises a country life after a competence has been secured.
Card Four
Page of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child.
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Card Five
The World from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The four living creatures of the Apocalypse and Ezekiel's vision, attributed to the evangelists in Christian symbolism, are grouped about an elliptic garland, as if it were a chain of flowers intended to symbolize all sensible things; within this garland there is the figure of a woman, whom the wind has girt about the loins with a light scarf, and this is all her vesture. She is in the act of dancing, and has a wand in either hand. It is eloquent as an image of the swirl of the sensitive life, of joy attained in the body, of the soul's intoxication in the earthly paradise, but still guarded by the Divine Watchers, as if by the powers and the graces of the Holy Name, Tetragammaton, JVHV--those four ineffable letters which are sometimes attributed to the mystical beasts. Eliphas Levi calls the garland a crown, and reports that the figure represents Truth. Dr. Papus connects it with the Absolute and the realization of the Great Work; for yet others it is a symbol of humanity and the eternal reward of a life that has been spent well. It should be noted that in the four quarters of the garland there are four flowers distinctively marked. According to P. Christian, the garland should be formed of roses, and this is the kind of chain which Eliphas Levi says is less easily broken than a chain of iron. Perhaps by antithesis, but for the same reason, the iron crown of Peter may he more lightly on the heads of sovereign pontiffs than the crown of gold on kings.
Card Six
The Sun from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Sun. The luminary is distinguished in older cards by chief rays that are waved and salient alternately and by secondary salient rays. It appears to shed its influence on earth not only by light and heat, but--like the moon--by drops of dew. Court de Gebelin termed these tears of gold and of pearl, just as he identified the lunar dew with the tears of Isis. Beneath the dog-star there is a wall suggesting an enclosure-as it might be, a walled garden-wherein are two children, either naked or lightly clothed, facing a water, and gambolling, or running hand in hand. Eliphas Levi says that these are sometimes replaced by a spinner unwinding destinies, and otherwise by a much better symbol-a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard.
Card Seven
The Traitor from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
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.
Card Eight
The Emperor from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Nine
Three of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unexpected advancement for a military man.
Card Ten
Six of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Servants may lose the confidence of their masters; a young lady may be betrayed by a friend.
Card Eleven
Justice from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Fortitude. This is one of the cardinal virtues, of which I shall speak later. The female figure is usually represented as closing the mouth of a lion. In the earlier form which is printed by Court de Gebelin, she is obviously opening it. The first alternative is better symbolically, but either is an instance of strength in its conventional understanding, and conveys the idea of mastery. It has been said that the figure represents organic force, moral force and the principle of all force.
Card Twelve
Queen of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A bad woman, with ill-will towards the Querent.
Card Thirteen
Nine of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Generally speaking, a bad card.
Card Fourteen
Six of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A check on the Querent's ambition.
Card Fifteen
Six of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Inheritance to fall in quickly.
Card Sixteen
Ten of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.
Card Seventeen
Ace of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Great prosperity or great misery.
Card Eighteen
Four of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Observation, hindrances.
Card Nineteen
Judgement from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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 Twenty
Five of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.
Card Twenty One
Six of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unfavourable issue of lawsuit.
