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Reading Performed 08/23/2014 at 11:10 PM
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Card One
20 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fortune
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Two
Nine of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Misfortune
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Generally speaking, a bad card.
Card Three
Seven of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Money
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Improved position for a lady's future husband.
Card Four
19 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Poverty
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Tower struck by Lightning. Its alternative titles are: Castle of Plutus, God's House and the Tower of Babel. In the last case, the figures falling therefrom are held to be Nimrod and his minister. It is assuredly a card of confusion, and the design corresponds, broadly speaking, to any of the designations except Maison Dieu, unless we are to understand that the House of God has been abandoned and the veil of the temple rent. It is a little surprising that the device has not so far been allocated to the destruction Of Solomon's Temple, when the lightning would symbolize the fire and sword with which that edifice was visited by the King of the Chaldees.
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Card Five
Queen of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Dissolute Woman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rich marriage for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.
Card Six
Six of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
The Past
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Pleasant memories.
Card Seven
9 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Law Maker
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Justice. That the Tarot, though it is of all reasonable antiquity, is not of time immemorial, is shewn by this card, which could have been presented in a much more archaic manner. Those, however, who have gifts of discernment in matters of this kind will not need to be told that age is in no sense of the essence of the consideration; the Rite of Closing the Lodge in the Third Craft Grade of Masonry may belong to the late eighteenth century, but the fact signifies nothing; it is still the summary of all the instituted and official Mysteries. The female figure of the eleventh card is said to be Astraea, who personified the same virtue and is represented by the same symbols. This goddess notwithstanding, and notwithstanding the vulgarian Cupid, the Tarot is not of Roman mythology, or of Greek either. Its presentation of justice is supposed to be one of the four cardinal virtues included in the sequence of Greater Arcana; but, as it so happens, the fourth emblem is wanting, and it became necessary for the commentators to discover it at all costs. They did what it was possible to do, and yet the laws of research have never succeeded in extricating the missing Persephone under the form of Prudence. Court de Gebelin attempted to solve the difficulty by a tour de force, and believed that he had extracted what he wanted from the symbol of the Hanged Man--wherein he deceived himself. The Tarot has, therefore, its justice, its Temperance also and its Fortitude, but--owing to a curious omission--it does not offer us any type of Prudence, though it may be admitted that, in some respects, the isolation of the Hermit, pursuing a solitary path by the light of his own lamp, gives, to those who can receive it, a certain high counsel in respect of the via prudentiae.
Card Eight
5 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Travel
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 Nine
16 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Arbitration
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 Ten
Nine of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Suspicion
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.
Card Eleven
Five of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Relative
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.
Card Twelve
Two of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Difficulties
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Troubles are more imaginary than real.
Card Thirteen
Nine of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Deception
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.
Card Fourteen
Knight of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Separation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.
Card Fifteen
Ace of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Birth
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Calamities of all kinds.
Card Sixteen
Four of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Contract (Agreement)
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unexpected good fortune.
Card Seventeen
Queen of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Virtue
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A good harvest, which may be taken in several senses.
Card Eighteen
1 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Ideal
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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.
Card Nineteen
Eight of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Repentance
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Domestic disputes for a married person.
Card Twenty
Six of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
To Take Steds
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The voyage will be pleasant.
Card Twenty One
Seven of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Indecision
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A dark child.
The Meanings of these Tarot Cards
Card One
20 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fortune
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Two
Nine of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Misfortune
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Generally speaking, a bad card.
Card Three
Seven of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Money
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Improved position for a lady's future husband.
Card Four
19 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Poverty
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Tower struck by Lightning. Its alternative titles are: Castle of Plutus, God's House and the Tower of Babel. In the last case, the figures falling therefrom are held to be Nimrod and his minister. It is assuredly a card of confusion, and the design corresponds, broadly speaking, to any of the designations except Maison Dieu, unless we are to understand that the House of God has been abandoned and the veil of the temple rent. It is a little surprising that the device has not so far been allocated to the destruction Of Solomon's Temple, when the lightning would symbolize the fire and sword with which that edifice was visited by the King of the Chaldees.
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Card Five
Queen of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Dissolute Woman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rich marriage for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.
Card Six
Six of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
The Past
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Pleasant memories.
Card Seven
9 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Law Maker
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Justice. That the Tarot, though it is of all reasonable antiquity, is not of time immemorial, is shewn by this card, which could have been presented in a much more archaic manner. Those, however, who have gifts of discernment in matters of this kind will not need to be told that age is in no sense of the essence of the consideration; the Rite of Closing the Lodge in the Third Craft Grade of Masonry may belong to the late eighteenth century, but the fact signifies nothing; it is still the summary of all the instituted and official Mysteries. The female figure of the eleventh card is said to be Astraea, who personified the same virtue and is represented by the same symbols. This goddess notwithstanding, and notwithstanding the vulgarian Cupid, the Tarot is not of Roman mythology, or of Greek either. Its presentation of justice is supposed to be one of the four cardinal virtues included in the sequence of Greater Arcana; but, as it so happens, the fourth emblem is wanting, and it became necessary for the commentators to discover it at all costs. They did what it was possible to do, and yet the laws of research have never succeeded in extricating the missing Persephone under the form of Prudence. Court de Gebelin attempted to solve the difficulty by a tour de force, and believed that he had extracted what he wanted from the symbol of the Hanged Man--wherein he deceived himself. The Tarot has, therefore, its justice, its Temperance also and its Fortitude, but--owing to a curious omission--it does not offer us any type of Prudence, though it may be admitted that, in some respects, the isolation of the Hermit, pursuing a solitary path by the light of his own lamp, gives, to those who can receive it, a certain high counsel in respect of the via prudentiae.
Card Eight
5 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Travel
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 Nine
16 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Arbitration
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 Ten
Nine of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Suspicion
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.
Card Eleven
Five of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Relative
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.
Card Twelve
Two of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Difficulties
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Troubles are more imaginary than real.
Card Thirteen
Nine of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Deception
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.
Card Fourteen
Knight of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Separation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.
Card Fifteen
Ace of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Birth
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Calamities of all kinds.
Card Sixteen
Four of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Contract (Agreement)
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unexpected good fortune.
Card Seventeen
Queen of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Virtue
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A good harvest, which may be taken in several senses.
Card Eighteen
1 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Ideal
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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.
Card Nineteen
Eight of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Repentance
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Domestic disputes for a married person.
Card Twenty
Six of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
To Take Steds
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The voyage will be pleasant.
Card Twenty One
Seven of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Indecision
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A dark child.
