Tarot Reading What is to happen in the future from the time now
Reading Performed 09/15/2014 at 9:46 PM
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Card One
The Emperor from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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 Two
Page of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Obstacles of all kinds.
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Card Three
The Star from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
Card Four
Three of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.
Card Five
Six of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unfavourable issue of lawsuit.
Card Six
Knight of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dispute with an imbecile person; for a woman, struggle with a rival, who will be conquered.
Card Seven
Seven of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A dark child.
Card Eight
Six of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The present must not be relied on.
Card Nine
Eight of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.
Card Ten
Justice from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Eleven
Page of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An indiscreet person will pry into the Querent's secrets.
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Card Twelve
The Pope from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
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.
Card Thirteen
Four of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Contrarieties.
Card Fourteen
Two of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Passion.
Card Fifteen
Nine of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
Card Sixteen
The Devil from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
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.
Card Seventeen
Knight of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A visit from a friend, who will bring unexpected money to the Querent.
Card Eighteen
King of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An old and vicious man.
Card Nineteen
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 Twenty
Queen of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Goodwill towards the Querent, but without the opportunity to exercise it.
Card Twenty One
Nine of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.
The Meanings of these Tarot Cards
Card One
The Emperor from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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 Two
Page of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Obstacles of all kinds.
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Card Three
The Star from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
Card Four
Three of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.
Card Five
Six of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unfavourable issue of lawsuit.
Card Six
Knight of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dispute with an imbecile person; for a woman, struggle with a rival, who will be conquered.
Card Seven
Seven of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
A dark child.
Card Eight
Six of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The present must not be relied on.
Card Nine
Eight of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.
Card Ten
Justice from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Eleven
Page of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An indiscreet person will pry into the Querent's secrets.
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Card Twelve
The Pope from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
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.
Card Thirteen
Four of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Contrarieties.
Card Fourteen
Two of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Passion.
Card Fifteen
Nine of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
Card Sixteen
The Devil from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
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.
Card Seventeen
Knight of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A visit from a friend, who will bring unexpected money to the Querent.
Card Eighteen
King of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An old and vicious man.
Card Nineteen
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 Twenty
Queen of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Goodwill towards the Querent, but without the opportunity to exercise it.
Card Twenty One
Nine of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.
