Tarot Reading What is gong on
Reading Performed 01/09/2015 at 1:59 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.
King of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Man of Law
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A lawyer, senator, doctor.
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.
Seven of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Expectation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dark girl; a good card; it promises a country life after a competence has been secured.
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.
Eight of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Criticism
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, scandal spread in her respect.
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.
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.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
14 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Violence
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
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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Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
10 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Temperance
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.
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.
Page of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Spy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An indiscreet person will pry into the Querent's secrets.
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Your Hopes and Fears
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.
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.
Nine of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Success
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
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.
King of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Man of Law
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A lawyer, senator, doctor.
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.
Seven of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Expectation
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dark girl; a good card; it promises a country life after a competence has been secured.
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.
Eight of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Criticism
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a woman, scandal spread in her respect.
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.
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.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
14 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Violence
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
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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Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
10 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Temperance
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.
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.
Page of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Spy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An indiscreet person will pry into the Querent's secrets.
Related Posts
Your Hopes and Fears
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.
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.
Nine of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Success
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Of good augury for military men.
