Tarot Reading What is gong on
Reading Performed 01/09/2015 at 2:00 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 Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Businessman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor.
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.
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 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.
Ten of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Lies
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card.
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 Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Present
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a bachelor, pleasant news from a lady.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
15 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Sorrow
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.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
Seven of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Ideas
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement.
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.
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.
Your Hopes and Fears
8 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Tenacity
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.
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.
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 Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Businessman
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor.
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.
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 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.
Ten of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Lies
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card.
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 Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Present
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
For a bachelor, pleasant news from a lady.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
15 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Sorrow
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.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
Seven of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Ideas
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement.
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.
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.
Your Hopes and Fears
8 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Tenacity
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.
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.
