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.
Three of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Enterprises
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.
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.
Zero from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Madness
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Fool, Mate, or Unwise Man. Court de Gebelin places it at the head of the whole series as the zero or negative which is presupposed by numeration, and as this is a simpler so also it is a better arrangement. It has been abandoned because in later times the cards have been attributed to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and there has been apparently some difficulty about allocating the zero symbol satisfactorily in a sequence of letters all of which signify numbers. In the present reference of the card to the letter Shin, which corresponds to 200, the difficulty or the unreason remains. The truth is that the real arrangement of the cards has never transpired. The Fool carries a wallet; he is looking over his shoulder and does not know that he is on the brink of a precipice; but a dog or other animal--some call it a tiger--is attacking him from behind, and he is hurried to his destruction unawares. Etteilla has given a justifiable variation of this card--as generally understood--in the form of a court jester, with cap, bells and motley garb. The other descriptions say that the wallet contains the bearer's follies and vices, which seems bourgeois and arbitrary.
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.
Nine of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fulfillment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.
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.
Five of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Loss
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An attack on the fortune of the Querent.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
12 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Prudence
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
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 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.
Knight of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Profits
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An useful man; useful discoveries.
Your Hopes and Fears
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.
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.
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.
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.
Three of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Enterprises
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.
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.
Zero from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Madness
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Fool, Mate, or Unwise Man. Court de Gebelin places it at the head of the whole series as the zero or negative which is presupposed by numeration, and as this is a simpler so also it is a better arrangement. It has been abandoned because in later times the cards have been attributed to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and there has been apparently some difficulty about allocating the zero symbol satisfactorily in a sequence of letters all of which signify numbers. In the present reference of the card to the letter Shin, which corresponds to 200, the difficulty or the unreason remains. The truth is that the real arrangement of the cards has never transpired. The Fool carries a wallet; he is looking over his shoulder and does not know that he is on the brink of a precipice; but a dog or other animal--some call it a tiger--is attacking him from behind, and he is hurried to his destruction unawares. Etteilla has given a justifiable variation of this card--as generally understood--in the form of a court jester, with cap, bells and motley garb. The other descriptions say that the wallet contains the bearer's follies and vices, which seems bourgeois and arbitrary.
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.
Nine of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fulfillment
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.
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.
Five of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Loss
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An attack on the fortune of the Querent.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
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.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
12 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Prudence
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
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 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.
Knight of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Profits
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An useful man; useful discoveries.
Your Hopes and Fears
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.
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.
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.
