Tarot Reading general
Reading Performed 07/13/2013 at 10:09 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.
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.
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.
Ace of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Bankruptcy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A sign of birth.
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 Reversed
Obstacle
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
3 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Discussion
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Moon. Some eighteenth-century cards shew the luminary on its waning side; in the debased edition of Etteilla, it is the moon at night in her plenitude, set in a heaven of stars; of recent years the moon is shewn on the side of her increase. In nearly all presentations she is shining brightly and shedding the moisture of fertilizing dew in great drops. Beneath there are two towers, between which a path winds to the verge of the horizon. Two dogs, or alternatively a wolf and dog, are baying at the moon, and in the foreground there is water, through which a crayfish moves towards the land.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
Page of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Improvidence
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Astonishing news.
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This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
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.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
20 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Increase
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
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.
Seven of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Negotiations
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A dark child.
Your Hopes and Fears
15 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Illness
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ace of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Bankruptcy
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A sign of birth.
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 Reversed
Obstacle
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
3 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Discussion
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Moon. Some eighteenth-century cards shew the luminary on its waning side; in the debased edition of Etteilla, it is the moon at night in her plenitude, set in a heaven of stars; of recent years the moon is shewn on the side of her increase. In nearly all presentations she is shining brightly and shedding the moisture of fertilizing dew in great drops. Beneath there are two towers, between which a path winds to the verge of the horizon. Two dogs, or alternatively a wolf and dog, are baying at the moon, and in the foreground there is water, through which a crayfish moves towards the land.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
Page of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Improvidence
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Astonishing news.
Related Posts
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
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.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
20 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Increase
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
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.
Seven of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Negotiations
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A dark child.
Your Hopes and Fears
15 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Illness
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
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.
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.
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.
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