Tarot Reading Rhonda
Reading Performed 08/08/2016 at 4:08 AM
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Card One
Six of Hats from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Inheritance to fall in quickly.
Card Two
Five of Hats from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise.
Card Three
Seven of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Good advice, probably neglected.
Card Four
The Marble Machine of Major Arcana from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
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.
Card Five
Five of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Quarrels may be turned to advantage.
Card Six
The Nerd of Major Arcana from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Hermit, as he is termed in common parlance, stands next on the list; he is also the Capuchin, and in more philosophical language the Sage. He is said to be in search of that Truth which is located far off in the sequence, and of justice which has preceded him on the way. But this is a card of attainment, as we shall see later, rather than a card of quest. It is said also that his lantern contains the Light of Occult Science and that his staff is a Magic Wand. These interpretations are comparable in every respect to the divinatory and fortune-telling meanings with which I shall have to deal in their turn. The diabolism of both is that they are true after their own manner, but that they miss all the high things to which the Greater Arcana should be allocated. It is as if a man who knows in his heart that all roads lead to the heights, and that God is at the great height of all, should choose the way of perdition or the way of folly as the path of his own attainment. Eliphas Levi has allocated this card to Prudence, but in so doing he has been actuated by the wish to fill a gap which would otherwise occur in the symbolism. The four cardinal virtues are necessary to an idealogical sequence like the Trumps Major, but they must not be taken only in that first sense which exists for the use and consolation of him who in these days of halfpenny journalism is called the man in the street. In their proper understanding they are the correlatives of the counsels of perfection when these have been similarly re-expressed, and they read as follows: (a) Transcendental justice, the counter-equilibrium of the scales, when they have been overweighted so that they dip heavily on the side of God. The corresponding counsel is to use loaded dice when you play for high stakes with Diabolus. The axiom is Aut Deus, aut nihil. (b) Divine Ecstacy, as a counterpoise to something called Temperance, the sign of which is, I believe, the extinction of lights in the tavern. The corresponding counsel is to drink only of new wine in the Kingdom of the Father, because God is all in all. The axiom is that man being a reasonable being must get intoxicated with God; the imputed case in point is Spinoza. (c) The state of Royal Fortitude, which is the state of a Tower of Ivory and a House of Gold, but it is God and not the man who has become Turris fortitudinis a facie inimici, and out of that House the enemy has been cast. The corresponding counsel is that a man must not spare himself even in the presence of death, but he must be certain that his sacrifice shall be-of any open course-the best that will ensure his end. The axiom is that the strength which is raised to such a degree that a man dares lose himself shall shew him how God is found, and as to such refuge--dare therefore and learn. (d) Prudence is the economy which follows the line of least resistance, that the soul may get back whence it came. It is a doctrine of divine parsimony and conservation of energy, because of the stress, the terror and the manifest impertinences of this life. The corresponding counsel is that true prudence is concerned with the one thing needful, and the axiom is: Waste not, want not. The conclusion of the whole matter is a business proposition founded on the law of exchange: You cannot help getting what you seek in respect of the things that are Divine: it is the law of supply and demand. I have mentioned these few matters at this point for two simple reasons: (a) because in proportion to the impartiality of the mind it seems sometimes more difficult to determine whether it is vice or vulgarity which lays waste the present world more piteously; (b) because in order to remedy the imperfections of the old notions it is highly needful, on occasion, to empty terms and phrases of their accepted significance, that they may receive a new and more adequate meaning.
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Card Seven
Two of Protractors from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Eight
Two of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
Card Nine
Two of Disks from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Bad omen, ignorance, injustice.
Card Ten
Nine of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen.
Card Eleven
King of Fives from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Twelve
Ten of Disks from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.
Card Thirteen
Six of Protractors from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Fourteen
Five of Kings from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Fifteen
The Klutz of Major Arcana from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Sixteen
Eight of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Departure of a relative.
Card Seventeen
Knight of Disks from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An useful man; useful discoveries.
Card Eighteen
Six of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Fulfillment of deferred hope.
Card Nineteen
Hitchhiker of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A good harvest, which may be taken in several senses.
Card Twenty
Two of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dealings with rogues.
Card Twenty One
Four of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unexpected good fortune.
The Meanings of these Tarot Cards
Card One
Six of Hats from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Inheritance to fall in quickly.
Card Two
Five of Hats from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise.
Card Three
Seven of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Good advice, probably neglected.
Card Four
The Marble Machine of Major Arcana from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
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.
Card Five
Five of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Quarrels may be turned to advantage.
Card Six
The Nerd of Major Arcana from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
The Hermit, as he is termed in common parlance, stands next on the list; he is also the Capuchin, and in more philosophical language the Sage. He is said to be in search of that Truth which is located far off in the sequence, and of justice which has preceded him on the way. But this is a card of attainment, as we shall see later, rather than a card of quest. It is said also that his lantern contains the Light of Occult Science and that his staff is a Magic Wand. These interpretations are comparable in every respect to the divinatory and fortune-telling meanings with which I shall have to deal in their turn. The diabolism of both is that they are true after their own manner, but that they miss all the high things to which the Greater Arcana should be allocated. It is as if a man who knows in his heart that all roads lead to the heights, and that God is at the great height of all, should choose the way of perdition or the way of folly as the path of his own attainment. Eliphas Levi has allocated this card to Prudence, but in so doing he has been actuated by the wish to fill a gap which would otherwise occur in the symbolism. The four cardinal virtues are necessary to an idealogical sequence like the Trumps Major, but they must not be taken only in that first sense which exists for the use and consolation of him who in these days of halfpenny journalism is called the man in the street. In their proper understanding they are the correlatives of the counsels of perfection when these have been similarly re-expressed, and they read as follows: (a) Transcendental justice, the counter-equilibrium of the scales, when they have been overweighted so that they dip heavily on the side of God. The corresponding counsel is to use loaded dice when you play for high stakes with Diabolus. The axiom is Aut Deus, aut nihil. (b) Divine Ecstacy, as a counterpoise to something called Temperance, the sign of which is, I believe, the extinction of lights in the tavern. The corresponding counsel is to drink only of new wine in the Kingdom of the Father, because God is all in all. The axiom is that man being a reasonable being must get intoxicated with God; the imputed case in point is Spinoza. (c) The state of Royal Fortitude, which is the state of a Tower of Ivory and a House of Gold, but it is God and not the man who has become Turris fortitudinis a facie inimici, and out of that House the enemy has been cast. The corresponding counsel is that a man must not spare himself even in the presence of death, but he must be certain that his sacrifice shall be-of any open course-the best that will ensure his end. The axiom is that the strength which is raised to such a degree that a man dares lose himself shall shew him how God is found, and as to such refuge--dare therefore and learn. (d) Prudence is the economy which follows the line of least resistance, that the soul may get back whence it came. It is a doctrine of divine parsimony and conservation of energy, because of the stress, the terror and the manifest impertinences of this life. The corresponding counsel is that true prudence is concerned with the one thing needful, and the axiom is: Waste not, want not. The conclusion of the whole matter is a business proposition founded on the law of exchange: You cannot help getting what you seek in respect of the things that are Divine: it is the law of supply and demand. I have mentioned these few matters at this point for two simple reasons: (a) because in proportion to the impartiality of the mind it seems sometimes more difficult to determine whether it is vice or vulgarity which lays waste the present world more piteously; (b) because in order to remedy the imperfections of the old notions it is highly needful, on occasion, to empty terms and phrases of their accepted significance, that they may receive a new and more adequate meaning.
Related Posts
Card Seven
Two of Protractors from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Eight
Two of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
Card Nine
Two of Disks from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Bad omen, ignorance, injustice.
Card Ten
Nine of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen.
Card Eleven
King of Fives from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Twelve
Ten of Disks from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.
Card Thirteen
Six of Protractors from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Fourteen
Five of Kings from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Fifteen
The Klutz of Major Arcana from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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 Sixteen
Eight of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Departure of a relative.
Card Seventeen
Knight of Disks from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
An useful man; useful discoveries.
Card Eighteen
Six of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Fulfillment of deferred hope.
Card Nineteen
Hitchhiker of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A good harvest, which may be taken in several senses.
Card Twenty
Two of Hammers from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Dealings with rogues.
Card Twenty One
Four of Pencils from the Uncarrot Tarot Deck
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Unexpected good fortune.
