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Tarot Reading What lies in my future?

Reading Performed 08/19/2016 at 2:55 AM

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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.

Six of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

Enemy powerless.

Card Description

A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted that the work is not beyond his strength.

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 Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import, because the significations are widely at variance with each other.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Enemy successful.

Card Description

A man in the act of carrying away five swords rapidly; the two others of the card remain stuck in the ground. A camp is close at hand.

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.

Knight of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Young dark man. An enemy. A spy.

Card Description

He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is clean of heart.

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.

Ace of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much higher significance than comes usually within the sphere of fortune-telling.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Commencement of enmity.

Card Description

A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown.

This is Behind You

It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.

Nine of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

A durable fortune.

Card Description

A woman, with a bird upon her wrist, stands amidst a great abundance of grapevines in the garden of a manorial house. It is a wide domain, suggesting plenty in all things. Possibly it is her own possession and testifies to material well-being.

This is Before You

It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.

Page of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

A fair child. A messenger. A letter.

Card Description

A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.

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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.

King of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

Dark bad man. A soldier, an enemy, or one to be mistrusted.

Card Description

He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the power of life and death, in virtue of his office.

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 Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

A large fortune.

Card Description

A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there.

Your Hopes and Fears

The High Priestess from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Passion, moral or physical ardour, conceit, surface knowledge.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

Female Inquirer.

Card Description

she has the lunar crescent at her feet, a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place, and a large solar cross on her breast. The scroll in her hands is inscribed with the word Tora, signifying the Greater Law, the Secret Law and the second sense of the Word. It is partly covered by her mantle, to shew that some things are implied and some spoken. She is seated between the white and black pillars--J. and B.--of the mystic Temple, and the veil of the Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with palms and pomegranates. The vestments are flowing and gauzy, and the mantle suggests light--a shimmering radiance. She has been called occult Science on the threshold of the Sanctuary of Isis, but she is really the Secret Church, the House which is of God and man. She represents also the Second Marriage of the Prince who is no longer of this world; she is the spiritual Bride and Mother, the daughter of the stars and the Higher Garden of Eden. She is, in fine, the Queen of the borrowed light, but this is the light of all. She is the Moon nourished by the milk of the Supernal Mother. In a manner, she is also the Supernal Mother herself--that is to say, she is the bright reflection. It is in this sense of reflection that her truest and highest name in bolism is Shekinah--the co-habiting glory. According to Kabalism, there is a Shekinah both above and below. In the superior world it is called Binah, the Supernal Understanding which reflects to the emanations that are beneath. In the lower world it is MaIkuth--that world being, for this purpose, understood as a blessed Kingdom that with which it is made blessed being the Indwelling Glory. Mystically speaking, the Shekinah is the Spiritual Bride of the just man, and when he reads the Law she gives the Divine meaning. There are some respects in which this card is the highest and holiest of the Greater Arcana.

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.

Six of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings (When Upright)

Obstacles insuperable. Widowhood. Separation.

Card Description

Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.

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