Queen of Tarot

Designation

2

About the Deck

Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

Created by the famous seer Etteilla, this deck features the tarot card meanings right on the card, which was a new innovation at the time.

Provenance

Jean Baptiste Alliette. France, 1788.

Tags

trumps-19, 2

Meaning of 2 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

Upright

Enlightenment

Reversed

Passion

According to Many Schools of Thought

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Sun. The luminary is distinguished in older cards by chief rays that are waved and salient alternately and by secondary salient rays. It appears to shed its influence on earth not only by light and heat, but--like the moon--by drops of dew. Court de Gebelin termed these tears of gold and of pearl, just as he identified the lunar dew with the tears of Isis. Beneath the dog-star there is a wall suggesting an enclosure-as it might be, a walled garden-wherein are two children, either naked or lightly clothed, facing a water, and gambolling, or running hand in hand. Eliphas Levi says that these are sometimes replaced by a spinner unwinding destinies, and otherwise by a much better symbol-a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Happiness, Content, Joy

Reversed

These in a minor degree.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Material Happiness. Lucky Marriage.