Ace of Batons Art and Meaning Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment
From an uncut sheet found in a museum in Barcelona. This deck provides an important link between the Mamluk deck pattern and the Mediterranean deck pattern, because it shares features of both; in general it looks fairly European, but the wands look like Polo Sticks and the Cups still look like Myriads, harking back to Ancient Chinese money-suited cards.
Provenance
Spain, c. 1414.
Tags
batons-1, ace-of-wands, ace, batons
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Commencement of an enterprise.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Calamities of all kinds.
Reversed
A sign of birth.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
Engagement. Happy marriage and riches. Broken engagement. Separation of lovers.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Birth, Commencement, Beginning, Origin, Source
Reversed
Persecution, Pursuits Voilence, Vexation, Cruelty, Tyranny.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Good luck, letters or papers relating to money, pleasant tidings
Reversed
short-lived happiness, a tiresome correspondence.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
you will become a widower (widow) and will marry a young widow (young man) and have ten children.
