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Tarot Reading what lies in future for me

Reading Performed 02/28/2019 at 11:16 PM

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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards

Card One

Two of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.

Card Two

Knight of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A soldier, man of arms, satellite, stipendiary; heroic action predicted for soldier.

Card Three

Queen of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Sometimes denotes a woman of equivocal character.

Card Four

Judgement from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Last judgment. I have spoken of this symbol already, the form of which is essentially invariable, even in the Etteilla set. An angel sounds his trumpet per sepulchra regionum, and the dead arise. It matters little that Etteilla omits the angel, or that Dr. Papus substitutes a ridiculous figure, which is, however, in consonance with the general motive of that Tarot set which accompanies his latest work. Before rejecting the transparent interpretation of the symbolism which is conveyed by the name of the card and by the picture which it presents to the eye, we should feel very sure of our ground. On the surface, at least, it is and can be only the resurrection of that triad--father, mother, child-whom we have met with already in the eighth card. M. Bourgeat hazards the suggestion that esoterically it is the symbol of evolution--of which it carries none of the signs. Others say that it signifies renewal, which is obvious enough; that it is the triad of human life; that it is the "generative force of the earth... and eternal life." Court de Gebelin makes himself impossible as usual, and points out that if the grave-stones were removed it could be accepted as a symbol of creation.

Card Five

Queen of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a young man.

Card Six

The Lovers from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Lovers or Marriage. This symbol has undergone many variations, as might be expected from its subject. In the eighteenth century form, by which it first became known to the world of archaeological research, it is really a card of married life, shewing father and mother, with their child placed between them; and the pagan Cupid above, in the act of flying his shaft, is, of course, a misapplied emblem. The Cupid is of love beginning rather than of love in its fulness, guarding the fruit thereof. The card is said to have been entitled Simulacyum fidei, the symbol of conjugal faith, for which the rainbow as a sign of the covenant would have been a more appropriate concomitant. The figures are also held to have signified Truth, Honour and Love, but I suspect that this was, so to speak, the gloss of a commentator moralizing. It has these, but it has other and higher aspects.

Card Seven

Ace of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Calamities of all kinds.

Card Eight

King of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor.

Card Nine

Seven of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A dark child.

Card Ten

Wheel of Fortune from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

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 Eleven

Six of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Pleasant memories.

Card Twelve

Ten of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.

Card Thirteen

Eight of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

For a woman, scandal spread in her respect.

Card Fourteen

Six of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Servants may lose the confidence of their masters; a young lady may be betrayed by a friend.

Card Fifteen

Four of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Unexpected good fortune.

Card Sixteen

Strength from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Justice. That the Tarot, though it is of all reasonable antiquity, is not of time immemorial, is shewn by this card, which could have been presented in a much more archaic manner. Those, however, who have gifts of discernment in matters of this kind will not need to be told that age is in no sense of the essence of the consideration; the Rite of Closing the Lodge in the Third Craft Grade of Masonry may belong to the late eighteenth century, but the fact signifies nothing; it is still the summary of all the instituted and official Mysteries. The female figure of the eleventh card is said to be Astraea, who personified the same virtue and is represented by the same symbols. This goddess notwithstanding, and notwithstanding the vulgarian Cupid, the Tarot is not of Roman mythology, or of Greek either. Its presentation of justice is supposed to be one of the four cardinal virtues included in the sequence of Greater Arcana; but, as it so happens, the fourth emblem is wanting, and it became necessary for the commentators to discover it at all costs. They did what it was possible to do, and yet the laws of research have never succeeded in extricating the missing Persephone under the form of Prudence. Court de Gebelin attempted to solve the difficulty by a tour de force, and believed that he had extracted what he wanted from the symbol of the Hanged Man--wherein he deceived himself. The Tarot has, therefore, its justice, its Temperance also and its Fortitude, but--owing to a curious omission--it does not offer us any type of Prudence, though it may be admitted that, in some respects, the isolation of the Hermit, pursuing a solitary path by the light of his own lamp, gives, to those who can receive it, a certain high counsel in respect of the via prudentiae.

Card Seventeen

Page of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child.

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Card Eighteen

Ace of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The most favourable of all cards.

Card Nineteen

Two of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Gifts for a lady, influential protection for a man in search of help.

Card Twenty

Four of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

For a bachelor, pleasant news from a lady.

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