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.

Ten of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

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

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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.

Nine of Wands from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Delay

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Generally speaking, a bad card.

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 Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Profits

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

An useful man; useful discoveries.

It shows the foundation or basis of the matter, that which has already passed into actuality and which the Significator has made his own.

8 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Progress

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)

The High Priestess, the Pope Joan, or Female Pontiff; early expositors have sought to term this card the Mother, or Pope's Wife, which is opposed to the symbolism. It is sometimes held to represent the Divine Law and the Gnosis, in which case the Priestess corresponds to the idea of the Shekinah. She is the Secret Tradition and the higher sense of the instituted Mysteries.

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

Eight of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Happiness

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Perfect satisfaction.

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

15 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Sorrow

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Magus, Magician, or juggler, the caster of the dice and mountebank, in the world of vulgar trickery. This is the colportage interpretation, and it has the same correspondence with the real symbolical meaning that the use of the Tarot in fortune-telling has with its mystic construction according to the secret science of symbolism. I should add that many independent students of the subject, following their own lights, have produced individual sequences of meaning in respect of the Trumps Major, and their lights are sometimes suggestive, but they are not the true lights. For example, Eliphas Levi says that the Magus signifies that unity which is the mother of numbers; others say that it is the Divine Unity; and one of the latest French commentators considers that in its general sense it is the will.

Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.

King of Coins from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Businessman

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

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

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.

Nine of Cups from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Business Success

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Good business.

The culmination which is brought about by the influences shewn by the other cards that have been turned up in the divination.

21 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

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Law Suit

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Chariot. This is represented in some extant codices as being drawn by two sphinxes, and the device is in consonance with the symbolism, but it must not be supposed that such was its original form; the variation was invented to support a particular historical hypothesis. In the eighteenth century white horses were yoked to the car. As regards its usual name, the lesser stands for the greater; it is really the King in his triumph, typifying, however, the victory which creates kingship as its natural consequence and not the vested royalty of the fourth card. M. Court de Gebelin said that it was Osiris Triumphing, the conquering sun in spring-time having vanquished the obstacles of winter. We know now that Osiris rising from the dead is not represented by such obvious symbolism. Other animals than horses have also been used to draw the currus triumphalis, as, for example, a lion and a leopard.