Tarot Reading Poirier vs McGregor
Reading Performed 07/10/2021 at 5:48 AM
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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.
The Sun from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
The same in a lesser sense.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
These in a minor degree.
Card Description
The naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a red standard has been mentioned already as the better symbolism connected with this card. It is the destiny of the Supernatural East and the great and holy light which goes before the endless procession of humanity, coming out from the walled garden of the sensitive life and passing on the journey home. The card signifies, therefore, the transit from the manifest light of this world, represented by the glorious sun of earth, to the light of the world to come, which goes before aspiration and is typified by the heart of a child. But the last allusion is again the key to a different form or aspect of the symbolism. The sun is that of consciousness in the spirit - the direct as the antithesis of the reflected light. The characteristic type of humanity has become a little child therein--a child in the sense of simplicity and innocence in the sense of wisdom. In that simplicity, he bears the seal of Nature and of Art; in that innocence, he signifies the restored world. When the self-knowing spirit has dawned in the consciousness above the natural mind, that mind in its renewal leads forth the animal nature in a state of perfect conformity.
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.
Three of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Error, Confusion, Misrule, Disorder.
Card Description
Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind.
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.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
A Soldier, a man whose profession is arms, Skilfulness, Capacity, Address, Promptitude
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.
Four of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Economy, Precaution, Regulation of Expenditure.
Card Description
The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
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.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Triumph, Fecundity, Fertility, Prosperity
Card Description
A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
Page of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
A Flatterer, Deception, Artifice.
Card Description
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form.
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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.
The Hanged Man from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound
Card Description
The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure--from the position of the legs--forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. It is a card of profound significance, but all the significance is veiled. One of his editors suggests that Eliphas Levi did not know the meaning, which is unquestionable nor did the editor himself. It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a card of the Great Work, a card of duty; but we may exhaust all published interpretations and find only vanity. I will say very simply on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the Universe. He who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection.
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.
Ace of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish also a certain clouded joy.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Persecution, Pursuits Voilence, Vexation, Cruelty, Tyranny.
Card Description
A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.
Your Hopes and Fears
Two of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Letter, Missive, Epistle, Message.
Card Description
A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed.
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.
Death from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Death, Change, Transformation, Alteration for the worse
Card Description
The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in change, transformation and passage from lower to higher, and this is more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by the crude notion of the reaping skeleton. Behind it lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. The mysterious horseman moves slowly, bearing a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which signifies life. Between two pillars on the verge of the horizon there shines the sun of immortality. The horseman carries no visible weapon, but king and child and maiden fall before him, while a prelate with clasped hands awaits his end. There should be no need to point out that the suggestion of death which I have made in connection with the previous card is, of course, to be understood mystically, but this is not the case in the present instance. The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate. The existing occult explanations of the 13th card are, on the whole, better than usual, rebirth, creation, destination, renewal, and the rest.
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.
The Sun from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
The same in a lesser sense.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
These in a minor degree.
Card Description
The naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a red standard has been mentioned already as the better symbolism connected with this card. It is the destiny of the Supernatural East and the great and holy light which goes before the endless procession of humanity, coming out from the walled garden of the sensitive life and passing on the journey home. The card signifies, therefore, the transit from the manifest light of this world, represented by the glorious sun of earth, to the light of the world to come, which goes before aspiration and is typified by the heart of a child. But the last allusion is again the key to a different form or aspect of the symbolism. The sun is that of consciousness in the spirit - the direct as the antithesis of the reflected light. The characteristic type of humanity has become a little child therein--a child in the sense of simplicity and innocence in the sense of wisdom. In that simplicity, he bears the seal of Nature and of Art; in that innocence, he signifies the restored world. When the self-knowing spirit has dawned in the consciousness above the natural mind, that mind in its renewal leads forth the animal nature in a state of perfect conformity.
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.
Three of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Error, Confusion, Misrule, Disorder.
Card Description
Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind.
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.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
A Soldier, a man whose profession is arms, Skilfulness, Capacity, Address, Promptitude
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.
Four of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Economy, Precaution, Regulation of Expenditure.
Card Description
The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
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.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Triumph, Fecundity, Fertility, Prosperity
Card Description
A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
Page of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
A Flatterer, Deception, Artifice.
Card Description
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form.
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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.
The Hanged Man from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound
Card Description
The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure--from the position of the legs--forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. It is a card of profound significance, but all the significance is veiled. One of his editors suggests that Eliphas Levi did not know the meaning, which is unquestionable nor did the editor himself. It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a card of the Great Work, a card of duty; but we may exhaust all published interpretations and find only vanity. I will say very simply on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the Universe. He who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection.
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.
Ace of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish also a certain clouded joy.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Persecution, Pursuits Voilence, Vexation, Cruelty, Tyranny.
Card Description
A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.
Your Hopes and Fears
Two of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Letter, Missive, Epistle, Message.
Card Description
A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed.
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.
Death from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Death, Change, Transformation, Alteration for the worse
Card Description
The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in change, transformation and passage from lower to higher, and this is more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by the crude notion of the reaping skeleton. Behind it lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. The mysterious horseman moves slowly, bearing a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which signifies life. Between two pillars on the verge of the horizon there shines the sun of immortality. The horseman carries no visible weapon, but king and child and maiden fall before him, while a prelate with clasped hands awaits his end. There should be no need to point out that the suggestion of death which I have made in connection with the previous card is, of course, to be understood mystically, but this is not the case in the present instance. The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate. The existing occult explanations of the 13th card are, on the whole, better than usual, rebirth, creation, destination, renewal, and the rest.
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