Queen of Tarot

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Tarot Reading Please show me how Alicia is feeling about me right now.

Reading Performed 11/22/2022 at 11:03 PM

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Querent

The querent is the card that this user felt represented them or their situation best.

King of Swords

Card Meaning When Upright

Judgement and its associations; power, command, authority, military intelligence, law, offices of the state.

Card Description

He sits in judgement, holding the sign of his suit. He recalls the Justice card from the Major Arcana, and he may represent this virtue, but he possesses earthly power over life and death, because he is King.

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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.

Three of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

The end of troubles; adversity, toil and disappointment will pause or stop.

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

A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.

Card Description

A calm, stately figure looks from a cliff's edge at ships passing over the sea. His back is turned. Three staves are planted in the ground, and he leans slightly on one of them.

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 Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; an easy birth; victory, fulfillment, solace, healing.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Unexpected advancement for a military man.

Card Description

Ladies stand in a garden with cups held high, as if making a promise to one another.

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.

Seven of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Money, business, barter.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Improved position for a lady's future husband.

Card Description

A young man leans on his staff, and looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a plant on his right. It looks as if these were his treasures, and as if his heart were there.

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.

The World from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Assured success, compensation, voyage, travel, emigration, fleeing, change of place.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The four living creatures of the Apocalypse and Ezekiel's vision, attributed to the evangelists in Christian symbolism, are grouped about an elliptic garland, as if it were a chain of flowers intended to symbolize all sensible things; within this garland there is the figure of a woman, whom the wind has girt about the loins with a light scarf, and this is all her vesture. She is in the act of dancing, and has a wand in either hand. It is eloquent as an image of the swirl of the sensitive life, of joy attained in the body, of the soul's intoxication in the earthly paradise, but still guarded by the Divine Watchers, as if by the powers and the graces of the Holy Name, Tetragammaton, JVHV--those four ineffable letters which are sometimes attributed to the mystical beasts. Eliphas Levi calls the garland a crown, and reports that the figure represents Truth. Dr. Papus connects it with the Absolute and the realization of the Great Work; for yet others it is a symbol of humanity and the eternal reward of a life that has been spent well. It should be noted that in the four quarters of the garland there are four flowers distinctively marked. According to P. Christian, the garland should be formed of roses, and this is the kind of chain which Eliphas Levi says is less easily broken than a chain of iron. Perhaps by antithesis, but for the same reason, the iron crown of Peter may he more lightly on the heads of sovereign pontiffs than the crown of gold on kings.

Card Description

The four living creatures of the Apocalypse and Ezekiel's vision are grouped around an elliptic garland. They are attributed to the four Gospels in Christian symbolism. Within this garland there is the figure of a woman, whom the wind has clothed with a light scarf, and this is all she wears. She is dancing, with a wand in either hand. It speaks of the swirl of the sensory life, of joy attained in the body, of the soul's intoxication in the earthly paradise. However, she is still guarded by the Divine Watchers. They are the powers and the graces of the Holy Name, Tetragammaton, JVHV. These four ineffable letters are often attributed to the four mystical beasts. This card represents the perfection and end of the Cosmos, the secret within the Cosmos, its rapture when it understands itself in God. This card is further the state of the soul in the awareness of Divine Vision, reflected from the self-aware spirit.

This is Behind You

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

Four of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Suspense, delay, opposition.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Observation, hindrances.

Card Description

A crowned figure with a pentacle over his head clasps another pentacle with his hands and arms. Two pentacles lie beneath his feet. He holds on to what he has.

This is Before You

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

Knight of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Trickery, deception, cunning, swindling, duplicity, fraud.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Irregularity.

Card Description

A graceful but not warlike figure rides quietly. He wears a winged helmet to symbolize the imagination. He is a dreamer, and the images of sensory things haunt him in his vision.

Your Self

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

Nine of Pentacles from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certainty, discernment.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.

Card Description

A woman with a bird on her wrist stands among an abundance of grapevines in the garden of a mansion. Behind her is a wide landscape, suggesting plenty in all things. Possibly, the land is her own possession, and testifies to material well-being.

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.

The Emperor from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Benevolence, compassion, recognition; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.

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

The Emperor, by imputation the spouse of the former. He is occasionally represented as wearing, in addition to his personal insignia, the stars or ribbons of some order of chivalry. I mention this to shew that the cards are a medley of old and new emblems. Those who insist upon the evidence of the one may deal, if they can, with the other. No effectual argument for the antiquity of a particular design can be drawn from the fact that it incorporates old material; but there is also none which can be based on sporadic novelties, the intervention of which may signify only the unintelligent hand of an editor or of a late draughtsman.

Card Description

He has a form of the Crux ansata (like an Ankh) for his scepter and a globe in his left hand. He is a crowned monarch—commanding, stately, seated on a throne. The arms of his throne have rams' heads on the front. He is execution and realization, the power of this world, clothed with the highest of its natural attributes. He is the virile power to which the Empress responds, and in this sense, he is the one who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains a virgin.

Your Hopes and Fears

Five of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Imitation, as in a pretend fight, but also the battle of life—strenuous competition and the struggle of the search for riches and fortune. Thus, possibly a card of gold, gain, luxury.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Success in financial speculation.

Card Description

A group of youths brandish staves, as if in sport. They play at mock warfare, and the divinatory meanings match this.

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.

Queen of Wands from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Good, economical, obliging, serviceable; depending on other cards, may also indicate opposition, jealousy, even deceit and infidelity.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Goodwill towards the Querent, but without the opportunity to exercise it.

Card Description

Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality is dark, charismatic, magnetic.

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