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Tarot Reading What does my future have to hold?

Reading Performed 04/01/2023 at 12:05 AM

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Querent

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

Knight of Wands

Card Meaning When Upright

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Past

What has already occurred; the past.

3 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Discussion

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Moon. Some eighteenth-century cards shew the luminary on its waning side; in the debased edition of Etteilla, it is the moon at night in her plenitude, set in a heaven of stars; of recent years the moon is shewn on the side of her increase. In nearly all presentations she is shining brightly and shedding the moisture of fertilizing dew in great drops. Beneath there are two towers, between which a path winds to the verge of the horizon. Two dogs, or alternatively a wolf and dog, are baying at the moon, and in the foreground there is water, through which a crayfish moves towards the land.

Present

What is occurring now; the present.

16 from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Upright

Opinion

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.

Future

What has not yet occurred; the future.

Eight of Swords from the Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed

Incidents

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Departure of a relative.

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