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Reading Performed 11/27/2023 at 7:55 PM

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Querent

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

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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards

Card One

Seven of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement.

Card Two

Seven of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A dark child.

Card Three

Knight of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Dispute with an imbecile person; for a woman, struggle with a rival, who will be conquered.

Card Four

King of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A lawyer, senator, doctor.

Card Five

Page of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Good augury; also a young man who is unfortunate in love.

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Card Six

Page of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage.

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Card Seven

Eight of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.

Card Eight

Knight of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A brave man out of employment.

Card Nine

Ten of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

For a male Querent, a good marriage and one beyond his expectations.

Card Ten

The Papess from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

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.

Card Eleven

The Magician from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

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

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.

Card Twelve

The Sun from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Sun. The luminary is distinguished in older cards by chief rays that are waved and salient alternately and by secondary salient rays. It appears to shed its influence on earth not only by light and heat, but--like the moon--by drops of dew. Court de Gebelin termed these tears of gold and of pearl, just as he identified the lunar dew with the tears of Isis. Beneath the dog-star there is a wall suggesting an enclosure-as it might be, a walled garden-wherein are two children, either naked or lightly clothed, facing a water, and gambolling, or running hand in hand. Eliphas Levi says that these are sometimes replaced by a spinner unwinding destinies, and otherwise by a much better symbol-a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard.

Card Thirteen

Knight of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.

Card Fourteen

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 Fifteen

Nine of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Good business.

Card Sixteen

Nine of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Generally speaking, a bad card.

Card Seventeen

Five of Cups from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.

Card Eighteen

The Devil from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Devil. In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been rather a symbol of merely animal impudicity. Except for a fantastic head-dress, the chief figure is entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the hands and feet are represented by the claws of a bird. In the right hand there is a sceptre terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire. The figure as a whole is not particularly evil; it has no tail, and the commentators who have said that the claws are those of a harpy have spoken at random. There is no better ground for the alternative suggestion that they are eagle's claws. Attached, by a cord depending from their collars, to the pedestal on which the figure is mounted, are two small demons, presumably male and female. These are tailed, but not winged. Since 1856 the influence of Eliphas Levi and his doctrine of occultism has changed the face of this card, and it now appears as a pseudo-Baphometic figure with the head of a goat and a great torch between the horns; it is seated instead of erect, and in place of the generative organs there is the Hermetic caduceus. In Le Tarot Divinatoire of Papus the small demons are replaced by naked human beings, male and female who are yoked only to each other. The author may be felicitated on this improved symbolism.

Card Nineteen

Two of Coins from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

Card Meaning When Reversed
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Bad omen, ignorance, injustice.

Card Twenty

Three of Clubs from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

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

A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.

Card Twenty One

Temperance from the Marseilles Pattern Tarot Deck

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

Temperance. The winged figure of a female--who, in opposition to all doctrine concerning the hierarchy of angels, is usually allocated to this order of ministering spirits--is pouring liquid from one pitcher to another. In his last work on the Tarot, Dr. Papus abandons the traditional form and depicts a woman wearing an Egyptian head-dress. The first thing which seems clear on the surface is that the entire symbol has no especial connexion with Temperance, and the fact that this designation has always obtained for the card offers a very obvious instance of a meaning behind meaning, which is the title in chief to consideration in respect of the Tarot as a whole.

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