King of Wands
Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty, and may mean news concerning an unexpected heritage to fall in […]
Rider Waite Smith
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Posts by Rider Waite Smith:
The Lovers
Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome. Reversed – failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds.
Seven of Swords
Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import, because the significations are widely […]
Knight of Cups
Arrival, approach–sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement. Reversed – trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
King of Pentacles
Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths. Reversed – vice, weakness, ugliness, […]
The Hanged Man
Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. Reversed – selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Five of Swords
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these. Reversed – the same; burial and obsequies.
Six of Swords
Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient. Reversed – declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love.
Eight of Wands
Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, as that of an express messenger; great haste, great hope, speed towards an end which promises […]
Seven of Pentacles
These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels – and another innocence, […]