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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 […]
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The Lovers
Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome. Reversed – failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds.
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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 […]
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Knight of Cups
Arrival, approach–sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement. Reversed – trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
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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, […]
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The Hanged Man
Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. Reversed – selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
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Five of Swords
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these. Reversed – the same; burial and obsequies.
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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.
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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 […]
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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, […]
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Nine of Cups
Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is made. Reversed – truth, loyalty, liberty; […]
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Knight of Swords
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 […]
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Page of Pentacles
Application, study, scholarship, reflection, another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management. Reversed – prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.
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Eight of Pentacles
Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage. Reversed – voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also […]
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Six of Wands
The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great […]
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Four of Pentacles
The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance. Reversed – suspense, delay, opposition.
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Three of Cups
The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing. Reversed – expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also […]
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Page of Wands
Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman. Beside a man, he will bear favourable testimony concerning him. A dangerous rival, if followed […]
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Ace of Pentacles
Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold. Reversed – the evil side of wealth, bad intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shews […]
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Three of Pentacles
Métier, trade, skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory. Reversed – mediocrity, in work and otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
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Nine of Wands
The card signifies strength in opposition. If attacked, the person will meet an onslaught boldly; and his build shews, that he may prove a formidable […]
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Ace of Wands
Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; […]
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Wheel of Fortune
Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity. Reversed – increase, abundance, superfluity.
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Queen of Wands
Dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman, she […]
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Nine of Swords
Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair. Reversed – imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
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Queen of Cups
Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness, pleasure; also […]
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The Hermit
Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption. Reversed – concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
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Ace of Swords
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 […]
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Four of Wands
They are for once almost on the surface – country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and […]
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Three of Wands
A calm, stately personage, with his back turned, looking from a cliff’s edge at ships passing over the sea. Three staves are planted in the […]
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Ten of Cups
Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who […]
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Seven of Wands
It is a card of valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position. On the intellectual plane, it […]
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Knight of Pentacles
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 […]
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Temperance
Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation. Reversed – things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood, sometimes even the priest who will marry the Querent; also […]
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Ace of Cups
House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof. Reversed – house of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
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Eight of Swords
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness. Reversed – disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
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The Chariot
Succour, providence also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble. Reversed – riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
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Five of Wands
Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects […]
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Queen of Pentacles
Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty. Reversed – evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
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Two of Pentacles
On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it […]
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Page of Swords
Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities thereto belonging. Reversed – more evil side of these qualities; what is unforeseen, unprepared state; […]
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Six of Pentacles
Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc. Reversed – desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
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Six of Cups
A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as – for example – on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; […]
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Ten of Wands
A card of many significances, and some of the readings cannot be harmonised. I set aside that which connects it with honour and good faith. […]
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Three of Swords
Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration. Reversed – […]
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The Empress
Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance. Reversed – light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according […]
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Two of Cups
And today we have the Two of Cups. As usual, I give Waite’s vision of the card, ie: Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, […]
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Five of Cups
Today’s card is the Five of Cups. As usual, we’ll start with Waite’s view on the card: It is a card of loss, but something […]
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Seven of Cups
And today, we have the Seven of Cups. Waite’s interpretation of this card is: Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the […]
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The High Priestess
Today’s card is The High Priestess. Waite’s descriptions for this card are: Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, […]
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Ten of Swords
And today, we have the Ten of Swords. Waite’s interpretation of this card is: Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, […]
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King of Swords
And today we have the King of Swords. As usual, I’ll give Waite’s representation of the card, being: Whatsoever arises out of the idea of […]
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Four of Cups
And today’s card is the Four of Cups. A bit how I’m feeling today. Waite gives this card’s description as: Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as […]
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Four of Swords
So, today, we have the Four of Swords. Waite gives this card the following meanings: Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It […]
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The Emperor
Today’s card is the fourth card in the major arcana, The Emperor. Waite gives us these meanings for this card: Stability, power, protection, realisation; a great […]
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Nine of Pentacles
Today’s card is the Nine of Pentacles. As usual, I will give you Waite’s interpretation, being: Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment. Reversed – roguery, deception, […]
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The Magician
And today’s card is The Magician. How fitting for early on a Monday morning (I’ll explain below). Waite gives the following in relation to his […]
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Page of Cups
Today I drew the Page of Cups. Waite ascribes the following meanings to this card: Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom […]
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Knight of Wands
Today’s card is the Knight of Wands. As usual, I’ll give Waite’s interpretation of the card, which is: Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, […]
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Two of Swords
And today’s card is the Two of Swords. I’ll start with Waite’s description of the card, which is: Conformity and the equipoise which it suggests, courage, […]
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Five of Pentacles
This morning we have the Five of Pentacles. As you can see, the card does not depict a happy scene, with two bedraggled figures outside […]
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Ten of Pentacles
The Ten of Pentacles is a hard card to read. Full of complexity. Waite gives this card the following meanings: Gain, riches; family matters, archives, […]
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The Hierophant
Today we have The Hierophant. Waite gives us these meanings in relation to this card: Marriage alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness; […]
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King of Cups
Today’s card is the King of Cups. All of the court cards in the suit of cups, in my mind, reflect some form of dysfunctionality. […]
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Queen of Swords
Waite denotes the Queen of Swords as: Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation. Reversed – A bad woman; malice, bigotry, artifice, […]
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Eight of Cups
Waite’s direction for the Eight of Cups is: The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical, giving joy, mildness. […]
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Two of Wands
Waite’s description of the Two of Wands is thus: Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible: on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; […]
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0 – The Fool
So, where do we start with The Fool? Is he a fool, or simply someone who is stepping into a new adventure? Waite gives the […]