{"collection":"Tarot","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0101_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0101_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE pathology of the poet says that \"the undevout astronomer is mad\"; the pathology of the very plain man says that genius is mad; and between these extremes, which stand for ten thousand analogous excesses, the sovereign reason takes the part of a moderator and does what it can. I do not think that there is a pathology of the occult dedications, but about their extravagances no one can question, and it is not less difficult than thankless to act as a moderator regarding them. Moreover, the\u2026","title":"1.1 The Veil and its Symbols, Introduction","word_count":1599},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0103_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0103_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The resources of interpretation have been lavished, if not exhausted, on the twenty-two Trumps Major, the symbolism of which is unquestionable. There remain the four suits, being Wands or Sceptres--ex hypothesi, in the arch\u00e6ology of the subject, the antecedents of Diamonds in modern cards: Cups, corresponding to Hearts; Swords, which answer to Clubs, as the weapon of chivalry is in relation to the peasant's quarter-staff or the Alsatian bludgeon; and, finally, Pentacles--called also Deniers and\u2026","title":"1.3 Class II. The Four Suites","word_count":300},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0202_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0202_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"2.2. The Trumps Major and Inner Symbolism","word_count":82},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0203_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0203_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"There has been no attempt in the previous tabulation to present the symbolism in what is called the three worlds--that of Divinity, of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. A large volume would be required for developments of this kind. I have taken the cards on the high plane of their more direct significance to man, who--in material life--is on the quest of eternal things.","title":"2.3 Conclusion as to the Greater Keys","word_count":309},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0301_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0301_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IN respect of their usual presentation, the bridge between the Greater and Lesser Arcana is supplied by the court cards--King, Queen, Knight and Squire or Page; but their utter distinction from the Trumps Major is shewn by their conventional character. Let the reader compare them with symbols like the Fool, the High Priestess, the Hierophant, or--almost without exception--with any in the previous sequence, and he will discern my meaning. There is no especial idea connected on the surface with\u2026","title":"3.1 Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana","word_count":818},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0303_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0303_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1. THE MAGICIAN.--Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will; the Querent, if male. Reversed: Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.","title":"3.3 The Greater Arcana and their Divinatory Meanings","word_count":587},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0304_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0304_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WANDS. King.--Generally favourable may signify a good marriage. Reversed: Advice that should be followed.","title":"3.4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana","word_count":1002},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0305_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0305_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"3.5 The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing","word_count":367},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0306_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0306_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"We come now to the final and practical part of this division of our subject, being the way to consult and obtain oracles by means of Tarot cards. The modes of operation are rather numerous, and some of them are exceedingly involved. I set aside those last mentioned, because persons who are versed in such questions believe that the way of simplicity is the way of truth.","title":"3.6 The Art of Tarot Divination","word_count":184},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0307_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0307_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This mode of divination is the most suitable for obtaining an answer to a definite question. The Diviner first selects a card to represent the person or, matter about which inquiry is made. This card is called the Significator.","title":"3.7 An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination","word_count":1229},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0308_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0308_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Shuffle the entire pack and turn some of the cards round, so as to invert their tops. Let them be cut by the Querent with his left hand. Deal out the first forty-two cards in six packets of seven cards each, face upwards, so that the first seven cards form the first packet, the following seven the second, and so on-as in the following diagram:--\nTake up the first packet; lay out the cards on the table in a row, from right to left; place the cards of the second packet upon them and then the\u2026","title":"3.8 An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards","word_count":891},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0309_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pkt0309_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"When the reading is over, according to the scheme set forth in the last method, it may happen-as in the previous case-that something remains doubtful, or it may be desired to carry the question further, which is done as follows:--\nTake up the undealt cards which remain over, not having been used in the first operation with 42 cards. The latter are set aside in a heap, with the Querent, face upwards, on the top. The thirty-five cards, being shuffled and cut as before, are divided by dealing into\u2026","title":"3.9 The Method of Reading by Means of Thirty-Five Cards","word_count":589},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcuac_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcuac_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana. Divinatory Meanings: House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.","title":"Ace of Cups","word_count":91},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpeac_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpeac_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A hand--issuing, as usual, from a cloud--holds up a pentacle. Divinatory Meanings: Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold. Reversed: The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence; also great riches.","title":"Ace of Pentacles","word_count":59},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktswac_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktswac_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown. Divinatory Meanings: Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred.","title":"Ace of Swords","word_count":74},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwaac_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwaac_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club. Divinatory Meanings: 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; the starting point of enterprises; according to another account, money, fortune, inheritance. Reversed: Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish also a certain clouded joy.","title":"Ace of Wands","word_count":63},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcu08_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcu08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous concern. Divinatory Meanings: The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical--giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In practice, it is usually found that the card shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence--either for good or evil.","title":"Eight of Cups","word_count":78},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpe08_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpe08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies. Divinatory Meanings: Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage. Reversed: Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury.","title":"Eight of Pentacles","word_count":58},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktsw08_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktsw08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage. Divinatory Meanings: Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.","title":"Eight of Swords","word_count":51},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwa08_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwa08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The card represents motion through the immovable-a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even on the threshold. Divinatory Meanings: 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 assured felicity; generally, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.","title":"Eight of Wands","word_count":96},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcu05_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcu05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to a small keep or holding. Divanatory Meanings: It is a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration. Reversed: News, alliances, affinity\u2026","title":"Five of Cups","word_count":86},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpe05_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpe05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement. Divinatory Meanings: The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated--that is, destitution--or otherwise. For some cartomancists, it is a card of love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities.","title":"Five of Pentacles","word_count":54},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktsw05_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktsw05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A disdainful man looks after two retreating and dejected figures. Their swords lie upon the ground. He carries two others on his left shoulder, and a third sword is in his right hand, point to earth.","title":"Five of Swords","word_count":66},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwa05_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwa05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the Divinatory Meanings: 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 with the battle of life.","title":"Five of Wands","word_count":72},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_index_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| | Fortune-Telling by Cards by P.R.S. Foli [1915] | \nThis is a short book on telling fortunes, primarily with a standard deck of playing cards. There is a short two-chapter section at the end about the Tarot.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards Index","word_count":59},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc03_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Where do they come from?\u2014The Romany Folk\u2014Were they made in Europe?\u2014Suits and signs\u2014The power of cards\u2014Their charm and interest\u2014Necessity for sympathy\u2014Value of Cartomancy. WHEN we take up an ordinary pack of cards to deal them out for a rubber, or to lay them down in the careful deliberation of Patience, or when we watch them being used as the inexplicable instruments of a something that, with a feeling akin to superstitious dread, we prefer to call coincidence, we do not often stop to think of\u2026","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter I","word_count":1769},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc04_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Two systems\u2014The English method\u2014The foreign\u2014Significations of the cards\u2014Hearts\u2014Diamonds\u2014Clubs\u2014Spades\u2014A short table\u2014Mystic meanings. THERE are two separate systems of explaining the cards individually: one which makes use of the whole pack of fifty-two cards, and another which only employs thirty-two, throwing out the plain cards under seven of each suit. The former plan is sometimes spoken of as the English method, and in it we do not find mention of reversed cards bearing a different meaning\u2026","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter II","word_count":1456},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc05_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Reduced pack generally used\u2014How to indicate reversed cards\u2014Meaning of Hearts\u2014Diamonds\u2014Clubs\u2014Spades. THE practice of using only thirty-two cards in telling fortune is very general, especially in those systems which have been adopted from or based upon a foreign source. We here give the definitions used in these methods, as they differ in certain respects from those given with the entire pack of fifty-two cards.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter III. The Selected Pack ...","word_count":616},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc06_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Combinations of court cards\u2014Combinations of plain cards\u2014Various cards read together\u2014General meaning of the several suits\u2014Some lesser points to notice. Four Aces.\u2014When these fall together they imply danger, financial loss, separation from friends, love troubles, and, under some conditions, imprisonment. The evil is mitigated in proportion to the number of them that are reversed.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter IV. The Signification o...","word_count":1395},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc11_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"French system\u2014The reading\u2014An example. TAKE the pack of thirty-two cards, shuffle them thoroughly, then cut them in the usual way and deal them out in two packs of sixteen cards each. The inquirer must choose one of the packs and the first card is placed apart to supply the surprise.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter IX. A French Method","word_count":638},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc07_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"What the Cards can Tell of the Past, the Present, and the Future A simple method\u2014What the cards say\u2014The present\u2014The future. THERE is a very simple and generally accepted method of studying the past, the present, and the future in the light of cartomancy. The selected pack of thirty-two cards is required, and they must be shuffled and cut in the ordinary way.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter V. What the Cards can Tell of the Past, the Present, and the Future","word_count":949},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc08_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A reduced pack\u2014An example\u2014The three packs\u2014The surprise. THIS method requires a pack of thirty-two cards, although only twenty-one of them are actually used in the process. The whole pack must be well shuffled and cut with the left hand.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter VI. Your Fortune in Twe...","word_count":1500},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc09_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A method with selected cards\u2014General rules\u2014How to proceed\u2014Reading of the cards\u2014Signification of cards\u2014Some combinations\u2014A typical example\u2014Further inquiries\u2014The seven packs. THIS method is very simple, and as it takes but a short time, is more suitable when there are many fortunes to read. A little practice will soon enable a would-be cartomancer to construe the various combinations, as there are so few cards to remember.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter VII. Combination of Sevens","word_count":2559},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc10_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"General outline\u2014Signification of cards\u2014How to consult the cards\u2014An illustration\u2014Its reading. HERE again the pack of thirty-two cards is used, the cards from two to six inclusively being discarded, as in \"The Combination of Sevens.\"\nThe general meaning pertaining to each suit is as follows: The court cards bear the signification of people, and the king, queen, and knave in each suit suggest relationship. The kings indicate the profession followed.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter VIII. Another Method","word_count":1150},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc12_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The number of cards may vary\u2014The method\u2014The reading in pairs\u2014Diagram of the Grand Star\u2014An example. THERE are various ways of telling fortunes with cards arranged in the form of a star, and whichever of these may be preferred, it will always be found necessary to use an uneven number of cards in addition to the one representing the inquirer. Some stars are done with thirteen cards, some with fifteen, and so on, but the real Grand Star must have twenty-one cards placed round the representative\u2026","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter X. The Grand Star","word_count":910},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc13_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"How to answer them\u2014Specimen questions\u2014Cupid and Venus at work. WHEN an answer to an important question is required, and the inquirer wishes to consult the cards on the subject, the following simple method may be adopted. Let the question be asked by the inquirer, then let the dealer take the pack of thirty-two cards, which must be shuffled and cut in the usual manner.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XI. Important Questions","word_count":1739},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc14_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Italian method\u2014An example\u2014Notice the groups\u2014How the pairs work out\u2014The five packs. ONLY thirty-two cards are used for the Italian method of fortune-telling, all the numbers under seven, except the ace, being taken out of each suit. This reduced pack\u2014containing the ace, king, queen, knave, ten, nine, eight, and seven of the four suits\u2014must be carefully shuffled and cut, with the left hand of course, by the inquirer.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XII. How They Tell Fort...","word_count":1600},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc15_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Knowledge is power\u2014Four twos added to the usual pack\u2014The thirty-six squares and their significance\u2014Tendencies of the suits. WE have here a detailed and exhaustive method by which the cards can be read. The beginner may feel somewhat alarmed at the mass of explanatory matter there is for him to study, but when once the information has been acquired, the would-be cartomancer will find he possesses a sense of power and comprehension, that will give both confidence and dexterity to his attempts to\u2026","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XIII. The Master Method","word_count":3237},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc16_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Court cards\u2014Plain cards\u2014An example of the Master Method. THE King of Hearts.\u2014In this method he represents a married man or a widower. Should the inquirer be a woman, and this card fall upon either of the squares, 14, 22, 23, 24, or 32, he then denotes a lover.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XIV. Signification of S...","word_count":3121},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc21_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Major Arcana\u2014The Minor Arcana\u2014General rules\u2014The second deal\u2014The third deal or great figure\u2014The fourth deal. THE Tarot pack is divided into two parts, called the major and minor arcana, the first consisting of twenty-two cards and the latter of fifty-six, which are again divided into four suits. We will take first the major arcana, and here we are confronted by some curious figures, each bearing a distinct meaning, typical of man himself and his moral and material life.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XIX. Etteilla's Method","word_count":1433},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc17_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE fifty-two cards must be shuffled and cut into three packs by the person who wishes to have his or her fortune told, and the fortune-teller must be careful to note what cards appear as the various packs are turned face upwards, as this will be found to assist the reading. The card representing the inquirer must first be selected according to the rules given in Chapter VII; it is not to be withdrawn, but shuffled and cut with the pack. Then lay the cards nine in a row, beginning from right to\u2026","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XV. Combination of Nines","word_count":1227},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc18_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The wish with fifteen cards\u2014Another way\u2014The wish with thirty-two cards\u2014What the four aces tell\u2014The wish in seven packs\u2014The wish card again. HAVING shuffled the cards well, select according to the second method the card which will represent the inquirer\u2014a king for a man, a queen for a woman\u2014and place this card on the table; then request your subject to wish for some one thing whilst he or she is shuffling the pack (which must only include the selected thirty-two cards). The pack must be cut once.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XVI. Your Heart's Desire","word_count":1110},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc19_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Diamonds\u2014Hearts\u2014Spades\u2014Clubs. THERE are those to whom the more elaborate forms of fortune-telling by cards may seem a trifle wearisome, or possibly too intricate to be followed without a somewhat exhausting effort of attention. The method which we give in this chapter has the advantage of being at once simple, diverting, and varied.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XVII. A Rhyming Divination","word_count":1670},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc20_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc20_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Derivation of name\u2014Remote origin\u2014The great Etteilla. THESE immediate predecessors of our own playing cards were primarily used for divination, and are supposed to have been the invention of one Jacques Gringonneur, an astrologer and cabalist, who was probably of Jewish extraction, as the Tarot packs extant in Europe are of an Israelitish character. Various derivations are given of the name.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter XVIII. The Tarots","word_count":939},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc02_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"THIS goddess Fortune frustrates, single-handed, the plans of a hundred learned men.\" In this saying the Latin author has given us the key to all the restless striving to search out the Unknown and the Unknowable which marks our own age, just as it has marked previous periods in history which we are apt to look back upon as being but little removed from the dark ages. Of all the methods by which men and women seek to penetrate into the mysteries of Fate and Futurity, Cartomancy is one that can\u2026","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Introduction","word_count":503},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc00_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_ftc_ftc00_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Fortune-Telling by Cards\nScanned, July 2007. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to January 1st, 1923.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Title Page","word_count":81},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcu04_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktcu04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with his environment. Divinatory Meanings: Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he sees no consolation therein.","title":"Four of Cups","word_count":89},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpe04_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktpe04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A crowned figure, having a pentacle over his crown, clasps another with hands and arms; two pentacles are under his feet. He holds to that which he has. Divinatory Meanings: The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.","title":"Four of Pentacles","word_count":47},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktsw04_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktsw04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb. Divinatory Meanings: Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design.","title":"Four of Swords","word_count":44},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwa04_htm","collection":"Tarot","id":"sacred_texts_v1_tarot_pktwa04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"From the four great staves planted in the foreground there is a great garland suspended; two female figures uplift nosegays; at their side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old manorial house. Divinatory Meanings: 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 the perfected work of these. Reversed: The meaning remains unaltered; it is prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty\u2026","title":"Four of Wands","word_count":77}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":426}