Tarot

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• General Book of the Tarot Index

  | | General Book of the Tarot by A.E. Thierens [1930] | There have been numerous attempts to construct systems of correspondence between…

• General Book of the Tarot: Contents
• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Ace of Cups

  TRADITION: Table, first as the symbol of the bearer of food, alimentation, etc., then also as 'table of the law'; catalogue, tabulation…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Eight of Cups

  TRADITION: Fair girl, honest, practical girl, honour, modesty, timidity, fear, sweetness, mildness. [paragraph continues] Reversed…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Five of Cups

  TRADITION: Inheritance, legacy, succession, gift, testament, transmission, tradition; all of them "not corresponding to expectations; with…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Four of Cups

  TRADITION: Annoyance, aversion, disgust, affliction, discontent (with his environment), satiety; blended pleasure. Reversed: News, presage…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: King of Cups

  TRADITION: Fair and honest man; man of business, law or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige the querent; probity, equity, art and…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Knight of Cups

  TRADITION: "The higher graces of the imagination" (W.). Arrival, approach, advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Nine of Cups

  TRADITION: Victory, success, advantage, gain, triumph, superiority, etc. "The heart's content." (W.) Reversed, the card seems even better…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Page of Cups

  TRADITION: Fair young man, studious. Work, application, reflexion, occupation, observation. Profession, employment.

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Queen of Cups

  TRADITION: Fair woman, good honest and devoted; virtuous and one who will do service to the querent; another version says: "Loving…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Seven of Cups

  TRADITION: Thought, soul, spirit, intelligence, idea, memory, imagination, conception, meditation, contemplation, reflexion, deliberation…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Six of Cups

  TRADITION: The past, memories, looking back. Antiquity, ancient things, etc. Reversed: Afterwards, regeneration, resurrection, renovation…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Ten of Cups

  TRADITION: The town, native land, living place, residence; also citizen(ship). Reversed: Agitation, irritation, indignation, anger. Another…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Three of Cups

  TRADITION: Success, happy issue, lucky solution, victory, accomplishment, cure, healing, fulfilment. Matter in plenty, perfection…

• General Book of the Tarot: Cups: Two of Cups

  TRADITION: Love, passion, inclination, sympathy, attraction, concord, friendship, the inter-relation of the sexes; Reversed: Lust…

• General Book of the Tarot: Epilogue

  E offer the descriptions in this work with the most humble reserve as regards completeness. We are fully aware, that on these lines the…

• General Book of the Tarot: I. The Doctrine: The Doctrine

  A booklet by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, an author well known for his works on subjects relating to the Kabbalah, quotes J.

• General Book of the Tarot: I. The Doctrine: The Greater Arcana

  In the Greater Arcana competent authors on the subject have rightly seen a system of rendering or symbolising the great cosmic principles…

• General Book of the Tarot: I. The Doctrine: The Lesser Ar...

  The pack of cards of the Lesser Arcana has been generally acknowledged as the origin of our ordinary playing-cards, though subsequent…

• General Book of the Tarot: I. The Doctrine: The Method of Divination

  In the same way as the Chinese Book I-Ging originally was edited or taught as a book of wisdom and insight into universal principles and…

• General Book of the Tarot: Introduction

  De Gebelin was a man of learning at his own period and remained within the circle of facts, actual or supposed, as he saw and read them…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Ace of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Perfect contentment, felicity, happiness, ecstasy, perfect joy, perfect remedy, fulfilment of what has been asked in prayer…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Eight of Pentacles

  TRADITION: A dark girl, honest girl. Reversed: usury, voided ambitions, vanity, cupidity, avarice. W.

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Five of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Lover, mistress, also husband and wife, friend, beloved person. Accord, convenience, well-being, affinity. Reversed they give…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Four of Pentacles

  TRADITION: A present, gratification, gift, inheritance, legacy; liberality, generosity, offerings, etc. "The surety of possessions…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: King of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Dark man, banker, trader, speculator, mathematician, master, professor. Success in mathematics and science in general. Reversed…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Knight of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Utility, advantage, serviceableness, profit, interest, gain, importance, necessity. Reversed it is said to give: Repose…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Nine of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Effect, realisation, accomplishment; positive certain fulfilment of what is presaged by the neighbouring cards, succeeding…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Page of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Dark young man, disciple, student, speculator, commercial man. Application, scholarship, study, reflexion, meditation…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Queen of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Dark woman, who suggests "the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence." (W.) Opulence, riches…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Seven of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Money, riches, sums of money, also silver especially. Has to do with the moon and whiteness. Candour, innocence, purgation…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Six of Pentacles

  TRADITION: The present, the actual moment, to-day; a witness, contemporary, attention, good care, vigilance. Presents, gifts…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Ten of Pentacles

  TRADITION: The house and the household, economy, gain, riches, family matters, archives. Building --a castle as well as a hut--vessel…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Three of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Nobility, noblesse, good and generous action, aristocracy, fame, glory, splendour, etc. Consideration, generous action. The…

• General Book of the Tarot: Pentacles: Two of Pentacles

  TRADITION: Embarrassment, obstacles, obstruction, emotion, confusion, difficulty, hindrance, unrest, etc. Reversed it is given as message…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Ace of Swords

  TRADITION: The extreme or excessive, triumph, force. "It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred." (W.) Vehemence, fury…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Eight of Swords

  TRADITION: Critical position, censure, crisis, chagrin, examination, research, control, condemnation, judgment, sickness, calumny…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Five of Swords

  TRADITION : Loss, dishonour, degradation, defeat, ruin, reversal of fortune, diminution, wronging, bad luck, destruction, etc. Reversed …

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Four of Swords

  TRADITION: Solitude, retreat, hermitage, exile, isolation, inhibited condition, abandonment. Tomb and coffin. Reversed: Economy, good…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: King of Swords

  TRADITION: A man of the law or robe, councillor, senator, business-man, doctor, etc. "Whatsoever arises out of the idea of judgment and all…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Knight of Swords

  TRADITION: A military man, officer, master of the sword, master of fencing, warrior. Dispute, war, duel, combat, attack as well as defence…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Nine of Swords

  TRADITION: A bachelor, priest, clergyman, hermit; monastic order, monastery, church; religion or cult; devotion, rite, ritual, ceremony…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Page of Swords

  TRADITION: Overseer, artist, learned man, spy, indiscreet person, who will eventually "pry into the querent's secrets." Secret service…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Queen of Swords

  TRADITION: Widowhood, female sadness, privation, absence, sterility, poverty, vacancy, unemployment, mourning, separation. Reversed: Bad…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Seven of Swords

  TRADITION: Hope, wish, design, will, taste, fantasy. Another version says: "Also quarrelling; a plan that may fail." (W.) Reversed: Good…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Six of Swords

  TRADITION: Route, way, path, envoy, journey by water, emigration, manner, expedient. Reversed: Proclamation, declaration, publication…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Ten of Swords

  TRADITION: Tears, affliction, plaints, complaints, sadness, desolation, sorrow. Reversed: Advantage, profit, favour. "But none of these are…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Three of Swords

  TRADITION: Departure, absence, rupture, delay, division, removal, being-far-away. Also aversion, hatred, disgust, etc. Contrarieties…

• General Book of the Tarot: Swords: Two of Swords

  TRADITION: Friendship, attachment, affection, intimacy, affinity, tenderness, attraction, etc. "Concord in a state of arms." (W.) Reversed…

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