The Major Tarot Revealed

The Fool

Beginning of creativity. Desire and passion to reach the highest point a man can aspire to. A non-conformist. An artist, visionary, he is content with a way of life that he believes in. Independence, Fearlessness, Intuitiveness, He does not answer to any one except himself. He lives by his wits and his instincts, climbing over obstacles with ease and amusement. He is untouched by society and its' rules and regulations. He is true to his spirit and is respectful of life.

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The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, etc., always depending on its dignity. Sometimes occult wisdom.

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The High Priestess

Change, alteration, Increase and Decrease. Fluctuation whether for good or evil is again shown by cards connected with it.) Compare with Death and Moon.

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The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, also luxury and sometimes dissipation, but only if with very evil cards.

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The Emperor

War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition.

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The Hierophant

Divine wisdom. Manifestation. Explanation. Teaching. Differing from though resembling in some aspects The Magician, The Hermit, and The Lovers. Occult Wisdom.

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The Lovers

Inspiration (passive and in some cases mediumistic, thus differing from that of the Hierophant and Magician and Hermit.) Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.

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The Chariot

Triumph. Victory. Health. Success though sometimes not stable and enduring.

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Strength

(In former times and in other decks 8 Justice and 11 Fortitude were transposed.) Courage, Strength, Fortitude. Power not arrested as in the act of Judgement, but passing on to further action, sometimes obstinancy, etc. Compare with 11 Justice.

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The Hermit

Wisdom sought for and obtained from above. Divine inspiration(but active as opposed to that of the Lovers.) In the mystical titles, this with the Hierophant and the Magician are the 3 Magi.

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The Wheel of Fortune

Good fortune and happiness (within bounds), but sometimes also a species of intoxication with success, if the cards near it bear this out.

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Justice

Eternal Justice and Balance. Strength and Force, but arrested as in the act of Judgement. Compare with 8 - Fortitude. Also in combination with other cards, legal proceedings, a court of law, a trial at law, etc.

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The Hanged Man

Enforced Sacrifice. Punishment, Loss. Fatal and not voluntary. Suffering generally.

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Death

Time. Ages. Transformation. Change involuntary as opposed to The Moon. Sometimes Death and destruction, but rarely the latter, and the former only if it is borne out by the cards with it. Compare also with The High Priestess.

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Temperance

Combination of forces. Realisation. Action(material). effect either for good or evil.

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The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material Temptation; sometimes obsession, especially if associated with the Lovers.

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The Tower

Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Compare with Emperor. In certain combinations, destruction, danger, fall, ruin.

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The Star

Hope, faith, unexpected help. But also sometimes dreaminess, decieved hope, etc.

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The Moon

Dissatisfaction, voluntary change(as opposed to Death). Error, lying, falsity, deception. (The whole according to whether the card is well or ill-dignified, and on which it much depends.)

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The Sun

Glory, Gain, Riches. Sometimes also arrogance. Display, Vanity, but only when with very evil cards.

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Judgement

Final decision. Judgement. Sentence. Determination of a matter without appeal on its plane.

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The World

The matter itself. Synthesis. World. Kingdom. Usually denotes the actual subject of the question, and therefore depends entirely on the accompanying cards.

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These meanings are brief and are only a small part of the meanings of the Tarot Trump. Use your own insight to scry into the images that will take you to the true meaning of your own future.

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