THE EQUI NOX
Assured material gain: success, rank, dominion, earthly
power, completed but leading to nothing beyond.
Prejudicial,
covetous, suspicious, careful and orderly, but discontented.
Little enterprise or originality.
According to dignity as
usual.
Chesed of( ?הGain of money or influence: a present).
Herein do?ה`זובand?לאדבמbear rule.
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THE LORD OF DEFEAT
Five of Swords
Two Rayed Angelic Hands each holding two swords nearly
upright, but falling apart of each other, right and left of the
card,
A third hand holds a sword upright in the centre as
though it had disunited them.
The petals of the rose, which
in the Four had been reinstated in the centre, are torn asunder
and falling.
Above and below are
9 and m for Decan.
Contest finished and decided against the person; failure,
defeat, anxiety, trouble, poverty, avarice, grieving after gain,
laborious, unresting; loss and vileness of nature; malicious,
slanderous, lying, spiteful and tale-bearing.
A busybody and
separator of friends, hating to see peace and love between
others. Cruel, yet cowardly, thankless and unreliable. Clever
and quick in thought and speech.
Feelings of pity easily
roused, but unenduring.
Geburah of( ?וDefeat, loss, malice, spite,
slander, evil-
speaking).
Herein the Angels?לאיבאand?תימעהbear rule.
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