DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT
in detail of study; great care in some things, counterbalanced
by equal disorder in others.
Impulsive
; equally fond of
giving or receiving money or presents
; generous, clever,
acute, selfish and without strong feeling of affection.
Admires
wisdom, yet applies it to small and unworthy objects.
Hod of
( ?וNarrow, restricted, petty, a prison).
Therein rule the Angels 5mm and?לאהש
LII
THE LORD OF DESPAIR AND CRUELTY
Nine ofSwords
FOUR Hands, as in the preceding figure, hold eight swords
nearly upright, but with the points falling away from each
other.
A fifth hand holds 3 ninth sword upright in the
centre, as if it had struck them asunder,
No rose at all is
shewn,
as
if it
were not merely cut asunder, but utterly
destroyed.
Above and below are the Decan
symbols
0‘
and π.
Despair, cruelty, pitilessness, malice, suffering, want, loss,
misery.
Burden,
oppression,
labour,
subtlety
and
craft,
dishonesty, lying and slander.
Yet also obedience,
faithfulness, patience, unselfishness,
etc.
According to dignity.
Yesod of
1 (Illness, suffering, malice, cruelty, pain).
Therein do?'לאונעand?לאיהמbear rule.
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