DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT
BRIEF MEANING OF TWENTY-TVVO
KEYS
ο. IF the question refers to spiritual matters, the Fool
means idea, thought, spirituality, that which endeavours to
transcend
Earth.
But if question
is
material, it means
folly, stupidity, eccentricity, or even mania.
L Skill, wisdom, adaptation, craft,
cunning,
or
occult
wisdom or power.
2. Change, alternation, increase and decrease, fluctuation;
whether for good or evil depends on the dignity.
3. Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success.
But with very
bad dignity it means luxury, dissipation.
4. War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition.
5. Divine wisdom, manifestation, explanation, teaching,
occult force voluntarily invoked.
6. Inspiration
(passive,
mediumistic),
motive
power,
action.
7. Triumph, victory, health (sometimes unstable).
8. Eternal justice.
Strength and force, but arrested as
in act ofjudgment.
May mean law, trial, etc.
9. Wisdom from
on high.
Active
divine
inspiration.
Sometimes “ unexpected current."
Ιο᾿Good fortune, happiness (within bounds).
Intoxica-
tion of success.
IL Courage, strength,
fortitude, power passing
on
to
action.
Obstinacy.
12. Enforced sacrifice, punishment,
loss, fatal and not
voluntary, suffering.
13. Time,
age,
transformation,
change involuntary (as
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