according to Grand Orient.
Although Grand Orient is one of the pseudonyms used by Arthur Edward Waite, there could not have been a greater distinction between these two personas.
If we drop politeness and respect-fuelled hypocrisy, the booklet provided by A. E. Waite for the Rider-Waite Tarot is Read more Book of Thoth and English Method
According to Etteilla, the Tarot was created by a group of seventeen Magi under the direct guidance of Hermes Trismegistus. He wrote in 1783, that he calculated that the Tarot was 3,953 years old. Originally called ‘The Book of Thoth’, engraved on leaves of gold, the foils embellished the altar of a temple.
Papus in ‘The Divinatory Tarot’ associated the Major Arcana cards from Etteilla’s deck based on their Read more Etteilla’s Book of Thoth
Tarot became quite popular – exoteric – in the last few hundreds of years, and we owe that to the French cartomancer and fortune teller Jean-Baptiste Alliette.
Jean-Baptiste was born to working-class parents in Paris in 1738 and worked as a seed merchant. Read more Architecture: Etteilla’s Major Arcana
Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: Strength, heroism, kindness, greatness, courage. Power, empire, ascendant. Work of spirit, patience, resignation.
Reversed: Sovereign, realm, state, republic, government, administration, kingdom, despotism, sovereignty, supreme power, arbitrary power, people, nation, weakness, defect, discordance.
Divination:
Cancer is the Latin word for “crab”.
Cancer is said to have been the place for the Akkadian Sun of the South, perhaps from its position at the summer solstice in very remote antiquity. In Greek mythology, Cancer is identified with the crab that appeared while Heracles fought the many-headed Hydra. Hercules slew the crab after it bit him in the foot. Afterwards, the goddess Hera, an enemy of Heracles, placed the crab among the stars.
Upright: sensitivity, imagination, intuition, protection, attachment.
Reversed: manipulation, illusions, insecurity, dependency, possessiveness, over-sensitivity.
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Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: principle, reason, cause, subject, stability. Insurance, persuasion, conviction, security, guarantee, trust, certainty. Help, rescue, assistance, protection. Relief, consolation.
Reversed: Protection, influence, benevolence, charity, charity, humanity, kindness, commiseration, loyalty, compassion, credit. Authorisation.
Divination:
Mythologically, Venus is considered the planet of love.
Astronomically, Venus is the second planet from the Sun and nearly as large as the Earth.
In Astrology, Venus has dual rulership over Libra and Taurus. Venus represents personal choices, inner strength, and deals with issues regarding our relationships.
Upright: choices, decisions, pleasure, enjoy life, express affection, wealth and good taste.
Reversed: indecision, irritation, frustrations, poverty, loss, misfortune.
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Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: Justice, equity, probability, honesty, righteousness, reason.
Reversed: a jurist, legal adviser, lawyer, legislation, legislator. Law, code, statutes, precepts, natural law, people’s law, public law, civil law, war law.
Divination:
Jupiter is called The King of Gods, considering the position of Marduk in the Mesopotamian pantheon, and it is also associated with good luck.
Upright: plenty, growth, expansion, tolerance, knowledge, morality, mercy.
Reversed: blind optimism, excess, overindulgence, irresponsibility, hesitation, drifting.
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Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: war, dissent, dispute, noise, disorders, riots, agitations, battle, fight, combat. Pride, vanity, false glory, pomp, ostentation, audacity, boldness. Violence, chaos, anger, insult, presumption, revenge.
Reversed: Noise, din, dispute, dispute, quarrel, harassment, discord.
Divination:
Castor and Pollux (or in Greek, Polydeuces were twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri.
Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan.
Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the constellation Gemini. The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo’s fire. They were also associated with horsemanship, in keeping with their origin as the Indo-European horse twins.
Upright: versatility, good communication abilities, open-mindedness, ingenious, sociable.
Reversed: shallow, restless, inconsistent, deceitful, restless.
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Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: death, mortality, annihilation or ruin, destruction. End, deterioration, debasement or adulteration, rot, corruption, putrefaction.
Reversed: inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrification. Annihilation or ruin, somnambulism.
Divination:
The Air, Water and Fire attributed to the Tarot card according to the kabbalistic scheme, should not be confused with the Four Elements. These are the Three Primes or Tria Prima mentioned by Paracelsus.
According to alchemists, Mercury, Salt and Sulphur are the three-fold aspects of all phenomena to be found in all compounds of a mineral or organic nature.
Mercury represents the Spirit, Salt the Body; and Sulphur the Soul. Philosophically speaking, Mercury is the Mind; Salt is the Will, and Sulphur is Love. The three are the components of the Philosopher’s Stone.
Salt is used to preserve meat and prevent decay. Salt is also used for purification. Eventually, the subconscious level of the Life-power’s activity is purged and purified. Salt, on the other hand, represents the subconscious level.
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Fortune-telling interpretation:
The card represents the female querent or the woman who is of most concern to the male querent.
night, darkness, obscurity, light deprivation, nocturnal, mystery, secret, mask, hidden, unknown, clandestine, occult. Veil, emblem, figure, image, parabola, allegory, mystical fire, occult science. Secret manoeuver, devious move, clandestine actions. Blindness, to muddle or confuse, to cover, to envelop, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Reversed: day, daylight, light, brightness, splendour, illumination, manifestation, evidence, truth. Clear, visible, luminous, to bring into being, to bring to light, publish, to open out or hatch. To pierce, to make a way for oneself, clearing or clarification, to acquire knowledge. Expedient, facility. Opening, window, empty or void, zodiac.
Divination:
Mythologically, Mercury is the “Messenger of the Gods.”
Astronomically, Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the one is nearest to the Sun.
Mercury, in Astrology, is the ruler of Gemini and Virgo. Mercury represents reason, communication, connections and education, learning, respectively self-awareness. It is also associated with dexterity and agility of movement. Therefore, it is also related to short distance travelling and vacations.
Psychologically, Mercury represents the human desire to understand, communicate and learn.
Upright: curiosity, good communication, versatility.
Reversed: a retrograde Mercury is a detriment to the faculty of reason. It also generates nervousness, restlessness, anxiety, critical, not being able to make a decision.
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Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: travel, road, walk, march, peregrination, visit, incursion, emigration, transmigration. Disorientation, rotation, circulation. Bewildered.
Reversed: Earth, matter, mud, vase, raw material. Cold, often. The world, terrestrial globe, state, realm, empire. Land, territory, possessions, rural heritage. Appearance, permanence, stability, stagnation. Inertia. Animals, brutes. Burial, tomb. Ash, dust, crock. Philosophical salt.
Divination:
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth.
Saturn was a god in ancient Roman religion and a character in Roman mythology. He was described as a god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation. Saturn’s mythological reign was depicted as a Golden Age of plenty and peace. After the Roman conquest of Greece, he was conflated with the Greek titan Cronus, becoming known as a god of time.
Upright: discipline, conscience, wisdom, planning, organisation, endurance.
Reversed: chaos, hardship, debts, decay, loss, loneliness.
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