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Temperance (Art)

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, Temperance

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, Temperance Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: temperance, moderation, frugality, chastity, softening, concern, accommodation. Respect, consideration. Temperature, climate.
Reversed: minister, priesthood, clergy, church, religion, sect, the consultant is under the dominion of this virtue.

Divination:
In ancient times, Scorpio was associated with the planet Mars. However, after Pluto was discovered in 1930, it became associated with Scorpio instead.
Scorpio is associated with three different animals: the scorpion, the snake, and the eagle. The snake and eagle are related to the nearby constellations of Ophiuchus and Aquila. Scorpio is also associated with the Greek deity Artemis, who is said to have created the constellation Scorpius.

Upright: loyalty, imagination, subtility, profoundness, transcendence.
Reversed: self-destruction, vindictiveness, secrecy, jealousy.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot

The Magician

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Magician

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Magician (Air) The Magician
Fortune-telling interpretation: sometimes the card is considered to represent the male querent.
Upright: illness, infirmity. Disorder, pain, anxiety, evil, displeasure. Damage, punishment, injury, disaster.
Reversed: spiritual illness, headache, unhappy position. Disgrace, displeasure, restlessness, affliction. Doctor, magician.

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.
Mercury, the First Matter, represents the intellectual principle, and it is the coordinating factor of both Sulphur and Salt.
According to Paul Case, Mercury, or Hermes, was the messenger of the gods. Mercury as principle represents that aspect of the Life-power which has been termed super-consciousness and it is associated with The Magician.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot

The Empress

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Empress

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Empress Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: backing, mainstay, support, buttress, column, base, foundation, basis. Principle, reason, cause, subject, fixity. Assurance, persuasion, conviction, safety, security, confidence, certainty. Aid, help, assistance, protection. Relief or comfort, consolation.
Reversed: protection, influence, benevolence, beneficence, charity, humanity, goodness, commiseration, pity, compassion, credit, authorisation.

Divination:
The Moon has no basic nature of its own but serves to focus the qualities of the signs and other planets upon the human mind.
Mythologically, the Moon is considered the planet of fecundation.
Astronomically, the Moon is an astronomical body that orbits Earth as its only natural satellite. The Moon’s apparent size in the sky is almost the same as that of the Sun.
The Moon, in Astrology, is the ruler of Cancer. The Moon represents emotions, self-nourishment, instinct. It also represents our deepest personal needs, our basic habits and reactions, and our subconscious.

Upright: instinctive reactions, emotional responses, the common human urge to feel safe, secure, loved and protected. Connection with past, family and ties with the subconscious.
Reversed: anxiety, uncertainty, insecurity, disbalance, dependency, illusions and hallucinations.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot

The Hierophant

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Hierophant

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Hierophant Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: God, the Supreme Being, the Central Spirit, Chaos. Meditation, reflection, concentration.
Reversed: The Universe. The physical man or the male. The querent.

Divination:
In Greek Mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the winged ram, Chrysomallos, which was held in Colchis. The fleece is a symbol of authority and kingship.
Aries is the Latin word for “ram”. Aries is the first sign and the first fire sign in the Zodiac.
According to the tropical system of astrology, the Sun enters the sign of Aries when it reaches the March equinox, which occurs on average on March 21.

Upright: leadership, courage, enthusiasm, honesty, passion, confident, independent.
Reversed: self-centred, impatient, reckless, domineering, aggressive, reckless, blunt.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot

The Hermit

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Hermit

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Hermit Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: betrayal, dissimulation, hypocrisy, a traitor, a crafty, corruptor, seducer. Trap, imposture.
Reversed: solitary, anchorite, occult, disguised, misguided. Politician, smart, sneaky person.

Divination:
Leo was one of the earliest recognised constellations, with archaeological evidence that the Mesopotamians had a similar constellation as early as 4000 BCE. The Persians called Leo Ser or Shir; the Turks, Artan; the Syrians, Aryo; the Jews, Arye; the Indians, Simha, all meaning “lion”.
In Babylonian astronomy, the constellation was called UR.GU.LA, the “Great Lion”.
In Greek mythology, Leo was identified as the Nemean Lion which was killed by Heracles – Hercules to the Romans – during the first of his twelve labours.

Upright: strength, sincerity, generosity, spontaneousness, romantic, passion.
Reversed: arrogance, laziness, intolerance, possessiveness, authoritarism.

Traditional Divinatory Tarot

The Fool

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Fool

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Fool (Fire) The Fool
Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: madness, lunacy or folly, dementia, extravagance, unreasonableness, distraction, drunkenness, delirium, frenzy, abnormality or unsoundness, fury, transport, outburst or outpouring. Enthusiasm. Blindness or blinkered state, ignorance. Fool or madman, absurd, irrational. Innocent, simple, simple-minded or insane.
Reversed: Idiocy, ineptitude, carefreeness, casualness. Happy-go-luck state of mind, nonsense, imprudence, negligence, absence, distraction. Apathy, fainting, exhaustion or annihilation, sleep, nothingness or emptiness, uselessness or nullity, empty or void. Nothing, vain.

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.
According to the alchemists, Sulphur and Mercury are the primordial opposites that are part of the inherent duality of the universe. The Two Contraries were seen as reciprocal principles of nature, usually described as male and female or active and passive. Sulphur is the fiery, solar, active, masculine principle that gives a substance its active properties and identity in relation to other substances. In alchemy, it is usually associated with the sun and King.
The metal between the spirit and the body is the soul, which indeed is Sulphur.
Sulphur represents the self-conscious level.

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The Sun

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Sun

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Sun Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: Lightening, light, explanation. Clarity, glory, Heaven and Earth. Philosophical sulfur.
Reversed: Fire, flame, passion. Heat, glow. Meteors. Lightning. Internal, external and philosophical fire.

Divination:
Pisces is the Latin word for “Fish”. It is one of the earliest zodiac signs on record, with the two fish appearing as far back as c. 2300 BC on an Egyptian coffin lid.
Divine associations with Pisces include the Sumerian goddess Inanna, Poseidon/Neptune, Aphrodite, Eros, Typhon, Vishnu and Christ.

Upright: sensitivity, self-sacrificing, compassion, imagination, passivity, receptiveness.
Reversed: overemotional, escapist, slippery, confused.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot

Wheel of Fortune

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, Wheel of Fortune

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, Wheel of Fortune Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: luck, happiness, improvement, reclamation, prosperity. Goods, wealth, benefits. Thanks, favours. Fate, destiny, adventures, good luck.
Reversed: growth, magnification, abundance, proliferation. Vegetation, production.

Divination:
The symbol of the maiden is based on Astraea. In Greek mythology, she was the last immortal to abandon Earth at the end of the Silver Age, when the gods fled to Olympus – hence the sign’s association with Earth.

Upright: efficiency, discernment, consciousness, modesty, analytical, orderly.
Reversed: narrow-mindedness, anxiety, erratic, critical.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot

The Tower

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Tower

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Tower Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: misery, distress, destitution, poverty, discomfort, need, necessity, calamity, adversity, disgrace, penalty, torment, pain, affliction, displeasure, punishment, correction. Awakening, misfortune. Severity, rigidity, rigour.
Reversed: imprisonment, detention, arrest, captivity, oppression, tyranny, chain, awe, subjugation.

Divination:
There appears to be a connection between traditional characterisations of Capricorn and the Sumerian god of wisdom and waters, Enki, who also had the head and upper body of a goat and the lower body and tail of a fish. Later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology, Enki was the god of intelligence, creation, crafts; magic; water, seawater and lakewater.
In Greek mythology, Capricornus, the constellation, is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother, Rhea, saved him from being devoured by his father, Cronos. Amalthea’s broken horn was transformed into the cornucopia or “horn of plenty”.

Upright: ambition, patience, duty, enterprising, reliability, perseverance.
Reversed: suspicion, pessimism, materialism.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot

The Moon

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Moon

Traditional Divinatory Tarot, The Moon Fortune-telling interpretation:
Upright: conversation, interview, dialogue, speech, talking, speaking, chatting, gossiping. Maldicence, slander, decree, resolution.
Reversed: running water, dew, rain, sea, river, stream, source, fountain, lake, swamp, puddle, pond. Humidity, fog, smoke, Mercury, chaotic and philosophical water. Snow, sleet, respiration, evaporation. Instability, inconstancy, silence. Murmur, patience.

Divination:
The water carrier represented by the zodiacal constellation Aquarius is Ganymede, a beautiful Phrygian youth. Ganymede was the son of Tros, king of Troy. While tending to his father’s flocks on Mount Ida, Ganymede was spotted by Zeus. The king of gods fell in love with him and flew down to the mountain in the form of a large bird, whisking Ganymede away to the heavens. Ever since the boy has served as cupbearer to the gods.

Upright: invention, innovation, communication, social and collective consciousness, originality, progressiveness, independence.
Reversed: eccentric, dogmatic, impractical, erratic, cranky.

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Traditional Divinatory Tarot