Card Read
10 Querent: External cirumstances. Discimination, avarice 4 Cups: Four cups are overflowing, yet empty. The unheld liquid forms a pool at the bottom of the picture. This card shows the receptive self and its attitude toward outflowing riches |
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9 Subconscious: Hidden motivation, worries. Independence, idleness 10 Wands: Ten burning stakes appear as a prison. The prison could be external oppression, perhaps political, or it could indicate the many chains that bind our potential |
8 Mental: Language, learning. What effects the mind, the way you use your mind 8 Disks: The figure of Mercury has apparently constructed the 8 from metal with a hammer and chisel. Sparks fly from the blows of the hammer and the disk symbols are shown as holes in the eight. The chessboard background and Mercury's physical labor suggest mental skill being applied to physical work |
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7 Emotion: Rationalization and false reasoning can attempt to curb emotions. Unselfishness, lust 19 Major: In the full light of the Sun, the conscious and the subconscious are shown as two dancers linked by the promise of eternity, the rainbow double helix. The two are in symbiotic rhythm and harmony. The crystals on which they dance are symbolic of the "treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places" (Isaiah 45:3), which have been formed deep within the earth, by heat and pressure, into a substance that can reflect and refract the Sun's rays. Silica, from which quartz crystal is formed, is the most common element of the earth's crust; the commonplace is capable of refinement into the most precious and beautiful. Meanings: success, joy, harmony, and beauty |
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6 Heart: Interpretation varies from mundane materialism to divine worship. Devotion, pride 2 Swords: Two peaceful faces give an effect of harmony. The two swords are put aside, representing the putting away of divisive thought or action |
5 Change: Associated with fear, but does not have to be destructive. Can indicate a previously unrealized destructive behavior pattern 2 Wands: A robed figure, reminiscent of the Hermit, faces toward the white sun. Two fiery wands are in each hand. The person symbolizes a perfect man, or saint. Dark and light, active and passive are in balance and control |
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4 Stability: Complacency. Obedience, bigotry, hypocrisy, gluttony 5 Swords: One sword, white for purity, points upward, indicating the aspiration of the higher self. The four other swords, symbolic of the lower self, are woven within the clouds of illusion |
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3 Feminine: Mother. Born into a situation. Silence, avarice 15 Major: Compare this card with 6 Lovers. This conscious self believes he is all there is. Drunk with his own cleverness and importance, rich in gold, crowned as a king, he holds forth on his views to whomever will listen. The subconscious, deprived of her correct function, ignored and debased, attempts to reach him through the screen of his ignorance, which has clothed her as an evil temptress or harpy. The angel is tranformed into the personification of evil. Both figures are chained, but in such a way that these chains could be lifted off if they could but realize their own condition. Meanings: the evils attendant on greed, materialism, anger, and vanity. Only by dealing with ignorance can the angel be revealed. Recognize your limitations. It is only by seeing your bonds that you can break them |
2 Masculine: Father. Outward self. Associated with spiritual aspirations. Devotion 2 Disks: The figure 2, made of a rose stem, bears a white rose for purity and divinity, and a red rose for earthly nature, representing the union of the pure desire of the spirit with the personal desire of the self |
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1 Alpha Omega: Root cause. Completion 4 Disks: Four disks, one inside the other, with a figure four, are reminiscent of a target. The circle is a symbol of wholeness, the black and white sections suggest a sorting, ordering process, the target indicates evolution toward the center |