Just a brief look at the meaning of the tarot cards, though they all have great intellectual depth and should be studied further. My personal favorite is the Star, though they all apply to my life in one way or another.
The Fool: Stop daydreaming and fantasizing and watch your step, lest you fall and end up looking the fool.
The Magician: The male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things just-so by speaking them aloud.
The High Priestess: Illuminates what you otherwise might not see, reveals the secrets you need to know in order to make a decision about a problem or a job, an investment, love, career, family, etc.
The Empress: A creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. The High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born.
The Emperor: Signifies the leader that everyone wants to follow, sitting on a throne that indicates the solid foundation of an Empire he created loves and rules with intelligence and enthusiasm. But that throne can also be a trap, a responsibility that has the Emperor feeling restless, bored and discontent.
The Hierophant: Purpose is to bring the spiritual down to Earth. The Hierophant (or High Priest) deals with worldly problems. He strives to create harmony and peace in the midst of a crisis.
The Lovers: Love is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist.
The Chariot: It implies war, a struggle, and an eventual, hard-won victory; either over enemies, obstacles, nature, the beasts inside you, or to just get what you want.
Justice: Cold, objective balance through reason or natural force. Advises cutting out waste and insists that the Querent make adjustments, do whatever is necessary to bring things back into balance: physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
The Hermit: A card of introspection, analysis and, well, virginity. It is a time to think, organize, ruminate, and take stock. Such times lead to enlightenment, illumination, clarity.
Wheel of Fortune: All about big things, luck, change, and fortune. Almost always good fortune. Indicates abundance, happiness, elevation, or luck; a change that just happens, and brings with it great joy.
Strength: Inner strength is more powerful than raw physical strength. It is a card about anger and impulse management, about creative answers, leadership and maintaining one's personal honor.
The Hanged Man: A card about suspension, not life or death. This is a time of trial or meditation, selflessness, sacrifice, prophecy.
Death: Indicates this transition from lower to higher to highest. This is a card of humility, and it may indicate the Querent as being brought low, but only so that they can then go higher than they ever have before.
Temperance: This is a card about moderation. There is, however, another angle to the card, that of merging seemingly impossible opposites. Seemingly irreconcilable opposites may not be irreconcilable at all.
The Devil: This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. Any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.
The Tower: A card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. Stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." The tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.
The Star: A card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. Suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight and unexpected help will be coming.
The Moon: All about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. Has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. A card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. Trust your intuition.
The Sun: Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. Symbolizes discoveries made fully conscious and wide awake. This is science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.
Judgment: Asks for the resurrection to summon the past, forgive it, and let it go. A card of healing, quite literally from an accident or illness, as well as a card signaling great transformation, renewal, change.
The World: Represents a successful conclusion, all aspects accounted for and taken in. The end to a long-term project is in sight, and that it will be accompanied by well-earned praise, celebration and success. This is a wonderful card of wholeness, perfection, satisfaction and happiness.
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