All about Waite Tarot cards. Tarot cards meaning and interpretation of the Waite deck

Each of the cards of the Major Arcana has its own meaning, describes a certain, typical life situation - its birth, development and extinction - and all this knowledge is contained in one picture. Knowing the meaning of the Major Arcana card, you will know the outcome of events in a particular life period.

Fool (0, aka XXII) Uranus

This is absolute freedom (the beginning of the journey). Where you go, you will find. This card is a warning against the dangers of the unknown. You will have to create from scratch.

Direct: The beginning of a new cycle, any new things to do. There is energy, optimism, strength and happiness. These are unexpected circumstances (unplanned). They will change the state of affairs. Indicates the need to make important decisions - you are free to choose any direction, go anywhere, do whatever you want.

Reversed: Restless impulsive activity, thoughtlessness of actions. Symbolizes madness and carelessness. A waste of time, effort, energy. Problems are not being solved. You are careless about something important. The decision can be fatal, and the choice bad.

Sometimes it symbolizes a person tirelessly seeking a change in environment and activities. He starts a lot of things at once, but never finishes anything.

In addition, it can mean thoughtlessness, whim, whims, lack of discipline, inability to calculate consequences.

A symbol of a blind man who has fallen into the slavery of matter. His bag is overflowing with nonsense. A broken obelisk is the death of his deeds. There is a reckoning ahead for what we have done.

I Magician, Mercury

Means: Any path begins with self-knowledge and self-determination.

Direct: Skill, agility and initiative. The ability to conduct business, to foresee other people - all this is inherent in the person reflected by this card. Action is an impulse. Will, skill, dexterity, eloquence, desire to take risks - all this is a Magician. He knows how to conduct business and accept people, is inventive, flexible, and not without reason self-confident and witty. Can manipulate other people. When telling fortunes to a man, this card is used as a Significator. When divining a woman, this card will mean her mate (existing, desired or sought after), a charismatic personality whose charm (positive or negative) does not allow the client to express herself as a separately existing unit. The meaning of this card stems from its drawing: everything what a man plans, desires and thinks will be located on his right side; and the way he manifests his essence will go under his left hand, pointing to the earth’s firmament. Carefully track the location of this card in the lady’s layout, which guarantees extreme accuracy in describing the plans and actions of the object of interest to her.

Let's try the above conclusion in practice. (love theme)

Tower + Page of Swords + Magician - the man will quite consciously take a step in the opposite direction from the young girl, and the responsibility for breaking off the relationship (Tower) will be placed on her, foolishly fluttering around with words and actions (Page of Swords).

Magician + Page of Swords + Ace of Cups - the client will break off relations with a young, rather annoying person and see the light at the end of the tunnel. He will be happy in his new acquaintance, and memories of a past relationship will strengthen him in the correctness of his own decision.

Magician + Eight of Swords - the gentleman came to the conclusion that it was necessary to break off the sore love relationship. His actions will not be varied - he will simply avoid meeting his former lady love. She will go through a long path of bitter bewilderment and confusion, without being able to explain to herself the meaning and reasons for what happened

Magician + Eight of Swords inverted - in this case, the woman is already striving for freedom, she is fighting for her rights to control her own life. The influence of the card of doubts and misconceptions, the Eight of Swords card, is clearly visible here.

Eight of Swords + Magician - a man is looking for a meeting with a lady rejected by him, but at the same time he wants not to lose his own dignity and not to be overly hopeful.

Eight of Swords p/v + Magician - the possibility of a casual meeting with a girl is reduced to zero, but the man is no longer able to interrupt the process of searching for a solution to the problem called “and again - love.” It’s safe to tell a lady that a man spends most of his intellectually free time thinking about her, working out various tactical and strategic options for the desired events. What exactly comes into his head to do is indicated by the next card, the time of development of events is the next two or three months.

Seven of Staffs (troubles) + Magician + Nine of Swords p/v (not his illness and worries) - the man will not bother about solving necessary issues, he will have to worry about the client herself.

Magician + Five of Cups p/v (not he who is sad) + Star p/v (clarification of confusing circumstances) - the time has come to realize that it is not you, but another who has become the basis of the experiences of “your” man. It hurts you to think about him, but not vice versa.

Magician + Page of Pentacles (material interests of the child) + Seven of Pentacles p/v (there is no investment of money here.) - your husband decided to invest his funds in a direction other than the joint decision (for example, he rents a separate apartment for himself), which will have a negative impact on your child’s financial situation in the future; that is, the husband’s plans are a loss to the child.

Six of Staves (proposal) + Magician + Hierophant - a man will propose marriage. True, the implementation of the proposal will be complicated by some confusion and chaos in the preparation process and the wedding itself. Here it is necessary to mention certain properties of the proposal made under the flag of the Six of Staves. This is a bit of over-promising. The wedding day will be later than proposed, the number of guests will be less than agreed, the actual budget of the holiday will be ridiculous compared to the plan.

If negative cards fall between the Priestess (lady) and the Magician (her man), this cannot serve as a comforting sign: Priestess + Devil + Magician - love affair, lust, mistress. In these relationships, the man maintains relationships with two women, and it is sin that binds him to the client.

If the cards Marriage, Sun, Two of Cups (etc.) are located on the left hand of the Magician, then he gives most of his life and heart to his wife, or child, or beloved (etc.).

If there are negative cards on the left hand of the Magician, he will find salvation from all sorts of life’s adversities in the arms of his mistress. For example, if a man has an overly grumpy wife, then most likely, after the next scandal, he will relax with his girlfriend not only physically, but also mentally - telling scary stories about the tricks of his old, scary and stupid wife:

Magician + Last Judgment + Seven of Cups (false).

When telling fortunes to a man:

Ten of Cups (family) + Two of Posokhov p/v (I won’t leave) + Queen of Cups (beloved) - our little man is not averse to partying, and he even knows how to love deeply and passionately, as evidenced by the presence of the mistress card in the layout. The lady of the heart is of equal importance here, as important a part of life as the family. “A man should be a man, but he shouldn’t offend his family, everything should be OK in the family.” It can be argued that this connection is not easy for a man (with the Nine of Staves and when cards of the Swords suit appear) or too costly (when cards of the Pentacles and Swords suit appear in the stockpile), these circumstances may allow him to decide to take a leap to the side. And only if the Magician is the last one in the three cards to fall out (while he has a road to nowhere, there is nowhere to crawl), you can hope to settle the pressing problems, but you need to hurry - there is very little time.

If between your cards - the Magician (your man) and the Priestess (you) - positive, good cards appear, then you can expect a period of harmony and happiness, even if storms are raging in the outside world (to the left of the Magician).

Being in the same combination: Hanged Man + Magician - they make sense: there is no man, an absent man. In the female scenario, this pair means that the lady was abandoned by the man due to the peculiarities of her own temperament. The lady, in her demeanor, rigidity of character and way of interacting with others, belongs to the male type, and two real men have nothing to do in the same bed. A man, in order to remain such, was forced to leave a painful relationship.

Magician + Hanged Man - not a man, a male disease, impotent.

Tower (collapse) + Magician + Hanged Man - collapse of relationships, a husband is not needed, it is better without him. “Honey, you’re retired!” — the connection was broken on the initiative of the lady.

Physical illness is predicted based on:

Mage p/w + Moderation.

The presence here of any card of the suit of Cups clarifies the cause of the disease due to excessive alcohol consumption due to:

Nine of Cups - birthday;

Three of Cups - a friendly feast;

The Five of Cups is a sad date.

I will separately note the influence of the Two of Cups - venereal disease;

Three of Swords, Four of Swords, Five of Swords, Nine of Swords, Ace of Swords - acute course of the disease;

Nine of Staffs or Ace of Staffs is a chronic form of the disease.

Mental illness or pain of the soul, which sometimes combines before mutual dissolution, manifests itself with accompanying cards: The Fool, The Hanged Man, the inverted Tower, the Eight of Swords, the inverted Three of Cups and the Nine of Staves.

Hermit + Magician - no man, I don’t see a man; Women's loneliness, search for a man.

Magician + Hermit - separation from a man, loss of a man. With certain accompanying cards, they indicate an opportunity for a man:

get into the hospital (Four of Swords, Nine of Swords);

go to prison (inverted Tower, inverted Justice-Judgment, Last Judgment);

Go on a long business trip (Chariot, Eight of Staffs) with particularly difficult living conditions.

In other words, the reasons for a possible separation may be different, and not just in the narrow sense of the loss of a love relationship.

The Minor Arcana cards that appear next to the Magician characterize the person we are studying:

Magician + Nine of Cups (love) + Death is a lover of risky pleasures (drunkenness, drugs, etc.).

Magician + Nine of Cups + Knight of Swords - a bully, instigator of quarrels and fights (in this case - with the male and young part of the planet's population):

Magician + Seven of Cups (I want) + Two of Pentacles - a gambler.

For reference, if the Seven of Cups were reversed, then the subject himself would become the object of fraud, being the center of an intrigue called “profit.”

Magician + Eight of Staffs (roads, troubles) + Ace Penta-glue - businessman.

Mage + Ace of Swords (struggle, thirst) + Death - adventurer, searcher, hunter. The struggle for survival is as a method, goal and means of existence.

The result of a man’s efforts, the end point of a line of specific direction for each individual situation, is read when the Magician card is placed between two cards of the Major Arcana or two cards of the Minor Arcana:

Seven of Staves (effort) + Magician + Nine of Swords p/v - additional efforts made by a man for the sake of the desired goal are not useless, but meaningless. A series of small unpleasant accidents and illnesses will prevent you from obtaining results.

Seven of Staves (efforts) + Magician + Nine of Swords - patience and work will grind everything down, a man’s perseverance will be rewarded, however, due to the deterioration of the situation of the participants in the events (which they will moan about in all corners of the universe).

Ten of Staves + Magician + Six of Cups - a man drew boundaries between family, work and love life in accordance with his personal beliefs: “Love and friendship are lofty matters and they should not be sullied by commodity-money relations. No borrowed money, and just money, and just gifts. Only high things: flowers, sweets, theater!

LOOK IN THE MIDDLE

It is necessary to carefully monitor the direction in the movement of the central map drawing (view, volume, quantity). Where the gaze is directed: to the past - the client will receive; in the future - the client will do it. The straight, fixed position of the central card signifies permanence. The Magician card in an inverted position is authentic to the Hanged Man card, but in a narrower meaning - the impossibility of implementing plans due to illness. Only illness under the sign of the Hanged Man always comes suddenly, suddenly, overtaking with a boomerang of past mistakes and delusions; the disease under the sign of the inverted Magician manifests itself naturally, and there is a strict cause-and-effect relationship. They are surprised at the fact of illness, but with a caveat: “This could be expected...”

Forecast: Currently, you have achieved what you want in those matters that are within your control.

Reversed: Indecision, uncertainty.

“The magician announces to you that a strong will to win, faith in yourself will lead you to your intended goal, and the gods will protect you from danger” - Papus.

The Magician card is always positive in matters of study, career, business

II Popess (Priestess) Moon

Transition from hidden to explicit.

The individual, the mind, correlates with the priestess. You will get to know yourself.

Direct: Intuition guides you through life. The answers are within you. Understanding hitherto hidden factors. The unconscious influence of the psyche on others and on circumstances. You are working to understand the “hidden” meaning of something (an action, an event) and this is fraught with difficulties. Listen only to your intuition!

Reversed: problems due to lack of integrity and foresight. Superficial knowledge, arrogance. For women - the inability to communicate with women, and for men - rejection of the tenderness and caringness of women.

Another meaning is physiological passion.

“Knock on the gates of the future and they will be opened. But study the routes of your path carefully. Remain silent regarding your intentions, so as not to make envious people.”

A priestess is a woman who knows her worth, possesses various abilities from birth and skillfully uses them. It is laid out as a Significator in the female reading.

Priestess + Devil + Magician - a lady has a relationship with a married man. You can clarify the presence or prospect of such a connection by the place where the devilish couple appears in the scenario:

at the feet - quick acquaintance and quick entry into a problematic relationship, where both will equally share the chains of lies, sin and deception;

to the left of the Priestess is a long union with an unfree man.

Priestess + Magician + Devil - the wife will be deceived, the husband has an affair on the side.

Devil + Priestess + Magician - horned husband.

Priestess + Devil p/v + Magician - the emergence of problems in a marriage where there are suspicions about the existence of a third party, but there is no evidence.

This position of the Devil card usually warns that the relationship has developed in the most negative direction, but who and where to take the first step will depend on the will and mind of at least one of the partners. The process can lead to a sad ending, but it can also creep towards good. The hour of change has come, but the time of truth has not yet come.

Queen of Cups + Page of Pentacles + Priestess - the combination indicates the presence of two daughters. One is already married, lives separately, the other is a teenager, dependent on her mother.

What emotions can a woman experience if, after a divorce from her loser husband, remaining in a communal apartment with a jointly-acquired child, she learns that:

1) a couple of months after the divorce, the now ex-husband bought an apartment;

2) a young woman with her child moved into a new apartment with him;

3) in the next couple of months new furniture was purchased;

4) it turns out that the ex-husband works successfully and earns good money not only for the last six months.

It is clear that the lady experiences hatred, anger, resentment, regret; her self-esteem and confidence in her own rightness melted away; Chaos reigns in my head.

What to do, what to do? Sue? Apologize? Return back in any way? Kill him or her?

The intensity of passions and the expected events will be reflected in several fallen cards one after another:

Seven of Pentacles (large monetary investments on the side) + The Hanged Man (victim of circumstances, loss of fortune and loved ones) + Ace of Swords (sex on the side from a client) + Ace of Pentacles (big money) , large property, and just wealth, but not to the client, but from her) + Priestess (- client) + Marriage semi-registered (not marriage, divorce).

So, the conclusion of the supposed fortune-telling: the client is expecting a divorce, where after the fact she knows about the events of the past, in which, it turns out, she lost not only a man, but also large property. News of long-term sexual relationships on the side, the constant deception of the faithful will push our lady to a global re-evaluation of the external and internal worlds, where the Ace of Swords (war) will proclaim the decision: “Revenge for the past.”

In a male scenario, the Priestess often serves as a sign of his female half at the moment, but not necessarily his wife (the most important woman for a given period of life).

Let’s assume that in the annual layout, but in the position of the result of the nearest half-year, cards appeared:

Ace of Staffs (strike, bankruptcy) + Priestess + Six of Pentacles (loss, withdrawal, transfer) - the client will receive at the end of the specified period the difficult news of his bankruptcy from a lady who knows the real state of affairs (the truth is that the client has been fooled promises and promises).

But the lady will not be a ruiner or a deceiver - her gaze is not directed in any direction - she is only a messenger of misfortune. The custom of executing a black walker has melted away in the darkness of centuries, but the consequences of the habit remain: normal relations with free or forced poor bearers usually do not last long.

Ten of Staffs p/v (removal from home, personal profit) + Sun (child) + Priestess - a man, through long, persistent efforts, deprived his household (wife and child) of both home and savings. The results of a man’s long and invisible labors do not reach the family.

The Ten of Staves card must be carefully examined in each individual case, always taking into account the direction of the man’s actions according to the drawing.

In the example above, the man is moving away from home, trying to fit as much as possible into his armful.

Usually, in an inverted position, the Ten of Staves means profit, but here (by the mutual arrangement of the cards) it is clear that only third parties can benefit from his unreasonable efforts.

The action card (Ten of Staves reversed) is located to the left (in the past) of the personality cards, and it can be assumed that the event has already happened.

Sometimes the client is interested in the question of how exactly a particular man will behave in a planned situation.

For example, a 30-year-old daughter has doubts about the real possibility of returning from maternity leave to her place of work - to her father’s company, where his partner plays the first violin role. In the scenario, the following fell on the man at the feet of the Magician: Nine of Pentacles (specification of the material request of a young lady with a child) + Knight of Swords (young man) + Priestess - what can we find out based on the question asked

Once again, carefully consider the plot line of the drawing.

The central figure is a young man who strikes at the client’s financial interests. Hidden behind him is the Priestess, the Magician’s partner.

We can draw the following conclusion: the father will pursue a dual policy, avoiding direct explanations with his daughter, since he does not want to lose his family connection with her. But he still puts his mistress first in his life. At the request of her beloved woman, her son was hired, but there was only one free place - that of her daughter. So the mistress won in absentia in the battle for financial well-being, she did not have to fight face to face - everything went quietly, cleanly, splendidly , without unnecessary worries. The only person who will get hit in the face is a young woman with a child. This conclusion requires confirmation - look nearby for additional personality cards. In our case, the confirming symbol was the Knight of Pentacles card p/v - a loss to a mature man and everyone present. Thus, we can make sure that only a young man will receive direct income from the hands of a mature man, through the mediation of the Priestess and to the detriment of the young man to mommy. Completely different life circumstances will be described by other cards: Knight of Pentacles + Sun + Priestess - the young man’s transfer of funds to ensure a favorable life for the child. The child, occupying a central place between two personal cards, indicates the involvement of the environment in the process so as to ensure your well-being, health and happiness. The positions occupied by these people in a child’s life are not the same in level of significance. Here the Priestess is the main woman for both the young man and the child.

Therefore, most often this trinity will talk about the mother’s lack of opportunity to provide a full-fledged upbringing for the child. The father participates in this process only financially - by paying alimony. But from the time of the wise man, he will find means to transform the black streak in his life circumstances. She will find a worthy man who will love both her and her child. Together they will raise him, educate him, care for him and cherish him. Let the loser pay.

In an inverted position, the Priestess card indicates all kinds of imminent danger:

in the male scenario - from a close woman;

in the female scenario - threatening the client herself or her mother, if the client is very young and the mother is vitally active.

Moon p/v (robbery of a home) + Priestess p/v + Figure (king, page, queen, knight)—the client needs to be extremely careful in relationships and joint actions with the person indicated by the cards:

with figures of the suit of Cups - loss and ruin of a home due to the immoderation of desires of a certain person (fire, flooding, removal of property due to prolonged drunkenness);

with figures of the Swords suit - robbery of a home, burglary, arson, pogrom;

with figures of the Pentacles suit - financial losses for all possible transaction options;

With figures of the Posokhov suit - causing harm to the client’s plans to improve or modify personal real estate.

III Empress (Mistress), Venus

The will of the creator in relation to your affairs. The card is associated with that stage of life when a person must realize those desires on the basis of which a person creates his destiny. Therefore, the card has a second name, “Comprehension.”

Direct: creation, new life, beauty, goodness in daily and material affairs, in feelings, thoughts. And also material income, stabilization in household chores, sometimes marriage, more offspring, success in creativity.

Reversed: Bookmarking a new cycle. Household chores, financial difficulties, loss of creativity, infertility.

“For the success of any business, it is important to be able to combine your activities with reason, and not emotions. Remember that to desire the opposite is to destroy yourself” - Papus.

The card indicates an active, empowered woman of advanced years, with certain, well-established characteristic qualities, such as: subjectivity of judgment, hot temper, a tendency to tyranny, rancor. All these qualities are a natural continuation of the childbearing, educational and saving functions that developed during the formation of the female personality. This could be a mother or a woman important to the client.

The card carries echoes of matriarchy, showing the main, or senior, or woman with an unshakable position. In the forecast of the emotional background, it indicates the ragged, galloping rhythm of events that are out of time and deviating from the chosen goal, in which the main role will be played a woman manifested by the Empress card. It is she who will stand with her chest against the intended direction or break through with her wand any obstacles that stand in the way of her and the person she needs. Whether the fortuneteller himself will be an opponent or the main value of our warrior will tell the position of the Empress in relation to the accompanying cards and the Significator himself. You need to determine, as usual, by the drawing: she strikes with her wand at the Significator or at the cards of his plans - it will be difficult for the client; the Empress advances his cards - then everything is fine.

Let's consider an interesting option for the development of relationships in a couple connected by marital ties. After about 20 years of a calm life together, the husband suddenly leaves for a previously unnoticed lady nearby. The wife, who showed herself to be a soft, calm, affectionate mother and person, begins to actively fight, but not for the return of her husband and father. It turns out that there are other values ​​in life, for example, satisfaction, and by professing its principles, a lady has the opportunity to maximally poison the existence of a previously dearly loved person and now her previously unknown rival.

The homewrecker, at the moment of a carefully prepared meeting, suffers minor bodily injuries, a couple of tufts of hair are torn out of her hairstyle. Such unreason, pride and resentment, shown by our heroine in difficult circumstances, are precisely predicted by the Empress card. The whole plot will fit into a frame of three cards (in the position of the distant future) for the Priestess (the significator responsible for the client) - Three of Staves (the man turned his back) + Empress-Tritre + Ace of Swords - they warn about the wonders of enterprise shown by the husband in search of something new , the warmest place in the world, as well as about the fierce, but belated attempts of the client, already as a wife, housewife and mother, to wipe out her rival from the face of the earth.

For men, the lady personified by the Empress card will sooner or later play the role of a source of mystical horror and pain. Such is her infernal personality - the Empress.

Empress + Justice + Magician - a court decision that has entered into legal force recognizing the rights of a specific female person to a certain part of the possessions, estates or actions of a specific male person.

Empress + Death + Ace of Staffs (strike) - efforts made by a woman in order to preserve her rights and respect the interests of children due to the possibility of a large financial loss.

In the presence of Cups - due to possible infringement of one’s property and material interests by the actions of a rival (female cup cards) or the husband’s drunkenness (Nine of Cups, male Cup cup cards).

In a woman's life, the Empress card plays with different facets of reality.

While the lady is at a very young age, the Empress is her mother, grandmother, older relative - a woman who educates, cares and oppresses.

At a young, but already quite independent age, a lady - a professional leader - can join those listed above. But the girl will become a mature lady and will herself personify the Empress, warlike and always ready to protect her family.

In an inverted position, the Empress card is the calm before the storm: the former enemies are defeated or hidden, there is nothing to fight for and no one to fight with; there is not much, but the dense forest hinders not the one who is not the mistress, but those whom she does not protect. Lack of your own territory, your own business, direct power.

Empress p/v + Queen of Pentacles - not the mistress of money, a hired worker, a tenant. It often happens to young daughters-in-law who live in their mother-in-law’s apartment.

Empress p/v + Queen of Pentacles (business) + Queen of Staffs (business) - a woman does little for the benefits of others. She’s not the owner of the money, but the matter is in her hands - the lady rents out office space that belongs to her, and she herself works for hire.

Emperor + Marriage + Seven of Staves (fighting obstacles) - adversity will take the father into its tight ring, and he will stubbornly fight with them.

Emperor + Last Judgment p/v (lack of preparation, incorrect assessment of circumstances) + Six of Pentacles (loss, lack of gain) - incorrect assessment of a man’s position and condition will lead to loss of money.

Thus, the female half of the family, quietly lending to friends at good interest rates, found themselves in force majeure circumstances. The ladies were based on the assumption that the head of the family was still strong and earned enough - but the old man would die unexpectedly. We need money for funerals, we need money for living, but only the father and husband in one person earned money. No salary, no savings. And the debt will be repaid only within the period established by the contract.

If the Emperor p/v appeared in the scenario, then it would be logical to Assume the onset of a time of freedom, the absence of tyranny and authoritarianism, the possibility of obtaining material and other benefits in connection with the disappearance (for various reasons) of the Emperor from your life:

in the presence of cards of pain, misfortune, illness (Three of Swords, Four of Swords, Nine of Swords, Ten of Swords, Hanged Man, Inverted Magician) - the death of a father, stepfather, an older and dear male relative is possible;

if there are maps of property wars nearby (Five of Staves and Five of Swords in any position, Justice, Last Judgment, Six of Pentacles and Eight of Pentacles), then serious passions will flare up on the issue of inheritance among close and not so close relatives;

If the Ace of Staffs is located after the inverted Emperor, then most likely your former leader is having financial troubles: he will try to transfer this problem onto your shoulders.

IV Emperor (master), Aries

In direct: Strength, will, logic of actions, achieving a goal, the correctness of the chosen path. Success in business (at work, at home).

In business: Stabilization of the situation, legal income. It can personify mature people, with a stable position in society, influencing people. Reason triumphing over emotions. Perspective.

The card signals that there is someone who has completely subjugated him. Warns of failures at work, of the force that is slowing things down. In general, he says that one must show wisdom and fight arrogance.

“The fulfillment of your hopes depends on the power of the person, rather than on you. Find out who he is and try to get in touch with him” - Papus. Prognostic value - a man as a master, head or father. A man who has achieved a relatively high professional and social status. An authoritative person, a high-ranking leader. The Emperor is a personal card, but with the implication of state or public opinion on a specific problem or individual issue. The character of the person who passes through fortune-telling as the Emperor is not simple and not easy. The person is authoritarian, has his own mind, and has his own, unchangeable opinion on every issue. Being interested in the thoughts of the interlocutor on the topic chosen by him, he performs this action not for the sake of clarifying new, unknown aspects of the issue, but for the final formulation of the decision. Decisions about the individual location of the interlocutor - on the side of the enemy or behind him, a dashing horseman. Depending on the position of the visitor in front of the throne, the Emperor manifests himself: if you are a worker and carry out the orders of the leader with joy and a smile, you always agree with the general leadership niya - you will be unsinkable and sometimes showered generously, but you are unlikely to see advancement up the career ladder. For an ordinary reason - you will not become smarter than the Emperor and therefore there is nothing for you to do at the top, next to the throne. And if you are smarter, then go and create your own state, but don’t count on support - who would dig his own grave?

The Direct Emperor, mainly with accompanying favorable cards, will show favor, but not to fate in principle, but to a specific person on whom the client currently depends both directly and indirectly.

Emperor + Three of Swords (problems) + Wheel of Fortune - the client will not be able to get a loan (let’s say she is unemployed), but a favorable solution to the issue exists - it will be possible to get a loan to a third party (this could also be the client’s husband, if he is not too young and has reached certain professional heights). The Wheel of Fortune here indicates an unhindered solution to a difficult issue with the help of a serious person.

In the presence of unfavorable cards, the Emperor indicates that the client will suffer from the righteous, or not so, anger of the management (whether at work or in the family there is a tyrant in charge). Further developments of events are determined by the general direction of the alignment.

For example, in a love scenario:

Magician + Tower + Emperor - a young man can lose his beloved as a result of the intervention of the girl’s father (a lightning strike is directed at the building of love from the falling female figure).

Emperor + Death - the owner, the head can expect a quick death.

Emperor + Magician + Death - a husband who has taken full responsibility for providing for the family will face a quick death.

Queen of Staves (business woman) + Emperor + Ten of Pentacles - an attempt by a business woman to get her hands on a money position, a profitable business, acting through the head of a government official (boss), will not be crowned with success. The Emperor sat motionless between the lady and the big money, and a black cat curled up at the woman’s feet - a symbol of the absence of a path, of advancement.

Emperor + Four of Pentacles - receiving money, material rewards.

Emperor + Four of Pentacles + Ten of Swords - there is no material benefit from having the main thing in family, love or business. In a family scenario, the cards will indicate that the man will not behave in his own home as a full-fledged owner (for example, without having a residence permit), and will not bring a penny into the house. Which, with the final card of the Ten of Swords, leads to a decision on the part of the woman to part with the ill-fated patron.

The inverted Emperor indicates the impossibility of gaining real power and futile attempts to avoid threatening losses in the form of penalties and so on, so on, so on.

The inverted Emperor cannot win a single case until he changes his position in life, which could lead to corresponding changes in the situation and in life.

With favorable cards, the inverted Emperor signifies gifts of fate that fell from the hands of a serious comrade, and right on the client’s head.

V High Priest (Hierophant, Priest, Pope), Taurus

Creator of a new path.

Straight- good advice, training, desire for knowledge. Next to the corresponding cards there is a marriage connection, strong friendship.

Psychologically- Tolerance, forbearance, transfer of knowledge to others, use of other people's experience. A person who knows how to learn from his mistakes.

Inverted- slander, shame, dubious advice. False facts regarding material matters. May indicate challenging behavior.

In a family situation- laziness, daydreaming. If this is a marriage, then the marriage will not take place.

On a psychological level- excessive kindness and generosity (to the point of stupidity). Excessive impressionability, vulnerability, discomfort - this is all an inverted Hierophant.

The advice of this position: trust, for from now on everything is in the hands of the Gods.

“The genius of good is on the right, and the genius of evil is on the left. And only your conscience can hear their voice. It will give you the right advice in time” - Papus.

Other names for the card are Marriage, Pope, High Priest. Prognostic value - married life, partnerships, obtaining consent to join forces. The essence of this card is unity, absence of loneliness, merging. Therefore, its very presence in the layout means the absence of personal freedom in making any kind of decisions, where life flows within the narrow framework of responsibility and responsibilities. Accompanied by cards of a calm design, with light skies and radiant colors, it manifests a happy period in the client’s life — harmony, joy and togetherness reign in a person’s environment:

Marriage + Lovers - union of lovers, cohabitation.

Lovers + Marriage - a union, a marriage made for love.

The very moment of the holiday, the wedding, will most likely show the cards Lovers, Ace of Pentacles, Three of Cups, Chariot in various combinations.

A young girl should prepare for a wedding if in her reading, in addition to the Hierophant, the Page of Cups and the Knight of Staves, the Page of Cups and the Chariot, the Moon along with one of the cards of the suit of Cups, as well as the Ace of Pentacles or the World appeared.

But if, despite all the accompanying favorable cards, the Tower card appears in the layout or the wedding cards are turned upside down, then the wedding will not happen.

In the case of the presence of the Hierophant, the proposed life union will be unsuccessful and will quickly end in disintegration,

Cards of the suit of Pentacles and/or Staves in the presence of the Marriage card will predict a period of joint efforts to improve the form of existence:

Buying an apartment (Four of Staffs);

Buying a car (Chariot);

Getting a loan (Ace of Pentacles);

the process of giving family property (Ten of Penta-glue, Five of Pentacles) a more convenient form: selling one apartment (smaller) in order to buy a larger one.

Expanding family

Repair (Three of Staves, Three of Pentacles);

Family vacation trip (Wheel of Fortune);

Small household purchases and chores (Six of Wands, Eight of Wands, Eight of Pentacles).

Marriage + Page of Staves (actions of a teenager) + Nine of Swords (despair) - a child from a previous marriage often visits his departed father, for whom his appearance is not a joy - unnecessary worry and trouble.

If the basis of the problems of living together is the betrayal of one of the partners, next to the Hierophant (against the general background of Swords) cards appear: Hanged Man, Moon, Devil, Lovers p/v, Two of Cups or Six of Cups.

But many subtleties of interpretation of a specific situation will depend on the relative position of the cards.

Hanged Man + Marriage - an absent legal marriage, but the actual life together is cohabitation, and one of the partners feels in this form of relationship a loophole for his inclination to have additional relationships on the side: “I didn’t promise anything to anyone.”

Marriage + Hanged Man - the translation has a disappointing meaning specifically for the client - there are no partnerships as such, marriage has long outlived its usefulness and is de facto in the phase of collapse, where the theme of betrayal and loss develops in parallel: “How blind I was...”

Sometimes an event occurs in life that allows you to get out of the vicious circle of failures and troubles that came after starting a family.

Painful healing from an unsuccessful relationship always begins with a breakup or divorce. Who will decide to take the first step towards freedom, taking on the attendant possibilities of guilt, wrongness and distortion of the truth?

If there is a Magician card to the right of the card, and the Last Judgment + Marriage pair appears under the pointing finger, then it is the man who will initiate the divorce.

Divorce here will be the result of much thought; the man has long been morally (and not only) ready for the process in full, which, with cards of spiritual uncleanliness (Devil, King of Pentacles, etc.), warns his former partner about unpleasant consequences for her .

A variant of the female initiation of divorce could be the trio that appears to the right of the Priestess: Four of Cups + Last Judgment + Marriage. The Four of Cups card speaks of a man’s reluctance to participate in the divorce process. By passively resisting the client’s desire, it is quite possible that he will not appear at court hearings, which will somewhat delay his receipt of the only possible solution - separation is inevitable.

But what would the arrangement of these cards in a different sequence mean?

Most often, such a connection has the meaning of an unpleasant discovery, unexpected news received by one of the partners about previously hidden facts from the life and activities of a partner.

So, the cards that fell to the right of the Magician: Marriage + Last Judgment + Eight of Pentacles - will most likely carry information to the client about the methods of money savings and investments used by her husband, which are shrouded in secrecy.

A variant of illegal transactions is also possible, where if the course of events is favorable, only the husband wins, and if the course of events is unfavorable, the wife loses. In any case, the Last Judgment card adjusts the forecast to the pattern of unpreparedness, ignorance, which gives a picture of a loss on the ground under your feet when you receive words of truth that are true, but terrible in their complete opposite to the usual world of things. The time of personal doubts about the correctness or necessity of living together, the manifestation of the force of egocentrism dividing a single whole will be revealed as dual, wavering cards: Two of Swords, Two of Pentacles and Two of Staves; Four of Cups, Five of Cups and Seven of Cups; Eight of Swords and Nine of Staves, as well as the Temperance card.

Not everyone has doubts about the need to save a family in anticipation of the opportunity to create another, but it happens, for example, Three of Swords (disintegration) + Marriage + Ten of Swords (immobility) - a combination that warns that an irreparable everyday mistake may be made and leave does not follow from the family. It is unlikely that the new chosen one will fulfill his promises and such a step will bring nothing but pain and tears.

Seven of Swords + Knight of Pentacles + Marriage - having de facto abandoned his official life partner, a man is ready to de jure formalize a fairly long-term relationship with a younger woman.

In the male scenario:

Priestess + Knight of Staffs (separation) + Marriage - the wife announced her intention to divorce (the activation of the break comes from her, the messenger of separation jumps from her); but the husband hopes for a connecting link - maybe the child (another of the meanings of the Knight of Staves) will be the best parliamentarian of all possible, and he will be able to save the family.

VI Beloved Gemini

Also called "Two Paths". Split consciousness.

Direct- inevitability of choice (use intuition). This is the inspiration of feelings, guesses.

In real life, it means an emotional heart connection, as well as the appearance of someone in your life who will become your complement. Together with good cards, it can mean a good partnership, sweet friendly meetings and connections full of mutual joy.

Another meaning is hatred, a struggle for life and death. For enmity is the other side of love.

Inverted- in a love relationship (for example, marriage) - its impossibility. Further, the plans are unrealistic. Separation, collapse of love plans. Be careful about your decisions.

“Go forward or retreat, but do not mark time in indecision, know that a chain of flowers is more difficult to break than a chain of iron” - Papus.

Prognostic meaning - infatuation, love, lovers. A time of delusion as a result of an incorrect assessment of current events; the problem of choice and (or) decision-making of any level of complexity; discrepancy, discrepancy between the internal and real worlds.

Lovers + Five of Swords - a painful break in a love relationship, love has passed, and only ashes knock on the heart.

An understanding of who inspired the separation can be achieved by studying nearby maps.

Page of Cups (the figure card looks at the next ones, they are approaching her) + Lovers + Five of Swords - the girl will receive a heavy blow, parting, instead of the promised and expected love.

Five of Swords + Lovers - we are together against the whole world, no one will separate us (what about the children abandoned by a father in love?).

Lovers + Ace of Staffs (painful financial blow) + Five of Swords - financial difficulties have killed the happiness of love, I can’t take it anymore - I take my briefcase and leave.

Ace of Staffs + Lovers - an attempt to defend your love. If the Five of Swords is located further down, it means a failed attempt, a wrong decision. He loves her to prove his prowess to his former partner; she loves him - so as not to be alone after the recent breakup. Both of their wounds hurt.

Eight of Staves + Lovers - the road of love, the flight of love,

Lovers + Eight of Staves - transformation of love, the positive or negative meaning of change is realized from neighboring cards.

Suppose the Si-la card fell in front of the indicated pair of cards. In the sphere of personal relationships, the card indicates the existence in a man’s life of two equally significant women for him. And his choice between them will be extremely difficult for him: both have strong positions, both are ignorant of each other at the moment the man’s pendulum movement begins, and both will subsequently make enormous efforts to maintain emotional relationships in the face of severe, painful torment from inability to manage a situation they had not foreseen.

“The relative arrangement of the cards suggests that from a triangular relationship, a man will choose to go towards his mistress, irrevocably leaving the previous relationship:

Lovers + Eight of Staves + Strength - heavenly life in the love tent did not work out, and the wanderer returned to such familiar, dear hands.

Strength + Eight of Staves (road) + Lovers - women’s efforts will be rewarded a hundredfold, a man will fall into love and disappear there (fall out of sight of his former environment).

Ace of Swords + Lovers - acute sexual desire, searching for love experiences. *

We are dealing with an unsatisfied woman if the Priestess card, or the Queen of Cups, or the Page of Cups is located in front of the Ace of Swords. Or maybe with a man greedy for pleasures of this kind, if the first in the three fell out to be the Magician, the King of Cups, and the Knight of Cups.

I will quote verbatim a phrase uttered by an outwardly extremely well-mannered young lady, in whose layout there were precisely positions 4 and 5

Ace of Swords + Lovers:

“Really, I don’t know at all what to do with myself!” I haven't fucked for three months now and all I can think about now comes down to just one act of action. How I want a man, and any individual of the opposite sex, by the fact of being next to me, is already a temptation.

Lovers + Ace of Swords - fight for the right to love; an attempt to fight back yourself, as well as to protect your partner from attacks from a certain person (with a figured card that fell after the Ace) or from a negative opinion about your choice from at least the whole world.

Lovers + Ten of Swords - without him (her - in the male scenario) I have no life, I am abandoned and powerless. The past cannot be returned, but do I have a future without my beloved?

Four of Swords (loneliness, illness) + Lovers + Ten of Swords - the ex-partner is basking in the happiness of new love and not

will return to tears, there is no place for the old love in his heart.

Ten of Swords + Lovers - I’m not looking for or waiting for love.

Ten of Swords + Lovers + Six of Staves - love is over, the man will purposefully move on to another lady of his heart.

If a figured card appears in front of such semantic expressions, then this usually means an attempt on the part of the person indicated by the cards to instill in the client his point of view on the events taking place.

So, a long chain: Queen of Pentacles + Ten of Swords + Lovers + Seven of Swords p/v (here - the one who currently has no face will come to you) + Six of Staves p/v (here - to you, and not from you) - which fell at the feet of the Priestess, meant the idea of ​​​​the right choice of marriage partner instilled in her granddaughter by the grandmother. And now, a grown-up girl, who has never had a more or less significant romantic adventure in her life, still lives according to the behests of her grandmother:

- Don’t look for love, your betrothed will find you himself, give you his heart, and it will be right; only such love brings happy changes to life (dawn on the Ten of Swords map).

About the figures of the suit of Cups, Pentacles and Staves, looking in the direction of the client’s card, as well as about the suit of Swords (sword

figures), attacking not “to”, but “from” (that is, defending the client), one can speak of friends and sympathizers, which is not always good, as can be seen from the above example.

If the figured, non-sword cards occupy an inverted position in relation to the client’s card; or in the layout we notice a figure threatening the client with a sword, that is, these are opponents, spiteful critics, a force opposing the client’s intentions. The suffering of the female soul after the breakup of a love relationship will be described by the cards that fell on the Priestess’s heart:

Lovers + Ace of Posokhov - love blow, destruction of love - in this interpretation we are most likely talking about the initiation of separation by the lady (the blow is directed at the back of the male figure). This decision was probably caused by the feeling of coercion and humiliation that existed in this relationship. Perhaps the man insisted on a form of relationship that was unacceptable for his partner.

The opposite option, namely:

Ace of Staffs + Lovers - a blow (from) love - is a form of experience that arises when you receive unexpected and crushing news about a love affair, which by its existence destroys all the rules and boundaries of your world of relationships that have become so familiar.

Lovers + Three of Swords - unfulfilled anticipation of love. Our hopes are very diverse; we should not make hasty conclusions about the crumbling happiness; it is advisable to pay attention to the next card.

Thus, the World card that appears next indicates that a failed (or unsatisfactory) love meeting is in no way connected with the final separation of lovers - on the contrary, the woman can expect joy, deserved by long experiences, and possibly marriage (a ring of happiness around the female figure).

Marriage + Lovers + Three of Swords - a union of lovers, sanctified only by time or everyday life, is bursting at all the seams due to

and not the hopes that happened and the accumulated grievances.

Three of Swords + Lovers - hopeless love, love desire has no future - he (she) is happily not free. The next card, The World, also speaks about the further plans of the chosen one (tsy) of your heart to arrange a cozy little world for two, but there is no place for you there.

Lovers + Star - empty love. What it is?

In the presence of the Chariot p/v (no car, travel) - love without a car is impossible.

A man has a car and the girl instantly falls head over heels in love. But if she doesn’t exist (or, God forbid, “Zaporozhets”) - he’s immediately not her type.

Chariot + Lovers p/v + Star - I don’t need a car, I don’t like it.

Page of Swords p/w (away from the past) + Six of Swords (path) + Lovers - the decision to leave your husband (wife) for your loved one has been made: “Forward, dear love!”

Page of Cups + Eight of Swords + Lovers - the lady wants not only to give birth to her beloved child, but also to move to live as close to him as possible: “I want to be close to him all the time!”

Men suspect, and women certainly forget, that the quality of love often depends on the amount of material goods present in the process of a pleasant relationship.

Knight of Staves (parting) + Lovers + King of Pen-tackles - a quarrel between a loving couple with a temporary separation

through the fault of a greedy man.

Four of Staves (life, home) + Lovers + Hermit - love often passes without a trace (usually in marriage), and the former delights of living together no longer bring joy and pleasure. But the time has not yet come to lose the established life, everything is in its place, except for the anemone of love.

VII Chariot, Cancer

Related is the concept of implementation. If you are not confident in yourself, become a warrior.

Direct- You are looking for a way out of the closed wheel of cause and effect, and the success you achieve will be the result of your work, not chance. It also means vigorous practical activity. In some cases, a long journey.

Psychological significance- victory over the blows of fate.

Inverted- You are walking without a goal. Failure awaits you. It was almost in hand, but luck ran out. Plans will be destroyed in the most sudden way (there was an incorrect assessment of the situation).

On a psychological level- no balance of soul, uncertainty, other people’s pressure, excessive self-restraint. Unexpected conflicts with the law.

“By destroying obstacles, you destroy all your enemies and all desires will come true if you approach the future with courage. And let reason command you, but strive to completely get rid of feelings and emotions: without them the chariot will overturn” - Papus.

Prognostic value:

As an event - triumph, victory in battle; happy trip; long-awaited receipt of good news;

As a manifestation of the materiality of the world - the car of your dreams, a lucky horse;

As a personality quality - a winner, the chosen one of fate, a lucky person, a groom;

As a quality of the surrounding reality - changes as a result of one’s own efforts:

With a straight card - positive;

With an inverted card or with a negative accompaniment - absent or negative, with various obstacles in the implementation of the planned enterprise.

Everyone born in this world will be forced to enter into battle, and each time the battle will sooner or later end - in victory or defeat. None of the cards of the Major Arcana demonstrate the time of a warrior and the qualities of a battle participant. None except the Chariot. The manifestation of this card is not only external: any of our actions, before manifesting themselves outside, matures inside and only then breaks through into reality. Most of our battles, boiling inside, end there: in any of two possible outcomes. The accumulated internal experience of victories or defeats visualizes those around a person as strong and active or weak and helpless. Conquer yourself, warrior, and you will conquer the world! But not life. So, the Chariot is a time of effort, activity, roads, and adrenaline of an individual.

The other, reverse side of these qualities is the inverted Chariot card.

Chariot (trip) + Ace of Staffs (illness) + Page Penta-glue (spending on a teenager) - the forced need to go on an unwanted journey to visit a sick person. Otherwise, offended, the abandoned one will re-register his property and fortune to those from whom he can receive nothing but a loss.

Six of Swords (movement forward in space and time) + Chariot - a trip in a car with a man at the wheel.

Pay special attention to the third card accompanying the travel sign. If it is negative and directed to the future (for example, the Ten of Swords is a disaster), then it is advisable to cancel the planned car rally for a while - there is a high probability of an unfavorable ending to the expected road. The presence of an unfavorable card in the trio, directed to the past, allows you to find the direction of the negative development of the situation in the client’s life, where the starting point is one or another trouble that has already occurred and is associated with the machine: Chariot + Three of Swords (in its extreme manifestation - unexpected death, but not of the client himself) + Nine- ka Posokhov (heavy retribution for the mistakes of the past) - the process of a very painful investigation of an accident, where the client hit a pedestrian, which ended in death.

In this case, the Six of Swords card falling out in front of the Chariot would not only mean a trip made in the past, but would also carry the load of the preposition “not”, “without” - that is, it would manifest one of the many punishments (a pile of staves -strikes on the Nine Posokhov map), namely deprivation of the right to drive a car.

Seven of Swords + Chariot is another common sign of a pedestrian hit by a car. In this case, the driver will be completely surprised by the appearance of a person in front of the car (there are no eyes on the back of the head; it is possible to divert the driver’s attention from the situation on the road).

Chariot + Four of Swords - accident,

Chariot + Four of Swords p/v - the car will be severely damaged as a result of the coup, but the driver, surprisingly, will remain almost without injuries.

Accidents and collisions involving other modes of transport will be more likely to occur under the influence of the Wheel of Fortune card.

Five of Pentacles (credit) + Chariot + Six of Sokhov (empty promises) - the money on the car will be wasted - there will be no benefit from it, no benefit from the roads. If a salesperson offers a girl to buy his slightly used car for very good money: “Can you take out a loan?”, it is unlikely that the bidder should accept the offer.

Three of Pentacles + Chariot - a car acquired through joint efforts. The subsequent King of Swords would have warned the client that he would have to take his share, and even by force - otherwise justice would not be achieved.

Chariot + Page of Cups + Death - a teenage girl and death, having met one day, will fight in a battle for life and death, and life will win.

The appearance of the Chariot in the scenario of an unmarried young lady suggests the appearance of a betrothed on the horizon of her destiny; meeting your future husband (cohabitant)

If suddenly the Page of Cups came up p/w + Chariot p/w - then the person asking doesn’t have a pair.

Queen of Cups + Page of Cups p/v (reflection) + Chariot.

A young girl who has decided on her chosen one should be careful on a trip together if the following appears in the scenario:

Ace of Swords + Chariot - acute pain, overtaken on the way, will confuse all the royal plans and turn happiness into its opposite. There is a high possibility of miscarriage, troubles in the form of a burst ovary, or ectopic pregnancy. All these hardships can be completely overcome by inaction: there is no need to rush to a happy journey, there will be no sad return.

Hanged Man + Chariot (victory in battle) - and means lack of victory in battle. Moreover, due to the lack of

battles: what you want will be achieved without fighting

Hanged Man + Chariot + Page of Swords p/v - you can prove that you are right without long litigation, but victory will turn into defeat. A simple example - sometimes it is easier to refuse the rightful share of the inheritance than to then be forever cursed by all relatives, friends and acquaintances.

The inverted Chariot card means an unsuccessful road, a return after failure.

Chariot p/v + Eight of Pentacles p/v - car theft, the car was driven into the garage (a room closed on all sides).

VIII Strength, Leo

The choice between action and inaction. Life affirmation, pride, passion, love of carnal pleasures (Leo traits). VIII Arcanum - energy, passion, joy of life.

Direct: Willpower, the desire to persevere, even if it hurts. Willingness to give up what is dear in the name of the highest. In general, it speaks of the courage with which you fight the vicissitudes of fate. About the ability to curb passions. About good health and well-being. This is the desire to quickly offer your help.

Reversed: Weakness, spinelessness, poor health. Strangers often interfere in your destiny. You yourself have little mercy. In certain cases, it indicates failure in business. Or you were afraid of difficulties.

“Remember! In order to be able, you need to believe that you can. Arm yourself with faith, the obstacles are only a ghost. If you want to be strong, stop the weakness of your heart” - Papus.

Prognostic value - benefit, good place, efforts to achieve the desired goal or changes in the usual course of life. I want, I know, I can, I do - the result cannot but be achieved!

Strength + King of Cups (beloved) + Page of Swords (bad news) - the love forecast for a young lady is disappointing:

(- Yes, he loves you, but the rights to his heart belong to someone else.)

In a male scenario, it often indicates the existence in the client’s life of a strong-willed lady who is quite successful in implementing her plans.

If the client gets the cards: Moderation n/e (quick marriage) + Strength (place, benefit) + King of Staves (I have) - he will be in a hasty marriage, but with benefit for himself.

Four of Cups + Strength + Six of Swords - how a poor woman can get out: “It’s so difficult, so difficult to live! You definitely need to give it back by the 10th (for example, money - however, it’s not necessary), but where can you get it? You will have to try and persuade to get what you want.

The inverted Strength card in a man’s layout often indicates the existence in his life of another woman, unfamiliar to most people around him. Which, in fact, makes the main partner powerless in relations with a specific person.

When the inverted Power card appears at the Magician’s feet, she calls the client powerless. If there are cards of Cups nearby, the client has psychological problems with potency: “Well, I don’t want her...”, or physiological: illness with accompanying Hanged Man cards; Four of Swords, Nine of Swords, Ten of Swords; reversed Ace of Swords, drunkenness cards.

It is possible to be powerless in changing unfavorable professional developments when the Strength card is reversed:

With the Three of Pentacles, the Three of Staves, the King of Penta-glue, the Emperor - the impossibility of moving up the career ladder, the lack of demand in the labor market for individual abilities and capabilities;

With the Eight of Pentacles, the Ten of Staves, the inverted Knight of Pentacles - thankless, low-paid work.

With the inverted Wheel of Fortune, the inverted Chariot, as well as the Ace of Staffs and the Ace of Swords - a fall, a loss, a loss in competition.

In a female scenario, it can be interpreted in two ways, depending on the overall tone - whether the cards of the present and future are dark, or whether optimistic notes predominate (even interspersed with emotions of wariness, doubt and anxiety).

Does the Lovers card or the Two of Cups card appear, or maybe there is a pair of Marriage and the Hanged Man? We are talking about a love rivalry; whose side will prevail in this battle of the titans must be determined by the outcome cards.

The presence of cards Three of Pentacles and Eight of Pentacles, Three of Staves and Eight of Staves, figure cards of the suit of Pentacles - hints at a struggle in the sphere of professional and business interests.

The presence of the cards Two of Staves and Four of Staves, Five of Cups and Eight of Cups, Ace of Pentacles allows us to predict the activation of the sphere of property and related interests.

And only the general background can tell (as already noted) what emotional mood will accompany a given period of time.

Ten of Pentacles (family well-being) + Power of p/w (without benefit) + Chariot of p/w (not a winner) - in a personal scenario, a middle-aged lady will indicate her decision not to accept proposals for life together from her betrothed (or a boyfriend - as you like).

The reason for the refusal is the lack of material, moral, aesthetic values ​​in these changes in personal life.

Everything is already there: material assets acquired through long, backbreaking labor, an apartment, a car - marriage in the forecast can only bring a decrease in personal well-being, which will be a gain, a victory only for a man, but not for a woman. Four of Swords (isolation) + Nine of Swords p/v (disappearance) + Strength p/v - female loneliness, the pain of loss is strong, and there is no strength for a new acquaintance.

IX Hermit, Virgo

The hermit is characterized by desires to escape from life, but the reason is not fear, but a thirst for knowledge and finding oneself.

Direct: Search for spiritual values. Caution, prudence. Temporary loneliness can lead to a better life. Contemplator of the world. Reflection, patience, calm.

Reversed: Light has come upon you. Finding a leader. But it can mean refusal to help, stubbornness. The search for higher values, wisdom gained by working on oneself. Conscious loneliness, contemplation, interest in esotericism. A person who is calm about old age. Forced retirement. Limitation. Implementation of plans is too slow. Fear of old age (fear of loneliness in old age). Fear of being left without money. Lack of joy in life, suspicion, self-isolation.

Advice: adjust your life plans.

“Prudence is the weapon of a sage. Prudence makes it possible to avoid pitfalls and anticipate betrayal. Always be cautious. The word is silver, and silence is gold” - Papus.

Prognostic value - loss of person, place; natural events that restore the past in its true light; painful memories, forced separation.

Hermit + Nine of Swords (sick bed, without quick changes) - will mean an unexpected separation due to a long illness, and the Hermit card gives a special shade to the predicted event: the inability to see dear faces.

The presence of nearby cards: the Wheel of Fortune, or the Chariot, or the Eight of Swords, or the Eight of Staves brings separation, where a long, distant trip will serve the purpose of healing from an unexpectedly manifested illness, most likely not chronic. Who exactly you will have to part with will explain the location of this couple in the scenario - for example, the position in the zone of the distant future will mean that the fortuneteller himself will face difficult trials: illness and the absence of close people nearby.

Hermit + Three of Staves - temporary loss, failure, isolation. Better times are on the threshold. If there are cards in the layout: Last Judgment, Justice, King of Swords and Knight of Swords, troubles with law enforcement agencies are possible, up to temporary isolation; but one should still expect a favorable outcome of events.

Hermit + Troika of Staves p/v - will not be freed from the heavy chains of failures and losses, the subsequent development of events prophesies further immersion, deepening, and the absence of good news.

In the opposite, inverted position, it means a natural disaster.

Hermit p/v + Four of Staves - causing damage to a private household due to the fault of the elements; malicious, but without prior intent, causing a loss (form of loss - cards of house, love, money, car; the culprit of the loss - cards with the image of a specific person or group of people). For example: Hermit p/v + Wheel of Fortune (car wheels) + Nine of Staves (severe amazement in view of unexpected events) - will mean the possibility of losing not the car itself, but its wheels; Moreover, they will not be removed specifically from you, but simply by coincidence (criminal place).

They warn about the possibility of a terrorist attack:

Hermit p/v + Seven of Posokhov - where exactly it is planned to be held will clarify the position of this pair in the scenario (for example, in the zone of the near future - where, for example, the presence of road maps will clarify the situation: the possibility of suffering from a terrorist attack in planned trip in the near future).

Hermit p/v + Seven of Staves p/v (renunciation of intentions) - happy avoidance of being present at the scene of a catastrophe with human casualties (possibly as a result of the actions of terrorists).

Attention! Two heavy cards:

Hermit + Death - means only the grave of a relative, just a loved one. The reason for the appearance of this pair in the layout will be explained, as always, by the third card:

Page of Staffs (if the fortuneteller is a young woman) or Queen of Swords (mature single woman) + Hermit + Death - will mean visiting family graves with certain chores (painting, installing memorial signs, etc.).

Death + Hermit + Nine of Pentacles - in the position of the immediate environment - a spell for death.

The pair Hermit + Hanged Man has a similar translation, but with a slight difference - the absence of a grave or absence from the funeral process.

Thus, those that fell in the zone of the distant future:

Hermit + Hanged Man + Page of Posokhov - will warn the client about the possibility of being deliberately deceived, not informed about the death, funeral of a loved one, in connection with a plan for property (Posokhov) seizure by a younger woman, according to compared to a client, relative.

Let's consider the possible options for this card to appear in a scenario for a middle-aged man. In position:

1. Near future. Ten of Cups (family) + Hermit + Two of Cups (love) - means that a man will leave the family for his mistress in order to return to the family again. What is meaningful is understood from a distance.

2. Result of the year. Ace of Swords + Hermit + Chariot - they will warn that a time of hardship and hardship is coming, where there will be difficult trials, blows of fate (with additional cards - illness, loss, loss of job, etc.) . You can get out of losses and hardships through a trip (perhaps with the help of a car), through long-term struggle and loneliness.

3. Cautions. Nine of Cups + Last Judgment (depressing news) + Hermit - they warn that the client will receive resignation from his mistress. How can you be sure who will leave whom? The hermit found himself in the zone of warnings, not of his own hopes; Moreover, the one who goes into exile still sees in his heart for a long time the reflection of the blow inflicted by unlost love. This is a tearing of living flesh, the soul trembles and seeks the way back to heaven, but the decision has been made, and you no longer mean anything. You are absent!

If in the scenario of a married woman it appears:

Hermit + Nine of Cups - in the immediate environment - it’s time for the lady to prepare for the most unpleasant events for her. Firstly, the husband has a mistress, and he hopes to hide this fact from the eyes of the public and family. Secondly, if the husband has to make a choice, then he will definitely sacrifice his wife for the sake of future, of course, happy years.

Advice to the wife: do what you want, but don’t pay attention to the rapid changes in your husband’s personal life! Everything is changing, you see, the man’s craving for an official change of bed will also change. Decisive actions will provoke the husband’s departure from the family.

Special attention

Hermit + Four of Pentacles - encourages reflection on the topic: “Why is she (he) looking for a meeting?”

Most likely you can expect gifts, material interest, and compensation.

A couple always promises troubles with law enforcement agencies, people in uniform: the King of Swords + the Hermit - in this sequence they mean already existing (visible to the naked eye) problems with interrogations, temporary detention, proceedings in the relevant authorities.

If you get the Hermit first and then the King of Swords, you have time to prepare for future troubles. Although there are already certain results of surveillance, facts have been collected, decisions have been made. But anything is possible!

Hermit + King of Swords + Two of Pentacles (money aside) means that the plans of such structures to take you red-handed, with a large sum of money, are not being realized. You won't have any money in your hands, lucky you!

I’ll give another example of a play on words, the mutual influence of the Hermit cards and the figured cards of the Minor Arcana:

The Last Judgment + Hermit + Queen of Pentacles - they will warn the client about receiving difficult news from authorized structures (in this case, doctors) regarding the health of a mature woman, a relative, which over time leads to the loss of the lady herself and which will entail fight the loss of her finances and property. The sad result of the forecast does not change depending on the position of the cards, only the time of the forecast changes. Having fallen at the feet of the Significator, the cards will allow you to assume that news will be received in the near future. Being located to the right of the Significator, they predict the opportunity to know and act, and the finale will not keep you waiting for more than three months. Being stationed above the head of the Significator, they allow us to assume that the news has already been received and the end time is reduced to a minimum. If the Hermit card is the first of the three, it means the beginning of a period of losses, where what exactly threatens the client can only be determined by the position of the cards.

Let's say the following appeared in the scenario:

Hermit + Eight of Staves (movement) + Two of Pentacles (loss). They will have the following meanings:

1. In the position of the near future - you won’t be able to get out of your own loneliness and losses alone, there won’t be enough opportunities, and waiting for help from the past will not bring the desired result.

2. In the position of the distant future - you yourself will be the cause of the troubles of your environment, the victim will have to seek protection and help on the side from you and your actions, which will not give a positive result.

3. In the position of the result of the year - a year of difficult trials for you, you will have to spend a lot of time alone, subsequently you will have to travel a lot of roads, everything that happens to you will entail large material costs, which will not be possible to compensate for with personal or other people’s income , the time for debt will come. Everything that happens is a long road back to your past, to yourself, your own habits and way of life. A year-long road to yourself.

4. In the position of your closest circle, you will break off relations with a loved one on your own initiative. In this case, an inverted Hermit would indicate a break in relations with you, which is also fraught with a long and unsuccessful search for stability in the world of money and things for the former partner. All other options for the loss of this trinity are interpreted similarly, only the time and pronoun change.

X Wheel of Fortune, Jupiter

Although the card is considered favorable, it bears the imprint of powerlessness before fate.

Direct: You adapt to the rhythm of life. There is a passionate desire to find a goal. The card is considered a symbol of progress, and it is not given for nothing. In real life - a map of good signs and good changes. Crucial moment. A new stage of life. Sometimes fate smiles.

Reversed: Expectation of change for the better. Knowing the problem forces you to work on it. Sometimes resistance to change that is inevitable.

“Remember! To achieve a goal, you must be able to remain silent and not talk about your intentions, get rid of dizziness when you reach certain heights” - Papus.

Other names: Wheel of Fate, Wheel of Happiness.

Prognostic meaning - a bird of good luck, a happy turn of events, a successful long trip, a long journey.

The difference between the Wheel of Fortune and the Chariot is that: The Wheel of Fortune is movement, process, direction; The chariot is a goal, a means, an action.

Ace of Staffs (strike) + Three of Cups (friends) + Wheel of Fortune - friends will not want and will not be able to accompany the client on vacation. A trip without friends, alone, but what is lost will be found. The trip will be happy in terms of relaxation and new acquaintances.

King of Swords (threat) + Wheel of Fortune + Star (dream) - a young woman’s doubts about the possibility of changing her fate the way it happened for another. The highlight of the program is a very dubious man, but not in terms of a dark angel, but in terms of support and fundamentality.

Nine of Cups (satisfaction) + Wheel of Fortune + Star - happy news about the success of others will allow you to hear again the call of the almost disappeared hope for the possibility of the fruit of the tree of love appearing.

This trio of cards often predicts women’s thoughts about the need to resort to artificial insemination, where the motivation was the news of the successful outcome of the event in the fate of another, familiar lady. The conditions for the implementation of the project must be known: time, place and other input data.

Figure of Staves + Wheel of Fortune + Nine of Cups (celebration) - a victorious outcome of a business effort (possibly admission to a university due to successful passing of entrance exams; hiring based on the results of a competition to fill a vacant position, etc.).

Eight of Cups (good news) + Wheel of Fortune + Pentacles - a serious improvement in the client’s material status in the very near future.

Eight of Cups + Wheel of Fortune + Two of Staves (care) - receiving good news from a dear person with whom the client has been trying for a long time and unsuccessfully to establish contact.

Wheel of Fortune + Hanged Man - lack of possibility of departure or relocation. No way, no road. Lack of luck, bad luck. Hanged Man + Wheel of Fortune - the end of a streak of bad luck, troubles and difficult connections are a thing of the past. Happy break. A temporary lull before big changes in life. Temporary lack of progress, road, departure.

XI Justice (Justice), Libra

Direct: the right of anyone to self-affirmation, the search for freedom and independence.

Events- papers, legal activities. Controversial cases - divorce, compensation for losses. Next to the corresponding cards - marriage or legalization of existing connections.

In the psychological field- a symbol of balance of spirit. The ability to find a common language with others.

Reversed: court cases that have not been resolved for a long time. You will be taught a cruel lesson.

If it's about love - The connection will most likely be severed. Divorces and lengthy litigation (section).

“Remember! With every action that elevates the reaction, the will must anticipate the push of opposing forces in order to destroy or at least soften the collision” - Papus. Prognostic significance - justice, resolution of a difficult life situation by a third party, decision-making by government agencies to change the circumstances of a particular person’s life, or determining the direction of a person’s actions (under some conditions, a group of people).

Tower + Justice + Devil - an unexpected decision to break vicious bonds. In a love scenario, there is an instant decision to leave your spouse due to the discovery of the truth about his infidelities.

Seven of Pentacles (hard work) + Five of Pentacles (need) + Justice - needing recognition of your own high professional and personal qualities, you spend all your time at work. And in vain, all your works will be appropriated by various authorities. By the way, their merits will be rightly noted by the top management; those who distinguished themselves will receive certificates and medals.

Six of Swords (road) + Justice - trial, proceedings in other administrative bodies (labor inspectorate, guardianship authorities, etc.), in the presence of:

Cards of the Posokhov suit - administrative claims;

Cards of the Swords suit - in a criminal case;

Cards of the suit of Pentacles - property disputes;

Cards of the suit of Cups - divorce cases, as well as cases of establishing paternity or deprivation of parental rights.

The outcome of the trial is determined by the nearest Major Arcana card. If this is a favorable card, then the client, acting as a plaintiff, can count on the full satisfaction of his claims; and as a defendant, he will defend his interests.

If there are unfavorable cards of the Major Arcana, the client will face a variety of difficulties and troubles:

In the presence of the Devil card, the client will be slandered (like the defendant) and punished, and will also not be able to prove his rights (like the plaintiff) due to the actions of false witnesses in favor of the opposing party.

In an inverted position, the Justice card indicates an unfair solution to a specific situation in a client’s life by government agencies, due to the indifference or interest of officials in the opposite result.

Often predicts lengthy administrative and sometimes judicial litigation in order to confirm legal rights and obtain the necessary documents.

Six of Swords + Justice p/v - excessively protracted legal proceedings.

Five of Staves + Justice p/v + King Penta-glue - the client will not be able to prove a violation of his labor interests in terms of non-payment of incentive funds by management. Here the Five of Staves indicates the sphere of labor activity (the struggle for a place in the sun), and the King of Pentacles (money manager), turning towards the work card and the unfair card, makes efforts (the staff of business power in hand) to keep additional funds in circulation -te (coin in the other hand), closing all your eyes. , .

Sometimes the card warns the client about the lack of need to start a specific business, to make efforts (useless efforts) - if the Seven of Staves, Eight of Staves, Four of Pentacles and Eight of Pentacles are located in close proximity to the inverted Justice.

XII Hanged Man, Neptune

One of the meanings of the card is the immersion of spirit in matter. A person sees the world upside down. The state of lost ground underfoot. At the chart level, the conjunction of Mars and Mercury signifies enterprise and even adventurism. In the spiritual sense - the search for new solutions and discoveries.

Direct:"Headstand" It means readiness and ability to accept changes, life flexibility. You will be able to acquire knowledge, but will not be able to apply it.

Inverted- a useless pursuit of a dream. Another option is that you are ready to make a sacrifice, but it will be useless.

“Remember! Selflessness is a divine law from which no one is exempt. But do not expect anything other than ingratitude from people for your good deeds. For this Arcanum warns you of an attempt to violate you and your beliefs” - Papus.

Other names: Redemptive Sacrifice.

Prognostic value - victim of circumstances, loss through no fault of one's own, loss of friends and property, inability to influence the undesirable course of events.

Greed is a sin of self-destruction; those found guilty of it were executed by hanging by the neck; a historical example is Judas Iscariot. But what would it mean to be hanged by the feet? In medieval France, such a fate awaited traitors. The meaning of events under the sign of the card is the desire to shake out every last penny from the pockets of a particular person, and the desired compensation is not the true amount of the debt or obligation, it is increased several times. The thirst for compensation has acquired exaggerated forms; a person reflects any attempts to reach his mind, pity, morality: “Give, give, give - you must!” At the heart of this uncontrollable energy of persecution is unsatisfied revenge for betrayal. It doesn’t matter what exactly a given person considered an unscrupulous act - love betrayal, unwillingness to repay a past good deed - the process is already in development, the executioner’s step is getting closer. Hanged Man has the meaning of the prefix “not” or the negations “no” or “without” ":

Hanged Man + King of Pentacles - there is no benefit in the future, no profit, no result for a specific comrade.

An active attempt to settle scores will also not yield results: “Give back what’s yours, you owe me mine!” Demand, shake, wait - there will be no result. The Hanged Man + Queen of Pentacles - “Give it to me! I have not been a woman for you for a long time and, finally, I can punish you for neglect!” When you see these signs in the layout, assume that the woman designated by them has certain character traits: a tendency to profit from misfortune, tenacity in pursuit Based on her own interests, intrigue and a double game are also present in her arsenal of struggle for existence. But under no circumstances can this person get enough, which gives her a reason to consider the people around her as an object and a means to achieve her own well-being. If the desired result has moved into the zone of unattainability, then the struggle will gradually take on the blissful form of a righteous war, not for benefits, but only for the sake of punishing the chosen ones, those responsible for the misfortune of all mankind. The persecution will last until the death of the object chosen for the role of the villain, and with the ardor and heat of a soul unclouded by doubts and torments. The Hanged Man in combination with shock (sword) figures will have a slightly different meaning - this is trouble due to the actions of the figures that appear in the layout. Thus, the cards drawn for a man: Hanged Man + King of Swords (the powers that be) in the position of the near future warn that he will soon be under investigation and in prison, and not at all free. In this example, it is the presence of the Hanged Man that will presuppose the readiness of law enforcement agencies for such events, in connection with the receipt of preliminary information from a traitor, an informer from the client’s inner circle. Located after the figured card, the Hanged Man marks a downward movement, decline, deprivation (as you have already learned , the area of ​​predicted events is determined by the suit of the Minor Arcana).

King of Pentacles + Hanged Man - translated as major troubles in the form of a monetary loss, already caused to a man by someone (further laid out the Empress will warn about a possible major theft, loss from his wife).

Queen of Pentacles + Hanged Man - “Woman, give it up!” You betrayed me, deceived me, you must pay! In the course of the development of events, there is no possibility of a mutually satisfactory resolution of the conflict - the lady in the future does not have the opportunity to preserve, as well as obtain, the item, object, etc. that interests her.

Being in front of non-figure cards of the Minor Arcana, it worsens the achievement of results in the planned direction or completely changes the expected course of events.

Hanged Man + Three of Cups (holiday, friendly company) - they will warn about the lack of an invitation to a party, about the possibility of being deliberately crossed out from the general list of invitees.

The time of absence of both a holiday in life and a celebration of life is approaching.

Hanged Man + Three of Staves - lack of a favorable chance, change (for example, in case of love suffering, this card warns the client that this relationship has no future - she will be left for another, better partner).

Nobody will help you; You won’t be able to keep up or catch up. Without prospects, without a future, it is suggested to look for another source of desires. No one looks, no one makes acquaintances, no one approaches - life is in full swing, but you are not in it.

Hanged Man + Ace of Staves (strike, bankruptcy, illness, loss of friends) - lack of opportunity to correct an unfortunate situation, attempts to escape “from the situation will lead to spreading, spreading circles of misfortune among the people around him: by lending money to someone who is in financial failure Well, you can’t wait for a financial return, but ruining the relationship and getting a lot of blows is the maximum, probably. And also revenge.

Hanged Man + Seven of Cups (imagination, conjecture, fantasy, writing) - progressive development, time gap. In the foreseeable future (the past is not destined to repeat itself, it has sunk into oblivion without return)

When asked about the prospects for personal relationships, he points to the partner’s decision to break off a difficult relationship: “I will never return to you, and I didn’t promise you anything...”, and there are options to change such a sad fact in the life set of the Kli -enta does not exist - “did not promise” will definitely be pronounced.

Moon + Hanged Man + Seven of Cups - the man walked away from his regular partner, but did not promise anything to his new girlfriend and therefore, with a clear conscience and having previously wiggled along the way, he blithely retreated into his usual embrace.

Seven of Cups + Hanged Man - the promise will not be fulfilled.

After non-figure cards of the Minor Arcana, it means a negative result after certain actions.

Three of Cups + Hanged Man - warns of poor health after the holiday, you will have to be in the role of the guilty one without guilt. It seems that the holiday will not be forgotten for a long time, and each of the participants in the plot, to the best of his ability, will portray himself to the client in various, quite unpleasant angles.

Three of Staves + Hanged Man - loss ahead; You won’t find it, but you will lose it. Don’t rush, don’t take risks, don’t fight: wait a little and, perhaps, your eyes will open. You will suddenly realize that you do not have the opportunity to turn the Earth upside down - there is no lever, no fulcrum, no person. Your plan was bad from the beginning, and the moment of truth has come, it’s time to sum it up. There is only a gloomy sky ahead, and you are alone again, the dope has dissipated, taking away your hopes.

Ace of Staffs + Hanged Man - insult. An unrequited feeling.

Seven of Cups + Hanged Man - lack of perspective, selection of options, doubts about the correctness of the continuation: “We probably have no future...”, but after some time it is possible again

golden time. The time is coming when it is impossible to fulfill desires and promises given on credit - circumstances are not favorable; but life can be different - black, white, red, and therefore don’t twitch so that it doesn’t hurt even more, maybe it’s still developing.

Four of Cups (proposal) + Hanged Man - a proposal to cancel the previously proposed one.

In the presence of the Chariot + Hierophant - a proposal to invalidate the wedding.

advice to be attentive to the appearance of the combination in the layout: Six of Cups (relationships, sex) + Hanged Man (victim of circumstances) - this pair of cards predicts rape.

Curious options arise when the Hanged Man is placed between two cards of the Minor Arcana.

The young girl wanted to know the true attitude on the part of her boyfriend. The ones dropped: Ten of Staves + Hanged Man + Ten of Pentacles p/v - meant that the man would be dating a client out of pity for the next three months (he can’t help but meet, but satisfaction and joy no longer live here). The position of the Hanged Man in front of the Major Arcana card means incomplete achieving a certain position, a different direction of events, situations; stop halfway. Hanged Man + Hierophant (marriage, long-term commitments) - will indicate the creation of long-term relationships, but without the usual obligations, in a form that is not entirely acceptable to oneself and others, incorrectly, not so.

This couple can be described as “not a marriage”, cohabitation.

Hanged Man + Hierophant + Eight of Staves (road, movement) - a pair of cards of the Major Arcana means “someone else’s co-resident”, and in total with the next one - “relationship with an unfree man” (however, also unmarried).

For the client, it is possible in the future: he will move towards her, but only after a break (connector, disconnection). Again, this is not bad for the client - why does she, like each of us, need a man who divides the bed in half?

Hanged Man + Fool - lack of meaning, erroneous hopes, miscalculation, a positive result of efforts should not have been expected.

The exception to the rule is the following pair:

Hanged Man + Hermit - it is always translated only as violent death and untimely death.

Who will die a terrible death, perhaps as a result. terrorist attack will be determined by the location of these cards in the layout.

If the client has the following: Nine of Swords (crying, forced presence) + Hanged Man + Hermit - you can calm down about your own life - nothing threatens you, but you will have to accompany the deceased on his final journey.

Page of Swords p/v + Hanged p/v + Hermit - hesitation about continuing the pregnancy. A slight bleeding can threaten the proper development of the fetus, there is a high probability of giving birth to a defective child. It is adequate to replace the inverted Page of Swords with the inverted Sun, the inverted Page of Cups.

If the children's signs fall out in an upright position, but in the presence of an inverted Hanged Man and an inverted Hermit, most likely the child will have to visit the grave or deathbed of a close relative. Only those dropped: Sun + Hanged Man + Hermit - a warning about the possible death of a child. Nine Posokhov (sick head) + Hanged Man + Hermit - an illness without recovery, irreversible disturbances in brain activity.

The Hanged Man after the Major Arcana card has the meaning of a completed cycle with the opposite result.

Marriage + Hanged Man - the breakdown of a marriage, with lasting negative consequences for finances, image, and health (mutual friends will turn away in condemnation, property will be divided in unfavorable proportions, to gain a stable, sustainable, pleasant situation in life would already be -it won't work).

Chariot + Hanged Man - complete defeat; you will not find your happiness in struggle.

The same couple in the presence of:

Cards Six of Swords, Seven of Swords, Eight of Swords, Eight of Staves (usually meaning roads, paths) - will mean major losses on the road, unexpected unpleasant news upon return;

Together with the Eight of Pentacles card - damage to the car (Chariot) from the outside, without adequate compensation for the loss;

If the Eight of Pentacles is reversed, it means car theft.

Hermit + Hanged Man - a return from nowhere, a thirst for compensation, an attempt to get back on your feet, finding yourself.

To all that has been stated, it remains only to add some nuances given to the love scenario by this card, namely: all the events described have a touch of illness, pain in general and in intimate relationships in particular.

To whom exactly the painful energy in the relationship will be directed will be indicated by the nearby figured card:

Magician + Queen of Cups + Hanged Man - the woman will be seriously ill, which will disrupt normal intimate relationships for a long time;

Could + Hanged Man + Queen of Cups - the man will be sick, which does not contribute to a normal sex life;

Hanged Man + Magician + Queen of Cups - “not a man”, a man with impaired sexual functions will try to have a mistress in the hope of restoring his strength.

It is worth carefully assessing the appearance of the Hanged Man in a reading with any of the Aces; their appearance is always a sign of trouble.

In the inverted position, the Hanged Man card will warn the client by its appearance about the need to more carefully carry out all preliminary measures before announcing to society and its individual members about its intentions and further actions. There is a great opportunity, due to the lack of all information or its distortion, at best - to get into trouble and become a laughing stock, at worst - to damage your good name, professional position or social status. Knight of Swords + Eight of Cups + Hanged Man - an attempt to act as a truce between seriously quarreling parties will fail miserably. Reconciliation is impossible - the young man inflicted an indelible insult on the suffering party quite deliberately, contrary to the opinion of the defender who was in trouble.

XIII Death, Scorpio

Opens the door of true light. Death of the old in the name of the new. Arcanum can be considered good only if you are not afraid of the need for change and radical transformations. The Arcana is often accompanied by fear.

Direct: your worldview expands. The end of the current situation. Changing your life and worldview. This card is a symbol of change, other cards in the layout will tell you what it is. But in any case, you will have a chance for a new start in life. In general, the key foreshadows the end of the old life and the inevitable losses associated with this. End of acquaintance, friendship. Possible loss of source of income. However, the beginning of a new era always has a tinge of anxious joy.

Reversed: Fear of change, stagnation in business, working through force. If there are good cards nearby, then this is slow progress towards good changes.

“Remember that death is the rebirth of another life and the beginning of our immortality” - Papus.

Prognostic value - death, destruction; The hour of change has struck.

Nine of Cups (love) + Ace of Swords (struggle, war) + Death - thirst for risk, a happy moment of chasing death. Ladies, pay closer attention! If such a trio appears in the scenario of your chosen one, then you will not win a piece of his heart for yourself: a man values ​​the feeling of danger and adrenaline, the smell of blood more than his own life. Only his own death can distract him from hunting, parachute jumping, mountaineering and other extreme pastimes.

Cards: Knight of Pentacles + Death are usually translated in one word, with the noun being “military”; if you want to say more, then you can try to pronounce the phrase “military man.”

Trinity Peace + Knight of Pentacles + Death, in turn, means the wife (woman in a ring, with a ring) of a military man.

The widow of a military man will be a woman whose reading appears: Knight of Pentacles + Death + Peace - the lady faces the death received by another.

Knight of Cups (Page, Queen) + Death - doctor, where the figure card indicates the gender of the professional in returning a “most likely dead” client to life. The doctor's profile is surgery, gynecology, intensive care, etc.

Death + Stupid - “Stupid death”, these words can often be heard when we are talking about an untimely and preventable death. Death + Fool + Knight of Swords - death due to one’s own negligence. Death + Fool + Knight of Pentacles p/v (give) - will cause the sudden death of someone or the unexpected destruction of something. Death + Hanged Man - a fatal disease ( in the presence of the inverted Three of Swords - the loss of a loved one due to illness). The Hanged Man + Death - an unexpected painful death, a quick death, a transient fatal disease.

Death + King of Swords p/v + Ace of Swords p/v:

1. In overhead position:

a) a male client - searching for a non-scandalous option for dealing with an inheritance;

b) clients - her plans to involve a serious man, such as a specific one, in resolving the problematic division of property (in an amicable way, without a scandal);

c) with the Ace of Swords in a direct position, war cannot be avoided, and I am ready.

2. The cards fell at the feet (near future):

a) happy avoidance of death threatening in an attack;

b) if the Ace of Swords is in an upright position, the fortuneteller is in danger of being killed.

Why are we all about death! Pay attention to the unusual play of meaning that the Death card acquires together with the Eight of Staves (movement) + Two of Cups (love, friendship): “I rushed into love without looking back: let the groans and devastation remain behind my back, let the past trying to stand next to me again - nothing can interfere with my love, and besides it, nothing is needed!

Death + Strength - “the mortal force of evil” - often appears in the scenario of people who willingly believe in the existence of corruption.

For them, it signifies all the delights of the state of a person who has fallen under the unfavorable attention of the heavy gaze of the enemy of the human race: he himself, of course, did not bother with such trifles - that is why there are helpers in people who are devoted to him in soul.

Death + Strength + Emperor - the efforts of spiteful critics to remove the owner (director, boss) from the throne with the help of an outside, third force (to act directly is too dangerous).

An inverted Death card does not mean real, physical death. It most often indicates a sudden disruption of all plans, but not as a collapse of the foundations of life (which the Tower card would rather indicate), but as the impossibility of fulfilling plans due to the insignificance of forces, or methods, or time.

Ace of Swords p/v + Death p/v + Nine of Staves (misunderstanding) - thirst to free yourself from connection with a person who brings painful blows to pride and a calm existence with his tendency to suicide, self-destruction with the help of drugs and alcohol (unreal risk, escaping from death over the heads of others) and simply existential habits.

A sign of determination to break the painful bonds of past attachments by any means - you are already free, and they know nothing about your freedom.

XIV Moderation (Balance), Sagittarius

Represents the stability of consciousness from all external influences. “Moderation and accuracy” is the slogan of this Arcana.

Direct: It means renewal of mental and physical strength. What to do: humility, calmness, balance in affairs and views. Sometimes "Moderation" (if the card falls after a bad one) is a victory over the vicissitudes of fate.

Reversed: Excessive emotional temperament, sudden changes in mood. Don't take on too many things at once.

“Check and measure your strength, but not in order to retreat from the task, but in order to overcome obstacles” - Papus.

Other names are Temperance, Balance. The card in the upright position is related to the state of health of the client himself or his environment - in the presence of corresponding figured cards.

Moderation + Page of Cups - lack of an internal answer to the question of the need for a child; the young woman, almost a child herself, will try to find an acceptable answer from trustworthy people.

Moderation, next to cards of the suit of Cups, indicates illness due to poor nutrition, and also indicates the fact of drunkenness, where the third card helps to identify a person who is painfully attached to this process. The presence of cards of the suit of Swords nearby predicts an acute course or sudden occurrence of disease (trauma, inflammation, surgery).

In the presence of cards of the Staves suit, Moderation will manifest the existence of chronic diseases of varying duration (the duration is determined by the period of increase from the Two of Staves to the Ten of Staves). The presence of positive cards of the Major Arcana, as well as nearby promising cards of the Minor Arcana (Three of Staves, The Four of Pentacles and the Ten of Pentacles) will indicate doubts before starting active actions or fear of losses in a successful period of life.

Moderation and the Moon, with a generally similar interpretation of the meanings, absolutely do not coincide in meaning in the forecast. Doubts and torment are prophesied by both cards, but:

- Moderation - from knowledge, definition, equivalence of directions;

- Moon - from the darkness of the soul, ignorance, ignorance, delusion or deception.

Moderation is often a comparative characteristic of the measure of love of partners: Magician + Moderation + Two of Cups - the client (or the man, if they are telling fortunes to a lady) is loved less than themselves, and less than the other. If there are Swords nearby, scandalous statements and claims of the man to his life friend: “You never loved me; you have always been attached like a cat, you only think about yourself and your pleasure - everything is not enough for you, everything is not right for you!

Moderation + Three of Swords (over) + Eight of Swords (hopelessness) - the end of the love story. A man doesn’t want to see what he previously desired; she disgusts him.

Queen of Swords (warrior) + Temperance + Three of Swords (hopelessness) - the lady’s long and unsuccessful struggle in an attempt to turn back the clock of life and love. It’s all over a long time ago, all that remains is to admit defeat, and the battle will be over.

In a love and family situation, he prophesies an unsuccessful attempt by a lady to improve partnership relations with a provocative statement of separation. An attempt to cure a disease with fear will end in an abyss of fear.

Moderation + Devil + Five of Pentacles (need) - the fear of being deceived and used in love relationships is inherent in both women and men.

- Does she need me or just my money?

- Does he need me, will he follow my desires - to be together, to live together?

- Or am I hoping in vain?

Four of Staves (house) + Moderation + Devil - the impossibility of deciding on preferences: it’s okay to live at your usual pace, but how strong is the temptation of vice. Also doubts about the partner’s honesty.

In an inverted position, the Temperance card promises recovery after a long, prolonged illness, and if the card of the suit of Cups is in close proximity, it promises a quick marriage. The only exception is: Page of Cups p/w (a young woman, almost a child) + Moderation p/w is a pleasant surprise for a young girl who suddenly gets married due to an unexpected pregnancy, and even twins. For a client, in In whose layout these cards appeared, the Nine of Swords preceding them placed all the accents: the woman was very worried not about herself, but about the future of her daughter. The girl herself is still so young and inexperienced, but now there are twins, and it is not yet clear whether the young couple will get along in marriage.

XV Devil, Capricorn

The dark side of all things.

In direct- You take for granted something that cannot be proven. Or a painful thirst for material and purely physical well-being. desire to have power over others. Sometimes it means slavish dependence on erotic desires.

Reversed: All forces are thrown to achieve material wealth! The soul dies. If the card is among the good ones, there may be a successful love affair or you will evade retribution (debauchery without consequences).

“Try to re-evaluate your spiritual values ​​and decide - what gods do you worship? It’s better to be a pagan than to be a candle to God and a poker to hell” - Papus

So, the presence of the Devil card in the layout is a reason for resolving a global question: who is evil, who has good intentions? And, as was already said not by me: “Everyone will be rewarded according to his faith.”

The Devil card, in an upright position, testifies to the fact of the existence in the client’s life of direct obsession, the presence of someone else’s influence on the personal worldview, and the desire to control decision-making from the outside. It does not matter what exactly the client experiences under the influence of this card: a joyful, bright feeling of the fullness and beauty of life, or the bitterness of disappointment in previously professed principles, or emerging outbursts of rage.

By its appearance, the card prophesies the danger of deception and self-deception progressing over time in various areas of life. Or it points to that part of the client’s life that causes him fear and, as a result, an attempt to avoid resolving painful issues. Problems accumulate, condensing and interpenetrating, to a critical level, and then a destructive explosion occurs (but not always liberation).

Devil (mistake, fear) + Three of Staves (forward, future) + King of Swords - a mistake when developing long-term plans. On the path to a happy place, you will definitely encounter an insurmountable obstacle in the person of a man who has power and the corresponding forces (which will be used not for the benefit of you and your plans). The insurmountability will only be apparent, however, like everything in life. Fear will not allow you to go forward in the fight for your ideals - beyond the boundaries of logic and a sense of self-preservation. And very much in vain. This is the essence of the Devil card: all our fears, like sins, are nurtured by our own weaknesses and cunning.

King of Pentacles + Devil - what to do? Shouldn't you get a job in this team? The manager there is a liar and a fraudster, using any methods to save wages in the style of: “Me-me-me - haven’t I offended myself?” Therefore, he will be able to live in peace only if there is a consistently gloomy atmosphere in the team and will always welcome earphones and intriguers. Do you still need to go there?

Ten of Swords (end) + Ten of Staves (meaningless) + Devil - you can’t go back, forward is even worse, standing still is not allowed, and jumping is dangerous. The outlined line of changes is dangerous and ineffective, and it won’t work out according to plan: they will definitely come out into the light of day and mistakes and false assurances. There is no salvation in what seems to be the road, but still a person has little control over his life. And this is happiness - after a period of disappointment, a new path will open and life will continue.

The presence of an inverted Devil card in the layout already indicates an internal knowledge of the sin of lying and betrayal

The Devil card usually works within the boundaries of a person’s sexual sphere, but, according to Freud’s teachings, there are no areas in life that do not have gender relations as a basis for activity.

Devil p/v + Three of Staves p/v (back, past) + King of Swords p/v - a confident and strong man will come to your defense, revealing and bringing to the surface of consciousness the fears and mistakes of the past (complexes); his actions will be very painful, but necessary. The King of Swords in an inverted position, in turn, means: not presenting a demand in an ultimatum form, but using a sharp, pressing method of persuasion - in order to assist and protect the client from specific persons or circumstances. In this case - in order to protect the client from himself and the circumstances of the consequences of his own weaknesses and mistakes.

Devil + Nine of Swords (mental torment) + Ten of Cups p/v (other people’s happiness) - evil jealousy, absolute inability to escape from the awareness of the happiness and well-being of others. The Trinity often appears in the layout of choleric lovers: “How can I imagine that you are with your wife “I’m ready to kill you, or myself, or her, or us!”

Devil + Seven of Cups p/w (I don’t want) + Ten of Staves (difficult) - in the Priestess’s heart: “I’m afraid that he doesn’t want to see me, it’s probably easier and more pleasant for him with someone else. Why doesn’t he show up and doesn’t even call, has he really left forever?” Eight of Cups (expectation) + Devil + Five of Cups (sadness) - regret about one’s own guilt after the departed, torment of the soul by one’s own sin: “I was so without -reliably self-confident, only I have the sin of destroyed love. He left, and the pain has haunted me for years. I keep looking at the past, and every new year brings me more and more tears.”

Devil (fear) + Tower (collapse) + Seven of Staffs (offer) - fear of getting into a hopeless situation if you accept the offer. If there are Moon and Sun cards nearby: the former lover will propose marriage to the client, but will also agree to the birth of a joint child without marriage; for the client, the cards that fall out predict the impossibility of consent: “It’s scary, I’ll suddenly be left alone!”, and refusal: “It’s scary, What if the child he wants takes him to another?”

Hermit + Devil + Ace of Pentacles - loneliness of the soul due to the passion for money. It usually happens in the scenario of gamblers that they put their souls on the line - everything else is different and everyone else has already been lost.

Devil + Two of Pentacles - gambler and sharper.

Devil + Four of Pentacles - pathological greed;

Devil + Two of Cups (or Seven of Cups, or Nine of Cups) - lust;

Devil + Cups + Page of any suit (or Sun) - pedophilia;

Devil + Nine of Staves (morbidity) + sword figure - painful jealousy on the part of the designated person;

Devil + Seven of Swords - theft; tendency to steal;

Devil + Six of Staves + Ten of Swords - killer;

Devil + Justice + Eight of Swords - victim of a miscarriage of justice;

Devil + Four of Swords - pathological cowardice, bordering on betrayal;

Devil + Three of Staves - bait, trap, false promises and illusory hopes;

Devil + Temperance - the sin of gluttony or drunkenness;

Devil + Ace of Cups (or Three of Cups) - drunkenness and sin;

The Devil + Ten of Cups is a false family man.

Sometimes neither the person himself nor his environment can explain why wrong moves are repeated in life again and again. Well, why does “yours forever” husband visit his former family again and again, and always with the desire to help with business or money; and the meeting (like the first time) ends in a fight and a call to the police:

Page of Cups (child's bright hopes) + Six of Cups (memories) + Five of Swords.

The presence of the Devil card in the layout will indicate pathological unresolvedness and the presence of very painful connections in the past, which will again and again pit the participants in past battles against each other in the struggle for liberation, for their own happiness.

XVI Tower (Almshouse), Mars

The fall of the old life and ideals (tower). The most severe card of the Major Arcana

Direct: the end of the existing situation under the influence of external forces, and a rapid end! This includes a sudden decision to change jobs or place of residence. May mean abandoning a previous relationship. Very severe tests in friendship and love, after which our opinion about loved ones changes dramatically. Next to good cards, it signals the collapse of existing evil, foreshadowing the end of the black streak.

Reversed: strong dependence on circumstances that cannot currently be changed. Options are limited.

“You take comfort in the fact that to suffer means to work in aspiration from matter, that is, to be clothed with immortality” - Papus.

Another name is Dungeon.

Prognostic meaning - a blow, an unpleasant surprise, the destruction of the familiar world of relationships and (or) things.

Be careful with this card - it is not always categorically heavy, often indicating the process of repair, various kinds of alterations; moving from one apartment to another; the formation of a new form of relationship (each of the listed events is quite a difficult test for both the soul and the body). The position of this card after the other Major Arcana means an unexpected opposite result.

Two of Cups (love, together) + Chariot (car, happy trip, relaxation) + Tower (surprise, separation) - lovers went to relax together, but returned separately, accidentally losing each other in the crowd. The man will receive many reproaches (lightning, a strike on the Tower card directed towards the male figure).

Two of Cups + Tower - in a female scenario - an unpredictable blow of fate for a loved one, which will become a difficult test for the client. The presence of the Hanged Man cards, or the Nine of Swords, or the Four of Swords in the layout will most likely indicate future major troubles with the health of the beloved man (the lady received terrible news about an advanced form of cancer in her husband, which became a complete surprise for everyone and required complete changes in immediate plans and in the family’s lifestyle).

But the option: Lovers + Tower + Four of Swords - at the feet of the Priestess will have a different meaning. Most likely, the lady’s love dreams will suddenly collapse due to her trauma that occurred with the object of her romantic interest or because of him.

Let's say the Tower is located at the feet of the Significator (Priestess). This suggests that the client will become the instigator of unexpected events and, most likely, with unpleasant consequences. The appearance of a pair of Tower + Page of Posokhov - will mean the beginning of major property changes, due to the desire to open a new business. King of Cups p/v + Tower + Sun - love relationships will burst at the seams due to unexpected changes in business -actions of a man. He will suddenly remember his responsibilities towards his own child.

If the Tower is located in front of the Major Arcana card, this position foreshadows the beginning of negative, destructive tendencies in the indicated direction. Literally: Tower + Marriage - the beginning of major and long-term friction and scandals in marriage. The likely outcome of the battle will be indicated, as always, by the third card.

Tower + Sun - unwanted child; the child as a source of life's problems.

Tower + Hanged Man - an unexpected serious illness, usually with serious consequences. In the female scenario, this couple, in the presence of the Two of Cups p/w, warned about the imminent serious illness of the husband associated with a long-standing infection he received in an affair on the side (here - prostate cancer). Tower + Moon - unexpected treason, the actual relationship is destroyed, but its form will remain the same at the request of the guilty party.

Marriage + Tower - will, in turn, mean the end of the marriage relationship, where the final chords of outbursts of rage over the division of property will sound hypotheses: “It’s your fault!” What is the next?".

Sun + Tower - the child will not suffer as a result of the destruction of the parents’ relationship or other, smaller, life trials (repair). Most likely, the child will be planned to be removed from the time of the most complex process, and will also be well prepared for a new form of existence.

Moon + Tower is a dubious form of relationship that has no future.

So, for a middle-aged lady, the Knight of Staff (news from afar, correspondence) with the Moon and the Tower appeared in the reading. The lady received a letter from prison from a former classmate, her first love, whose relationship with whom, after graduating from school, abruptly ended due to circumstances. The letter was filled with emotions of love longing, which led our lady into grave doubts: “What should we do?” Here the Moon card indicates the confusion and vacillation reigning in the soul of a man - boredom pushes him to search for the illusion of warmth and love in the distance. Hanged Man + Tower - a sharp, unexpected deterioration of a long-standing, serious, unresolved problem (often a disease).

Last Judgment + Tower - unexpected news of loss. The presence of a third card will clarify the course of the fall. So, if the following card appears: Two of Pentacles, then, most likely, the client is not prepared for losing money as a result of theft;

Two of Pentacles p/v - the surprise of the news will be that what was lost has been partially returned.

Tower + Queen of Staves (having the right) + Mistress (Empress) - the relationship is destroyed; the woman is the owner of the apartment, which she inherited from a mature female relative, and as a landlady she will ask to vacate her living space.

How will the Tower be read in the presence of the Minor Arcana cards? Suppose the Three of Cups (holiday, feast) + Tower + Three of Pen-tacles (labor, team) fell for a man in the next six months. With this arrangement of cards, the blow in the relationship (two figures fall from the built walls into nowhere) is directed precisely at the man, so we will translate this three as follows: Difficult times await you in your usual relationships, your woman will be satisfied with working for her husband team and close-knit, frequent gatherings with alcohol. It is possible to survive such a period, but nothing can be changed quickly, and this situation will become painful over time. There will be a test of the strength of your past, you created it together, but one of you has lost its purpose, and the other will lose its meaning.

I’ll especially note a couple: the Three of Staves and the Tower are the approach of a universal catastrophe in a single building: repairs, construction (in the presence of the Three of Pentacles) or the purchase of a new home with completely or partially missing benefits and beauty.

The onset of the moment of truth is inevitable - the volume and extent in time space of the necessary efforts were previously realized incorrectly. The relative position of the cards in this pair does not matter.

Being in close proximity to the figured cards of the Minor Arcana, the Tower is extremely organic in its influence, it can be read as no, not like that, on the contrary, just “not...”!

Tower + King of Pentacles (I assume that no additional decoding is required for the Queen, Knight and Page of the Pentacles suit) - collapse of plans for enrichment, obtaining any benefit (business, pension, alimony, acquisition of property or its share, etc.).

d.) for the client; the desired result cannot be obtained in principle, even if the reason for the failure is known.

King of Pentacles + Tower - degradation, loss, decline. It was and is past, the category “good” is not the concept of “eternal”.

Tower + Ten of Swords (stab in the back, without hope) + Knight of Pentacles - ruin as a result of betrayal.

Relations with a former partner (not necessarily a business one) were completely upset, as a result of which the future of the fallen one was revealed: there is no expectation of a return on investments, no one will provide loans (even on extremely favorable terms). Ace of Pentacles + Knight of Swords + Knight of Pentacles - in the position of the immediate environment they serve as a warning sign to the client. He will receive an unexpected negative change in his professional and financial situation, which until this moment was considered stably prosperous. It is possible to be fired from an excellent position, and almost the only one fired (due to layoff or other reason) will be him alone.

The solution in the near future is not a pleasant one - to give away little so as not to lose more. If the Ten of Staves appears next to the listed cards, then, with a greater approximation to reality, we can say that the client faces long-term material losses as a result of prolonged, the meaning of infusions of strength (in various forms) into a young and not entirely intelligent man.

Ace of Cups + Tower + Nine of Swords - the need to respond kindly to the benefactor, otherwise - where is the justice? The simplest everyday option - the aunt loaned her beloved niece for a year, but cruel fate intervened (let’s say the aunt’s husband, the kindest person, fell ill) and urgently need money. Well, how can a niece not find the means to return the amount allocated with all her heart?

The Tower card in an inverted position represents a process of inconvenience, disagreement, imperfection - but the process is quite conscious, and therefore amenable to control and planning, albeit in small forms. Thus, an inverted Tower falling on a lady’s heart will mean that her personal life has reached a dead end, her soul is tormented (and, accordingly, her heart is broken) by her partner, friend, companion, husband. If the general background of the layout is gloomy, cards of betrayal, misfortune, and lies predominate, then they will allow we can conclude that the relationship is collapsing: due to a man’s love affair on the side (inverted Strength, inverted Two of Cups, inverted Queen of Cups or Queen of Cups, but together with cards of bad news); or due to the influence of his relatives (the presence of the Queen of Penta-Glue, etc., together with the Five of Swords, Five of Pentacles and similar cards of benefit, ill will, anger).

XVII Star, Aquarius

The seventeenth Arcana symbolizes rebirth. It gives hope, distortion of reality, carelessness. Life is full of dreams. Therefore, “Star” is also an unconscious thirst for life.

Direct: A surge of creative energy, inspiration, new ideas. Physical and psychological well-being improves. You have an optimistic outlook on life and good, feasible plans. This card, in addition, can be interpreted as unexpected help from a new friend, new love.

Reversed: You want to make a career in the arts or something that requires creativity. Sometimes these are untapped opportunities. Lack of self-confidence, laziness, indifference.

Another name is Nadezhda. The prognostic meaning is hope, the time of waiting for favorable changes, often empty. A shaky, flickering star of hope appeared in the firmament, surrounded by small fireflies of errors and illusions, its light is unclear against the general background. She is and she is not. The layers of the past and the future have already converged, and your life will change as a result, but what to do now, in which direction to move, so that your personal luck shines in full force? Pour the water from the lake of tears into the stream of new plans, again, evaluate the results of your actions and gain the desire to move in just a different direction. The star is a bright card, and one could say that happiness awaits a person. But the Zvezda card is NOT SO simple, of course, everything will be fine - but not now. It will not be as expected and wanted. Of course, this is not the Tower card - a disaster, everything collapsed, everything was lost, but still, this is a card of delusions, wishful thinking. Life went on as usual, and the man withdrew into himself and disappeared into the depths of the subconscious.

Star + Eight of Swords (trap of circumstances + Two of Swords (doubts) - the impossibility of explaining complex circumstances due to the inaction of the main participant determining the development of events. A star that falls after any figured card prophesies a prison for this person:

Actual, in the presence of the cards Justice, Last Judgment, Five of Swords, Eight of Swords;

Temporary, with indispensable release (hospital, detention, deportation to grandma in the village for the summer), with cards of favorable changes in the Major Arcana, as well as with the Two of Swords, Eight of Staves;

Long-term, like fate (death in hospital or prison, relapses, non-return), with heavy cards of the Major Arcana, as well as with the Three of Swords, Nine of Swords, Ten of Swords, Ace of Swords, Ace of Staffs. A natural analogy would be translation with such cards - tach of the inverted Star - like liberation from captivity, from the oppression of events or circumstances. Star + Moderation p/v: When asking about a sick person - incorrect assessment of the condition and course of the disease. Positive dynamics during the course of the disease are determined, but a sharp exacerbation and deterioration of the condition will occur. In case of incurable diseases, there is an error in estimating the remaining time; the patient may die in the near future. With a love request, there is a mistaken hope for a quick marriage. Ten of Cups (family) + King of Cups + Star - a man is in love and for the sake of yjdjq k.,db he turned his back on the family, however, the beloved does not see any further changes.

The family did not lose a father or a man, only the one who loved, cherished and cherished was lost. His affection belongs to another, but she, in turn, cannot count on more. A man, having fallen into the center of oppositely directed forces, is not painfully torn in half (if only there was a sword), but quite successfully divides the existing way of life in half, while depriving both worlds of integrity. The world of the family is deprived of attention and affection, the child will not see his father, only a surrogate of love remains - material assistance.

In an inverted position - clarification of complex, confusing problems and situations; also liberation. Star p/v + Eight of Staves p/v (back) - a long, troublesome and rather scandalous investigation of previously occurring events. Last Judgment + Devil + Star p/v - You were deceived by assurances of devotion and help, mistaking a lie for the truth. The time of truth has come, painful news has changed the course of the future - everything that was expected was approaching, stretching out - everything was an illusion, inspired by fear and lies.

XVIII Moon, Pisces

Conquer the fear of fear!

Direct: The ability to see what is hidden. Increased emotionality, unstable character, fairly developed intuition. In general, the Moon bears the imprint of twilight, understatement, guesswork, half-confession, hidden motives. Possibly misunderstood words, unfaithful friends, unknown enemies, insincerity. Sometimes predicts long journeys.

Reversed: Someone is hiding under a mask. A small deception (exposed before it causes damage). A goal achieved “for free”. Trivial mistakes.

“You have already come to the knowledge of the truth and only fear prevents you from crossing its threshold. But you have come too far to turn back” - Papus. Another name is Lost Souls.

Prognostic meaning - a time of doubts, illusions and secrets. Nothing is clear, open, guaranteed.

When making a love request, this card indicates with one hundred percent accuracy the existence of a love triangle. It is possible that it is the lady who has a hobby on the side, while studying the ins and outs of her husband with deep interest. It is precisely this kind of life situation that the cards of the near future in a man’s reading will tell about:

Ace of Staffs (strike) + Moon (deception) + Queen of Cups (love) - which means: the secret heavy blow of betrayal comes from the wife, he is not the only man she has.

The Moon is a deception, always a lie, therefore: Six of Staves (I do) + Moon - will indicate a person who is a deceiver, a swindler. Using the method of analogies, you can learn a lot about the people around you, or those who are just approaching your life path. So: Six of Staves + Death - literally translated as the one who makes death, that is, a killer.

Let's look at an interesting case of a male scenario, where in the next six months the client got: Devil p/v (someone else's sin) + Seven of Pentacles (caring about money) + Moon. It won’t be difficult to voice this plot: he will be deceived, and the wife will start a secret relationship at work. And the cards that came out in the general layout in the forecast for the next six months: Three of Cups (friends, love triangle, holiday) + Moon + Eight of Pentacles p/v - only at first glance are related to love life. Deciphers the true state of affairs in In this scenario, a card of causing damage to the client’s material expectations on the part of a person connected with him through friendly, familiar relations, where the previously mutually beneficial cooperation of the three of us took the unpleasant form of mutual grievances, reproaches and suspicions: the money earned through joint efforts is successfully appropriated by one of the partners.

When asking about your health, the Moon card predicts a time of grief and tears due to the manifestation of a disease previously unknown to you. Neuroses, problems with the vestibular apparatus, and intracranial pressure are possible.

Children with the Moon card in their reading are most often focused on their inner world and have almost no friends due to poor communication skills. “Moon” children usually have a poor social life, limited interests and difficulties in interacting with others - all the signs of a mild form of autism are present. An attempt to find the cause of the child’s problematic interaction with society will lead the parents from a psychologist, with various intermediate options, to a highly specialized specialist, most likely a psychiatrist, and, as the most possible option, during a medical study, deviations in brain activity, most likely as a manifestation of birth trauma. It will not be possible to do without drug treatment, and one should not expect quick and obvious results either.

If there are confirming cards Fool, Eight of Swords, Nine of Swords next to the MOON, we can talk about the primary manifestations of a mental disorder.

Thus, the Six of Swords + Moon + Page of Cups - warned her that short-term travel in the near future could bring a lot of worries and even tears, both for the child himself and because of the child.

Sun (child) + Moon + Nine of Pentacles (earning money) - while the mother is at work, the child secretly meets with unreliable friends. I wonder why, after they leave, there is always less money left than mom left?

Moon + Sun - illegitimate child. So: Moon + Ten of Staves + Sun - coming dad. He lives separately, he has his own family, his legal wife and children, and he doesn’t come here to look at the child, but, you know... Queen of Cups + Sun + Moon is a young single mother, the child’s father will not start a family with her. Queen of Cups + Moon + Sun - a man is torn between love and duty. Marriage + Moon + Ace of Pentacles (well-being) - rushing about the need to make a choice between marriage and a more successful, materially, relationship. Either break up the marriage, or abandon a rich lover.

The reversed Moon card, as in the case of other cards, usually means grief and tears because of you, and not your own. But in times of suspicion and grief, it is not easy for anyone. It’s just that in this case you are not in the most painful situation. Moon p/v + Three of Pentacles + Six of Pentacles - in order to save the wage fund, the management of the institution will decide to redistribute the incentive part of the salary. in the presence of figured cards of the suit of Pentacles, Two of Pentacles and Eight of Pentacles, as well as the Knight of Cups - an inverted Moon card will mean the robbery of a home by a certain person or group.

XIX Sun

Direct: happiness, material well-being, good health. great success. In a word, good luck in everything! Sometimes it means triumph, reward, optimism, a good future, as well as long-awaited fulfillment of desires: the birth of a child or joy over the success of children.

Reversed: difficulties in communicating with people, problems in marriage and partnership. Activity that does not produce results. Sometimes, health problems, family troubles, temporary separation from a loved one. The general trend is inverted: success, but after very long efforts. Dreams about matters of the heart will come true, but not completely.

And yet the Sun is new perspectives of existence. The Sun is the best card of the Major Arcana.

"You have reached a high level of consciousness. You know what happiness is" - Papus. Another name is Grace.

Prognostic value - pure joy, reality is better than dreams.

For young women - a happy pregnancy and a successful birth.

For mature women - happiness in small children, adding to the family.

For young girls - the first joy of love.

For young men - favorable news about expected fatherhood.

For mature husbands, joy lies in grandchildren.

Ten of Cups + Sun - the birth of a child long-awaited by the entire large family;

Eight of Cups + Sun - the birth of a child from a relative(s);

Seven of Staves + Sun - it is not possible to sacrifice the interests of the child, most matters are postponed and most meetings are cancelled;

Sun + Six of Cups (gifts) + Chariot - happiness and triumph of receiving a gift from a beloved man - another one is knocking on the door of an existing child.

Our best fantasies are nothing in the face of chance. The world gives a person pure joy, unclouded by greed and anger - we can usually feel it through babies, newborns and those just conceived.

Tower + Sun - death of a baby born alive.

King of Cups + Tower + Sun - the lover will insist on an abortion. Only in the presence of the inverted King of Cups does the prediction soften: the lover will not care about his child, he has someone to worry about.

Death + Sun - a newborn has a serious illness, the life prognosis is unfavorable.

Sun + Death - a healthy child faces a serious deterioration in his lifestyle, there is a great possibility of dying from... (the source of the trouble is specified in the third card).

Sun + Death + Eight of Pentacles - a planned break with the main breadwinner (alternatively, the father) will harm a calm existence and provision of the child with everything necessary.

Moon + Sun - night sun, illegitimate child.

Moon + Ten of Staves + Sun - a child from a man who has an official family (he always goes to spend the night in another house). Queen of Cups + Moon + Sun - a single mother.

Hanged Man + Sun + Tower - unwanted pregnancy, often an unfounded fear of becoming pregnant after a casual relationship. Empress (tyranny) + Ace of Staffs (strike) + Sun - in the male scenario, it means anger and resentment towards the wife for aborting the long-awaited baby. From the point of view of the Empress, she did what she did because of the incessant attacks and nagging of her husband, and her health was not very good - toxicosis tortured her.

In the female scenario: Sun + Ace of Staffs + Four of Swords - difficult childbirth; there is a high probability of receiving a birth injury, where both mother and child will suffer. Knight of Swords (unexpected insult) + Sun + Two of Cups (love frenzy) - do not promise anything good to the lady. The young man, as if having forgotten about his betrayal (unexpectedly stopped his love relationship, also suddenly married another. Three of Swords + Sun + Ten of Cups - a child from a single-parent family, but not an orphan. There is a mother, there is a father, but they do not live together. Fool + Sun - a child with serious mental deviations from birth. A pair of cards, in fact, states the fact of a congenital disease. Sun + Fool - with age the child will manifest some mental problems with a tendency to increase. In in an inverted position, the Sun card means anger, scandal, discord in the family; unfavorable time for children - those born are sick, those conceived are not healthy, ugly or will not be born.

Death p/v + Sun p/v - discord is in the past, the breakup has already occurred, plans to normalize the child’s life have not come true, and he will not be warmed by care.

XX Judgment (Eternity) Pluto

This Arcanum is the spiritual rebirth of a person, redemption of the past, repentance, forgiveness. Opening up hitherto hidden possibilities.

Direct: improved health, goodwill. The desire to start a new business that will change life for the better. The joy of a dream come true. Changes for the better after stagnation in business (increase in salary, rest after work). Reward. In a word - achieving the goal.

Reversed: Warning - don’t delay in solving problems, you won’t be able to escape anyway.

Don't be late, take advantage of the opportunity. Delay threatens losses. It is your fault that insurmountable difficulties arise. don't be afraid of change.

If the neighboring cards do not say anything, it means that the situation will not change until the one who is being fortune-told takes decisive steps. In personal matters, separation and even divorce.

Another name is the Supreme Court.

Prognostic meaning - receiving difficult news, terrible and unfounded words, explosive, instant change in the course of events, life.

Justice, Five of Staves reversed (litigation);

Hermit (separation, loneliness);

Cards of the suit of Swords with a certain semantic load - all except for the Two of Swords, the Six of Swords and the Seven of Swords (isolation from society).

In what exact form the breakdown of the habitual and comfortable course of life will begin to be realized does not matter. In other words, the appearance of the Last Judgment card indicates the beginning of irreversible life processes, during which nothing and no one will remain the same.

Last Judgment + Five of Swords - separation by court, divorce.

Eight of Cups + Last Judgment - “I waited so long and did not receive a single message from you from the sea. You are a vile deceiver, it’s all over, I can’t see you.” No comments.

Chariot + Last Judgment - a trip (with the Seven of Swords - on vacation, in the pampas) will be crowned with a long, difficult investigation and a period of punishment (hitting a pedestrian is a criminal offense, you need to look forward with your eyes, and not at your fellow traveler); The Last Judgment + The Chariot - a happy ending to court hearings, victory in court. Nine of Cups (lover) + The Last Judgment + Hermit - the lover will unexpectedly announce his decision to leave. The Last Judgment + Ace of Pentacles - incorrect, erroneous actions with property and savings. Last Judgment + Ace of Pentacles + Nine of Staves - hopelessness in anticipation of receiving a claim for the return (not available at the moment, as well as in the foreseeable future) of a large amount of money or property. Last Judgment + Magician + Ace of Pentacles - man will receive very unpleasant news: from now on he will have to earn money for everything himself, without helpers.

Last Judgment + Knight of Pentacles + Two of Penta-glue - a young businessman will escape from financial collapse and the presentation of unaffordable claims - he will obviously save a lot, and clearly give back little.

When such cards appear in a female layout - the client will save a business loser, but she herself will not receive profit or gratitude - she will be repaid for her good deeds.

Eight of Pentacles (work, effort) + Lovers + Last Judgment - an attempt to convince of your love in the face of external contrary news.

Ten of Swords + Hermit + Two of Pentacles p/v - a difficult, painful separation due to the return of the face to its previous positions. Inverted card Last Judgment - the end of events that turned the usual course of life Magician + Last Judgment p/v + Lovers p/v - the man again threatens to receive a cold refusal, his beloved no longer wants to meet with him, her head has been turned by a new romance. The final meaning of the inverted Last Judgment is error, illusion, distortion of perception. You should be more careful with perception - the presence of cards nearby: Four of Swords or Nine of Swords in any position; Moderation and, of course, the Fool - will indicate mental problems in those who want to know their future.

XXI World, Saturn

Direct: Symbol of success. Fulfillment of desires, achievement of goals, events that bear fruit. The end of one stage and the beginning of another.

In a social sense: favor of others, official recognition, praise. Peace is hope for the future. In some cases, a change of residence and a long journey.

Birth, Death, Beginning, End. Something must appear, declare itself.

Reversed: The time for change for the better has not come, but we should not lose hope. However, in a practical sense it is a good card.

Prognostic meaning - peace, happiness, harmony with oneself and the surrounding world, fulfillment of desires. Satisfaction with the achieved result - everything came together, everything turned out perfectly. In the ladies' scenario - women's happiness. For men - a dream woman. World + Devil - the devil's ring - long-term, non-binding sexual relationships, where each of the partners, rather In all, he also has a permanent, official life partner.

World + Ace of Staffs + Page of Cups - there is no happiness, the wife is infertile (in the scenario for a man) or the client is infertile (respectively in her scenario.

Ace of Posokhov is a heavy, painful and quite often financial blow. The card speaks of the futility of costs for infertility treatment - the costs will not be compensated by obtaining the desired result. Page of Cups - favorable news, a young woman with a child or a young girl, almost a child herself. Thus, for a woman, this three cards is a blow due to the inability to see a child in her hands.

Peace + Hanged Man - everything in life seems to be good, but:

Sun, Page of Cups - I want a baby (another baby);

Magician, King and Knight - not enough happiness in relationships with men. Well, etc.

Peace + Five of Swords (war) is a fine line between peace and war, but for the sake of preserving previously achieved benefits, the notorious harmony of life, it is easier to pretend that everything is normal, calm and prosperous.

Five of Swords + Peace - restored peace.

Knight of Staffs (news of separation) + Eight of Swords (hopelessness) + Peace - the time has come for separation, change cannot be expected without a path. The time has come to get ready for the journey, another city is waiting. Happiness awaits.

Six of Staves + Peace + Queen of Cups - in order for happiness to appear in life, you need to get away from the prince on a white horse who talked too much about shared happiness.

Eight of Cups + World + Tower - (we focus on the central map).

The lady will create female happiness with her own hands, her dear friend is no help to her - she just can’t decide to take the final step into heaven together.

Tower + Ten of Staves + Peace - remembering the past, the young lady will remember with kindness both the science of the impossibility of parting and the emptiness of unnecessary meetings.

King of Staves (having the right) + Three of Cups (holiday) + Peace - ladies are pleasantly awaiting the consequences of the authorities’ efforts to hold and ensure the women’s holiday.

Four of Pentacles + Four of Swords + Peace - the past cannot be returned, happiness is gone. And only now is it clear how good it was that was considered small and tedious.

The famous Waite Tarot deck of cards was created by English occultist Arthur Edward Waite (1857–1942). He was an expert in the study of Kabbalah, Freemasonry and other mystical teachings.

The Rider Waite Tarot originated in the early 20th century.

The deck was first published in December 1909 by Williams Rider, hence its name. In addition, according to some data, this deck is also called “Ryday-Waite-Smith”, because professional artist and designer Pamela Colman Smith helped illustrate a unique gallery of Tarot cards.

Very often this deck is called the Universal Waite Tarot.

Handmade

We should begin with a short description of Mrs. Smith's life. Pamela was born in 1978 in England. Since childhood, I have been interested in fine arts, which, having reached the right age, I began to study at one of the universities in the USA.

Under Waite's careful guidance, she created 78 color images for the Tarot cards. The drawings were so bright and realistic that after publishing, this deck became extremely popular.

These are the first Tarot cards where not only the Major Arcana were drawn, but also all the remaining 56 cards, called the Minor Arcana. The drawings are simple, but at the same time they contain a lot of symbolism. This innovation in the future helped these Tarot cards occupy the niche of the Universal deck.

In choosing symbols for his cards, Waite relied on the occult works of Eliphas Levi, who lived in the 19th century.

Pamela Colman Smith created the designs for the Waite Tarot

Differences between Rider Waite cards and the classic Tarot deck

A structural feature of the Rider White Tarot is that the creator of the cards changed the order of the Arcana “Justice” at number eight and the Arcana “Strength” at number eleven. But the author himself did not explain the reasons why he did this, limiting himself to general explanations.

In most later versions of Tarot card decks, created even in the likeness of Arthur's deck, the eleventh and eighth Arcana are again in their old places, as in the classic deck.

You can verify the latter by looking through various thematic resources on Tarot cards on the Internet.

In addition to this innovation, Waite also changed the symbols on one of the cards of the higher Arcana “Lovers”, located at number 6. The rest of the Major Arcana in the Waite Tarot had exactly the same symbolism as the classic deck.

In old decks of cards, in the “Marseille Tarot” deck created by de Gebelin, as well as in other decks of followers of the French school, a young man was drawn on this card between two women, in an uncertain pose. Sometimes two female figures were depicted.

In the Waite Tarot, the interpretation of this card is quite unusual. The fact is that on this map he depicts a picture from the Bible: naked Adam and Eve in paradise, and above them the shining sun and Archangel Raphael. There is absolutely no choice here, there is only a love motive and everything that people associate with this concept: passion, attraction, vice. It should be added that many tarot readers, even when laying out the Rider Waite Tarot deck, use the “Lovers” interpretation for the concept of meaning. A more detailed interpretation of Waite's Tarot cards can be found in his writings.

It should be added that it is extremely important to fully understand the meaning of the Tarot cards.

The Waite tarot lovers are depicted as Adam and Eve

Interpretation of the Major Arcana

It is noted that in order to make it easier to learn to interpret the cards from this deck, it is necessary to study the description of the Major Arcana.

Below is an interpretation of the Universal Tarot (Waite Tarot) cards, which relate to the Major Arcana:

• Fool. They literally predict unexpected changes in life. Inverted - problems in various areas of life.
• Mag. Certain successes on the way to your goal, excessive self-confidence. Inverted - excessive selfishness, deterioration of relationships with friends and family.
• High Priestess. I am hiding some important information from you. Inverted - weakness of spirit, indecision.
• Empress. Mutual understanding in the family, love, the approaching birth of a child. Inverted - constant quarrels with loved ones, problems in the financial sphere.
• Emperor. The appearance of a person in your life who will become your support. Inverted - the presence of ill-wishers.
• Priest - wedding or the beginning of a new life. Inverted - describes weakness of character, inability to defend one’s point of view.
• Lovers. A union that is sure to be strong. Inverted - disappointment in a loved one, divorce, destruction of a business.
• Chariot. Long journey. Inverted - collapse of plans, disorganization.
• Force. Good health and self-confidence, the ability to stand up for yourself. Inverted - nervous breakdown, problems with mental state.
• Hermit. The desire to succeed, even in the face of enormous obstacles. Inverted - fear of opening up to other people, loneliness.

It is also necessary to remember that there are other Major Arcana:

• Wheel of Fortune. Frequent changes in mood and desires, luck. Inverted - financial losses, life problems.
• Hanged. The desire to be freed from the guardianship of loved ones. Inverted - depression, a serious illness.
• Death. It implies a transition to a new path in life. Inverted - disappointment in a person who was an ideal, collapse of hopes.

This is not a complete list of the Major Arcana, there are also: Justice, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Last Judgment, Peace.

The chariot promises a long journey

Rider Waite card spreads

There are various Rider Tarot spreads.

Here are some of these tarot readings:

• playing the fool;
• Celtic cross;
• Leonardo;
• star;
• gate.

Layouts are divided depending on the purpose of fortune telling:

• answers to questions about the current situation;
• related to the problem of choice;
• description of love relationships;
• related to general problems;
• schedule for the future.

One of the popular layouts called the “Celtic Cross” was also invented by Arthur Waite. This name was promoted by its visual similarity to the Celtic cross. In this situation, it will not be difficult to tell your fortune by laying out the cards according to the instructions, a detailed description of which can be found almost everywhere.

If you see words somewhere about the classic Waite Tarot deck, then do not be surprised, because for many people, especially in the English environment, this fortune-telling system is a classic, although there are many other similar systems. It is surprising that the classic Waite Tarot is one of the most popular in our country.

All people interested in fortune telling with Tarot cards have definitely heard the name Rider Waite (White), because the deck he created is recognized as a classic version, from which tarot readers start when making their forecasts for the future. Waite Tarot interpretation and meaning of the cards, as well as general information about the deck - that’s what we’ll talk about in this material.

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The history of the creation of the Rider Waite deck, its distinctive features

The personality of Waite himself is of quite great interest - he was a comprehensively developed person, engaged in translating books, as well as writing his own works and research activities.

Rider White had his own vision of the use of Tarot cards. So, he called for using them exclusively as a mystical attribute, and was against their magical use.

Waite was helped in creating his Tarot deck by a woman with psychic abilities - Pamela Colman Street, an artist and member of the Order of the Golden Dawn. It was she who developed the graphic image of the arcana.

Perhaps her drawings at first glance seem quite primitive, but they tell in detail about the small details of the design and faces of the characters, which indicates the deep sacred meaning of the cards.

Before you begin to interpret the Waite Tarot, you need to note the characteristic features of this deck:

• There have been changes to the plot illustrations of each of the 78 arcana. Before this, Low cards looked almost the same as playing cards - they only contained information about suit and value (with the exception of 4 “court cards”). And in his deck, Rider White developed an illustration for each of the Minor Arcana, personifying their deep meaning.
• Changed card order. This is how Waite's Tarot fell into place.
• Another meaning of the card "". Previously, the 6th Tarot card was called “Choice” and depicted an insecure young man who could not make a choice between two queens. In White's deck, the meaning of the arcana has changed dramatically - now the card depicts a biblical scene with the participation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and tells about original sin, love and passion.
• The "Genuine Tarot" is very symbolic, while the Waite Tarot is more esoteric. All arcana of the deck are described in simple, easy-to-understand language. These cards can be used by beginners.

Description of the meaning of Rider White Tarot cards

Major Arcana

. The card will tell about the reckless behavior, stupidity of a youth, tomfoolery, extravagance. It will also indicate uncertainty and incomprehensibility. In the opposite position: speaks of alertness, waste of energy.

. A person strives for independent achievements, is distinguished by energy, strong will, skill, and dexterity. Smart intentions to influence the world. The beginning of new projects, the birth of children. In the opposite position: speaks of passivity, lack of will, conservatism, lack of experience. The real does not correspond to the expected. Inhibition of the process.

. It is a heavy card that speaks of the unknown, deception, and concealment of information. The person does not know who is really in control of the situation. He will also talk about the intuitive perception of the world, the influence of the subconscious on our lives. Reverse: secrets are revealed, the situation becomes clearer, negative changes, materialism.

. Speaks of action, initiative, and implementation of something. This is a card of creation, fertility, financial profit, stability. In the reverse position, he will talk about laziness, lack of action, creative unfulfillment, fear and addiction.

. Indicator of authority, father. The Emperor speaks of fundamentality, solidity, material wealth, and describes a strong-willed person. The mind prevails over the emotional sphere. A very successful lasso for men. The opposite position: there is no father or his influence is very weak, the routine of life is disrupted. Subordination.

(also called Priest or Pope). Evidence of training and mentoring. Predicts contacts, communication, friendship, charity and spirituality. But at the same time there is no finances, sex, or household order. In reverse: a period of intrigue, dark plots, doubts.

. You may need to make some decisions. The main meaning of the lasso is the theme of love, and we are talking about true spiritual love, and not about sexual desire. In the reverse position: it will tell about unrealistic plans, disturbed harmony, the presence of internal personal conflicts.

. It will indicate a zealous defense of one’s position, a period of conflicts and disagreements (may talk about military action). A person will be able to cope with all challenges. In the reverse position: not enough vitality, knowledge. Period of stagnation.

. Finding a balance between fear and haste. Kindness and strong will help you achieve what you want. In the reverse position: intellect and instincts conflict with each other, your plans collapse, and a force is released that is no longer realistic to hold.

. It will tell about prudence, making informed decisions, but also about separation from the world, secret plans, asceticism, perfectionism, loneliness. A person does not depend on society, he lives on his own. In the opposite position: excess perfectionism, a person demands too much from himself and others. Rash behavior that is dangerous for himself.

. It promises rather dubious luck, which is best treated as a surprise. Talks about strange gifts of fate, unexpected acquaintances, proposals, changes. In reverse, it demonstrates the desire for change, but instead, receiving delays and interference.

(also called fairness). In this case, truth in any of its concepts will triumph. Karma controls a person’s destiny and decides when and to whom to give what they deserve. The beginning of legal proceedings and the conclusion of a marriage union are possible. In the reverse position: negative karma is worked out, others are biased towards you

. Arkan speaks of spirituality, the desire to comprehend higher wisdom, harmony and humility. The verdict of fate begins to take effect, negative karma is worked out. A person suffers from voluntary torment and illness. The opposite position will tell about pride and selfishness.

. Something new comes, often unexpectedly. The current situation is changing. A person renounces his will and gains inner freedom. In the opposite position it speaks of stagnation, a dead end.

(also called Abstinence). The map sets out certain frames, modes, systems. You will have to make efforts to achieve what you want. Monotonous work, lack of creativity. In reverse: it will talk about sudden disturbances in order, excessive emotionality, and anxiety.

. It is a fatal lasso, the meaning of which is quite negative. Will indicate karmic attachments, selfishness, strong pride, increased aggressiveness. A person does not know how to love. In the reverse position: “insight” and spiritual improvement are possible.

. Higher powers intervene in life, drastic changes. In reverse, it speaks of fear and internal tension.

. It is a karmic card, it promises the fulfillment of plans, but not now. An inverted “Star” speaks of depression, uncertainty, detachment from everything, and laziness.

. Indicates danger, uncertainty, unknown, confusion in business. The person feels lonely and abandoned. In the opposite position it speaks of mercy and clarification of the situation.

. A fortuneteller knows how to enjoy life, his wishes will be fulfilled. It is an indicator of triumph, reward, optimism. In the reverse position: the past interferes with the completion of the present. Increased egocentrism.

. Any restrictions are eliminated, a person rediscovers himself, works off his bad karma. The reverse card tells about a difficult period of life, resistance to change.

. A symbol of wisdom, gaining knowledge, openness, the desire to change and improve. The reverse lasso speaks of partial victory; one feels an unpleasant limitation in development and spiritual growth.

This was the abbreviated meaning of the Rider Waite Tarot cards (Major Arcana). Also, when considering the meaning of the Waite Tarot, we must not forget about the group of Minor Arcana, which the following video will tell about

Waite Tarot is a universal deck that will help you look into the past, future, and learn everything about the present. The most powerful mystics and clairvoyants use this tarot to get answers to their questions. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced magician, the Rider Waite Tarot is a great addition to your collection.

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Waite Tarot - Major Arcana

Today there are various decks of tarot cards. This is also the Baphomet tarot. This deck was created by American artist Pamela Colman Smith. The Rider Waite tarot saw the light of day at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, it has become an integral attribute in the work of every esotericist.

To this day, the teaching itself remains mysterious, a subject of debate and speculation. If you want to learn everything you can about this deck, you can use the book “Waite Tarot as a System: Theory and Practice.” The compiler of this book is Andrey Kostenko.

The book will help you answer many common questions about tarot cards in general and reveal some of the deck's secrets. In order to get started with the universal Waite tarot, you need to become familiar with the major arcana.

Fool- significant changes are coming in your life, which will most likely be unplanned and will require a lot of vitality from you. Inverted (hereinafter - P.) - instability, malfunctions, carelessness, helplessness, making mistakes.

Mage- progress, achievement of set goals, great opportunities, comprehension of something new, self-confidence. P. - fame, selfishness, loss of ties with family or friends, psychological illnesses, unfulfilled dreams.

High Priestess- intuition, the power of emotions and feelings, extrasensory abilities, a large number of secrets that will be hidden from you. P. - weakness, indecision, seething of various emotions, lack of spirituality, intuition.

Empress- love, understanding, mutual assistance, wedding, birth of children, harmony. P. - lack of balance and harmony, irritability, money problems, troubles at home.

Emperor- a powerful, strong person, purposeful, who will become a reliable support, help in the work sphere and in love. P. - pressure, powerlessness, presence of enemies, failures, moral violence.

Priest- sexual attraction, search for truth, wedding, presence of a wise mentor, powerful and strong. You should listen to this person, as he will lead to success. P. - cruelty, increased interest, violation of canons, weakness, inability to defend one’s thoughts.

Lovers- the embodiment of the first people on earth, a strong union that will be crowned with success, the right choice, harmony with oneself and others. P. - disappointments, breakdown of relationships, discussion of plans that are almost impossible to implement, illness.

Chariot- travel, victory, striving for light and triumph, confidence, overcoming all obstacles. P. - defeats, negative emotions, uncontrollable rage, lack of organization, failure.

Force- platonic love, recovery, replenishment of the body’s vital reserves, fearlessness, harmony, willingness to take responsibility and act. P. - despotism, tyranny, detachment, defeat, an unbalanced person next to you who will negatively impact your life.

Hermit- knowledge, detachment, caution, removing unnecessary acquaintances from the field, the ability to achieve success in solving the most complex problems, awareness of mystery, truth. P. - loneliness, forced isolation, fear of others, fraud, neglect of reason.

Wheel of Fortune- movement, desire for success, inconstancy, frequent mood changes, changes for the better, luck. P. - gambling, losing, problems with money, failure, inability to self-realize.

Justice- making the right decision, winning a competition, respect from colleagues, professionalism, balance. P. - fanaticism, aggression, despotism, money problems, abuse of power.

Hanged- a martyr who made a conscious sacrifice, the search for personal freedom, change, you move to a new level, renunciation of material wealth. P. - illness, passivity, creative stagnation, futile sacrifice, depression.

Death- does not imply physical death, it is the end of one life stage and the beginning of a new one. Change in life, change. P. - depression, loss, betrayal of ideals, collapse of plans.

Moderation- economy, the ability to compromise, diplomatic relations, the emergence of new employees, humility. P. - trials, struggle in the work sphere, losses, stinginess, incontinence, breakup of relationships.

Devil- various challenges await you along the way, but you have enough strength and desire to overcome them. Obsession with power and money. P. - ambition, cruelty, failure of plans, uncontrollable situation.

Tower- difficulties, devastation in the soul, collapse of plans, losses, oppression. P. - financial losses, severance of attachments, disaster, deception on the part of a loved one.

Star- your life will completely change for the better, new perspectives, recovery, renewal of spirit, happiness and peace. P. - isolation, dissatisfaction with oneself, disbelief, powerlessness, disappointment.

Moon- deception, you don’t know something and it significantly spoils your life, the presence of an enemy, illness is likely in the near future. P. - instability, illness, fears, dangers.

Sun- health, conception, birth of children, happiness, wedding, material wealth, harmony with oneself. P. - recovery, impatience, success, but excessive self-confidence.

Last Judgment- change, rebirth, new job, wedding, birth of children, good news, victory over oneself. P. - fear, illness, resistance to natural changes in life, repentance.

World- success, harmony, travel, pleasant meeting. P. - calmness, willingness to help others.

Swords - interpretation and meaning of cards

Ace of Swords- victory, impact on people, birth of children, wedding, financial stability. P. - deception, severance of communication, despotism, tyranny.

Deuce- strength, readiness to defeat the enemy, you have already passed a difficult period and there will be improvements ahead. P. - deception, betrayal, showdown, promiscuity.

Troika- broken heart, love triangle, breakup, confrontation with others, a large number of negative emotions, betrayal. P. - grievances, a situation that cannot be changed; you feel sorry for yourself too often, nothing can be changed.

Four- loneliness, escape from life, trying to relax, improving health. P. - hypocrisy, lack of funds, loss of close friends.

Five- tension, lack of faith, conflicts, someone is encroaching on what belongs to you. P. - deception, fraud, bad deal, lack of self-confidence.

Six- you managed to overcome difficulties, there will only be changes for the better, travel, success. P. - you are too slow, you need to be more decisive, problems are on the way.

Seven- next to you is a liar who pretends to be someone else, he encroaches on what belongs to you, spreads gossip, and because of him there are a lot of problems. P. - be on the lookout, they will give you good advice, offer patronage, do not refuse the help of an influential person.

Eight- the situation is getting out of control, plans collapse, health problems, conflicts. P. - you can’t hesitate, it’s time to act, since your indecision can significantly worsen the situation.

Nine- disappointment, mental illness, suffering, betrayal, betrayal. P. - hope, faith, the need to pull yourself together.

Ten- grief, betrayal by a loved one, the need to give up everything and start living again. P. - trouble, next to you there is a very strange person who is plotting.

Page- a young man who is ready to help you, laziness, lack of strength. P. - enemies, bad news, variables for the worse.

Knight- the appearance of a strong person who is ready to protect you, movement, victory. P. - accident, aggression, illness, appearance of enemies.

King- an adult domineering, cruel and strong man involved in politics or military affairs. P. - submission, struggle, conflict situation, competition.

Waite Tarot Deck - Cups

Ace of Cups- generosity, wedding for love, children, abundance, creative energy. P. - selfishness, unhappiness in love, breakup of relationships.

Deuce- love, carnal pleasures, unity with a partner, passion. P. - disagreements, cooling of feelings, unrequited love, promiscuous sexual relations.

Troika- success, material well-being, positive emotions, recovery. P. - betrayal, failure, lack of harmony.

Four- longing, depression, melancholy, reluctance to do something in your life. P. - good changes, love, new acquaintances.

Five- losses, depression, relationship breakdown, emotional wounds. P. - the emergence of new friends, rethinking the situation, calmness.

Six- financial well-being, the appearance of an old lover, family happiness. P. - vanity, learning new skills, approaching a joyful event.

Seven- flight of fancy, too strong emotions, confusion, inability to adequately assess the situation. P. - making the right decision, overcoming difficulties, moving towards success.

Eight- separation, revolution in the value system, fatigue, there is a chance to start all over again. P. - new acquaintances, strong feelings, happiness.

Nine- success, financial stability, health, control over the situation. P. - abuse of power and wealth.

Ten- happiness, marriage with a loved one, desire for success. P. - instability, quarrels with loved ones, problems at work.

Page- strong emotional connection, interesting acquaintances, creative energy, possible travel. P. - not using all resources, betrayal, intrigue and gossip.

Knight- happiness, love, success. P. - mistakes, negative news, love triangle, fraud.

Queen- love, the opportunity to realize oneself, happiness in family life, wisdom. P. - gossip, promiscuity, the desire to escape from reality.

King- strong marriage, patronage of an adult man. P. - deception, fraud, cruelty, excessive ambition.

The meaning of pentacles

Ace of Pentacles- success, harmony, emergence of prospects. P. - anxiety, ruin, obsession with money.

Deuce- luck, pleasure, positive changes, good news. P. - anxiety, money problems, delusion, loss of control over the situation.

Troika- material benefits, the emergence of new partners, professionalism. P. - criticism, inexperience, stagnation.

Four- confidence, financial stability, inheritance. P. - obsession with power and money, indecision, failure.

Five- illness, failure, collapse. P. - confrontation with failures, the emergence of like-minded people.

Six- generosity, success at work, prosperity. P. - deception, fraud, loss of a large sum of money.

Seven- financial growth, movement towards the intended goal. P. - loss, bankruptcy.

Eight- success, creative fulfillment, pleasure from life. P. - routine, lack of plans, melancholy.

Nine- rest, material wealth, stability. P. - loss of money, betrayal, loneliness.

Ten- making a profit, inheritance, getting closer to relatives. P. - collapse, bankruptcy, difficult situation.

Page- gaining new knowledge, new acquaintances, changes for the better. P. - disorganization, thoughtless spending.

Knight- profit, travel, professionalism, good news. P. - instability, disorganization, losses.

Queen- patronage, generosity. P. - deception, greed, stinginess.

King- a practical person, success, will and determination. P. - dangerous fraud with money.

Wands - interpretation

Ace of Wands- luck, money, activity, career growth. P. - apathy, melancholy, failure at work.

Deuce- belief in success, gaining new knowledge, stability. P. - uncertainty, doubt, melancholy.

Troika- stability, success, reliable cooperation. P. - illness, loss, self-doubt.

Four- financial well-being, fulfillment of desires, success. P. - good news, material well-being, you need to make every effort to get what you want.

Five- emergence of competitors, quarrels, defense of interests, emergence of a source of income. P. - conflicts, fraud.

Six- victory, ambition, leadership. P. - lack of self-confidence, problems with money, unpleasant news.

Seven- competitors, conflicts, it is necessary to show determination. P. - stinginess, depression, confusion.

Eight- travel, fulfillment of desires, haste. P. - unpleasant travel, pressure.

Nine- physical health, delay, struggle. P. - stubbornness, danger, obstacles on the way.

Ten- fame, success, taking on other people's problems. P. - cruelty, it will be difficult to achieve success.

Page- cordiality, good news, implementation of plans, ambitions. P. - rivalry, deception, trick.

Knight- trip, friendliness, egocentrism. P. - problems at work, envy, competition.

Queen- professionalism, independence, experience, money. P. - selfishness, deception, envy.

King- success, happy union, wealth and power. P. - despotism, conflict, cruelty.

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The classic Rider Waite Tarot is one of the most famous decks, which was developed in 1910 by Arthur Edward Waite. Waite was a famous researcher of Freemasonry, Kabbalah and mystical teachings. The drawings of the cards were made by an American-born artist named Pamela Colman-Smith. The first publisher of this deck was William Ryder. This is how the deck of cards got its double name.

• Features of this deck
• Interpretation of cards

Features of this deck

A distinctive feature of the Rider White Tarot deck is that the 11th and 8th Arcana are swapped, that is, the Justice card is number 11, and the Strength Arcana is number 8. The reasons for this change have not been properly explained by Waite.

The German Tarot specialist Hayo Banzhaf suggested that this change in numbering lies in the fact that Waite was guided by the teachings of the Albigenses, Waldenses and Cathars. Despite all this, many occult and Tarot specialists did not accept this renumbering. And when using the Rider White Tarot deck, the Arcana of Justice and Strength were used with the same numbers.

In decks that were created later, the Arcana of Justice and Strength returned to their previous numbers.

In the Waite Tarot deck 6, the Major Arcana has a different image from the others. If you look at other old decks, this Arcana is called “Choice or “Decision”. These cards depicted a young man between two women, whose face expressed uncertainty and confusion.

The sixth Arcana in the Rider White Tarot deck is given the name “Lovers.” The card shows naked Adam and Eve in paradise. Image 6 Arcana speaks of love, attraction, sex, original sin. And the topic of choice or any uncertainty is omitted here.

Interpretation of cards
I. Magician

Divinatory meanings: skill, subtlety; illness, pain, loss, a trap woven by enemies; confidence, willpower.
The card says that divine impulses have awakened in a person, that he himself is in the role of God. It also means that a person's thinking is focused on the limit.
The possible meaning of the Magician card is the beginning of change, a new life, a new project, the birth of a child.

Reversed card in the Waite Tarot: shame, anxiety, psychological problems, uncertainty, indecision, lack of will.

II. High Priestess

If we talk about the qualities of a person, then this card talks about his wit and cunning. The good qualities of this person are that he easily adapts to various situations, you can trust him with any secret and be calm, because he will never reveal it to anyone.
In love affairs, the card advises you to be careful, there is a chance of being deceived by your loved one, you should take a good look at him.

Reversed: Conceit, superficial knowledge, passion.

III. Empress

The meaning of the Empress in layouts promises happiness and large offspring for married ladies, and easy childbirth for pregnant women. But lonely people are promised non-reciprocal love, which is full of anxiety and disappointment.

The meaning of the reversed card in the Waite Tarot deck: truth, finding solutions to problems, various kinds of celebrations.

IV. Emperor

The emperor is an image of a father or a person for whom such status is very important.
The card means that there is a strong person near the questioner who can help him with his problems. If you look at it from the other side, then this person may be the one who is blatantly using the questioner for his own purposes, for personal gain.

Reversed: compassion, trust, immaturity.

V. Hierophant

In the case of fortune telling on a particular person in order to find out more about him, the meaning of “Hierophant” is as follows: the person has good oratorical abilities, knows how to persuade, attracts many people to his idea, usually becomes a big shot and has high authority.
The appearance of the Hierophant may mean that the questioner was under the influence of a strong person.

Reversed: mutual understanding, agreement, weakness, powerlessness.

VI. Lovers

In fortune telling, the Lovers Card signifies choice or problem solving. If they are guessing about a person and his character, then the card indicates that the person has an indecisive and weak character, and has a fear of responsibility.

Reversed: failure, divorce or breakdown of marriage, contradictions in relationships.

VII. Chariot

The chariot is a symbol of supreme power. If this card appears during fortune telling, it means that the person has broken out of the circle of previous interests and is ready to follow a new path. He has confidence and courage, but also inexperience. Therefore, the card advises not to overestimate your capabilities and courage when solving new problems.
Reversed: Rebellion, disputes, verbal clashes, court cases, loss.

The card represents soft, feminine strength. It is the woman who makes the lion feel his strength.

Bravery and perseverance help a person cope with many problems. If this particular card appears, it means the questioner has dealt with his fears and apprehensions in the past, and he is ready to move on.

Reversed: Even if a person has achieved success in the material sphere of life, he cannot find understanding with other people. The spiritual component of life has been lost.

IX. Hermit

The Hermit card symbolizes a person’s withdrawal into himself, into his experiences and problems, alienation, loneliness, and the search for his own self.

The appearance of the Hermit card indicates that the questioner will soon meet a person who will show the path to spiritual enlightenment.

In personal relationships, the Hermit portends stagnation or respite. There is no need to look at this as a break; perhaps this respite will make it clear to both that they simply cannot live without each other.

Reversed: The questioner does not listen to advice and rejects any help coming from management or close circle.

X. Wheel of Fortune

The questioning person is confident in his luck. The cards dropped nearby will complement the meaning and tell you exactly what you will be lucky about.
The laws of fate are favorable during this period; everything will flourish in the family and in business. In personal relationships, it portends stagnation.

Reversed: means stagnation and bad luck in affairs, both professional and love.

XI. Justice (justice)

The meaning of this card is associated not only with court cases, but also with any area where any disputes arise. If the matter concerns a trial, then the Tarot promises that it will end in favor of the questioner.

From a psychological point of view, the Justice Tarot card speaks of the ability to speak with other people in serious matters, of mature character and life experience.

Reversed: In business, it means long legal proceedings that will get boring. If the question is about a love relationship, then the card foreshadows a breakup or divorce.

XII. Hanged

In the tarot reading, the Hanged Man means that the questioner is moving on to the path of spiritual life, abandoning everything material and physical. That is, a person parts with his old self and moves towards spiritual enlightenment. The card can also mean that the questioner is open to new ideas.

Reversed: Worldly matters come first, which closes the heart and mind to spiritual growth. There may be situations when others want to deceive or hide something from a person.

XIII. Death

Death in a Tarot reading symbolizes change, rebirth or rebirth. Big changes are expected, and it is better to say goodbye to the past. You need to move forward with confidence and firmness.

In love affairs, she talks about a possible break and end to any relationship.
In work it means leaving your previous place and opening new opportunities.

Reversed: Symbolizes stagnation in work and new ideas. The death of a prominent person or some kind of disaster is possible.

XIV. Moderation

The meaning of Tarot Moderation is balance, harmony with oneself and other people, calmness. All these qualities are inherent in the questioner.

In personal affairs and the business sphere, everything promises to be stable and measured. No change or change.

Reversed: personal relationships interfere with work, and therefore work interferes with love affairs. Here you need to clarify the situation and eliminate interfering factors, put all things in order. Give each side of life its own time.

XV. Devil

This card indicates that at the moment the questioner is interested in worldly affairs. In business matters, the Devil means trials and temptations. Perhaps this will be related to drugs, weapons or bribes.

In personal relationships, it threatens separation and quarrels. The card warns that flirting, meaningful promises, and passion are possible, which in general will lead to nothing, but will manage to ruin the relationship between two loving hearts.

Reversed: Emotional fears and problems are resolved, you can move on and start a new life.

If the Tarot Tower card appears, it means that all plans and ideas are going to hell, nothing will work out in the near future.
In personal relationships, it promises urgent changes. This may be liberation from a relationship with a partner that has long outlived its usefulness. Or it may be that the relationship was on the verge of breaking, and after a serious conversation with your loved one and discussion of all pressing issues, the relationship will become better.

XVII. Star

The Star card symbolizes good health, happiness and inspiration. The one to whom this card is revealed will be happy and his intuitive powers will increase.

Reversed: The star promises a lack of sanity. Parting with loved ones, as well as other losses, are possible.

This card is associated with intuition, dreams and magical manifestations. Don't be fooled by external appearances. You have to accept that you have an animal nature. You need to try to deal with your inner demons.

XIX. Sun

If the Sun falls, it means that everything for the questioner will be on top. And good health, success at work and in business, positive achievements. Efforts and efforts in the past will bear fruit.

Symbolizes awakening and some kind of rebirth. In business he talks about the occurrence of pleasant events.
In personal and business spheres it promises good changes. Single people will find their soul mate with whom they will find happiness.

The World card is considered a very auspicious card. Means happiness, triumph, success. If it appears in the scenario, then you can move on and explore new horizons.

The Fool or Jester is open to new ideas and adventures. The questioner treats everything calmly and with trust; there is no reason for concern. In personal relationships there is an opportunity to meet new pure love.

There are many different tarot decks. Each deck has its own individual design, its own history, and origin. Behind each deck is its creator, who put his experience, feelings, knowledge and faith into the image of each card.

Rider–Waite deck of cards- this is the work of several people at once. As the name of the deck suggests, it owes its origins to Arthur Edward Waite and William Ryder.

Actually this is not true. There was also a third person who took part in the creation of the deck of cards, and an important and significant one at that.

Description of the deck

The Rider-Waite deck of cards is still very popular among both professionals and beginning tarot readers. The deck owes its origin to Order of the Golden Dawn, which existed in Great Britain throughout the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Arthur Edward Waite occupied a high position in the order, he was an explorer and mystical scientist, and had extensive knowledge of Freemasonry. In 1910, he had the idea to create his own deck of Tarot cards, each card of which would be a kind of key to knowledge.

Under his leadership, artist Pamela Colman-Smith began designing the deck, and William Rider became the first publisher of new Tarot cards. The author himself called his deck “The Illustrated Key to the Tarot.”

Despite the fact that the deck was relatively close to the classic Tarot deck, it has its own important features. For example, Cards numbered eleven and eight are swapped. Waite considered it more correct to assign Strength number eight, and Justice takes its place in the deck at number eleven.

The creator did not comment on this peculiar rearrangement; he only clarified that he made this decision based on important and reliable sources. The changes also affected the major lasso “Lovers”. Traditionally, it was customary to depict this card as a certain choice that a young man must make when he is between two girls. One girl personified the mind, the other - feelings.

Waite changed not only the image on the map, but also its entire meaning. From now on, the card had nothing to do with the choice and looked like an illustration of a biblical story. The card shows naked Adam and Eve in Paradise. The card was interpreted as feelings, love, passion and nothing more.

To this day, even those who preferred the Rider-Waite deck to the others can interpret the Lovers lasso in the old fashioned way, as a fateful choice that needs to be made.

Important changes also affected the minor arcana. Now each card of all four suits also depicted simple plots, based on which the meaning of the card could be easily interpreted. Accompanying your deck Waite published a book. It contained a complete description of the deck, interpretation of each card, layouts and other information regarding the deck.

Characteristics of Tarot-Waite

The deck begins with the major arcana. Let's look at all the major arcana:

1. Fool. This major arcana is designated in the deck as number zero. It means lightness of being, optimism, striving for new heights and horizons, even when there is a cliff underfoot, as shown on the map.
2. Mag. Arcana number one. The card shows a young man, he is still young, but great prospects open up before him. His learning ability and determination will definitely bear fruit. He is confident in himself and knows how to convince others that he is right. This card reminds us that success is possible only for those people who know how to plan, control themselves, be decisive and act at the right moment.
3. High Priestess. Arcanum number three means wisdom and knowledge, but not encyclopedic, but spiritual and intuitive.
4. Empress. This card symbolizes the feminine principle, femininity, the keeper of the hearth, care, and generosity. In a scenario, it can mean a strong-willed, powerful woman.
5. Emperor. In contrast to the Empress, this card symbolizes the masculine principle. It can mean a strong person, a man who controls the situation and himself, knows how to achieve his goal and knows exactly what he wants. In the scenario, it may indicate dependence on a stronger person.
6. Priest. The map guides the search for truth in philosophy and reflection. May indicate a wise, authoritative person.
7. Lovers. It was already said above that the card does not indicate making an important decision, as happens in other decks. In this case, Lovers tell us only about love and well-being in their personal lives. In an inverted position, the card warns of problems.
8. Chariot. First of all, the card indicates the ability or need to keep everything under control and move forward. In other interpretations, the card can mean a long trip, a good moment for action, possible prospects.
9. Force. This is a good card, especially if you are not in a stable and romantic period of your life. It says that you have enough willpower, health, self-control and prudence to act and win.
10. Hermit. The card really means solitude and detachment from the world. This may be a forced measure or a voluntary decision.
11. Wheel of Fortune. If the card appears in the correct position, it means that from now on you should be lucky everywhere. In an inverted position, the card, on the contrary, warns that now it is better not to take risks.
12. Justice. The card warns that everyone will receive according to their deeds. And if you are clean before the law and your own conscience, then you have nothing to worry about, but if you are guilty, then the time has come to repent.
13. Hanged. Most often, the card means that everything in your world is turning upside down. The best solution in this situation is to accept everything as it is; humility and dedication are your best advisers. The card can also indicate self-sacrifice, giving up one's interests for the sake of the interests of another person.
14. Death. You don't have to be scared of this card. It can mean the end of a certain period in your life, but it can also mean the beginning of something new.
15. Moderation. The card says that you should control your desires and not allow an excess of anything.
16. Devil. This card primarily speaks of the temptation that awaits you. Remember that behind a beautiful picture or an alluring prospect there may be danger hidden.
17. Tower. The card warns of the beginning of a bad period in your life. You will face the collapse of your hopes, expectations, and perhaps everything that you have already achieved, including authority. You must prepare yourself to start over.
18. Star. This card speaks of harmony and prosperity, peace and great achievements, peace and happiness.
19. Moon. The card warns of the presence of a secret enemy, a hidden threat. You may expect quarrels and conflicts with loved ones.
20. Sun. A wonderful card that speaks of the beginning of a life streak of happiness and achievement.
21. Court. This card can mean either suddenly revealed information or condemnation of you by others. Much depends on what accompanying cards are drawn.
22. World. Your achievements and the best aspects of your personality will be appreciated and exalted by those around you.

Interpretation and description of the minor arcana

Interpretation of the minor arcana not as diverse as in the case of the major arcana. Most often, the minor arcana gives only one meaning or is adjusted by neighboring cards and is understood quite simply.

In order to interpret the minor arcana from the Rider-Waite deck, you will have to learn to understand the image on the card.

For example, ace of swords depicted as a sword raised upward, on the tip of which a golden crown floats. The card predicts victory, achievement, success. The Ten of Swords depicts a man with ten swords stuck into him. The card may indicate betrayal, great losses, or a heavy blow.

The Two of Cups depicts a woman and a man. They stand opposite each other with cups in their hands, ready to drink to good luck, love and prosperity. This is exactly the interpretation the card should have.

Layouts

The fastest schedule is daily schedule, month, year. It is enough to pull out just one card from the deck to understand what awaits you in the future indicated at the beginning of the layout. The same layout can be used for YES/NO fortune telling. For more experienced tarot readers, a good option from quick layouts would be fortune telling with three cards.

This layout is also universal. It can be used when fortune telling about a situation, and when telling fortunes about the future, and when telling fortunes about love. The first card signifies the past or where it all began, the second card signifies the present and what you need to pay attention to now, and the third card will give you a glimpse into the future.

A more complex but universal layout is Celtic cross. This layout is very popular and has a lot of different options. A more complete layout consists of ten cards laid out in a specific order (depending on which version of the Celtic cross you chose). The layout gives a complete and clear answer to any question asked.

In addition to universal layouts, there are also those that are intended for fortune telling exclusively on one thing, for example, love relationships or health.

All people interested in fortune telling with Tarot cards have definitely heard the name Rider Waite (White), because the deck he created is recognized as a classic version, from which tarot readers start when making their forecasts for the future. Waite Tarot interpretation and meaning of the cards, as well as general information about the deck - that’s what we’ll talk about in this material.

The history of the creation of the Rider Waite deck, its distinctive features

The personality of Waite himself is of quite great interest - he was a comprehensively developed person, engaged in translating books, as well as writing his own works and research activities.

Rider White had his own vision of the use of Tarot cards. So, he called for using them exclusively as a mystical attribute, and was against their magical use.

Waite was helped in creating his Tarot deck by a woman with psychic abilities - Pamela Colman Street, an artist and member of the Order of the Golden Dawn. It was she who developed the graphic image of the arcana.

Perhaps her drawings at first glance seem quite primitive, but they tell in detail about the small details of the design and faces of the characters, which indicates the deep sacred meaning of the cards.

Before you begin to interpret the Waite Tarot, you need to note the characteristic features of this deck:

• There have been changes to the plot illustrations of each of the 78 arcana. Before this, Low cards looked almost the same as playing cards - they only contained information about suit and value (with the exception of 4 “court cards”). And in his deck, Rider White developed an illustration for each of the Minor Arcana, personifying their deep meaning.
• Changed card order. So “Strength” (11th card) in the Waite Tarot took the place of “Justice” (8th).
• Another meaning of the “Lovers” card. Previously, the 6th Tarot card was called “Choice” and depicted an insecure young man who could not make a choice between two queens. In White's deck, the meaning of the arcana has changed dramatically - now the card depicts a biblical scene with the participation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and tells about original sin, love and passion.
• The "Genuine Tarot" is very symbolic, while the Waite Tarot is more esoteric. All arcana of the deck are described in simple, easy-to-understand language. These cards can be used by beginners.

Description of the meaning of Rider White Tarot cards

Major Arcana

Jester (0th lasso). The card will tell about the reckless behavior, stupidity of a youth, tomfoolery, extravagance. It will also indicate uncertainty and incomprehensibility. In the opposite position: speaks of alertness, waste of energy.

Mag. A person strives for independent achievements, is distinguished by energy, strong will, skill, and dexterity. Smart intentions to influence the world. The beginning of new projects, the birth of children. In the opposite position: speaks of passivity, lack of will, conservatism, lack of experience. The real does not correspond to the expected. Inhibition of the process.

High Priestess. It is a heavy card that speaks of the unknown, deception, and concealment of information. The person does not know who is really in control of the situation. He will also talk about the intuitive perception of the world, the influence of the subconscious on our lives. Reverse: secrets are revealed, the situation becomes clearer, negative changes, materialism.

Empress. Speaks of action, initiative, and implementation of something. This is a card of creation, fertility, financial profit, stability. In the reverse position, he will talk about laziness, lack of action, creative unfulfillment, fear and addiction.

Emperor. Indicator of authority, father. The Emperor speaks of fundamentality, solidity, material wealth, and describes a strong-willed person. The mind prevails over the emotional sphere. A very successful lasso for men. The opposite position: there is no father or his influence is very weak, the routine of life is disrupted. Subordination.

Hierophant(also called Priest or Pope). Evidence of training and mentoring. Predicts contacts, communication, friendship, charity and spirituality. But at the same time there is no finances, sex, or household order. In reverse: a period of intrigue, dark plots, doubts.

Lovers. You may need to make some decisions. The main meaning of the lasso is the theme of love, and we are talking about true spiritual love, and not about sexual desire. In the reverse position: it will tell about unrealistic plans, disturbed harmony, the presence of internal personal conflicts.

Chariot. It will indicate a zealous defense of one’s position, a period of conflicts and disagreements (may talk about military action). A person will be able to cope with all challenges. In the reverse position: not enough vitality, knowledge. Period of stagnation.

Force. Finding a balance between fear and haste. Kindness and strong will help you achieve what you want. In the reverse position: intellect and instincts conflict with each other, your plans collapse, and a force is released that is no longer realistic to hold.

Hermit. It will tell about prudence, making informed decisions, but also about separation from the world, secret plans, asceticism, perfectionism, loneliness. A person does not depend on society, he lives on his own. In the opposite position: excess perfectionism, a person demands too much from himself and others. Rash behavior that is dangerous for himself.

Wheel of Fortune. It promises rather dubious luck, which is best treated as a surprise. Talks about strange gifts of fate, unexpected acquaintances, proposals, changes. In reverse, it demonstrates the desire for change, but instead, receiving delays and interference.

Justice(also called fairness). In this case, truth in any of its concepts will triumph. Karma controls a person’s destiny and decides when and to whom to give what they deserve. The beginning of legal proceedings and the conclusion of a marriage union are possible. In the reverse position: negative karma is worked out, others are biased towards you

Hanged. Arkan speaks of spirituality, the desire to comprehend higher wisdom, harmony and humility. The verdict of fate begins to take effect, negative karma is worked out. A person suffers from voluntary torment and illness. The opposite position will tell about pride and selfishness.

Death. Something new comes, often unexpectedly. The current situation is changing. A person renounces his will and gains inner freedom. In the opposite position it speaks of stagnation, a dead end.

Moderation(also called Abstinence). The map sets out certain frames, modes, systems. You will have to make efforts to achieve what you want. Monotonous work, lack of creativity. In reverse: it will talk about sudden disturbances in order, excessive emotionality, and anxiety.

Devil. It is a fatal lasso, the meaning of which is quite negative. Will indicate karmic attachments, selfishness, strong pride, increased aggressiveness. A person does not know how to love. In the reverse position: “insight” and spiritual improvement are possible.

Tower. Higher powers intervene in life, drastic changes. In reverse, it speaks of fear and internal tension.

Star. It is a karmic card, it promises the fulfillment of plans, but not now. An inverted “Star” speaks of depression, uncertainty, detachment from everything, and laziness.

Moon. Indicates danger, uncertainty, unknown, confusion in business. The person feels lonely and abandoned. In the opposite position it speaks of mercy and clarification of the situation.

Sun. A fortuneteller knows how to enjoy life, his wishes will be fulfilled. It is an indicator of triumph, reward, optimism. In the reverse position: the past interferes with the completion of the present. Increased egocentrism.

Last Judgment. Any restrictions are eliminated, a person rediscovers himself, works off his bad karma. The reverse card tells about a difficult period of life, resistance to change.

World. A symbol of wisdom, gaining knowledge, openness, the desire to change and improve. The reverse lasso speaks of partial victory; one feels an unpleasant limitation in development and spiritual growth.

This was the abbreviated meaning of the Rider Waite Tarot cards (Major Arcana). Also, when considering the meaning of the Waite Tarot, we must not forget about the group of Minor Arcana, which the following video will tell about