{"nhits":10,"cards":[{"name":"Page of Wands","name_short":"wapa","value":"page","value_int":11,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman. Beside a man, he will bear favourable testimony concerning him. A dangerous rival, if followed by the Page of Cups. Has the chief qualities of his suit. He may signify family intelligence.","meaning_rev":"Anecdotes, announcements, evil news. Also indecision and the instability which accompanies it.","desc":"In a scene similar to the former, a young man stands in the act of proclamation. He is unknown but faithful, and his tidings are strange."},{"name":"King of Swords","name_short":"swki","value":"king","value_int":14,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Whatsoever arises out of the idea of judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown, and so forth.","meaning_rev":"Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.","desc":"He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the power of life and death, in virtue of his office."},{"name":"Page of Swords","name_short":"swpa","value":"page","value_int":11,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities thereto belonging.","meaning_rev":"More evil side of these qualities; what is unforeseen, unprepared state; sickness is also intimated.","desc":"A lithe, active figure holds a sword upright in both hands, while in the act of swift walking. He is passing over rugged land, and about his way the clouds are collocated wildly. He is alert and lithe, looking this way and that, as if an expected enemy might appear at any moment."},{"name":"Six of Cups","name_short":"cu06","value":"six","value_int":6,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as--for example--on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct.","meaning_rev":"The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.","desc":"Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers."},{"name":"Ten of Pentacles","name_short":"pe10","value":"ten","value_int":10,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.","meaning_rev":"Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.","desc":"A man and woman beneath an archway which gives entrance to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs accosting an ancient personage seated in the foreground. The child's hand is on one of them."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar04","name":"The Emperor","value":"4","value_int":4,"meaning_up":"Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will.","meaning_rev":"Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.","desc":"He has a form of the Crux ansata for his sceptre and a globe in his left hand. He is a crowned monarch--commanding, stately, seated on a throne, the arms of which axe fronted by rams' heads. He is executive and realization, the power of this world, here clothed with the highest of its natural attributes. He is occasionally represented as seated on a cubic stone, which, however, confuses some of the issues. He is the virile power, to which the Empress responds, and in this sense is he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains virgo intacta.\nIt should be understood that this card and that of the Empress do not precisely represent the condition of married life, though this state is implied. On the surface, as I have indicated, they stand for mundane royalty, uplifted on the seats of the mighty; but above this there is the suggestion of another presence. They signify also--and the male figure especially--the higher kingship, occupying the intellectual throne. Hereof is the lordship of thought rather than of the animal world. Both personalities, after their own manner, are \"full of strange experience,\" but theirs is not consciously the wisdom which draws from a higher world. The Emperor has been described as (a) will in its embodied form, but this is only one of its applications, and (b) as an expression of virtualities contained in the Absolute Being--but this is fantasy."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar21","name":"The World","value":"21","value_int":21,"meaning_up":"Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.","meaning_rev":"Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.","desc":"As this final message of the Major Trumps is unchanged--and indeed unchangeable--in respect of its design, it has been partly described already regarding its deeper sense. It represents also the perfection and end of the Cosmos, the secret which is within it, the rapture of the universe when it understands itself in God. It is further the state of the soul in the consciousness of Divine Vision, reflected from the self-knowing spirit. But these meanings are without prejudice to that which I have said concerning it on the material side.\nIt has more than one message on the macrocosmic side and is, for example, the state of the restored world when the law of manifestation shall have been carried to the highest degree of natural perfection. But it is perhaps more especially a story of the past, referring to that day when all was declared to be good, when the morning stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for joy. One of the worst explanations concerning it is that the figure symbolizes the Magus when he has reached the highest degree of initiation; another account says that it represents the absolute, which is ridiculous. The figure has been said to stand for Truth, which is, however, more properly allocated to the seventeenth card. Lastly, it has been called the Crown of the Magi."},{"name":"Queen of Pentacles","name_short":"pequ","value":"queen","value_int":13,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.","meaning_rev":"Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.","desc":"The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar12","name":"The Hanged Man","value":"12","value_int":12,"meaning_up":"Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.","meaning_rev":"Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.","desc":"The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure--from the position of the legs--forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. It is a card of profound significance, but all the significance is veiled. One of his editors suggests that Éliphas Lévi did not know the meaning, which is unquestionable nor did the editor himself. It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a card of the Great Work, a card of duty; but we may exhaust all published interpretations and find only vanity. I will say very simply on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the Universe.\nHe who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection."},{"name":"King of Pentacles","name_short":"peki","value":"king","value_int":14,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.","meaning_rev":"Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.","desc":"The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved or blazoned with the pentagram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In many old Tarot packs this suit stood for current coin, money, deniers. I have not invented the substitution of pentacles and I have no special cause to sustain in respect of the alternative. But the consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of some change, because the cards do not happen to deal especially with questions of money."}]}