{"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":"Nine of Wands","name_short":"wa09","value":"nine","value_int":9,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"The card signifies strength in opposition. If attacked, the person will meet an onslaught boldly; and his build shews, that he may prove a formidable antagonist. With this main significance there are all its possible adjuncts--delay, suspension, adjournment.","meaning_rev":"Obstacles, adversity, calamity.","desc":"The figure leans upon his staff and has an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy. Behind are eight other staves--erect, in orderly disposition, like a palisade."},{"name":"Six of Pentacles","name_short":"pe06","value":"six","value_int":6,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc.","meaning_rev":"Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.","desc":"A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart."},{"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."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar10","name":"Wheel Of Fortune","value":"10","value_int":10,"meaning_up":"Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.","meaning_rev":"Increase, abundance, superfluity.","desc":"In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of Éliphas Lévi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate--as I have intimated--to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our purpose, provided that no theory of origin is implied therein. I have, however, presented Typhon in his serpent form. The symbolism is, of course, not exclusively Egyptian, as the four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card, and the wheel itself follows other indications of Lévi in respect of Ezekiel's vision, as illustrative of the particular Tarot Key. With the French occultist, and in the design itself, the symbolic picture stands for the perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is the equilibrium therein. The transliteration of Taro as Rota is inscribed on the wheel, counterchanged with the letters of the Divine Name--to shew that Providence is imphed through all. But this is the Divine intention within, and the similar intention without is exemplified by the four Living Creatures. Sometimes the sphinx is represented couchant on a pedestal above, which defrauds the symbolism by stultifying the essential idea of stability amidst movement.\nBehind the general notion expressed in the symbol there lies the denial of chance and the fatality which is implied therein. It may be added that, from the days of Lévi onward, the occult explanations of this card are--even for occultism itself--of a singularly fatuous kind. It has been said to mean principle, fecundity, virile honour, ruling authority, etc. The findings of common fortune-telling are better than this on their own plane."},{"name":"Ace of Cups","name_short":"cuac","value":"ace","value_int":1,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.","meaning_rev":"House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.","desc":"The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana."},{"name":"Seven of Swords","name_short":"sw07","value":"seven","value_int":7,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import, because the significations are widely at variance with each other.","meaning_rev":"Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.","desc":"A man in the act of carrying away five swords rapidly; the two others of the card remain stuck in the ground. A camp is close at hand."},{"name":"Queen of Swords","name_short":"swqu","value":"queen","value_int":13,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.","meaning_rev":"Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.","desc":"Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power."},{"name":"King of Cups","name_short":"cuki","value":"king","value_int":14,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence.","meaning_rev":"Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.","desc":"He holds a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right; his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the Sign of the Cup naturally refers to water, which appears in all the court cards."},{"name":"Three of Cups","name_short":"cu03","value":"three","value_int":3,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing,","meaning_rev":"Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.","desc":"Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another."}]}