{"nhits":10,"cards":[{"name":"Four of Swords","name_short":"sw04","value":"four","value_int":4,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design.","meaning_rev":"Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.","desc":"The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb."},{"name":"Three of Wands","name_short":"wa03","value":"three","value_int":3,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"He symbolizes established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery; those are his ships, bearing his merchandise, which are sailing over the sea. The card also signifies able co-operation in business, as if the successful merchant prince were looking from his side towards yours with a view to help you.","meaning_rev":"The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.","desc":"A calm, stately personage, with his back turned, looking from a cliff's edge at ships passing over the sea. Three staves are planted in the ground, and he leans slightly on one of them."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar20","name":"The Last Judgment","value":"20","value_int":20,"meaning_up":"Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit.","meaning_rev":"Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.","desc":"I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character. The great angel is here encompassed by clouds, but he blows his bannered trumpet, and the cross as usual is displayed on the banner. The dead are rising from their tombs--a woman on the right, a man on the left hand, and between them their child, whose back is turned. But in this card there are more than three who are restored, and it has been thought worth while to make this variation as illustrating the insufficiency of current explanations. It should be noted that all the figures are as one in the wonder, adoration and ecstacy expressed by their attitudes. It is the card which registers the accomplishment of the great work of transformation in answer to the summons of the Supernal--which summons is heard and answered from within.\nHerein is the intimation of a significance which cannot well be carried further in the present place. What is that within us which does sound a trumpet and all that is lower in our nature rises in response--almost in a moment, almost in the twinkling of an eye? Let the card continue to depict, for those who can see no further, the Last judgment and the resurrection in the natural body; but let those who have inward eyes look and discover therewith. They will understand that it has been called truly in the past a card of eternal life, and for this reason it may be compared with that which passes under the name of Temperance."},{"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 Wands","name_short":"waki","value":"king","value_int":14,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty, and may mean news concerning an unexpected heritage to fall in before very long.","meaning_rev":"Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.","desc":"The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three correspondences in the remaining suits, what is called a cap of maintenance beneath his crown. He connects with the symbol of the lion, which is emblazoned on the back of his throne."},{"name":"Two of Wands","name_short":"wa02","value":"two","value_int":2,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible; on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; on the other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design gives one suggestion; here is a lord overlooking his dominion and alternately contemplating a globe; it looks like the malady, the mortification, the sadness of Alexander amidst the grandeur of this world's wealth.","meaning_rev":"Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.","desc":"A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore; he holds a globe in his right hand, while a staff in his left rests on the battlement; another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily should be noticed on the left side."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar16","name":"The Tower","value":"16","value_int":16,"meaning_up":"Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe.","meaning_rev":"According to one account, the same in a lesser degree also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.","desc":"Occult explanations attached to this card are meagre and mostly disconcerting. It is idle to indicate that it depicts min in all its aspects, because it bears this evidence on the surface. It is said further that it contains the first allusion to a material building, but I do not conceive that the Tower is more or less material than the pillars which we have met with in three previous cases. I see nothing to warrant Papus in supposing that it is literally the fall of Adam, but there is more in favour of his alternative--that it signifies the materialization of the spiritual word. The bibliographer Christian imagines that it is the downfall of the mind, seeking to penetrate the mystery of God. I agree rather with Grand Orient that it is the ruin of the House of We, when evil has prevailed therein, and above all that it is the rending of a House of Doctrine. I understand that the reference is, however, to a House of Falsehood. It illustrates also in the most comprehensive way the old truth that \"except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.\"\nThere is a sense in which the catastrophe is a reflection from the previous card, but not on the side of the symbolism which I have tried to indicate therein. It is more correctly a question of analogy; one is concerned with the fall into the material and animal state, while the other signifies destruction on the intellectual side. The Tower has been spoken of as the chastisement of pride and the intellect overwhelmed in the attempt to penetrate the Mystery of God; but in neither case do these explanations account for the two persons who are the living sufferers. The one is the literal word made void and the other its false interpretation. In yet a deeper sense, it may signify also the end of a dispensation, but there is no possibility here for the consideration of this involved question."},{"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":"ar01","name":"The Magician","value":"1","value_int":1,"meaning_up":"Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will; the Querent, if male.","meaning_rev":"Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.","desc":"A youthful figure in the robe of a magician, having the countenance of divine Apollo, with smile of confidence and shining eyes. Above his head is the mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit, the sign of life, like an endless cord, forming the figure 8 in a horizontal position . About his waist is a serpent-cincture, the serpent appearing to devour its own tail. This is familiar to most as a conventional symbol of eternity, but here it indicates more especially the eternity of attainment in the spirit. In the Magician's right hand is a wand raised towards heaven, while the left hand is pointing to the earth. This dual sign is known in very high grades of the Instituted Mysteries; it shews the descent of grace, virtue and light, drawn from things above and derived to things below. The suggestion throughout is therefore the possession and communication of the Powers and Gifts of the Spirit. On the table in front of the Magician are the symbols of the four Tarot suits, signifying the elements of natural life, which lie like counters before the adept, and he adapts them as he wills. Beneath are roses and lilies, the flos campi and lilium convallium, changed into garden flowers, to shew the culture of aspiration. This card signifies the divine motive in man, reflecting God, the will in the liberation of its union with that which is above. It is also the unity of individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought, in the fixation thereof. With further reference to what I have called the sign of life and its connexion with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change \"unto the Ogdoad.\" The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord. According to Martinism, 8 is the number of Christ."},{"name":"Seven of Cups","name_short":"cu07","value":"seven","value_int":7,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but nothing permanent or substantial is suggested.","meaning_rev":"Desire, will, determination, project.","desc":"Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit."}]}