THE TAROT OR DIVINATION CARDS
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Six.
In the normal position this card indicates that
the " telHng " refers to the past. If reversed it indicates
the future, but
Five.
it
it is
the immediate future.
—Marriage or some important ceremony.
Reversed
an arrival, some news, or a surprise.
Discontentment or displeasure. Reversed, a new
indicates
Four.
—
acquaintance.
Three.
— Success,
plan or wish.
a favourable ending to the enquirer's
Reversed,
the
card
indicates
a quick
not necessarily successful, but soon in point of
result,
time only.
— Love,
One. — Company,
Two.
Reversed, the card shows oppo-
affection.
sition to one's affection or
we know
change of some
thing
a
by the person
pleasant
loved.
gathering
—the
sort
of
as a
" party."
sort,
not necessarily good or bad, but
Reversed,
we have a
a change.
It will
be seen that the Heart suit
fortunate in
its
normal
is
almost entirely
position, while the reversed posi-
on the whole, indicate delay rather than lack of
An early design for this suit was the Acorn, which
tions,
success.
obviously represented successful agriculture, an essential
feature of primitive
Then came the Cup,
life.
more modern fashion a
sign of material success
rate the necessary social position to enable
The Western Heart
also in its
—or at any
you
to enter-
merely a careless adaptation of
the old design of a Cup, just as the Cup itself was a careless
or mistaken copy of the Acorn, possibly done in some
country where the Oak tree was not prominent.
tain.
Wands
or Clubs.
King.
cated.
is
—A
dark
Otherwise
threatening.
man,
where an
success.
individual
Reversed,
danger
is
indi-
that
is