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MAJOR ARCARNA

0 - THE FOOL

Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy.
Reversed - Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.

1 - THE MAGICIAN

Skill, diplomacy, address, sickness, pain, loss, disaster; self-confidence, will; the Querent, if male.
Reversed - Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.

2 - THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent, if female; silence, tenacity, wisdom, science.
Reversed - Passion, moral or physical ardour, conceit, surface knowledge.

3 - THE EMPRESS

Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Reversed - Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation.

4 - THE EMPEROR

Stability, power, protection; a great person; aid, reason, conviction.
Reversed - Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.

5 - THE HIEROPHANT

Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness; inspiration; the man to whom the Querent has recourse.
Reversed - Society, good understanding, concord, over-kindness, weakness.

6 - THE LOVERS

Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Reversed - Failure, foolish designs.

7 - THE CHARIOT

Succour, providence; also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.
Reversed - Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.

8 - STRENGTH

Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity.
Reversed - Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord.

9 - THE HERMIT

Prudence; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.
Reversed - Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.

10 - WHEEL OF FORTUNE

Destiny, fortune, success, luck, felicity.
Reversed - Increase, abundance, superfluity.

11 - JUSTICE

Equity, rightness, probity, executive.
Reversed - Law in all departments, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.

12 - THE HANGED MAN

Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.
Reversed - Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.

13 - DEATH

End, mortality, destruction, corruption.
Reversed - Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism.

14 - TEMPERANCE

Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.
Reversed - things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood; also disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.

15 - THE DEVIL

Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but not for this reason evil.
Reversed - Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.

16 - THE TOWER

Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin.
Reversed - According to one account, the same in a lesser degree; also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.

17 - THE STAR

Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says - hope and bright prospects.
Reversed - Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.

18 - THE MOON

Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, error.
Reversed - Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.

19 - THE SUN

Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Reversed - The same to a lesser degree.

20 - THE LAST JUDGEMENT

Change of position, renewal, outcome.
Reversed - Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.

21 - THE WORLD

Assured success, voyage route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Reversed - Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.

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