Tarot Deck Cards (Major Arcana)

I. The Magician

Skill, diplomacy, address, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, self-confidence, will, the Querent himself (if male). Reversed: Physician, Magus, mental illness, disgrace, disquiet.

II. 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 ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.

III. The Empress

Fruitfulness, initiative, action, long days, clandestine, the unknown, difficultly, doubt, ignorance. Reversed: Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, public rejoice, also, according to another reading-vacillation.

IV. The Emperor

Stability, power, aid, protection, a great person, conviction, reason.

Reversed: Benevolence, compassion, credit, also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.

V. The Hierophant

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

VI. The Lovers

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

VII. The Chariot

Succor, providence, also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble. Reversed: Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.

VIII. Strength

Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity. Reversed: Abuse of power, despotism, weakness, discord.

IX. The Hermit

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

X. Wheel Of Fortune

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

XI. Justice

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

XII. The Hanged Man

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

XIII. Death

End, morality, destruction, corruption. Reversed: Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism.

XIV. Temperance

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

XV. The Devil

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

XVI. The Tower

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

XVII. The Star

Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, although another reading suggests hope and bright prospects in the future. Reversed: Arrogance, impotence, haughtiness.

XVIII. The Moon

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

XIX. The Sun

Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment. Reversed: The same in a lesser sense.

XX. The Last Judgment

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

XXI. The World

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

O. The Fool

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