{"nhits":10,"cards":[{"name":"Nine of Swords","name_short":"sw09","value":"nine","value_int":9,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.","meaning_rev":"Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.","desc":"One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar13","name":"Death","value":"13","value_int":13,"meaning_up":"End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.","meaning_rev":"Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.","desc":"The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in change, transformation and passage from lower to higher, and this is more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by the crude notion of the reaping skeleton. Behind it lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. The mysterious horseman moves slowly, bearing a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which signifies life. Between two pillars on the verge of the horizon there shines the sun of immortality. The horseman carries no visible weapon, but king and child and maiden fall before him, while a prelate with clasped hands awaits his end.\nThere should be no need to point out that the suggestion of death which I have made in connection with the previous card is, of course, to be understood mystically, but this is not the case in the present instance. The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate. The existing occult explanations of the 13th card are, on the whole, better than usual, rebirth, creation, destination, renewal, and the rest."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar03","name":"The Empress","value":"3","value_int":3,"meaning_up":"Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.","meaning_rev":"Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation.","desc":"A stately figure, seated, having rich vestments and royal aspect, as of a daughter of heaven and earth. Her diadem is of twelve stars, gathered in a cluster. The symbol of Venus is on the shield which rests near her. A field of corn is ripening in front of her, and beyond there is a fall of water. The sceptre which she bears is surmounted by the globe of this world. She is the inferior Garden of Eden, the Earthly Paradise, all that is symbolized by the visible house of man. She is not Regina coeli, but she is still refugium peccatorum, the fruitful mother of thousands. There are also certain aspects in which she has been correctly described as desire and the wings thereof, as the woman clothed with the sun, as Gloria Mundi and the veil of the Sanctum Sanctorum; but she is not, I may add, the soul that has attained wings, unless all the symbolism is counted up another and unusual way. She is above all things universal fecundity and the outer sense of the Word. This is obvious, because there is no direct message which has been given to man like that which is borne by woman; but she does not herself carry its interpretation.\nIn another order of ideas, the card of the Empress signifies the door or gate by which an entrance is obtained into this life, as into the Garden of Venus; and then the way which leads out therefrom, into that which is beyond, is the secret known to the High Priestess: it is communicated by her to the elect. Most old attributions of this card are completely wrong on the symbolism--as, for example, its identification with the Word, Divine Nature, the Triad, and so forth."},{"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."},{"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":"Ace of Swords","name_short":"swac","value":"ace","value_int":1,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much higher significance than comes usually within the sphere of fortune-telling.","meaning_rev":"The same, but the results are disastrous; another account says--conception, childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.","desc":"A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown."},{"name":"Seven of Wands","name_short":"wa07","value":"seven","value_int":7,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"It is a card of valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position. On the intellectual plane, it signifies discussion, wordy strife; in business--negotiations, war of trade, barter, competition. It is further a card of success, for the combatant is on the top and his enemies may be unable to reach him.","meaning_rev":"Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.","desc":"A young man on a craggy eminence brandishing a staff; six other staves are raised towards him from below."},{"name":"Five of Cups","name_short":"cu05","value":"five","value_int":5,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to a small keep or holding. Divanatory Meanings: It is a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration.","meaning_rev":"News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects.","desc":"A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to a small keep or holding. Divanatory Meanings: It is a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration. Reversed: News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects"},{"name":"Four of Wands","name_short":"wa04","value":"four","value_int":4,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"They are for once almost on the surface--country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of these.","meaning_rev":"The meaning remains unaltered; it is prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.","desc":"From the four great staves planted in the foreground there is a great garland suspended; two female figures uplift nosegays; at their side is a bridge over a moat, leading to an old manorial house."},{"name":"Six of Swords","name_short":"sw06","value":"six","value_int":6,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.","meaning_rev":"Declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love.","desc":"A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted that the work is not beyond his strength."}]}