{"nhits":10,"cards":[{"name":"King of Pentacles","name_short":"peki","value":"king","value_int":14,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.","meaning_rev":"Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.","desc":"The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved or blazoned with the pentagram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In many old Tarot packs this suit stood for current coin, money, deniers. I have not invented the substitution of pentacles and I have no special cause to sustain in respect of the alternative. But the consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of some change, because the cards do not happen to deal especially with questions of money."},{"name":"Queen of Wands","name_short":"waqu","value":"queen","value_int":13,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman, she is interested in the Querent. Also, love of money, or a certain success in business.","meaning_rev":"Good, economical, obliging, serviceable. Signifies also--but in certain positions and in the neighbourhood of other cards tending in such directions--opposition, jealousy, even deceit and infidelity.","desc":"The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality corresponds to that of the King, but is more magnetic."},{"name":"Knight of Cups","name_short":"cukn","value":"knight","value_int":12,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Arrival, approach--sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement.","meaning_rev":"Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.","desc":"Graceful, but not warlike; riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet, referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes characterize this card. He too is a dreamer, but the images of the side of sense haunt him in his vision."},{"name":"Three of Pentacles","name_short":"pe03","value":"three","value_int":3,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Métier, trade, skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.","meaning_rev":"Mediocrity, in work and otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness.","desc":"A sculptor at his work in a monastery. Compare the design which illustrates the Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or amateur therein has received his reward and is now at work in earnest."},{"name":"Six of Cups","name_short":"cu06","value":"six","value_int":6,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as--for example--on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct.","meaning_rev":"The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.","desc":"Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers."},{"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."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar17","name":"The Star","value":"17","value_int":17,"meaning_up":"Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says-hope and bright prospects,","meaning_rev":"Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.","desc":"A great, radiant star of eight rays, surrounded by seven lesser stars--also of eight rays. The female figure in the foreground is entirely naked. Her left knee is on the land and her right foot upon the water. She pours Water of Life from two great ewers, irrigating sea and land. Behind her is rising ground and on the right a shrub or tree, whereon a bird alights. The figure expresses eternal youth and beauty. The star is l'étoile flamboyante, which appears in Masonic symbolism, but has been confused therein. That which the figure communicates to the living scene is the substance of the heavens and the elements. It has been said truly that the mottoes of this card are \"Waters of Life freely\" and \"Gifts of the Spirit.\"\nThe summary of several tawdry explanations says that it is a card of hope. On other planes it has been certified as immortality and interior light. For the majority of prepared minds, the figure will appear as the type of Truth unveiled, glorious in undying beauty, pouring on the waters of the soul some part and measure of her priceless possession. But she is in reality the Great Mother in the Kabalistic Sephira Binah, which is supernal Understanding, who communicates to the Sephiroth that are below in the measure that they can receive her influx."},{"name":"Four of Cups","name_short":"cu04","value":"four","value_int":4,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he sees no consolation therein. This is also a card of blended pleasure.","meaning_rev":"Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.","desc":"A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with his environment."},{"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":"Ace of Cups","name_short":"cuac","value":"ace","value_int":1,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.","meaning_rev":"House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.","desc":"The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana."}]}