{"nhits":10,"cards":[{"name":"King of Swords","name_short":"swki","value":"king","value_int":14,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Whatsoever arises out of the idea of judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown, and so forth.","meaning_rev":"Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.","desc":"He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the power of life and death, in virtue of his office."},{"name":"Eight of Wands","name_short":"wa08","value":"eight","value_int":8,"suit":"wands","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, as that of an express messenger; great haste, great hope, speed towards an end which promises assured felicity; generally, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.","meaning_rev":"Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married.","desc":"The card represents motion through the immovable-a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even on the threshold."},{"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."},{"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":"Three of Swords","name_short":"sw03","value":"three","value_int":3,"suit":"swords","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration.","meaning_rev":"Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.","desc":"Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind."},{"name":"Eight of Pentacles","name_short":"pe08","value":"eight","value_int":8,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.","meaning_rev":"Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.","desc":"An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies."},{"name":"Seven of Pentacles","name_short":"pe07","value":"seven","value_int":7,"suit":"pentacles","type":"minor","meaning_up":"These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels--and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.","meaning_rev":"Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.","desc":"A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there."},{"type":"major","name_short":"ar12","name":"The Hanged Man","value":"12","value_int":12,"meaning_up":"Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.","meaning_rev":"Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.","desc":"The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure--from the position of the legs--forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. It is a card of profound significance, but all the significance is veiled. One of his editors suggests that Éliphas Lévi did not know the meaning, which is unquestionable nor did the editor himself. It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a card of the Great Work, a card of duty; but we may exhaust all published interpretations and find only vanity. I will say very simply on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the Universe.\nHe who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection."},{"name":"Three of Cups","name_short":"cu03","value":"three","value_int":3,"suit":"cups","type":"minor","meaning_up":"The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing,","meaning_rev":"Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.","desc":"Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another."},{"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."}]}