The Clover Tarot

0 Fool

Soul.

Tarot Card Symbol: a young fellow in jester’s clothes carelessly stepping over a precipice into emptiness. A smile on his face, the easiness of a butterfly at his heart. He is innocent and does not know what he will face in the future and what dangers (crocodiles) lie in wait for him. A small dog nips at his heels as if to warn the Fool of danger, symbolising common sense, a feeling of self-preservation and instincts. But the Fool ignores rationality. With a bundle on his shoulder, the Fool walks lightly and believes carelessly in his idea, looking into the unknown space in front of him. His ignorance protects him against all dangers and his openness to the world is disarming. In such a state people may go over a precipice just because they believe that there is a road under them. But the next step may as well lead into the jaws of a crocodile. The Fool represents the wisdom of ignorance, openness to the world and freedom.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• free Spirit before which all opportunities of the Universe unfold;
• rules of the heart, openness to new opportunities;
• adventurism, boldness;
• inner child, irrational side of human nature;
• spontaneity and unpredictability;
• emptiness, impulse, purity, birth;
• wonder.

Qualities: openness, freedom, innocence, inexperience, freshness, novelty. Faith, serenity, foolishness, non-affection, fearlessness.

Person: child. Someone who has heard the dictates of the soul and cannot be stopped. An open, merry and careless person. Intuitive eccentric. God’s fool. Man of Spirit.

Tramp, homeless, Spirit seeker, antisocial element.

Eventive meaning:

• wonders and manifestations of Spirit that contradict common sense;
• life anew, nobody’s advice and no old stereotypes have force;
• faith leading into the precipice, initiation;
• ingenious breakthrough, new impulse;
• being in love, rules of the heart (often comes before a divorce and personifies the wish of freedom. If the man leaves like a fool, he will not “come back” as a rule, unless if due to an action such as the following: surprise him, get him interested, give him a shock);

• freedom from money;
• originality in work, talent, non-standard approach;
• journey;
• whim and fancy, thoughtless action, intuitive action;
• uncontrollable situation.

Reversed Fool

Qualities: foolishness, thoughtless risk, exaltation, fatalism, defencelessness. Negligence, inattention, carelessness.

Eventive meaning:

• mistake, foolishness, self-assurance;
• losses and failures due to foolishness;
• stupid man, fool;
• dismissal and non-professionalism;
• breakup, destruction of relations;
• deceptions, may be cheated when making a deal;
• disease, may denote the journey’s end for old people;
• negative destiny;
• become dispirited, lose firm ground;
• problems with children;
• sudden change of opinion.

I Magician

Power of ego.

Tarot Card Symbols: a willowy young magician standing on the very mountain peak, maintaining excellent balance. He is the prototype of Hermes, the god Mercury in his winged sandals. We watch him at the time of the creation of the Universe, he has power over the Sun (consciousness) and the Moon (subconsciousness). He skilfully uses the cup, the wand, the pentacle and the sword. He masters them. Leopard skin indicates his strength and shamanistic abilities. Differently coloured trouser legs imply that he stands for neither good, nor evil, but instead soars in a relativity that gives him the freedom of creation. The symbol of a lemniscate over his head denotes the first motion of creation and infinity of this motion in the Universe. His right hand is raised, symbolising the masculine energy of will and power. His left hand holds the wand and is the symbol of victory over casual emotions and passions. The cup and the pentacle, traditionally female energies, are also under his power. The Magician knows the rituals and uses magic attributes as intended while his concentration and magic abilities give him command over natural forces.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• Ego, personality, personal charisma and charm;
• control over situations, personal responsibility, self-dependence and will;
• creative process, professionalism, skill;
• control, power, purposefulness, strength;
• initiative.

Qualities: independence, conscience, professionalism, purposefulness and self-reliance. Wittiness and craft.

Person: leader, master-hand, professional in his business. Creative person. Charming, free male with unsurpassed charisma. Physician, healer. Master. Conjurer. High-level professional. Able to assume responsibility. Idea generator. Variety artist. Showman. Lover. Striking personality.

Eventive meaning:

• career growth and recognition of abilities;
• power and control over situations;
• astonish and strike the public, diplomacy and eloquence employed in own interests;
• good health;
• full expression of creative potential;
• freedom and self-dependence in situations;
• decision-making, initiative;
• working alone, autonomy.

Reversed Magician

Qualities: lack of control, weak will, loss of balance, manipulation, irresponsibility.

Eventive meaning:

• charlatan, swindler, manipulator, speculator, instigator and impostor;
• “go with the flow”, leave hold of reins of power and self-surrender;
• hypnosis, influence, use for own purposes;
• plans will not be realised and failure will surely come; results differ from those expected;
• reluctance to learn;
• improper medical treatment, medical error;
• refusal from responsibility for own actions;
• deceive himself and others;
• mental disorders, head injury.

II High Priestess

Revelation.

Tarot Card Symbols: under the cover of night, a nude, green-haired witch is sitting alone under the moonlight. She sets out cards, lifting the veil of mystery (black veil above her head) over world events. There is an inner intuitive flame in the centre of her stomach, over her head and in her solar plexus testifies to the mystic condition of absorption. She is let in on the secret and possesses abilities and knowledge hidden from people. Her long green hair personifies her connection with primal shamanistic energy of Nature. A starry sky and waxing moon are symbols of the Universe with which the Priestess is in subtle harmony. Flaming candles are like a portal or passage into the Priestess’ world of intuitive perception. Her eyes are closed and a half-smile plays on her lips. The veil or black mesh scarf above the Priestess is a symbol of mystery. “Oh, mortal, do not hurry to lift the veil until I unveil myself” – here Schiller implies that the wisdom personified by the Priestess is a revelation and cannot be understood by mental invasion. Four Tarot cards lie face down in front of her. These are four questions, four suits and four spheres of the Spirit: actions, feelings, thoughts, wishes. The Priestess suggests: if there is a question, then there will also be an answer. But the cards are not yet known, they only invite to reveal a bit of the mystery and to become familiar with the unknown.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• Mystery, secret;
• solitude, susceptibility to dreams and signs, cycles of nature and bodily wisdom;
• intuition and the subconscious, extrasensory perception, inspiration;
• man behind the scenes, the hidden influence.

Qualities: secrecy, mystery, wisdom, deliberation, inactivity, solitude, introversion, magic.

Person: a woman about whom we know little or nothing, appearing in the situation and interested. Mistress, rival. Femme fatale.

Ecclesiastic female. Healer, fortune-teller, psychotherapist. Initiated into knowledge.

Eventive meaning:

• indefinite future;
• intuitive understanding;
• hidden motivation, privacy;
• help from a wise woman, spiritual healing, subconscious advice, wisdom, female power;
• influence of hormonal cycles;
• health of the female reproductive system;
• search for inner guidance, self-cognition;
• silence, carefulness, successful concealment of something;
• passivity, waiting;
• promising affair, but without the need to force events.

Reversed High Priestess

Qualities: greed, craftiness, selfishness, loneliness, psychopathic inferior, impatience.

Eventive meaning:

• disclosure of secrets, heavy awareness;
• fraud, error;
• poor contact with intuition, inability to understand own feelings;
• wicked witch, very negative-minded woman, black magic, evil eye, wasting disease and rituals;
• unfaithfulness, inner hatred, betrayal;
• gynaecological problems, infertility, sexually transmitted diseases;
• intrigues at work, envy, negative opinion;
• sexual uselessness, women's dissatisfaction;
• sexual perversions;
• bitch, witch, betrayal by a woman;
• passion that could kill;
• misjudgements and sham.

III Empress

Mother. Nature.

Tarot Card Symbols: among the ripe ears of wheat on a background of fields and blue sky, a pregnant woman sits in a magnificent dress and crown. This is the Empress in the midst of nature. The throne of flowers brings a sense of security and wellness into the picture, it seems to embrace the woman, protecting and supporting her. Her face is relaxed and has a slightly wandering gaze to it, as it happens with pregnant women, and an expression of satisfaction and harmony. She seems to radiate calm and kindness. The red colour of her dress symbolises love and a celebration of life, while the sign of Venus on her breast symbolises beauty and feminine energy. Spikes of rye and wheat hint at a rich harvest and abundance. The Empress is the embodiment of spiritualised matter, fertilised femininity. Her incarnations are the mother, lover and mistress of fields and cornfields. She is the queen in the sublunary world. Her patrimony is love and her essence is the nature that gives birth to us and nourishes us with its gifts.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• fertility, creativity, growth;
• satisfaction, stability, harmony;
• love and beauty, power of attraction;
• motherhood, care, charity.

Qualities: satisfaction, well-being, loyalty, charm, success, beauty, love, health.

Person: creative, talented. Aestheticism and beauty are important to this person. Nature lover. Imperious woman. Mother. Wife.

Eventive meaning:

• good family and stable marriage;
• financial wealth, capital growth;
• decoration and aesthetics, female cosmetics, dressy clothes, hairstyles and everything related to beauty;
• health and care of health: food, walks and rides, spa procedures;
• conception and pregnancy, easy delivery and happy motherhood;
• hospitality and love for the sensuous;
• caring and helping others, cherish something or someone, oversee;
• gardening, love for nature, ecology.

Reversed Empress

Qualities: authoritativeness, exactingness, disharmony, futility, depression and lifelessness. Vanity and ostentation.

Eventive meaning:

• bad mother (either smothers with too much care and control or ignores);
• monetary losses, no progress in business;
• entropy, fruitless efforts;
• destruction of marriage, divorce;
• infertility, abortion, miscarriage, surgery to remove the uterus;
• excessive sensuousness- gluttony, lust, dependency on material wealth;
• laziness, apathy;
• negative femininity, unsatisfied woman;
• prostitution;
• unhealthy growth and expansion, destruction;
• venereal diseases, chronic diseases;
• feeling of abandonment and loneliness.

IV Emperor

Father. Law.

Tarot Card Symbols: against the backdrop of a mighty tree stands a powerful male figure in red and white robes. This is the Emperor. He has just gotten up from his throne and has placed his hands in an imperious and closed Napoleonic pose. His look is hard and arrogant. Both the square throne behind the Emperor and his attitude suggest rigidity, borders and keeping boundaries. This man seems to keep himself well composed, embodying the self-control. The horns on his head are a sign of supreme power and force, as well as a powerful protection against enemies. They also point to the selectiveness and energetic power. Mantle and straps decorated with precious stones on his chest symbolise wealth and status, but also the stiffness, excessive heaviness and mental captivity brought with the power. The greater the man, the smaller his freedom. The white and red colours of his robes indicate a combination of aggressiveness and energetic power in the service of harsh and fair law. The red denotes passion and aggression, while the white symbolises purity, impartiality and grace.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• father, master, patron;
• mature masculine energy;
• earthly power, authority, control, order, structure;
• intellect and clear concept, the facts.

Qualities: strength, rigidity, authoritativeness, stability, purposefulness, activity, logic and rationality. Decisiveness and responsibility.

Person: great authority, ruler, big head. Father. Husband. Man of elder age or higher hierarchy. Patron. An official. Gracious dictator. Politician.

Eventive meaning:

• retaining power;
• dealing with power structures;
• regimented situation;
• authoritative person, leader;
• determine the boundaries, set rules and self-control;
• give orders, administer, command, allocate resources;
• be the guarantor of stability, to think strategically;
• achieve goals and ambitions;
• corporation.

Reversed Emperor

Qualities: despotism, autocracy, cruelty, illegality, lack of discipline, paternalism, male chauvinism.

Eventive meaning:

• misuse of power;
• man devoid of courage, weakness, spinelessness;
• weak, missing or unjust father;
• mediocre solutions, refusal to take responsibility for own actions;
• loss of power and control, chaos;
• violence, punishment, fighting, scandal;
• being in anger and fury, absence of self management, excessive and destructive aggression;
• sexual perversion and homosexuality;
• loss of power and influence, overthrow from throne;
• rival, enemy;
• accidents in the army, mafia showdown;
• monetary crimes: fraud, blackmail, stitch-up and cheating;
• fractures, head injuries, surgery.

V Hierophant (Religion)

Supreme law.

Tarot Card Symbols: before a long journey, two young travellers kneel and bow their heads before the figure of a priest. Perhaps they came for confession, or for advice and parting words before the journey. Young and naked, they represent a naive and inexperienced human soul, helpless in the face of life’s storms, in need of communion and blessing, advice and confession. In his left hand, the priest holds a cross – the emblem of ruling the three realms on earth: material, mental and spiritual. With his right hand, he points to the straight road leading through the darkness of the night, which symbolises the spiritual tradition. His beard and gray hair give witness to his wisdom and experience. The bowed heads of his ward travellers express patience and humility before a person clothed in spiritual authority. A white veil between the two columns implies that a higher being is behind the priest while he acts as the mediator of knowledge that is hidden from the eyes and ears of mere mortals. In this role, the priest represents the initiation into a higher spiritual order and is a guide among people.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• the world of faith, trust in the voice of God;
• moral rules, spiritual tradition, conscience, beliefs;
• blessing and protectorship;
• marriage and family;
• law established by God and the State, societies and institutions.

Qualities: understanding of higher law, humility, patience, generosity, long-suffering, faith.

Person: cleric, teacher, mentor, confessor, priest, high religious rank.

Eventive meaning:

• compliance with the commandments, prohibitions, moral values;
• see deep meaning in everything that happens;
• checking the strength of spiritual aspirations, calling on others to not betray personal principles;
• stable systems of values, internal integrity;
• mission and supertask;
• traditional way, dogma;
• initiation for a new way of spiritual development;
• joining the Church, finding a spiritual basis for life;
• help from higher powers, prayer, blessing;
• formal marriage, union;
• coercion, obeying rules and requirements;
• good advice.

Reversed Hierophant (Religion)

Qualities: isolation from common objectives, exile, anathema and loneliness. Non-conventionalism, egotism, individualism, originality, vulnerability, the extraordinar.

Frivolity, laziness, irresponsibility, immorality.

Eventive meaning:

• possibility to solve the problem in a roundabout way, bypassing the rules;
• non-traditional approach;
• formal divorce;
• wrongly chosen way;
• outsidership and iconoclasm;
• denial of religious roots, atheism;
• deposed authority, rebellion and disobedience;
• inquisition, dogmatism;
• unethical and unprincipled behaviour, immoral acts; familiarity;
• sin and shame;
• erroneous doctrine, religious blindness and fanaticism;
• rigidity of the system of beliefs, prejudices;
• quitting spiritual communities, breaking from tradition.

VI Lovers

Attraction to integrity.

Choice.

Tarot Card Symbols: the first card depicts a man and a woman in a moment of passionate coupling. Their bodies are entwined in ecstasy, their eyes closed. A golden sun, a symbol of integrity and cosmic energy, floods them with its light. The figures of the lovers are on all fours, indicating the animal nature of passion in every human being. The apple-covered ground reminds us of the apple of temptation, the time of seduction and fall of Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. A snake slithers along as if creating a ring or knot, the unsolvable puzzle of sweet and blind attraction between a man and a woman. A leaf torn from its branch by wind is a sign of the transient and temporal nature of ecstasy, the first feature of decay and death. Love, death, temptation and integrity. The comprehensive explanation of this card is not even clear to me. There is the strive for integrity like the sun, which is divine and gives strength and energy, and yet there is the mysterious and eternal temptation of the human race in the Serpent. It is the paradox of love.

The second card shows a situation of choice. A man at a fork in the road. Which woman to choose, which road should he take on his way to Individuation? One of the women symbolises wisdom, the other – sensuality, but which one represents what? Nothing but questions. The choice here symbolises the duality of the human soul, its spiritual and animal sides. Duality is manifested in all aspects of existence, including in those between a man and a woman. Every moment of life on earth is a choice, and these choices make up a human life. The human’s way is symbolised by a tree in which a man seems to be floating, as if stuck (symbol of human ego) between two frames of mind. The fork in the road is a stage where he should undertake responsibility for his decision of where to go next. On this card, the man no longer makes a blind choice, he is not a slave of forces and instincts like on the first card. He seems to try to show the difference between free will and succumbing to instincts; he is aware of the consequences of his choices.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• the necessity to make a certain decision; the choice (what to choose, is often pointed at by cards – left and right of Arcanum No. 6);
• relations with the opposite sex, between a man and a woman;
• romantic liaison, being in love, sexual intimacy;
• collaboration, alliance, partnership.

Qualities: openness, curiosity, eloquence, attractiveness, freedom, spirituality, commitment, determination, being in love.

Person: enamoured, admirer, lover. The one who establishes relationships, fascinates, seduces. Seller, advertiser, marriage agent, pander.

Eventive meaning:

• communicative skills, communication and networking, exchange in information, ideas, feelings, energy;
• open to other people;
• being in love, passion, attraction, meeting;
• reconciliation of opposites within oneself, synergy, conjunction, integration, alchemy;
• check of maturity, temptation, trial;
• self-determination, choice of profession or important decision on the path of life;
• extramarital love affair, adultery;
• attractive business offer. Several options or partners.

Reversed Lovers

Qualities: instability, dissension, incompatibility, frustration, self-destruction.

Eventive meaning:

• wrong choice, insignificant choice, ill-timed choice, error;
• idealization;
• problems with communication, disagreement, incomprehension, conflict and parting;
• seduction without love;
• sexual incompatibility and frustration;
• jealousy, envy, sexual obsession and co-dependence, persecution of object of passion;
• problems with choice, indecision;
• unfaithfulness and adultery;
• prostitution;
• nervous breakdowns and hysteria, the state of stress, inner duality and duplicity;
• venereal diseases.

VII Chariot

Triumph of will.

Tarot Card Symbols: we see a girl in knightly armour, riding in a chariot drawn by black and white horses. She holds a white flag in her hand and is wearing a billowing that resembles that of the emperor. Her left hand tightly holds the reigns, keeping the two horses in check. She has a look of concentration on her; her eyes are tough and focused on the goal. Her blonde hair is whipped by the wind and she wears a helmet with a red plume on her head. She is like Joan of Arc, a woman-warrior under the protection of higher powers, leading her chariot on the right path. This horsewoman has full command and control of her horses: the white horse is the symbol of righteousness and goodness, while the black one represents the power of evil and destruction. She herself is endowed with extraordinary power to pave her own path and keeping command over her own dark and light sides. The white robe with red lining, like the emperor’s, indicates strength in the service of justice and mercy. Courage and iron will are the essence of this card. The horses are pulling in different directions – and strong and wilful “I” is needed to master the dark and light side of circumstances and one’s personal nature. The symbol of the wheel in the centre is the personification of the idea of movement, a symbol of the sun and cosmic order.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• movement toward the target, focus, self-control and control over circumstances;
• triumph, victory;
• war, defending personal interests;
• self-affirmation, stormy practical activities.

Qualities: concentration, composure, purposefulness, courage, confidence, speed, ambition, rapid development. Self-control, will, self-expression. Fortitude.

Person: ambitious careerist, purposeful professional, warrior, fighting for a common cause. Hero.

Eventive meaning:

• work on expansion of influence sphere, careerism, progress towards a goal;
• trip, business trip, journey;
• aggressive behaviour, righteous anger;
• challenge, courageous step;
• resolute rush, combat against fragmentation and contradictions;
• panoply, defence, dress code, social mask to achieve the goal;
• be involved in the process but govern themselves, the flow of events;
• competitions, sports, military service;
• overcoming obstacles, glory, pride and celebration of the winner.

Reversed Chariot

Qualities: uncontrollability, stupidity, cowardice, anger, worry, anxiety, self-confidence, ambition, madness, destructiveness.

Eventive meaning:

• motor vehicle crash, road accident;
• defeat, conquest, overthrow, usurpation of power;
• conspiracies and rebellion, revolution;
• failed trip, unsuccessful or postponed journey;
• uncontrolled situation, fear of not coping with circumstances;
• pursuing the false goals;
• conflicts, unforgiven grievance, reluctance to contact;
• revenge, rage, uncontrollable emotions;
• quarrel, conflict, litigation;
• robbery, harassment by creditors, attacks and failures on the road;
• hoodlums, delinquents, criminals and racketeering;
• operations, fractures, strikes, heart attacks, apoplectic attacks, accidents;
• disruptions in organisation of affairs.

VIII Strength

Energy of life.

Tarot Card Symbols: a naked woman with long, fair hair straddles a fiery lion’s energy and is tenderly and affectionately trying to tame with the beast with her hands. The nakedness brings a vulnerability and eroticism to the picture. The woman's eyes are closed, as if she has given herself up to the sensual ecstasy and intoxication, releasing the incredible power of instinctual impulses from inside herself. The lion represents her animal nature, the spontaneous energy of pleasure and the sexual and creative energy of libido. The naked woman is the part of us that accepts, respects and loves, gives itself up without surrender, taking its sexuality to the highest level. It transforms passion into love and turns blind unrestrained and wild nature into human inspiration. Together, they symbolise the mystery of transformation of animal energy into a spiritual one through love and admission.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• power, energy, libido, taming of instincts;
• creative activity;
• sexual lust, desire, passion;
• power of love and good understanding;
• spiritual transformation.

Qualities: generosity, passion, confidence, courage, tenderness, admission. Strength of character and self-possession. Physical strength, endurance, sexuality, handsomeness and charm.

Person: bold and generous. Athlete. Tamer. Animal trainer. Mistress. Temptress. Muse.

Eventive meaning:

• professionalism, success, personal growth, achievements;
• victory in sports;
• sexual ecstasy in intimacy, desire and sexual passion, orgasm;
• creative inspiration and desire to create;
• taming personal instincts;
• excellent health, energy at the highest level;
• healing, energetic practices;
• tantric sex, sexual mysteries of Dionysus, zombiizm, magic.

Reversed Strength

Qualities: weakness, querulousity, anger, rage, powerlessness, aggression.

Eventive meaning:

• violence or powerlessness;
• fear of personal passions, suppressing – or conversely – blindly following personal instincts;
• power over others, unethical use of force, misuse;
• charms, witchcraft;
• release of suppressed energy, masturbation;
• alcoholism and aggression, maniacality;
• uncontrollable passion, temptation that has captured us;
• brutality, despotism and tyranny, punishment;
• use of force for evil, including black magic and rituals.

IX Hermit

Search for truth.

Tarot Card Symbols: a man wrapped from head to toe in a, dark-violet coat is descending stairs into the darkness and unknown. He is leaving behind the sunlight of the day, the people and bustle of the world and is going into the depth to search for something. This is the Hermit. The oil lamp in his hand illuminates his detached face and the darkness around him. The lamp is the light of wisdom, the inner fire of knowledge. It only illuminates the space immediately around him, suggesting that many surprises and challenges await him. The lamp casts a long shadow on the stairs: the more we understand ourselves and gain wisdom and enlightenment, the longer our shadows become, and the closer and stronger the appeal of the unknown is. The staff in the Hermit’s hand is his only companion and support in the journey. This is the strength and support of the Spirit on the road to self-knowledge. The open door separates the space of daylight from a different life; it is the border between the external and internal world of a human being, into which he sinks into absolute solitude and humility. The Hermit is turning away from the sunlight, preferring his own inner light.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• Wisdom, prudence, self-cognition;
• search for truth, solitude and seclusion;
• withdrawal from external activity, from the world, inner world.

Qualities: restraint, introversion, coldness, alienation, loneliness, wisdom, concentration and withdrawal. Self-discipline and asceticism. Self-limitation. Unsociability, shyness. Caution, conscience.

Person: wise elder, counsellor and mentor, teacher, conductor. Those who serve for the benefit of others and carry the light of truth. Psychotherapist, ascetic, scholar, hermit. Internal counsellor – soul driver.

Eventive meaning:

• escape from society, from the crowd;
• serious attitude toward life;
• cooling in relations, desire to retire and withdraw;
• solitude, spiritual practice, meditation, fasting;
• financial constraints, hard to get money;
• weak health, loss of energy, senility, old age, inward curtailing of energy;
• sharpening of skills, working alone;
• service for the benefit of humanity, philanthropy;
• psychotherapy and self-cultivation;
• scientific research or work on the strategy, far-sighted plans;
• chastity and absence of sexual desire;
• advice or instruction;
• self-discipline, self-limitation in the sensual.

Reversed Hermit

Qualities: fixedness, secrecy, powerlessness, falsehood, suspicion, fatigue, deception.

Eventive meaning:

• come out from confinement to the people;
• end of loneliness period;
• bad advice, false teacher, impostor, non-professionalism;
• perfectionism, rigidity, prejudices;
• full of loneliness, seek relationships with people;
• stuck in isolation, lurk or disguise;
• disapproval of what is happening, paranoia, pathological secrecy;
• midlife crisis, fear of old age and decrepitude;
• problems of old age, insomnia, extinction;
• silence, chastity, poverty;
• ploughing the sand.

X Wheel of Fortune

Cycling.

Tarot Card Symbols: a large roulette wheel embraces the entire globe. Above the roulette wheel stands success, inspiration, euphoria. The man raises his hands up in joy: he has won money or achieved what he wanted and he feels his greatness – he is trying to touch heaven! Below the wheel stands failure, captivity, slavery and poverty. Though he might have yesterday been successful and contented, the man has now lost everything; he has been chained and sent to prison. The roulette wheel spins, the phases of success and failure alternate; this is the rhythm in which the earth revolves. Everything flows and changes every second, supporting the process of perpetual becoming and destruction. The law of roulette or randomness represents God will or disposition, reflecting in caprices of Fortune, in sudden changes in human destiny. The Wheel of Fortune is also the law of karma, the law of cause and effect that determines our destiny.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• sudden changes, unexpected twists of fate;
• good luck, divine providence, the chance of fate;
• rapid succession of events;
• rock, doom.

Qualities: mobility, variability, expansion, unpredictability, synchronicity, perspective, instability.

Person: gambler, man of the world, windy, changeable. Businessman working with shares or in the stock market. Producer, advertiser or mass media man, journalist. Travelling salesman.

Eventive meaning:

• sign of fate, good opportunities and prospects, freebie;
• appearance of new resources, people, money, news;
• walk, journey;
• high life, changing places;
• job promotion;
• tendency to full-scale range viewing;
• karma and reincarnation;
• natural resources;
• successful acquaintance, a man – a sign of fate;
• risk, casinos, lottery.

Reversed Wheel of Fortune

Qualities: untimeliness, bad luck, fussiness, discord, uncontrollability.

Eventive meaning:

• delays, obstacles, failures, delays in affairs;
• return to unfinished business or having to redo accomplished work;
• losing the opportunity or scaring luck away;
• feverish activity, vanity of vanities;
• the time has not yet come;
• the risk is too big, wrong time, many hidden problems;
• risky trip;
• recurrence of disease, the ups and downs of a mood, delays in cycles;
• failure, loss, detention;
• hard to influence the situation, wait for better times;
• lethal outcome.

XI Justice

Fairness.

Tarot Card Symbols: the card depicts Themis, the Goddess of Justice. In her left hand she holds scales, and in the right she holds a sword. The scales represent the idea of equilibrium and balance of forces in the Universe. Themis represents the ability of balance and calm, which lets us see the objective truth and administer justice. Her gaze is cold, aloof; she looks down upon us, expressing the incorruptibility and detachment of true justice. Nothing stirs Themis or moves the bowl of her scales. Only at the time of death when the balance is broken will the eternal justice of the sword blade destroy what is not balanced and will call the soul to justice. Only balanced forces have the right to exist. Themis sends us to the law of karma – we reap what we sow – and embodies karma in action. If this card appears in the cut, the time has come to account for one’s own actions.

Red and black columns in the background represent life and the death, between which Themis sits. She personifies the Principle of Fairness, devoid of feelings and emotions. It is no coincidence that the floor she is sitting on consists of black and white tiles, pointing to the ability of our minds to combine the opposite sides of one phenomenon into a coherent picture that emphasises the paradoxality of human behaviour and the human soul.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• triumph of truth and justice (karma, moral, legal and financial liabilities);
• retaliation, retribution, fair punishment, account for one’s own actions;
• honesty and clear thinking;
• important decision or contract;
• the court, official institutions.

Qualities: cold blood, honesty, courage, absence of emotions, boldness. Seriousness, equality.

Person: judge, lawyer, mediator, lawyer or person responsible for execution of documents. People engaged in court proceedings and commissioning activity.

Writers, critics, teachers. Strict principal, head teacher or another official. Investigators, police officers.

Eventive meaning:

• court proceedings, litigation;
• investigation, accusation;
• formal marriage, contracts, signing of contracts;
• negotiations, exchanges and calculations;
• honesty with yourself;
• sexual equality, relationships on a basis of equality;
• frosty partnership relations;
• informed decision, without sentimentality; cards on both sides of the Justice show the forces that need to be balanced;
• bank account balance;
• public opinion;
• process of training;
• avoiding the extremes, restraint, not identifying with emotions;
• saving money, getting as much as is earned;
• balance of health, convalescence.

Reversed Justice

Qualities: dishonesty, distortion, unrighteousness, confusion, bitterness and pugnacity.

Eventive meaning:

• wrong way of life, dishonest and immoral behaviour;
• trouble with the law, illegal actions, loss of balance in life;
• have to be accountable for one’s own actions;
• negative opinion fabricated against you;
• fine, bill, non-payment of wages;
• putting in prison, enforcement of penalties and collection of debts or taxes;
• dismissal;
• shame and humiliation;
• compensation for damages;
• bypassing the law, committing a crime;
• prejudice and unfair trial; excessive severity and rigid criticism;
• poisoning and liver trouble.

XII Hanged Man

Voluntary victim.

Tarot Card Symbols: against a background of sea and sky, we see a man hanging upside down. He is tied up to a branch by his left leg; his right leg is bent at the knee and his hands are spread out in full openness and detachment, as if the he has given himself up completely to the will of God. The yellow, blue and green colours of the card remind us of the element of water, representing the mystical depth of this Tarot lesson. The man hanged upside down is defenceless and has completely accepted his fate. He is resigned and has surrendered the reins of control. This image represents a profound revolution in human destiny wherein the world as we know it is turned upside down and the mind transits to a stage of a different world perception. No wonder this card was an indicator of mystical devotion and gaining insight into the spiritual world. The acquisition of wisdom in exchange for abandonment of full control over one’s own life and absolute, unconditional humility before the Divine Will.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• twist of fate, crisis, reappraisal of values;
• sacrifice and self-devotion;
• going beyond one’s ego, mystical consecration, spiritual awareness.

Qualities: consent, humility, admission, helplessness, dedication, altruism, self-devotion.

Person: mystic, artist, healer, sage. Shaman practicing asceticism and spiritual teachings. Patient, a man in crisis or deadlock.

Eventive meaning:

• feeling victimised, feeling the impossibility to change circumstances; you are a toy in the hands of fate;
• addictions, pertinence and inability to recover from dependence;
• assault; you are scapegoat, deception, humiliation and indignity;
• wisdom and understanding through ordeals and restrictions;
• dedication to serve the Spirit;
• trap, disease;
• crisis;
• prayer and meditation, spiritual practices and states; yoga;
• enlightenment and clairvoyance, prophecy, foolishness;
• obsession with ghosts and walking on “the other” side;
• repentance and redemption, confession;
• stripped of all money;
• chronic diseases, mental disorders, schizophrenia, drug addiction, alcoholism,suicide;
• failure in love, great losses and waste of internal forces;
• fatal situation.

Reversed Hanged Man

Qualities: selfishness, immaturity, idleness and futility, posturing and swagger. Spiritual materialism.

Eventive meaning:

• breach of promise, a lie for the benefit of one’s own ego;
• boasting one’s own superiority, to show off and consider him/herself superior to others;
• resist the educational process;
• boredom and apathy;
• crossroads on the path of the Spirit, when the guidelines have not yet been selected and you are waiting for a sign or signal from above;
• vulnerability, wish to please;
• unrealised idea, unfulfilled promise;
• unjust accusation, imprisonment, confinement;
• lack of faith in God, theomachy, obsession with the material;
• black magic and magicians, evil eye and broken spirituality;
• overcoming a crisis.

XIII Death

Transition.

Tarot Card Symbols: a fiery horse rearing up on its hind legs; its rider is Death himself, carrying a scythe. The horse tramples a dead body lying on the ground. It is no longer a man – only dust and ashes. White doves symbolise the immortal spirit leaving the body at the time death. This is an important moment of transformation: the old and obsolete dies and is transformed into a different quality. This is a transition from one sphere to another, from one stage of life into another. Death seems to be clearing a space for new growth while the fiery horse represents the transforming fire, purgatory. Death in a black hooded cape represents anonymity. In what form will Death appear – he is hidden under the darkness of the unknown. The wings of a fly on Death’s back bring forth an image of something from the world of ghosts: who knows what the spirit of death is and where he comes from. The scythe symbolises Hecate, the decreasing or waning moon, the dark goddess of death embodying the cycles of death and rebirth.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• transformation, destruction and renewal;
• full overturn in life and associated painful stress;
• end, completion, conclusion and major changes;
• decay, rotting, remains, elimination.

Qualities: inevitability, inner wisdom, consistency, severity, bitterness and sadness.

Person: very heavy energetic, depression. Psychological vampire, joy killer. Brings destruction of the habitual.

Eventive meaning:

• deliverance from limiting conditions, end of the process, cutting off and completion of the cycle;
• grief, bewailing, mourning, depression;
• loss, separation, breakup of relations, painful parting;
• big quarrel, aggression and exacerbation;
• dismissal, change of place of work;
• heart attack, clinical death, serious operation, coma;
• injury and damage, destructive approach;
• escape and refusal, collapse of deals, contracts, closing of account;
• blackmail and threats of extortion.

Reversed Death

Qualities: inertness, resistance, entropy, petrifaction, immobility.

Eventive meaning:

• resistance to inevitable change, delaying the completion of a case;
• escape from growth, pain and suffering from inability to let go;
• anxiety and mental anguish, depression;
• painful process, inability to solve the problem;
• failure, loss, vain efforts;
• lack of money;
• loneliness and dissatisfaction, nursed grievance, no love;
• sexual anomalies;
• chronic and incurable diseases, developmental anomalies;
• vampirism, evil eye;
• inertia, sleep, lethargy, stagnation and torpor;
• returning from the dead, clinical death;
• coma, atrophy;
• spiritualism, calling spirits, gothic culture and mood, delight in death;
• menopause.

XIV Temperance

Harmony.

Tarot Card Symbols: an Angel in the centre of the picture pours water from one cup into another. His eyes are lowered and a knowing smile plays on his lips. A spiritual aura surrounds his head. The Angel creates a divine will on earth by creating an alchemical metabolic process. Excessive qualities will subside, while deficient quality will increase. Life is pouring from the unknown and to the known and back. This is a divine act reminding us that the Angel is “the eternal measure”, a vessel carrying out a delicate balance in the whole of the sublunary world. The irises blooming on both sides of the road are a symbol of hope, wisdom, beauty and harmony. In the background two people are shaking their fists and shouting at each other. They capture the essence of instincts and emotions. Poisoning the ground beneath its feet, Rage strikes its roots deep, but the Angel of peace and quiescence transforms the energy of the fighters to reconcile and soothe the warring parties. The Angel teaches us the science of emotional balance, satisfaction and harmony. The hourglass by the road reminds us of time that has stopped. And about the rest of time without which it is impossible to find inner peace or build relationships and resolve conflicts.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• resolution of conflicts, creation of harmony and interaction between the parties;
• building bridges between two banks, balancing forces and finding homeostasis;
• patience, forgiveness, compassion and mercy, reconciliation;
• intuition, sense of proportion and the golden mean.

Qualities: prudence, calm, modesty, patience, foresight. Integrity, beauty, hope, wisdom. Caution and circumspection.

Person: peacemaker, psychotherapist, good friend, honest man who sympathises with you, a doctor, comforter.

Eventive meaning:

• procedural engagement in a field of activity where fluids are present: homeopathy, medicine, cooking, preparing potions, pharmaceutics;
• regulation of and search for best criteria and components;
• guardian angel;
• baptism, rebirth, renewal, healing;
• balancing imbalance, reconciliation of opposites;
• testing, calculation of budget, organisation of relations;
• merger or consolidation of people, firms or organisations;
• mutual understanding, compatibility, adaptation;
• harmony of souls in love;
• abstinence, curbing and patience;
• savings and thrift;
• consoling, support.

Reversed Temperance

Qualities: imbalance, disharmony, conflicts, anxiety and contradiction.

Eventive meaning:

• intemperance in love, excessive indulgence of the passions;
• lack of understanding, dissentions, quarrels and recriminations;
• destruction of family;
• failure of liabilities, breakup of contracts, reluctance to cooperate, partners who let down;
• stress, nervous breakdowns;
• accidents or technical failures;
• failure of regulating systems (air conditioning, sewerage, water pipes etc.);
• poor adaptation, difficult study, problems with teachers and professors;
• energy dissipation, damage of objects, stagnant water;
• nervous breakdowns, depression, grievances and depression, mood swings;
• procrastination and wasting time in vain.

XV Devil (Pan)

Temptation.

Tarot Card Symbols: on this card we see Pan, who is half man and half goat, with horns and a tail like a sprightly little devil. He slyly winks at us, cunningly watching and playfully licking his lips; he represents the temptation of the sensual. White wings behind Pan indicate a connection with his fallen angelic nature. Like a puppeteer, he manipulates the woman and man with the chains he holds in his hands. Temptation has already seized them and Pan keeps them on a short leash. Brick walls that surround the man and the woman strengthen the sense of captivity. Pan flirts with us with a lewd smile on his face, his penis is erect and personifies the eternally desirous and thirsty human nature, the instinctual and the untamed, the spontaneous side all humans have. This is a trial of desire and temptation, and most importantly, a check of which forces and means will be used by people to reach satisfaction. Pan addresses everyone personally, sneaking into the most inaccessible and secret corner of the human soul. This is the place where people lie the most to themselves, and it is exactly the place to which Pan appeals. This is why this card is often called the “Dark side of man”.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• trapping temptation, obsession by passions;
• rock, doom, dark side of all things, of ourselves and our existence;
• instinctive compulsions and dependence on them;
• vital strength and its overwhelming influence.

Qualities: dark, shameful, destructive and seductive, pernicious, perverse. Frightening, false, base, lustful, perishing.

Person: tempter having power and using it. This card reads politicians, big businessmen, bankers, having power and influence.

Eventive meaning:

• strength and energy of vital human nature;
• negative, dishonest actions for personal enrichment;
• material interests;
• big money, but the price is to sacrifice principles;
• addiction, alcoholism, drug addiction, sexual obsession, homosexuality;
• adulterous relationships, deceit, betrayal and adultery, perversion, illegal relationship, fatal passion;
• drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and various hangouts;
• violence and sexual perversion, intentional infliction of pain on others;
• intrigues and machinations of enemies, blackmail;
• temptation and attraction, lust;
• latent pathology;
• lies, ignorance and resulting depression and pessimism;
• illegal activities and crimes of all kinds;
• constraints and weakening of creative energy;
• violation of social taboos;
• 7 deadly sins – wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony;
• shadow, aspects of personality unaware or hidden by us;
• traitors, scapegoats;
• destruction, elimination;
• black magic.

Reversed Devil (Pan)

Qualities: deliverance, understanding of sin, repentance, righteousness, morality.

Eventive meaning:

• deliverance from dependence, escape from temptation, from slavery;
• disclosure of secrets and awareness of sin;
• coming out of a long-time tormenting situation;
• deliverance from false prohibitions, limiting stereotypes and prejudices;
• coming off clear, avoiding retaliation and punishment;
• recovery, incorrect diagnoses;
• driving out of demons, exorcism.

XVI Tower

Heavenly scourge.

Tarot Card Symbols: the card shows a high royal tower collapsing, struck by lightning from the heavens. In a cloud of smoke, surrounded by a red glow, the overthrown king and the other inhabitants of the Tower are hurtled down to earth. The fire, in which the leaning tower burns, soars up toward heaven. Built by human hands and encroaching on the heaven, the Tower is a symbol of egotistical human ambitions. The artificial construction is a prototype of pride challenging the Gods. Lightning from heaven is a symbol of divine retribution or providence. God is calling for redemption and destroys the unwanted walls of the lonely towers of human consciousness that rise above the world. The human ego (symbolizing the king with a falling crown) is dethroned and experiences pain and suffering. The tower signifies the ambition and vanity that cause excessive material expansion. This is the destruction of previously limited human representations that keep the spirit in prison.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• pain on the road to revival, demolition of old forms and false values;
• disaster, stroke, sudden turn of events;
• deliverance through sudden unpleasant shocks.

Qualities: suddenness, painfulness, undesirability, tragedy, proneness to conflict, destructiveness, wrath and aggression.

Person: destroyer, criminal, odd people. Irritator, a man who creates discomfort. The card often falls on military persons.

Eventive meaning:

• breakthrough and decline, catastrophes, crashes, accidents;
• deliverance from the old: rigidity, toughness, intractability; cleaning, cleanup, removal of old things;
• shake out from complacent state;
• outbreaks of aggression, anger, disputes, quarrels, conflicts, misunderstanding;
• destruction of relationships, stress, serious checks for stability of marriage;
• dangerous situations, violence, assault, robbery;
• outcome of previously suppressed energy;
• mad passion, loss of self-control;
• destruction of a false security sense;
• inflammations, suppurations and all diseases accompanied by high temperature;
• bankruptcy, big financial losses, dismissals;
• insight, innovative idea, enlightenment, shock;
• orgasm, ejaculation;
• overthrow and collapse of old authorities;
• crises, awakening.

Reversed Tower

Qualities: suddenness, pain, anxiety, being on the edge.

Eventive meaning:

• misfortune happily avoided at the last moment;
• threat and warning; a dangerously careless attitude toward life;
• postponing urgent changes;
• inaction, refusal of responsibility;
• imprisonment, arrest, captivity;
• secret birth of child;
• internal disorder, chaos, wrath;
• surgery operations, chemotherapy, accidents, wounds and burns;
• sores, abscesses, purulence, nausea and vomiting; purification from toxins.

XVII Star

Hope.

Tarot Card Symbols: we see a young girl kneeling across two banks. She is pouring water into the river from blue and green pitchers, personifying the eternal femininity and sensual renewal. Her plaited hair falls into the water, burning stars shine in the sky. The union of water and stars on this card hints that our soul are perhaps connected to the perfection of the cosmos and that they have an extraterrestrial origin. After all, the existence of people on earth “is written on the stars”. The girl washes our souls and elevates them. With the wings of a butterfly on her back, she seems to glow against the background of the dark sky and the blueness of the night. She is innocent and beautiful; the wings give her an ease, as if she comes from a perfect world. The butterfly is a symbol of the soul, a sign of her ability to transform, of colourfulness and richness. The Girl-butterfly, like a muse, gives us the inspiration to live and hope. She embodies the desire of the soul to follow its star and fulfil its mission on earth.

Two pitchers with water suggest the images of the dead and living in this brilliant water. Both bring healing: they cure old wounds and revive.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• higher strength and destiny;
• hope, rebirth, renewal, healing;
• forgiveness and reward;
• deliverance and inner balance, faith.

Qualities: chastity, naturalness, cosmic aspects, idealism, joy, lightness, transparency, inspiration, detachment. Beauty, idealism, talent, exclusivity, spirituality.

Person: well-known, beautiful, incredibly talented. An open-minded and charismatic person. Actors, painters, poets. Seers and clairvoyants.

Eventive meaning:

• idealized and unusual relationship, platonic love;
• clairvoyance;
• faultlessness, perfection;
• inspiration and creative imagination;
• emerging from jail;
• see personal purpose and mission;
• self-realisation in the long-term project;
• recognition of your beauty and talent, fame, notoriety;
• pure ecological system, nature, climate, atmosphere;
• meditation, rituals;
• homeopathy and natural medicine;
• astrology, astronomy and philosophy, spiritual sciences;
• heaven, stars, fate;
• Internet, exchange of ideas;
• satisfaction and fulfilment of desires.

Reversed Star

Qualities: recklessness, arrogance (or, conversely, self-underestimating), disappointment, depression, instability, failure.

Eventive meaning:

• failure and instability;
• star-struck; misconceptions about personal status, talent, appearance; arrogance, self-deception;
• inability to unlock personal talents;
• end of fame, career, oblivion;
• loss of hope, love, faith: apathy and depression;
• loss of soul, loss of inspiration, loneliness;
• loss of innocence, outrage;
• low self-esteem, complexes, desire for solitude;
• unfulfilled expectations;
• robbery;
• storm, tempest, disaster;
• suicide, drug addiction;
• different sexual orientation;
• undermining forces, loss of consciousness, insanity, madness;
• death of relatives or friends.

XVIII Moon

Subconsciousness.

Tarot Card Symbols: under the cold light of the moon, a white curtain is fluttering at an open window. The Orb of Night bathes the road winding among the hills in a hazy and illusive light. The evening moon mist pours through the open window onto the sleeping girl. Lost deep in herself, she is dreaming. The body of the dream separates from the girl and tends to merge with the mysterious moon in response to its eternal call. The hair of the sleeping girl descends into a world of vague intuitive flows of subconsciousness.

The window on this card represents the boundary between the external and inner world, the curtain symbolises the mysterious veil that separates these two worlds. The window leads us inside, deep into the figurative world of the soul. Moonlight makes the outlines of things mysterious, vague and leads us into endless lands of emotions, fantasies, night and day dreams.

The road under the moon is a symbol of the path into the unknown, stirring the soul. The girl's bed is woven of many small roots that lead deep into our being and reach the very bottom of life and its flow. The sleeping girl represents the passive part of us that lives far from waking consciousness. The dream is the other part of us, a place where the soul is separated from the body and mind, going through our own profound experience of joining the Source.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• power of subconsciousness, elusive images of dreams and vague feelings;
• illusions, fears and anxious feelings;
• secrets, intuitive insight and prophetic dreams.

Qualities: ambiguity, nebulosity, uncertainty, perplexity, fearfulness, reticence, instability.

Person: possessing mediumistic gift, artist, actor. May indicate a weak and cowardly personality, but prone to hypersensitivity, with a developed intuition and emotionality. Healers, diviners, diagnosticians.

Eventive meaning:

• unclear situation;
• astral plan, fears and illusions;
• lack of understanding, being bewildered, emotions and their power;
• out-of-body experience, prophetic dreams, mediumship;
• alcoholism and drug addiction;
• secret enemies;
• secret, occult forces;
• danger, warning;
• conspiracies, scandals, slander;
• theft and deception, falsehood;
• uncertainty and complexes;
• false friends;
• homosexuality;
• mental disorders and weakness of nervous system, sleepwalking;
• gynaecological disorders, birth diseases;
• doing something in secret or under cover of darkness.

Reversed Moon

Qualities: instability, variability, changeability, fluctuations.

Eventive meaning:

• exposed fraud, deception, not causing any harm;
• clarification of confusing situations;
• trivial mistakes, misunderstood words, half-guesses, half-confessions;
• removal of spells, deliverance from illusions;
• rationalism, repression of irrational signals;
• everyday life; boring relationships where everything is scheduled and predictable, boredom;
• a lot of work, but no flight;
• returned debts;
• UFO, meeting aliens, antecedents, manifestation of extreme romanticism and other “strange” experiences and emotions;
• fear of possession, magic, ghosts.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• clarity, optimism, renewal and happiness;
• vital origin, fulfilment of dreams;
• fame, success, respect.

Qualities: activity, victorious, confidence, optimism, life-affirming nature, youth.

Person: optimist. Generous, energetic. Creative leader. If the card falls on a child, it means that the baby is very talented, marked by God.

Eventive meaning:

• notoriety and glory, good fortune;
• birth, long-awaited pregnancy;
• foundation of new enterprise;
• activities associated with children, work with animals;
• self-realisation, self-reliance and confidence in personal strength;
• happiness and well-being, material wealth;
• good friendship;
• happy marriage;
• success, honours, social achievements;
• holiday;
• heat, blaze of the sun.

Reversed Sun

Qualities: little joy, incompleteness, discontent, selfishness, ambition, regret, doubt.

Eventive meaning:

• incomplete success and a sense of light dissatisfaction with the success;
• melancholy joy, refusal to see joy in life;
• lack of confidence, not believing that the success and honour are deserved;
• hide personal inner light from themselves and from other people;
• throw dust in eyes of other people;
• self-confidence, inflated ego;
• cancelled contracts and broken agreements;
• peaceful divorce;
• narcissism, vanity and pride;
• sunburn, heat, flame.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• call to the true destination;
• rejuvenation, renewal, awakening;
• revival from nonentity;
• redemption, forgiveness, changes for the better.

Qualities: rationality, common sense, understanding, morality, sobriety, seriousness, profoundness.

Person: analyst, psychotherapist, preacher. Organiser of large gatherings and groups.

Eventive meaning:

• beginning of a new stage in life, change of paradigm, activity;
• redemption of bygone sins and mistakes, psychotherapy, treatment of old traumas;
• return of old friends;
• reassessment of values, self-rethinking;
• retribution for actions in the past;
• criticism and public censure;
• adherence to the highest truth;
• acting in accordance with law;
• inheritance affairs, marriage (with the Cups);
• court trials (with the Swords);
• dealing with major public institutions: courts, commissions, committees and councils;
• protecting the interests of a group, family, organisation, public speaking, spokesmanship, giving public seminars;
• the right to one’s own voice, voting;
• bills, invoicing;
• mission;
• sober relations; alienation in marriage.

Reversed Judgement

Qualities: alienation, confusion, stagnation, irritability, lack of confidence, impatience, hopelessness, stagnation and decay.

Eventive meaning:

• limiting old habits, reluctance to accept the new;
• serious severe diseases, deterioration, loss of strength of spirit;
• elderly people: death;
• estrangement, alienation, indifference, and cooling in mutual relations;
• breakdown of family union;
• forced change of residence;
• sentence, arrest;
• losing court cases;
• loss of income sources, delays in payouts, loan default;
• barriers in society, inability to agree with people;
• not invited to the event; miss important news or information;
• conflict and hostility at the group level;
• severe criticism from the outside.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• the end, completion, victory;
• deserved reward, achievement of goal and abundance;
• freedom, breakout to a wider space, victory over restrictions.

Qualities: integrity, satisfaction, happiness, unity, globality, comprehensiveness, planetarity.

Person: happy, holistic, talented. Someone who has achieved much in life. Talent and self-realisation. Widely known.

Eventive meaning:

• resolution of contradictions;
• journey, distant countries, window into the world;
• successful project, idea or place under the sun;
• steps towards individuation and integrity;
• greatest time of joy and openness;
• deserved reward, career promotion;
• global thinking, international relations;
• honour, respect and fame, significant professional achievements;
• good health;
• emigration, flight by aircraft;
• synthesis and integration;
• if this card falls during pregnancy: marked by Higher Forces;
• revelation and spiritual rebirth;
• death and easy going to the other world (for the elderly).

Reversed World

Qualities: incompleteness, dissatisfaction, anxiety, narrowness, disappointment. The card deteriorates the meaning of negative nearby cards and improves among positive ones.

Eventive meaning:

• deferred awards and promotions;
• feeling of emptiness upon completion of a project;
• unattainable goal;
• postpartum depression, completed design and subsequent disappointment;
• problems with travels;
• redoing something already completed, the unfinished work;
• lost opportunities, closed off from the world;
• inertia and stagnation;
• loss of status, failure, catastrophe;
• delays;
• disasters;
• surgical interventions; death.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• impetus for creative activity and realisation of ideas;
• opportunity, approval from Higher Forces, impetus for development;
• huge potential, beginning, new cycle of growth and opportunities.

Qualities: passion, ardour, youth, potential for development, spontaneity and inspiration.

Person: young, passionate, endowed with talents and great future, creative and active.

Eventive meaning:

• new project, new job, birth of a child, any beginning;
• passionate and arduous actions;
• taking up the challenge of destiny and beginning the changes, a chance;
• letter, order, edict, announcement, principle;
• news, scientific discovery;
• erection, desire, passion;
• strength, power, authority;
• new relations or revival of old ones;
• energy resources;
• “Yes”"

Reversed Ace of Wands

Qualities: “No!”, “Not now”, “No thoroughfare!”, inactivity, loss of enthusiasm, unpreparedness for changes that are knocking on the door.

Eventive meaning:

• risk of a false start, rashness;
• immature project, bad idea;
• something slows down the process (neighbouring cards);
• affairs are delayed, opportunities slip away, agreements are canceled, plans and trips are postponed ;
• stitch-up tricks, lack of interest;
• immaturity and lack of self-confidence;
• lack of strength, loss of enthusiasm, ineffective actions, fears;
• disease, powerlessness, impotence;
• decline, breakdown;
• punishment, thrashing;
• illegitimate birth, difficult delivery.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• being on the threshold of important decision, hesitating whether to use a new opportunity, being uncertain, resisting;
• striving to new creative horizons, balance of forces and influences;
• collaboration, alliance.

Qualities: honesty, openness, beginning of action, equality, partnership.

Person: the one who can be a friend and a respectful, honest and open person. Good business partner. Knows nothing about business but is full of desire to go forward, believes and trusts, is reliable. Man of honesty.

Eventive meaning:

• start of new business, test of strength, beginning of professional development;
• ignorance, inexperience; sincere faith and enthusiasm;
• partnership, collaboration;
• framework and rules;
• search for a partner and assistance;
• uncertainty and doubt.

Reversed Two of Wands

Qualities: unexpectedness, suddenness, surprises, gullibility, susceptibility, naivety.

Eventive meaning:

• sudden change of plans, surprises and suddenly revealed circumstances;
• deceptions through gullibility, dishonesty of partners, lack of confidence;
• failure, assaults, intrigues;
• losses, dismissals, demotions;
• uncertainty and lack of skill;
• unfavourable paperwork.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• examination of new project, exploration of territory, journey;
• prospects of development, long-term project;
• supervise the process, guide the actions of others;
• collective activity in trade, business.

Qualities: confidence, strength and courage, activity, boldness and entrepreneurial spirit, curiosity, self-reliance.

Person: forward-looking, prudent, strategist, businessman. Commercial abilities.

Eventive meaning:

• negotiations in the sphere of business, trade, planning and designing;
• promising enterprise, seeing big opportunities;
• travel;
• initiative, desire finally acquires its practical embodiment;
• fruitful cooperation, good communication with people;
• respect and honesty;
• teamwork;
• scientific discoveries.

Reversed Three of Wands

Qualities: self-confidence, bragging, lack of foresight, distrust, cowardice.

Eventive meaning:

• collapse of plans, no prospects;
• short-sighted actions and hasty decisions;
• fear of taking risks and fulfilling a dream, uncertainty, doubt;
• isolation, climbing into one’s shell and sitting there, lack of good contact with people;
• uncertainty about the future, delays, setback;
• responsibility for own actions;
• interrupted process; an error;
• profitless and prospectless business;
• emigration.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• Celebration, completion, fullness, culmination of efforts, fruits of labour;
• rituals and ceremonies;
• family, ancestors;
• social medium and community.

Qualities: experience, optimism, joyfulness, simplicity, family.

Person: family man, reliable, calm, optimistic, appreciates time and the joys of life.

Eventive meaning:

• wedding, celebration of ample figures, birthday, engagement;
• ceremonies and conclusion of alliances; assemblies, gatherings, parties, meetings;
• fun and relaxation, joyous event, recreation or vacation;
• contracts, agreements, conventions;
• prosperity, awards, fruits of labour, solid foundation for growth and development;
• family.

Reversed Four of Wands

Qualities: prosperity, nostalgia for the outgoing.

Eventive meaning:

• family as a golden cage;
• family celebrations and banquets;
• destruction of conventions, unconventional marriage, conflict with traditions;
• dissatisfaction at official event, holiday spoiled by some incident, failure, fool at an event;
• “empty nest” syndrome when children leave the home;
• hole, gap, lacuna, damage;
• moving from parental home.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• bringing discord into a stable situation;
• conflict, quarrel, challenge, strain, resistance;
• competition and rivalry;
• desire to prove something, show and prove themselves.

Qualities: irritability, activity, ambition, comparison and competitive spirit.

Person: rival, competitive, ambitious, aggressive, a bit like a teenager.

Eventive meaning:

• competition and rival parties, struggle against opposing opinions;
• disputes, quarrels, conflicts at work and in relationships;
• fierce struggle and criticism, defence of personal opinion;
• skirmishes, fighting and irreconcilable contradictions, contrary actions;
• puberty and formation of personality;
• competition in sports, tournament, game, sound aggression, struggle for success;
• burst of sexual energy and activity;
• obstacles, destruction of a certain fixation.

Reversed Five of Wands

Qualities: smoothing things over, non-participation in disputes; a clean getaway, watching the fight from the sidelines, but not becoming involved.

Eventive meaning:

• compromise, overcoming obstacles and contradictions, end of hostility;
• withdrawal from conflict, professional intervention to solve it;
• bribes, sycophancy, flattery and deception, devious ways to solutions;
• suspended state, sabotage;
• inner agitation, inner conflict;
• joint working in a unified team;
• cancellation of sports events;
• litigation and proceedings, fines, delayed cases.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• victory, triumph, success, growth in a social medium, career, promotion, overcoming obstacles;
• pride and elevation of a man due to courage, skill and boldness;
• award, public recognition.

Qualities: popularity, success, strength and recognition, admiration.

Person: leader who consolidates people around him, winner, chief. The one who will be able to lead the way. Strong charisma. Public person, active in society, self-confident. Organiser. Conductor. Spokesperson.

Eventive meaning:

• advancement of status, recognition in society, honour and success;
• victories, medals, prizes;
• raising to pedestal, hoping, imposing the responsibility;
• speaking before public, politics, gathering people;
• popularity;
• accomplishment of desires, progress.

Reversed Six of Wands

Qualities: conceit, cult of personality, self-importance.

Eventive level:

• treachery, betrayal, unfaithfulness;
• envy, jealousy, distrust;
• loss of status, losing face, overthrow from heights;
• loss, defeat, failure.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• courage, boldness, self-defence, protection of personal boundaries, resistance to external factors;
• a clash, battle for themselves, tension, conflict.

Qualities: strong energy, heroism, fearlessness, perseverance, dedication, self-overcoming, energetic purification. Persistence and faith in victory.

Person: hero, warrior, able to resist, strong-willed. Sportsman, military person.

Eventive meaning:

• test that must be borne, challenge that must be taken;
• self-defence, energy attack;
• conflicts in relationships, no love and harmony;
• competition in business (for business this card is favourable in the beginning of spread);
• bold and heroic deed;
• interferences.

Reversed Seven of Wands

Qualities: hastiness, unpreparedness to fight, excitement and anxiety, defence, weak will, cowardice and servility.

Eventive meaning:

• protective and barricade structures against peace and the elimination of these structures;
• paranoia, keeping others at a distance;
• inaction, caution, cowardice, embarrassment;
• depression of strength and incompetence, confusion;
• losses, deprival and victims.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• unexpected ideas, insights, news, messages;
• flow of life and energy of life;
• travel, speed of movement.

Qualities: abundance of ideas, euphoria, winged mood, speed, energy, freedom

Person: hasty, energetic, fast. Pilot, postman, telegraph operator, merchant, messenger.

Eventive meaning:

• rapid development of events;
• passion, being in love;
• great ideas and enthusiasm, scientific discoveries;
• travel by air, manoeuvres, horseracing, races; everything associated with speed;
• telephone, mail, Internet, information;
• transfer of information and documents, commercial and banking transactions, business trips;
• letter, telephone call, news from far off;
• progress, though with a certain haste;
• unpredictability, suddenness, bustle, excitement;
• vacation, journey, distant lands;
• fresh air, nature.

Reversed Eight of Wands

Qualities: losing firm ground, decay, immobility.

Eventive meaning:

• obstructions, delays, suspensions and slowdowns, strikes;
• jealousy, irritation, remorse, cooling in relationships;
• obstacles and troubles, collapse of plans, failed journey;
• poor communication, disagreements and conflicts;
• panic, hysteria, anxiety;
• insubordination, incompatibility.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• patience, defending what you own, spiritual maturity, fortitude;
• maintaining dignity and respect;
• suspicion, anticipation of threats, defence.

Qualities: maturity, patience, fatigue, heaviness, dignity, respect. Skill, confidence and might, prudence, wisdom.

Person: project manager, master’s degree student, advocate of interests, attorney, lawyer. Guard, military person, security guard. A man with strong character, hostile and suspicious.

Eventive meaning:

• withstand the toughest situations;
• skills and experience, discipline;
• prudent action, caution and wisdom;
• protection of interests of customers or other people;
• big project in social structures;
• premonition of future problems and vision of enemies and rivals;
• estrangement, fatigue, isolation, leave after battle;
• independence, alienation;
• protective mechanisms, inflexibility, stubbornness, obstinacy;
• delays and postponements;
• frustration, energetic prostration.

Reversed Nine of Wands

Qualities: alienation, exhaustion, hopelessness, closed off.

Eventive meaning:

• karmic retribution, bashing;
• exaggerated possibilities and overestimated strengths;
• exhaustion, nervous breakdown, severe fatigue;
• setback in career or deadlock in development;
• avoidance of responsibility and revision of liabilities;
• stuck in a stalemate, imprisonment, wish to escape from oppression;
• personal cross borne by the person;
• trials and challenges;
• greed for own inner experience, unwillingness to share;
• diseases of immune system;
• deportation, exile, alienation and loneliness.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• overload, fatigue, “burnout”;
• obligations that are very difficult to fulfil, a burden, responsibility;
• huge ambitions, activity and being demand in society;
• sense of duty.

Qualities: overwhelming work, fatigue, depression, earnestness, joylessness.

Person: responsible professional, family man with heaps of responsibilities, Head of enterprise. Workaholic, struggler.

Eventive meaning:

• unfair and painful burden of obligations;
• rush job at work;
• “burnout”, fatigue, illness due to overstrain;
• family responsibilities, a lot of matters and concerns;
• trap, cage, hopelessness, emotional despair;
• penance, punishment, slavery;
• duty, bearing a personal cross;
• professionalism, being in demand;
• homestretch.

Reversed Ten of Wands

Qualities: inconsistence, lack of confidence, withdrawal from something, futility.

Eventive meaning:

• dropped burden, deliverance from hardships;
• transfer of responsibility and get-out from difficulties; delegation;
• nervous breakdown, preinfarction angina, despair, loss of meaning of life;
• escape from difficulties, denial of labour value;
• forgery, fraud, mistake, trap;
• lies, hypocrisy, conspiracy;
• work never finished; fruitless efforts;
• collapse of ambitions;
• cleanup, cleansing, deliverance from the old, moving to or leaving for another city or country;
• losses, intrigues, betrayals;
• disease, virus.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• inductive impulse;
• carelessness, teasing, brazenness, naturalness, seduction, hot passions, spontaneity;
• creative inspiration, creative impulse, a spark that can start a fire.

Qualities: easiness of being, spontaneity, naïveté, childishness, excitement, impulsivity, hot-temperedness and affectability.

Ardour and fervour, gaiety and joy, boldness and courage, curiosity.

But at the same time – carelessness, recklessness and irresponsibility.

Person: wishing to surprise, try one’s own strength. Portrayed by openness, lightness, sociability. May be a spontaneous, restless teenager or child full of life.

A man who has a lot of ideas.

A child requiring much attention.

A person who strives for recognition, but is at the same time naive, has not yet broken of his or her horns on the path of life.

Eventive meaning:

• new beginnings associated with social medium;
• spring, optimism, new meeting, a chance to start something new, changes in the direction of dynamics and development;
• promotion of business, good start of a process, enthusiasm;
• rapid and spontaneous beginning, new ideas;
• flirtation, passion, being in love, new adventure, erotic seduction;
• adventure;
• the card also indicates he appearance of news or messages, a messenger with new information bringing changes (mostly for the better);
• surprises and wonders, amazement!

Reversed Daughter of Wands

Qualities: loss of enthusiasm – nothing brings joy. Fear of changes, fear of the new, joylessness. Boredom, no interest, emptiness and illusiveness.

Futility, fickleness.

Eventive meaning:

• infantilism;
• capricious and insolent children, boastful, hyperactive;
• problems with concentration;
• unshared enthusiasm;
• adulteries, unfaithfulness, failed first step;
• wrong way;
• dilettantism; risky and gambling games;
• slothful student, lack of composure and slacking, dirty trick;
• petty losses; rejected opportunities;
• children’s mischief and tricks;
• bad news (refusals, prohibitions).

Tarot Card Meaning:

• impatience, perseverance, courage, enthusiasm;
• this is the beginning of action, wild adventure and the path to the goal, the desire for great accomplishments, positive and creative masculine origin, ambitions, romance of adventures;
• initiative, but at the same time irritation and aggression; he is hard to stop. He can be irrepressible.

Qualities: ardour, impetuosity, zeal and thirst for freedom of action.

Changeability of feelings and aspirations; spreads himself thin. Impatience, hastiness, unpredictability, irritability and a tendency to exaggerate everything. I want all and at once: this is the motto of the Son of Wands.

Person: warrior, full of noble fervour and eager to explore the unknown. The archetype of a hero who is left searching. Ardent in love, but not for long. This person can do the impossible, break up long-standing obstacles, melt the glaciers and move the mountains.

He is an eternal adolescent who needs never-ending adventures, new toys and a permanent adrenaline rush.

Eventive meaning:

• Road, departure, leaving, journey, business trip;
• road to the unknown, moving, relocation and new lands;
• events will progress quickly, dynamically;
• experiments and improvisation;
• storm and stress, rebellion and search;
• passionate love.

Reversed Son of Wands

Qualities: extravagance, disorderliness, dilettantism, impatience, foolishness and recklessness. Confusion and chaos, no way out for aggressive energy.

Eventive meaning:

• groundless rebellion, may make a real mess of things;
• symbolizes hooliganism and a violent temper, desperate fraud;
• criminals and gangs;
• rush headlong;
• discord and disagreements, quarrels;
• sexual ruthlessness (sex as a sport);
• leaving business unfinished.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• thirst for life and fullness of desire;
• confident, resolute and mature woman;
• aspiration for independence and autonomy.

Qualities: extraversion. Independence, optimism, persistence, openness and honesty, passion, boldness, bravery and courage. Ardour in love.

Self-reliance, authoritativeness, aggression and craft to achieve own goals. Will and intellect directed toward satisfying desires.

Vitality, entrepreneurial spirit, competence.

Person: female-leader, charming and sexy. An independent, passionate person who makes decisions by herself. Romantic nature. Strives to be the centre of attention, for self-actualisation.

Eventive meaning:

• acting in one’s own interests, leading a project, social activity and realisation;
• own business;
• female charisma and charm;
• success in business, patronage;
• the situation is already formed and the result will be positive.

Reversed Queen of Wands

Qualities: cunning, injustice, discontent, dissatisfaction of ambitions, selfish and imperious action.

Wrath, hysteria, levity and inconstancy, irritability.

Eventive meaning:

• someone disaffected towards us, ill-wisher;
• competitor in love;
• dangerous temptress and intrigante;
• sexual aggression and danger;
• envious person and bitch;
• collapse of plans; unfair rivalry and malevolence;
• may denote fornication, unfaithfulness, images of a cheat and cheats.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• leadership, the very principle of power, exercising free will, positive direction, progress;
• creativity, self-realisation, constructive action, ideas of humanism and high ideals;
• power and majesty due to honesty, intelligence and conscience.

Qualities: kind-heartedness and expertise, generosity, pride, maturity, respect, courage, skill, confidence and self-respect, talent, knowledge.

Determination, boldness and activity.

Person: great leader, organiser, politician, king, big boss, head. A socially active man who has realised himself, possessing intelligence and inner strength. Competent in his business. He has his own faith, for the sake of which he is ready to go a long way; he is energetic, sometimes aggressive – he stands up for his territory.

Eventive meaning:

• bringing the situation under control, taking risk;
• run a business, manage other people;
• achievement of maturity;
• decisive actions, heroic deed;
• personal motivation;
• useful social contacts, high positions in society, respect;
• fair advice.

Reversed King of Wands

Qualities: impatience and intolerance. Cruelty and bitterness, anger, arrogance and self-confidence, pride, authoritativeness, selfishness and irrepressible vanity. Heartless commander. Or, conversely, an infirm nature.

Eventive meaning:

• excess of authoritative powers;
• dictator and autocrat;
• take a strong stand, won’t budge;
• unreasonable use of force and power;
• demonstrating own superiority;
• offending someone with aggressive behaviour;
• gets very angry when facing resistance or rejection;
• inefficiency
• requires unquestioned obedience and does not come round;
• despotism and fanaticism;
• lack of masculinity of a man or father.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• love, mystery of love, birth of new sense;
• source of life, the soul, faith, confidence, security;
• deep satisfaction, happiness and emotional renewal.

Qualities: peace, quietness, novelty, satisfaction, joy, beauty.

Idealism, elevation, openness.

Person: kind, caring, sincere, soulful.

Eventive meaning:

• true love, romance;
• readiness for new love, new opportunities for the expression of emotions;
• full table, hospitable welcoming of guests;
• heart overfilled with inspiration, pleasure, emotional swell;
• open communication with other people, spiritual revelation, self-disclosure;
• pregnancy, conception;
• dreams, visions, intuition;
• good news, invitations;
• beauty, joy, faithfulness;
• home and family, mother, beloved.

Reversed Ace of Cups

Qualities: expectation, shyness, incompleteness, emotional emptiness or hunger, closed off, passivity, dependence.

Eventive meaning:

• refusal, loss of love and disappointment;
• emptiness, depletion;
• unshared or rejected love;
• abuse of sensual life, gluttony, drunkenness;
• emotional hunger;
• gynaecological disorders, infertility, erosion, destruction, mutation;
• deception, dissatisfaction of feelings;
• addiction and bad habits.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• mutual love, respect, harmonious communication, equality, understanding;
• good-natured interaction and cooperation;
• association for fruitful exchange and ultimate goal.

Qualities: harmony, beauty, understanding, love and sensitivity.

Person: audient, loving and understanding of others. In love.

Eventive meaning:

• strength of attraction between a man and a woman;
• interchange of energies, reunion, spiritual aspiration for the lost (non-integrated) part of himself;
• closeness and intimacy between two people, swelling of the heart;
• partnership and shared luck;
• empathy, sympathy, combination;
• forgiveness and reconciliation, friendship, harmony;
• engagement, marriage, bridge, alliance;
• happiness.

Reversed Two of Cups

Qualities: poor emotional compatibility, separation.

Eventive meaning:

• quarrel, spat, conflicts and misunderstanding;
• jealousy
• parting and divorce;
• cast-off love, misunderstanding in love, unanswered love;
• temporary problems in relations, harmless quarrels;
• undermined confidence, faithlessness, sexual dissatisfaction;
• venereal diseases;
• someone refuses to meet you halfway.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• Cheerfulness, exhilaration for life, joy;
• success, luck, healing;
• holiday, party, get-together;
• unions and gatherings.

Qualities: unrestrained, youth, joy, sexuality.

Person: talented, cheerful, sociable, happy, a devoted friend.

Eventive meaning:

• recognition, popularity, bohemian lifestyle;
• women’s gatherings and parties, rituals of female power and magic circle, magical practices, rituals of appeal;
• joyous party or feast;
• fun, sex contacts, entertainment, having a good time;
• union, alliance, elective affinity;
• successful completion of the project;
• assistance from peers, mutual support;
• exaltation, joy, recognition;
• success in literature, poetry, fashion, music and fine arts, dancing to exhaustion;
• conception.

Reversed Three of Cups

Qualities: joylessness, excessiveness, drawback.

Eventive meaning:

• satiety, depravity, abuse of food, drugs and alcohol;
• joyless being, longing for fun;
• addiction, addictive behaviour;
• drunken debauchery, orgy;
• lack of cooperation, exclusion from the circle or community;
• envy, ostracism;
• theft from familiar people;
• foolishness, emptiness, self-indulgence;
• falls, accidents;
• delays.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• Apathy, satiety, laziness, overfilling, fatigue, emotional closed off and loneliness, boredom;
• safety and stability of senses;
• home.

Qualities: calmness. Still water, self-gratification, femininity, bad mood passing into apathy, torpidity.

Person: emotionally closed, deep in own emotions, lazy, apathetic, immoderate, dully longing for life.

Indifferent, tired, hurt, angry.

Eventive meaning:

• luxury, abundance;
• home, security, ideal of hearth and home;
• stability of feelings, boredom, routine, stagnation in affairs;
• care, emotional warmth, motherhood, symbiosis and fusion, affection;
• security and love, but with an element of restriction;
• carrying a child;
• embrace, surrounded by care and attention;
• possessiveness, ownership;
• desire to limit possibilities of other person through excessive attachment;
• nursing the resentment, irritation and annoyance;
• the card shows a complicated emotional revelation, the person stays alone with own feelings, experiencing the inner discontent and dissatisfaction with others;
• dreaming, meditating, relaxing, being lazy, fruitless reflexes;
• ignoring the gift or a chance.

Reversed Four of Cups

Qualities: searching for new opportunities; listening that the soul wants to move forward.

Eventive meaning:

• escape stagnation, anxiety, need for new impressions;
• novelty and surge of feelings;
• new opportunities and new goals;
• building new plans, second wind;
• sign, token or premonition;
• prediction.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• Disappointment and pain, tears, sorrow;
• great changes, parting;
• period of depression, decline;
• heartache.

Qualities: hopelessness, sadness and emptiness, disappointment.

Person: relative, monk, person absorbed in own emotions.

Eventive meaning:

• separation or parting;
• old wounds rooting back to childhood;
• collapse of hopes and disappointment;
• failure at examination, not passing the test;
• abortion, miscarriage;
• regret about missed opportunities;
• mourning and lamentation, sorrow;
• heritage or something from the past will soothe you;
• betrayal or deception;
• flashback, nostalgia and regrets;
• broken boat of everyday family life;
• hereditary traumas or inherited vices;
• genealogy and ancestors.

Reversed Five of Cups

Qualities: renovation, comeback and hope.

Eventive meaning:

• Recovery and return to life;
• healing of injuries and reunion;
• funeral, mourning;
• group of like-minded people united by an idea;
• reunion of old friends, relatives, family.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• nostalgia, childhood, the past;
• karmic experience, knots in the past;
• equal energy exchange, favoured time.

Qualities: exchange of emotions, touching, fragility, mystery, warmth, as if time stopped.

Person: old friend, brother, sister, childhood friend or classmate.

Retrograde, stagnant, stuck in the past.

Eventive meaning:

• nostalgia;
• childhood memories, traumas, karma;
• gift, romantic action, support of old friend;
• reconciliation, courtship;
• man from the past, old acquaintance;
• idyll, pure feeling;
• kindred spirit;
• emotional debt that will pay off handsomely if returned;
• care, attention and pleasure;
• violence or psychic shock experienced in childhood;
• skeletons in family closet, family secrets.

Reversed Six of Cups

Qualities: novelty, regeneration, coming-of-age.

Eventive meaning:

• deliverance from the old and an unexpected turn of fate;
• future event;
• revival, rejection of the past, unbinding old karmic knots;
• release from old obligations;
• new technology, futuristic ideas;
• leaving home, coming-of-age;
• desire to get rid of memories and the need to rise above one’s own past, go up in the world;
• new environment, friends and furnishings: renovation, change of interior.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• The world of dreams, reveries and fantasies, creative imagination;
• illusion; somewhat covering the clear vision;
• indulgence of vices, sensually immoderate;
• difficulty of choice.

Qualities: passivity, indecisiveness, emptiness, superficiality and illusions. Energy is dissipated in vain.

Person: bohemian dreamer, undecided, often empty. Visionary, writer. Man of bohemian profession, who is looking for and working with images.

Eventive meaning:

• fantasy and imagination (uncontrolled);
• facing a choice among many opportunities; exciting opportunities;
• fascination, hypnosis, non-critical attitude;
• deception, illusion, temptation, hare-brained schemes, inactivity, laziness;
• desiring for recognition and success but not wanting to act;
• dream, vision, reverie;
• idleness, indulgence, building castles in the air; marketing pyramids, far-reaching projects;
• have a lot of matters and can't get anything done.

Reversed Seven of Cups

Qualities: clarity, disappointment, realism.

Eventive meaning:

• richness of inner world;
• insight, enlightenment, veil falling from eyes;
• skill to build a strategic plan for the future, choice;
• determine the intentions and find a solution;
• get rid of dangerous illusion;
• social success due to self-discipline, planning, ability to distribute the work;
• strength of will against temptation, suppression of own fantasies and temptations;
• rejecting the sensual pleasures, refining away the distracting desires;
• broken hopes, hypochondria.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• reconsideration, abandonment, search;
• journeys and trips, secret meetings;
• disappointment and sadness.

Qualities: loss of interest, coldness, alienation, depression, disappointment and fatigue.

Person: spiritual seeker. Tramp, traveller. One who swims with the stream of life.

Eventive meaning:

• disappointment in deep relations: leaving, divorce;
• fatigue, crisis of genre, goes with the stream;
• need to regain strength;
• something important disappeared from life or something precious was taken away;
• spiritual quest;
• trips and journeys, vacation, vacation from labour, solitude;
• secret meetings and dates;
• meditation, awareness and spiritual cross;
• self-examination, psychotherapy;
• denial, desire to leave, alienation and dissatisfaction;
• shyness and timidity;
• exhaustion of energy;
• depreciation of values, destruction of the old.

Reversed Eight of Cups

Qualities: incompleteness, inertia, or, conversely, revival after a long period of searching.

Eventive meaning:

• return of the prodigal son;
• old losses are found, unfinished situations are solved;
• inertia, immobility, no way out;
• journeys are postponed;
• going with the stream;
• cling to past behaviour patterns or relations that are already outdated;
• withdrawal from reality, sleepwalking, insomnia, shamanic journey;
• psychotherapy as healing of old injuries;
• apology and atonement, repayment of debts, compensation for damages.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• fulfilment of desires, happiness, satisfaction and material benefits;
• celebration, feat, party, opportunity to pamper yourself;
• sensuality and sophistication, bohemian lifestyle;
• talent.

Qualities: well-being, beauty, joy and satisfaction.

Person: talent. Beauty. Unique faculty for art or a person having fine abilities, gifted by fate. Healing abilities, good masseuse, faculty for bioenergetics.

Eventive meaning:

• gifts of fate, happy times, satisfaction, fullness;
• dinner party, where wine is flowing in streams and tables are groaning with food;
• success and intoxication by success, some wind in the head, and self-indulgence;
• laziness, complacency, misuse of sensuality;
• presentations and events, banquets;
• cafe, restaurant activity;
• gifts from the heart;
• splendour, Baroque, prosperity and being immoderate.

Reversed Nine of Cups

Qualities: satiety, complacency, emotional heaviness, unrealized opportunities in emotional sphere.

Eventive meaning:

• promiscuity, saturation, time when people are too well off;
• alcohol addiction;
• gluttony, laziness and immorality;
• spoiled children;
• wish to be something of a liar;
• losses, dismissals;
• temptation, idealization;
• refusal of sensual, withdrawal from worldly pleasures for the sake of simplicity and modesty;
• sincerity, when a man shakes out all his soul; confession;
• bath, purification, hydrotherapeutic procedures, spa treatment.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• fusion with the Divine, deep spiritual appeasement and satisfaction;
• emotional exaltation;
• happiness among people; family full of children, love and care;
• great love.

Qualities: completeness, satisfaction, quintessence. Apogee, acme.

Person: grateful, caring, loving, radiant. Good family man.

Eventive meaning:

• obtaining all earthly goods, emotional saturation;
• body of the church as a spiritual human family;
• standing on the threshold of spirit revelation;
• favourable period, creation of family, birth of children, human happiness: stable, happy home;
• life in harmony with people and nature;
• desire to share with others, create harmony;
• the ideal, beautiful picture;
• church wedding;
• homeland, home, security.

Reversed Ten of Cups

Qualities: surplus, boredom, exhaustion of energy. Empty form.

Eventive meaning:

• problems at home, quarrels and conflicts within the family, divorce;
• an “empty nest”, comfortless house, senseless coexistence;
• departure, parting, sense of homelessness;
• excommunication;
• monotony and satiety in marriage, boredom;
• sinking in everyday life, meeting the family needs, being an adjunct of the family;
• denial of family values, refusal of childbirth, leaving the family;
• surplus of funds, a golden cage;
• dying feelings, resentment, aggression, act of faith;
• holding onto the past when the life cycle is already over.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• renewal, sensual rebirth, naivety and beauty;
• source of inspiration and alluring image calling for knowledge of own inner world;
• a child, a girl;
• true desires and aspirations of the human soul for the knowing.

Qualities: emotionality, naivety, innocence, dreaminess. Creative inspiration, being in love, childishness, freedom, sensuality, artistry, compassion, joyfulness, intuition, playfulness.

Person: a young man or girl, dreamy, artistic, emotional, mysterious, enchanting, elusive, emotionally vulnerable, naive. Avoids difficulties, easy nature, friendly, playful, imaginative. Bohemian: poet, artist or musician.

Eventive meaning:

• being in love, sympathy, amour liaison, novelty of feelings, their depth and quiver;
• pure impulses and emotional experiences, dreams, idealism;
• pregnancy and childbirth, an event boding the pleasure and freedom;
• engagement; good news and proposals (e.g., marriage, declaration of love), invitation, pleasant telephone call;
• love affair, a compliment, jewelry, cosmetics and chiffon;
• atmosphere of mutual understanding, finesse and empathy;
• favourable chance, pleasure, gift.

Reversed Daughter of Cups

Qualities: emotions have the upper hand, absence of awareness, seduction, lust, vulgarity, distrust, dishonesty, flippancy, narcissism.

Eventive meaning:

• vainness, seduction and flattery, jealousy and envy;
• unnecessary and excessive credulity when people are blamed, foolishness;
• retire into empty dreams, give in to hypnosis and influence of other people, vulnerability;
• infantilism and hypersensitivity;
• susceptibility to feelings, hysteria, capriciousness;
• loss of confidence, loss of innocence, swagger, dependency, insincerity;
• inability to concentrate, at the same time the vain waste of forces, dalliance;
• adulteries, impurity, dependence;
• deception, painful affections; may also denote bad or sad news, gossips;
• unhappy love, bad-news about dissolution of engagement, break-up of relations.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• pleasant offers and opportunities;
• release of sensing and artistic side;
• action from depth of the soul;
• enjoyment with life, sensuality, being in love and honeymoon.

Qualities: sensitivity, enthusiasm, fantasy, intuition, emotionality and soulfulness. Romanticism.

Person: enthusiastic lover, dreamy and charming.

Man of art, warm-hearted friend, romantic interest.

May be a dancer, painter, poet, aesthete, yogi or spiritual practitioner. Psychologist, film producer or showman. Actor. Restaurant-owner, DJ – all creative professions and occupations associated with the spiritual sphere.

Eventive meaning:

• invitation for a date, a letter, declaration of love or a gift from lover;
• pleasant opportunity that is approaching;
• purchases, smart clothes, treat in a restaurant;
• relations that excite romantic feelings;
• caring for someone;
• going to exhibition, theatre, cafe;
• offer of hand and heart;
• recreation and entertainment, satisfaction of emotional needs;
• travel by water or journey in damp weather.

Reversed Son of Cups

Qualities: intrigue, deceit, depravity and hypersensitivity.

Dangerous illusions. Irresponsibility and emotional dishonesty. Flattery, servility and hypocrisy. Emotional imbalance. Narcissism. Escape from reality.

Eventive meaning:

• treachery;
• homosexuality; secrecy;
• withdrawn invitation;
• suspicious invitation - mistrust;
• drug addiction and dependence;
• unanswered love, false love;
• stung with emotions - inspiration, images, and diving into the world of the unconscious;
• night dreams.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• revelation of the innermost, self-revelation;
• touching the hidden feelings, deep affection;
• harmony.

Qualities: sensitivity, tenderness, kindness, beauty, soulfulness, understanding, trust in own feelings, contact with the inner world, intuition, wisdom of ancestors. Humidity, passivity, dreaminess, delicate attitude.

Irrational nature. Innuendo, incomprehensibility, slipping away, subtlety, depth, mystery.

Person: loving and kind woman.

Healer, compassionate and spiritual, giving peace and repose, understanding intuitively.

This is a romantic possessing the emotional depth. This woman easily and intuitively takes any form, promises comfort and safety.

Eventive meaning:

• meditation, silence, listening, passive contemplation, action in inaction;
• peaceful and harmonious environment;
• unconsciousness;
• esoterics, occultism, fortunetelling and prediction;
• love and sensual intimacy, deep affection;
• strongly being in love, desire to love;
• fall under influence of feelings.

Reversed Queen of Cups

Qualities: temptress or fallen woman. Frivolity, provocation, luring into the abyss of passion, playing the subtle nuances of the soul for the confirmation of own ego. Weak will, lack of initiative, passivity, entropy, hypersensitivity, emotional vulnerability, hence - jealousy, vengefulness, vindictiveness.

Eventive meaning:

• blackmail, vile practices;
• shamelessness, whims;
• debauchery, adulteries and heartache, treachery of close people;
• infertility; frustration and absence of demand;
• stitch-up at work, being let down, intrigues;
• eminent married woman offers her love;
• sexual exploitation or rape;
• alcohol, drug addiction, bohemians without talent;
• merging with the object of own desires.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• wisdom, compassion, mature love and sympathy;
• help and implementation of plans, understanding and support;
• business or enterprise for the soul.

Qualities: life experience, benevolence, intuitive understanding, love and care. Calmness and stability of emotions, spiritual vision. Honesty, equanimity, fairness, imaginative thinking.

Person: generous man, good friend, devoted lover, good master, loving husband. The card of benefactor, helper.

Caring father. Wise advisor, soul healer. May also designate a teacher, therapist, doctor (healer) or clergyman.

Eventive meaning:

• consolation, understanding, support in affairs, wise advice;
• cultural activities;
• expression of feelings, intuitive vision, appeal to the inner world;
• tasking work;
• fair deal, favourable outcome of the case

Reversed King of Cups

Qualities: sentimentality, tearfulness, lack of character and weakness, closed off in own feelings, jealousy. Falling into depression or other psycho-emotional disorders, loss of emotional control.

Cruelty, lack of compassion and openness. Overwhelming care, keeping under thumb.

Eventive meaning:

• viciousness and deceit, flattery and craft;
• impersonation;
• rascal, marriage speculator, professional seducer, thief, talented racketeer;
• living on other peoples dime; busybody;
• alcoholism, drug addiction, lust;
• passion;
• wasting feelings and funds.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• sharp mind, new idea;
• enlightenment, awareness, crisis, identification, clarification, aggravating a situation;
• demonstration of new will, new law, idea, point of view.

Qualities: strain, intensity, courage, fearlessness, clarity, intelligence, strength, confidence.

Person: hard, demanding, without sentimentality and emotions. Authoritative and ambitious. Man of law and letter.

Eventive meaning:

• frank conversation that clarifies much, problem-solving;
• plan, strategy, idea;
• communication; compelling argument;
• fairness, law and order, truth;
• making decision in spite of everything, resolution of situation by any way;
• surgery: operations, fractures, cuts, stab wounds;
• crisis;
• victory and achievements in sports.

Reversed Ace of Swords

Qualities: sword of Damocles, “sword of justice hanging over your head." Negativity, anger, movement towards destruction, imbalance.

Eventive meaning:

• suicide, obsessive fears, severe mental disorders;
• failure, negative situation - need to escape;
• punishment, tyranny, injustice;
• loss of strength, stress and threat to life;
• resignation to failure, pessimism;
• unfavourable court proceedings, lost war or battle, conflict with authorities;
• kill with a word, be rejected; damnation;
• amputation, excision operations, abscission.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• doubts; dilemma, ambiguity, uncertainty;
• refusal to make a decision, uncertain prospects.

Qualities: hesitation, contradiction, incomprehensibility, concentration on two options. Prudence, expectation, analysis.

Person: unable to orient in a situation. Sceptic, critic, indecisive person.

Eventive meaning:

• search for compromise, settlement of opposing views and conflicts;
• attempt to understand what you need, search for new strategy;
• doubt about everything, refusal to make decision;
• refusal to see perspective and resolve conflicts, fear of action;
• contradiction and dilemma;
• passive expectation;
• solution of conflict and search for compromises;
• fragile balance, balance of forces; pact;
• money: delayed payouts;
• distance between people;
• armistice, arms laid down for a time.

Reversed Two of Swords

Qualities: enlightenment, insight, knowledge of the errors, the perception of lies.

Eventive meaning:

• end of dead period and active actions;
• lies and duplicity, complexity of choice between two options;
• seeing problems that need immediate solution;
• imposture, unfaithfulness;
• shame and duel;
• inadequacy, discrepancy;
• break-up;
• victim of fraud, false friends.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• bitter truth, abandonment of old illusions;
• treachery, betrayal and sorrow of the heart;
• resentment, abuse, painful experience, failure.

Qualities: loneliness, pain, disappointment, resentment, self-pity, sobriety.

Person: nun, humiliated and insulted, voluntarily suffering people, the one to whom heartache was made.

Eventive meaning:

• jealousy, resentment, betrayal, love triangle;
• break-up of relations, painful divorce;
• unrequited love, mental anguish;
• flood of tears, accusations, crying, depression;
• strong destructive stresses, sorrow;
• conflicts, discords, misunderstanding;
• evil intent and malice;
• beloved leaves you, betrayal;
• painfully sobering understanding.

Reversed Three of Swords

Qualities: heartache hidden or fading in the background. Chaotic, uncontrollable situation.

Eventive meaning:

• facilitation of suffering through some painful situation;
• deliverance and miraculously avoided danger;
• reduction of pain, relief of diagnosis;
• recovery after quarrel, reconciliation;
• support from a friend or group of people;
• denial of suffering, jealousy, repression of feelings;
• inconsistencies and delays in business, mistakes, confusion;
• smouldering resentment;
• illness;
• quarrels, discords, war, disorder;
• evil wishes, evil words.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• accumulation of forces, recreation, isolation;
• expectation, delay, this is the card of time.

Qualities: inner focusing, patience and tolerance, inner awareness, loneliness, sleep. Self-analysis and self-observation, tranquillity.

Person: patient, recreating, waiting for something, one who lies down and does not show up much, introvert.

Inactive. Indifferent, uncaring.

Eventive meaning:

• idleness, waiting;
• recreation, vacation, spiritual practice, retreat, meditation, prayer, asceticism;
• lull
• disease, hospital, surgery, isolation;
• prison; monastery;
• deportation, exile, abandonment;
• grave;
• retirement;
• pacifism, armistice, non-intervention, neutrality.

Reversed Four of Swords

Qualities: caution, prudence, economy, regulation, prudence, foresight, slow recovery of losses.

Eventive meaning:

• returning after confinement;
• awakening from sleep, return to current problems;
• end of peaceful and quiet period;
• insomnia and bad dreams;
• recovery from serious illness;
• anxiety and inner tension;
• break the deadlock and return to work;
• end to imprisonment;
• victim of circumstances, helplessness.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• defeat, cruelty, undermined confidence;
• sharp conflict, quarrel, blow below the belt;
• treachery and betrayal.

Qualities: cruelty, pain, destruction, sadism, evil, aggression, disappointment.

Person: heartless, execrative. Enemy, opponent. Sadist, torturer, criminal, rapist.

Eventive meaning:

• defeat and collapse of plans;
• battle for life or death;
• break-up of communication; quarrel; loss;
• betrayal of partners and friends, quarrels and conflicts;
• betrayal and treachery;
• shame and dishonour;
• violence and insult;
• murder and kidnapping;
• slander, intrigue, freezing hostility.

Reversed Five of Swords

Qualities: same as in the upright position, but with a touch of sorrow, feelings of loss.

Eventive meaning:

• funeral, mourning, sadness, suffering;
• internal drama at open expression of violence and aggression;
• suppressed trauma;
• burying the hatchet, remorse and regret, sorrow;
• restitution after losses and suffering;
• revenge, remorse.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• changes, both internal and external;
• his is the card of science, learning, knowledge, which widen the picture of the world and expand the consciousness;
• changes and relocations, journeys.

Qualities: fairness, objectivity, detachment and distance, analysis, action, awareness, vision of broad perspective.

Eventive meaning:

• study, road, journey;
• removing and changes;
• training and work with information;
• communication and mediation, reception and transfer of new information and news;
• messenger or herald;
• change of residence, place of employment, departure, desire to escape from the status quo.

Reversed Six of Swords

Qualities: no prospects, deadlock, resistance to changes. Passivity, helplessness, difficulties. Holding on to personal prejudices and prejudgements.

Eventive meaning:

• postponed trips, plans do not come true; problems with relocations and travel, delays in airport, at the customs;
• revelations, disclosures, unpleasant surprises;
• unwanted proposals, collapse of plans;
• business: stitch-up and deceptions;
• relations: unexpected break-ups.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• fraud, falsehood, hypocrisy and craft;
• trick.

Qualities: keen intellect, resourcefulness, perseverance, tenacity, craft. Treacherous, evasive and flexible.

Person: the one who cannot be trusted, liar, schemer. Spy. Resourceful and cunning. Swindler, artful as a barrel of monkeys

Eventive meaning:

• theft, intrigue, falseness;
• secretiveness and insincerity;
• unlawful acts;
• strategy of behaviour;
• sham and dramatic play;
• evasiveness, disarmament due to own sharp mind;
• coquetry;
• faithfulness, adultery, secret love affairs;
• impersonation;
• avoiding the responsibility;
• policy and gallery play, adaptation to situation;
• mummery;
• risk with reputation;
• collecting the research for a project, manipulating with data for own benefit;
• slip away, escaping with a clear skin.

Reversed Seven of Swords

Qualities: prudence and diligence. Cowardice. Ill fame.

Eventive meaning:

• exposure of deception or treachery, unmasking, disclosure;
• return into previously formed adverse situation;
• take back something belonging to you, helping someone;
• asking for forgiveness, apologising, repenting;
• hocus-pocus and teaching a secret skill;
• advice and warnings;
• bad news.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• restrictions, shackles, connectivity, inner barriers and prohibitions;
• isolation, subordination, deprivation of rights and opportunities;
• no prospects (or the person does not see them), inability to reveal.

Qualities: despair, hopelessness, vicious circle of negative thoughts. Deprivation of hope, humility, fear and barrier to perception. Suppression, loneliness, inability to reveal.

Person: helpless victim, “lady in distress” waiting for beautiful knight who would free her. Prisoner, suspect, patient.

Eventive meaning:

• isolation, captivity, hospital, restriction of liberty;
• crisis including public condemnation and censure;
• restrictions on freedom of movement;
• internal prejudices;
• limitation of sensory perception;
• self-restraint, self-criticism, self-harm because of mental prejudices;
• the ratio origin blocks any insights: criticism, censure, condemnation and reproof, prohibition;
• conviction;
• prison, hospitalisation;
• accident.

Reversed Eight of Swords

Qualities: deliverance from fears, relaxation, progress and reassessment of the old. Strength to overcome all human limitations.

Eventive meaning:

• overcoming fate;
• combating outside pressure and control;
• ingenuity in overcoming obstacles;
• hiding something valuable for other people – talents, features of character;
• not listening to and not obeying someone’s bad advice or predictions;
• test in initiation, trial of endurance;
• mystical states;
• surprises and unexpectedness;
• difficulties, internal rebellion, problems with concentration;
• quarrels and conflicts, difficult relations with children.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• insomnia;
• anxiety, melancholy, despair and depression;
• twinges of conscience and feeling of guilt;
• trial by losses.

Qualities: martyrdom, fear, destruction, poisoning, suffering. Torments of conscience and all mental anguish crushing a man.

Person: crushed by strength of rock. Victim. Priest, monk, hermit. Often points to psychologist, psychiatrist.

Eventive meaning:

• retribution, bitter truth;
• terror, disgrace, guilt, shame and fear;
• nightmares, insomnia;
• destructive trauma;
• inner retribution, depression and sadness;
• cruelty from other person no forgiveness;
• failure, defeat, bankruptcy;
• wounds and sickness;
• unwanted pregnancy, miscarriage or loss of a child;
• get a bad diagnosis;
• hatred, envy, injustice;
• isolation and loneliness;
• conscience, integrity, trial for faith.

Reversed Nine of Swords

Qualities: conscious pain, purification after suffering.

Eventive meaning:

• exit from depression, the end of nightmares;
• recognition, facilitation of guilt, remorse;
• injustice of official bodies;
• slander and gossip, disgrace, shame, infamy;
• spiritual struggle.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• the end, point, completion, forcibly putting an end to something;
• painful bitter experience, going through painful states;
• violence, destruction, disaster, painful break-up;
• refusal, enforced completion, pain of defeat.

Qualities: inevitability, fate, violence, fear, acceptance, tremendous strength of circumstances.

Person: the one who cuts off, completed, or, conversely, a victim of circumstances.

Eventive meaning:

• disaster, bankruptcy, inevitable end;
• illness, loss of health, death, murder;
• personal defeat, failure, catharsis;
• group defeat, madness or torment (organizations, teams, communities);
• betrayal or stab in the back, cruelty;
• shame, loss of social status and position;
• deliverance, ending;
• painful divorce, unhappiness, tears, sorrow, grief;
• deliverance from something, freedom.

Reversed Ten of Swords

Qualities: the worst is left behind, relief, awareness of defeat, bitter experience, restoration.

Eventive meaning:

• exit from heavy crash (the worst has already happened and is left behind);
• avoidance of imminent death;
• removal of stress and recovery;
• health problems (spine, immune system, nervous system);
• concern about the future, healing of wounds and patching of holes;
• end of unpleasant heavy period, gradual recovery.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• inquisitive mind, quick reaction;
• conflict, confrontation;
• unpredictability, surprise.

Qualities: harshness, ruthlessness, sarcasm. Readiness, willingness to hit the target, concentration.

Intelligence, craft, skill, good reaction. Grasping in a single flash, lightning-like. Wittiness and sharp tongue.

Indifference, emotional coldness, sharpness, nervousness.

Person: disobedient child, teenager with a sharp tongue. Gamine. Student-logician, lover of disputes.

Opponent, duellist. Spy who knows foreign language, interpreter. Lurker collecting information, messenger.

Eventive meaning:

• quarrel or clarification of situation in a conversation, letters or messages;
• be under the gun of someone's criticism or a sharp tongue, criticism and attacks;
• discussion, debate, dispute, verbal duel;
• examination;
• exacerbation of differences, destruction of harmony in friendship and love;
• gossip, taunt;
• news about difficulties in negotiations;
• unpleasant conversation or phone call;
• fresh wind of change;
• new idea or technology;
• crisis management;
• improvisation;
• fencing, command of cold arms;
• trauma.

Reversed Daughter of Swords

Qualities: recklessness, incaution, acridity, cruelty, lack of protection, weakness, sickness, suddenness and unexpectedness.

Eventive meaning:

• resentment and anger;
• trouble coming from children, young people in discord with law, asocial;
• child suffering from divorce of parents;
• petty and vindictive man;
• anonymous letters, grassing, gossips, slanders, ill-will;
• problems with authorities;
• various kinds of conflicts, failures, when changes promise nothing good;
• humiliation and causing pain to others: boycotts, ridicule, teasing and shaming other people;
• flogging;
• carelessly dropped word, unethical behaviour;
• dispute; in business: nothing but differences;
• loss of speech or, conversely, palaver; difficulties with speech – stuttering, autism;
• suicide.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• intellectual gusto; haste, quick action or decision;
• speed; strength of intellectual mind;
• injustice.

Qualities: swiftness, speed, relentlessness, ruthlessness, objectivity. Rationality, intelligence, coldness, cruelty. Activity, heroism and fanaticism. Self-will and impatience. Cynicism and criticism.

Person: the one who only listens to his own opinion. Likes to debate and combat. Making unjust pain, cruel, cynical.

Head of revolutionaries, leader-bully, policeman, military man, combatant, assaulter.

Criminal element: killer, hooligan, racketeer or official person with whom it is difficult to agree.

Eventive meaning:

• haste;
• unexpected changes;
• destruction, brutality, attack (defence);
• heroic deeds;
• ill-will and coldness;
• risk and courage, valour;
• dispute, war, battle (in word or in deed);
• police and problems with it;
• discord, hostility between colleagues;
• anger, hatred, mockery in personal relations.

Reversed Son of Swords

Qualities: injustice. Imprudence, fanaticism and cruelty. Recklessness. Vindictiveness and ruthlessness.

Much anger and resentment.

Eventive meaning:

• revenge, game without rules;
• rushing headlong;
• war against mirages or windmills;
• loss, injury, murder;
• causing pain to others;
• error, rashness;
• stitch-up, racketeering, threats;
• injuries, fractures, violence - very bad card for the road;
• misfortunes and troubles (business, health, relationships, travel, training).

Tarot Card Meaning

• independence and coldness;
• acquisition of wisdom through intellect, severity, acuteness of mind, objectivity;
• self-discipline.

Qualities: impartiality, intelligence, prudence, reserve, austerity. Self-reliance, objectiveness, arrogance, unwillingness to forgive. Competence, honesty, independence and solitude, incorruptibility, perfectionism, idealism.

Person: official. Female leader.

Ruthless professional. Judge. Widow, spinster or divorced. Woman’s loneliness.

Professor, analyst, psychologist, lawyer or barrister. Doctor. Writer or intellectual, mathematician, schoolmistress, explorer, researcher.

Eventive meaning:

• considered and accurate response;
• intellectual distance;
• pain of loss, parting, loneliness, withdrawal from relationships, break-up;
• freedom through solitude;
• divorce and grief;
• cut off or suppress own feelings and emotions;
• exactingness and criticism in own expectations;
• naked truth;
• wise counsel, deliverance from dependence;
• poverty, lack of comfort, failure, coldness;
• snow storm;
• surgeries.

Reversed Queen of Swords

Qualities: anger, virulence, deceit, craft, vindictiveness.

Malevolence, slander. Cruelty and narrowness.

Eventive meaning:

• insult;
• wicked witch, black magic, evil eye and negative thoughts and influence, women's negative and destructive forces
• unsatisfied ambitions, overthrown ideals and unused abilities;
• suffering from loneliness, depression, self-destruction, heart diseases and despair;
• fear of being left alone or, conversely, withdrawal from the world into a monastery;
• problems with parting, letting go, death.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• strength of keen and accurate mind;
• law, high standards, rigid rules;
• strategy, decision-making based on logics, rationality, ethics and facts.

Qualities: impartiality, fairness, strict rules, coldness and harshness. Intellectualism, paralysis of the senses.

Person: arbiter of truth, judge, lawyer, regulatory body in his field.

Physician, surgeon. Hard authority, chief, military man, soldier. Politician. Psychologist-analyst. Specialist. Philosopher. Critic.

Eventive meaning:

• situation associated with law, jurisprudence, police, military men and negotiations;
• adhering to standards and schedules, self-discipline;
• surgical treatment, doctor's advice;
• clear instructions; high professionalism;
• dispassion, discipline and asceticism;
• evaluation;
• principle;
• secret service, military operations;
• competition in business, accusations;
• punishment.

Reversed King of Swords

Qualities: rigid strength bringing destruction. Inhumanity and steadfastness, lack of compassion and mind, lack of principles. Harsh discipline.

Eventive meaning:

• evil will bringing destructions;
• being brought to justice for anything;
• extortion, blackmail, injustice;
• threat to life, dirty showdowns;
• cruel and extravagant authority, cold-blooded criminal, tyrant;
• the end justifies the means;
• enemy fighting against rules;
• crime, trouble with law;
• prejudice instead of facts;
• loss in judicial area or business, unfavourable verdict;
• verdict, execution, appeal;
• persuasion of chief, dissident politics, actions against law or against established order of things;
• cruel father;
• sadism, perversity, perfidy;
• conflicts and upheavals.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• new opportunities in the sphere of achievement of material wealth;
• health, luck, good chance;
• benefit, profit, money;
• sexual satisfaction.

Qualities: blessedness, talent, favourable opportunities, luckiness.

Person: rich, talented. Banker, financier, magnate. Chief or big boss.

Eventive meaning:

• health, welfare and stability;
• increase in salary or profit, promotion at work;
• gift, present, opportunity, buried treasure;
• enjoyment with beauty and quietness;
• fruits of labour, harvest, award;
• charter of immunity, talisman;
• jewel, ornament;
• money, gold bars, achievement and attainment;
• happiness and satisfaction;
• ardent mutual passion and good sex;
• elixir of life, strength and success;
• conception;
• silence, secret; magnetism of personality.

Reversed Ace of Pentacles

Qualities: materialism, uncontrollability, greed, abundance.

Eventive meaning:

• huge benefits that are difficult to keep;
• squandering and connivance;
• wealth, insatiable need for money, greed;
• preoccupation with the material; obsession with the, health, food;
• shortage of funds, misuse of resources;
• delays, postponements, problems with payments;
• illegal money, slate club.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• multitasking;
• adaptation and flexibility;
• bustle and never-ending changes.

Qualities: absent-mindedness, confusion, anxiety, lack of consistency.

Person: merchant, stockbroker, travelling salesman, mediator. Circus actor, conjurer, pickpocket. Transvestite, actor. Showman, advertiser, journalist.

Eventive meaning:

• commerce, market fluctuations, stock exchange, shares, their rise and fall;
• currency exchange, money matters and paperwork;
• phone calls; arrangement of affairs, but on trifles;
• choosing between two opportunities, doing more things at the same time, serving two masters, arranging two sides of life, for example, combining career with family responsibilities;
• skill to manoeuvre in certain circumstances and to manipulate people;
• game, agility, light attitude towards life;
• accommodation;
• uncertainty, bustle, superficial communication; the card is unfavourable for launching new projects – instability and vanity;
• be in sight of public; yellow press;
• making money on the side, easy money.

Reversed Two of Pentacles

Qualities: languor, incoherence, weakness, laziness or haste resulting in missed opportunities.

Eventive meaning:

• delay, stagnation;
• bureaucracy, problems with money, vain efforts with papers;
• troubles and errors in execution of contracts and transactions, as well as official documents;
• theft;
• equipment breakdown and car crashes;
• silly information, gossips, speculation with information;
• inattention;
• work with papers or translations: a lot of information but money is scarce;
• business mailing, working as postman, running errands or courier;
• advertising, tickets, brochures, letters, Internet;
• manuscript and handwriting, forgery of documents;
• unfulfilled obligations.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• hired work; realisation of projects or successful work in one’s own profession;
• teamwork;
• development of skills, professionalism.

Qualities: mastery, skill, seriousness, activeness, mutual support, honesty.

Person: employee, officer, student, graduate.

Eventive meaning:

• assessment, criticism, constructive cooperation;
• professional consistency, self-improvement, creativity;
• examination, test, test of skill;
• artistic skills, apprenticeship at a master;
• master class, workshop;
• promotion of status, initiation, admission;
• well-passed examinations;
• drawing up or signing contracts.

Reversed Three of Pentacles

Qualities: inaccuracy, negligence, incompetence. Downward passage.

Eventive meaning:

• dismissal, loss of job, unemployment;
• poorly passed interview and refusals;
• non-professionalism, poor quality of work;
• workaholism, excessive workload;
• buried talent, slack working;
• negligence, delays, unserious attitude;
• critique;
• errors, breakdowns and defects in work;
• garbage;
• strikes, walkouts, sabotage;
• initiation in lower worlds of shamanism;
• basement, ground floor, cellar.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• material goods and power;
• hoarding, security, stabilisation of process;
• control and status.

Qualities: frugality, greed, selfishness, protection and preservation.

Person: miser, niggard, materialist, recluse, misanthrope. Guard, defender, collector.

Eventive meaning:

• stocks, collections, retention of funds;
• wealth and power (with painful Tarot Card meaning);
• lock;
• protection, armour, boundary, fence;
• greed and desire for material goods;
• inability to relax, suspiciousness and fear of being robbed;
• real estate, premises, houses, courtyards, land plots – something confined in walls or fences;
• comfort and stability;
• rootedness, earthling, stability;
• base, ground, root; foundation of business, enterprise;
• purchase of real estate.

Reversed Four of Pentacles

Qualities: detained, closed, uncontrollable and unsafe.

Eventive meaning:

• loss of money, dissatisfaction with material situation;
• changes and release;
• financial risk;
• abandonment of property;
• robbery, emergency situation at home;
• obstacles, stuck affairs, regression, hold-up, obstruction;
• prison, imprisonment, cell, pressure from outside;
• squandering and prodigality, uncontrollability;
• border, restrictions, customs, regulations, rules.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• crisis, loss of money and health;
• desolation, misery and hardship;
• sadness, loneliness and abandonment.

Qualities: anxiety, restlessness, painfulness, sorrow.

Person: sick, poor, needy.

Eventive meaning:

• bankruptcy, poverty, loss of home, homelessness;
• unemployment;
• energetic attack, vampirism;
• disease, chronic and exhausting;
• parting, separation;
• abjectness and inferiority;
• discouragement, losing all hope, believing in nothing, blaming everybody;
• malformations, intractable diseases;
• hunger, cold, vulnerability, nakedness;
• care for the sick;
• hospice, nursing home, poorhouse, centre of care of the diseased and victims.

Reversed Five of Pentacles

Qualities: fatigue, patience, humility, hope.

Eventive meaning:

• gradual inner appeasement;
• temporary improvement (but not recovery);
• small money through hard work, alms and charity;
• shelter;
• period of amnesty, return of aid and attention, reconciliation;
• shamanistic withdrawal (symptoms), trials through illness.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• generosity, assistance, support;
• well-being, prosperity, harmony and balance;
• cash flow.

Qualities: openness, honesty, kindness, sufficiency, generosity.

Person: sponsor, patron, protector, good partner and reliable friend, faithful and helping financially.

Eventive meaning:

• philanthropy, patronage;
• profits and higher wages, generous allocation of resources;
• assistance and support;
• gifts and distribution of money;
• domination and subordination;
• return of credits, loans, or, conversely, issuance of credits (depending on whose side you are on);
• heritage, winning in court, profit and success;
• interchange of goods and services;
• profitable bargain, contract, money transfer to your account;
• resources, ecology, metabolism;
• current events and processes.

Reversed Six of Pentacles

Qualities: squandering, hastiness, wasting, incorrectness.

Eventive meaning:

• grants that can spoil relations;
• losing money, exchange of true for false, losing, underselling;
• unfulfilled contracts and broken deals;
• having both debts and obligations while the other one has the rights only: balance is lost;
• greed takes precedence over honesty;
• debts, bad credits and overdue loans;
• prodigality, gaming away or wasting money or inheritance;
• refusal of charity;
• debts that will not be returned to you; following this card cannot take or give money on loan;
• microbes and infection; dirty hands.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• patience, hard and heavy work, constancy;
• difficulties and trials;
• inadequate efforts.

Qualities: heaviness, routine, responsibility, attentiveness, faith and patience.

Person: workaholic engaged in agriculture who monitors monetary funds. Accountant. Bookkeeper.

Eventive meaning:

• patiently waiting for the result;
• working hard;
• burying own talents in the ground; ignoring own success, being too modest;
• low self-esteem, unworthiness, frustration;
• low-born;
• monitoring the state of own finances, accounting;
• not getting what was counted for; bad harvest, small profit;
• unprofitability;
• gruelling labour for a pittance;
• unrealized hopes, unhappy marriage;
• care, maintenance, cultivation;
• expectation, delays, slow progress;
• problems with plantings and seedlings.

Reversed Seven of Pentacles

Qualities: joylessness, burden and strap, anxiety and suspicion.

Eventive meaning:

• damages, errors and failures;
• bad investments, fraud and bad deals, losses;
• difficulties, anxiety and suspicions are justified;
• problems at work; unprofitable enterprise which needs to be closed;
• rush job at work, depressing and hopeless labour; exploitation of people; slavery;
• depletion of resources, volume of work inadequate to capacities.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• order, prudence, thoroughness;
• training, improvement of skill, concentration;
• technology and beautification.

Qualities: attention, patience, control, perfection of skills. Obedience, neatness. Honesty and candour.

Person: ideal employee working without a murmur in silence. Diligently working without asking questions.

Eventive meaning:

• concentrated absorption in activities far away from vanities of the world;
• chastity and modesty;
• household or handicraft;
• skill, precision and expertise, scrupulosity;
• thesis, project, study;
• rehearsals, exercises, routine daily practices;
• schedule, practical matters, accounting, bookkeeping, plan, list;
• repeatability and predictability;
• care of health, sports, yoga, diet.

Reversed Eight of Pentacles

Qualities: depression, fatigue, lack of prospects.

Eventive meaning:

• dismissal, idle time;
• freebie, negligence;
• fatigue from work, routine;
• pointless and boring work;
• low-quality produce, errors, non-professionalism;
• unemployment;
• unpaid bills, pressure by creditors and problems with money;
• being in a vacuum;
• lack of experience or skill, unwillingness to learn.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• abundance, wealth, well-deserved fruits of labour;
• good health and financial position.

Qualities: refinement, luxury, beauty and status. Good taste, loneliness.

Person: man of integrity, self-contained and honest, disciplined person. Doctor, merchant, bioenergist (this card is also an indication of healers).

Eventive meaning:

• large purchases, land, property, as well as luxury and ornaments;
• valuable pieces of art, paintings, jewellery, elegant, ancient and beautiful things;
• self-sufficiency and self-development, remoteness from people, isolation;
• achievement, attainment, success (but as a consequence – loneliness and boredom);
• having everything but inner freedom and happiness;
• secrecy;
• promotion at work and advantageous proposal.

Reversed Nine of Pentacles

Qualities: ill-being, boredom, discomfort, displeasure.

Eventive meaning:

• big losses of both energy and money, big spending;
• threat to security, loss of pleasures and satisfaction;
• miscarriage, abortion, severe pregnancy with complications;
• bankruptcy;
• scandals and debauches due to abuse of alcohol;
• in relation: conflicts with children, greed, avarice;
• urge for change of place, desire to break out of habitual environment;
• robbery, fraud and deception;
• obesity, excessive consumption of food - overweight.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• material and family values that can make a man happy;
• feeling as a part of the whole, inner fullness and satisfaction;
• clan, family, love of children and relatives.

Qualities: fullness, invulnerability and safety. Grace.

Person: banker, head of large organization. Grandfather. Ancestor and all ancestors of the kin. Benefactor.

Eventive meaning:

• bank, big organisation and corporation;
• big monetary investment, big profit;
• strict hierarchy and order;
• protection of tribal egregore; family, values of kin and family, heritage;
• very large business, investing money into circulation;
• real property: houses and land;
• trial by well-being;
• traditions of family and community; spirit of ancestors; genetic heritage; genealogy, wisdom of generations;
• archive, metrics, documents on family tree;
• drawing up a will or insuring the welfare of descendants;
• fidelity to the roots, community, business; patriotism;
• elderly parents and care for them;
• pension, retirement;
• home;
• deposits and savings.

Reversed Ten of Pentacles

Qualities: detachment, material concern, risk, mindlessness, rowdiness.

Eventive meaning:

• denial of traditions, overthrowing the foundations of society and family;
• escape, alienation and withdrawal from affairs of the company, clan, family;
• feud, quarrels in family;
• deprivation of inheritance, assistance or other benefits;
• burying own talents; ignoring a wise and valuable advice;
• primitive materialism;
• big spending and financial losses; loss of business, dismissal from a high position;
• genetic diseases;
• gambling, material debts;
• robbery; taxes.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• wish to create, learn and master skills;
• health, body, connection with nature;
• promising opportunity; messages and parcels.

Qualities: practicality, earthiness, development, phlegm, persistence, sensitivity.

Person: student, quick learner. Child (attentive, diligent, with pragmatic mindset), young girl wishing to express her creative origins, persistent and purposeful.

Eventive meaning:

• studying something new, beginning of a professional career;
• the course of process or experiment; collecting the empirical data;
• nature, seeds, herbs, planting; mushrooming, herborizing;
• care of health, physical body;
• pregnancy, conception, good health;
• hedonism, emotional security and stability;
• favourable moment, promising opportunities;
• friendly relations.

Reversed Daughter of Pentacles

Qualities: illogical actions and thoughts, impracticality.

Eventive meaning:

• wool-gathering, foolishness, inability to assess what you have;
• errors and problems in process because of these errors;
• bad news, small losses;
• fruitlessness in all aspects;
• squandering, money problems;
• threat of miscarriage;
• unlucky opportunity to earn money.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• activities for the sake of material interests, practicality, responsibility, persistence, perseverance and endurance;
• common sense;
• medical treatment; stabilisation (in relation to treatment or job) at the expense of efforts;
• favourably developing circumstances; monetary investments and attractive proposals;
• the card also representsw health, inborn sensuality, desire for reliability and stable relations.

Qualities: caution, responsibility, concentration, diligence and perseverance, endurance, perseverance. Pragmatism, materialism, self-confidence, realism, fidelity.

Person: man of action, speaks little, does much. This is a student who studied diligently and became a master, a realist, saving and making profitable investments. Patient and practical. Trustworthy, master in his craft. Reliable.

Eventive meaning:

• useful actions in the name of something (business, health), estimate of own forces, preparation of business plan, signature of contract, purchase of real estate;
• usefulness, practicality, benefit and profit;
• pushing the matter through, working on the project, service and keeping own word;
• financial investments, preservation of resources;
• achieving success through perseverance, will and mind;
• recovery, appetite, sensuality, proper nutrition, physical exercises;
• journey by land, bus, train, car.

Reversed Knight of Pentacles

Qualities: inertia, stubbornness and obsession with the material (money, own body, own health). Greed and lack of confidence in own strength. Laziness, indifference, irresponsibility, unreliability, narrow-mindedness, intolerance.

Eventive meaning:

• not worth hoping for solution of problem in near future;
• monotony and fatigue at work;
• sluggishness and overweight, apathy and indifference, clinging to the old, stagnation and hopelessness;
• unemployment, idleness, lethargy;
• man of the street;
• errors and inflexibility, failures in business, financial losses and bankruptcy, stagnation and no prospects;
• alcoholism, missed chances and opportunities, vain waste of time and efforts;
• lack of purpose, meaninglessness;
• diseases.

Tarot Card Meaning

• vitality, flow of cosmic energy, enhancement of strength and energy of libido;
• material stability and material aspirations, fertility, maternal power.

Qualities: kindness, peace, tranquillity, family stability. Safety. Self-expression, practical view, establishing a clear basis and clear boundaries. Reliability, patience and sensuality.

Persistence and consistency. Self-confidence. Hospitality.

Magnanimity and generosity. Prosperity.

Person: mature and experienced woman. Mother of family, mistress. Mature, sexy and sensual. Caring about the household, children or business.

Eventive meaning:

• fruits of labour, business bringing dividends;
• preservation of resources, economic stability, corporate management;
• medical treatment, recovery;
• enjoyment with comfort and prestige;
• luxury and wealth;
• desire to create a family, pregnancy;
• decorative and applied arts;
• precious object, universal human values;
• adherence to standards, monitoring the proper implementation; tradition, decoration;
• provision of children and everyday life.

Reversed Queen of Pentacles

Qualities: mismanagement, irritability, lack of strength and energy. Squandering or inability to dispose of material resources. Hysteria and fanaticism. Sinking into the material. Confusion and indecision. Possessiveness towards children and close people. Clinging to life. Vindictiveness and authoritativeness. Fear of deprivation.

Eventive meaning:

• losing firm ground, exhaustion of energy;
• illness;
• infidelity and suspiciousness;
• non-payment of debts, unproductive situation at work;
• infertility.

Tarot Card Meaning:

• growth and prosperity, practicality and permanence;
• strong foundation.

Qualities: confidence, solidity, patronage, conservatism and traditionalism. Fidelity and devotion. Practicality. Endurance and earthiness.

Person: breadwinner, father. Patriarch. Protecting the family and traditional values. Respectable and honourable man.

Banker or businessman managing the cash flow. Owner and manager of real estate. Wealthy gentleman. Deal master.

This card may designate both a physician and healer who heals the physical body.

Eventive meaning:

• quality of goods; pushing the matter through;
• sensuality and love of luxury and rich life with all its five-star pleasures; abundance;
• love for life and earth, comfort and safety;
• experience and expertise in money management; dealing with finance and the market;
• financial provision;
• work for money;
• good health;
• directing attention to health, body and sports;
• points to dedication in love.

Reversed King of Pentacles

Qualities: vicious, offended, manipulating with people due to his influence and money.

Denotes stinginess and shameless exploitation. Violence against people. Arrogance. Greed. Impudence. Possessiveness and jealousy. Envy. Dullness and heaviness. Dogmatism.

Eventive meaning:

• devastation and exploitation of resources and people; dirty methods: corruption, avarice, dishonest ways; ambition and die-hard;
• may denote bankruptcy, loss of firm ground or debt pit;
• loss of money, cares about home and property, problems with taxes and real estate;
• inability to manage; destruction of well-being;
• intemperance in food and alcohol.