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Tarot Meanings
The Major Arcana
The Fool represents folly, thoughtlessness, lack of discipline, and frivolity. He also is lightheartedness, hope, adventure, optimism, and the subconscious mind.
The Magician is creativity, skill, abilities, self-reliance, strength of will, and determination. But, he can also represent trickery, deceit, and misuse of power.
The High Priestess represents knowledge, wisdom, understanding, serenity, intuition, and teaching. However, she can also be cold, hidden, and selfish.
The Empress is fertility, abundance, mother, sister, wife, marriage, and children. Her negative side can be overprotection, infidelity, and vanity. She also is the Earth Mother.
The Emperor is authority, traditional male success, wealth, fatherhood, business success, and confidence; but, he can be lack of control, tyranny, dominance, and abuse of power.
The Heirophant is the male spiritual rule on Earth and a teacher. He represents mercy, understanding, kindness, and spiritual power. He can be overly dogmatic and controlling.
The Lovers -- True love is harmony and perfection in feelings and romance, whether sacred or profane. But, this card can also mean the struggle between the two and fickleness.
The Chariot represents the overcoming {or failure to} of troubles and turmoil. He is also success, progress, and movement forward - the control of inner energies OR lack of.
Strength is strong and has courage and fortitude, though sometimes, she can be weak, petty, and tempted. She, also, is heroism.
The Hermit is wisdom, prudence, and movement towards spiritual goals. Nevertheless, he can be overly cautious or foolish. He can look at one's self and be wise, open, and truthful.
The Wheel of Fortune can mean unexpected good fortune but just as easily can mean bad luck depending on the cards surrounding it or depending on your own creativity or folly.
Justice is evil avoided, balance, reasonableness, objectivity, impartiality, and fair outcomes. When she is blinded, she can be imprudent, overly hasty, and rash.
The Hanged Man is transformation, improvements, and sacrifice without immediate award but he is serene and changing. Don't make unnecessary efforts and refuse to change.
Death represents unexpected change{s}, transformation, and spiritual rebirth. He can mean narrowly avoiding a serious accident, destruction without renewal, or reincarnation. It's important to understand that this card does not mean yours or another's death.
Temperance is moderation, patience, harmony between material and spiritual, and frugality. If ignored, she represents arguments, conflicts, over-indulgence, and hostilities.
The Devil can mean death! The Devil represents ominous events, downfall, failure, and disaster. Heeding Tarot's advice turns this card's meaning around or away - overcoming of handicaps and the first steps to enlightenment. He can mean co-dependency.
The Tower means sudden and complete change, disruption, loss, and many setbacks. Nevertheless, rebuilding can occur. This card can also represent excessive ambition.
The Star brings success, bright prospects, hope, new opportunities, satisfaction, and pleasure. Don't allow yourself to be influenced by pessimism and stubbornness.
The Moon is a card of warning. Hone your abilities to see false friends and falsehoods. Then success will be yours. Also, the Moon represents women's wisdom and intuition.
The Sun is success, attainment, happiness, accomplishment, love, joy, and even marriage. Sometimes, it means a lost friend, or a broken engagement. Rarely, the Sun means riches.
Judgement represents "repent and forgive" - rejuvenation and improvement. Without harmony/balance, this card means delay or disappointment. It also means a legal judgement in your favour.
The World means fulfillment, triumph, goals achieved, completion, success, and perfection. It can mean disappointment or a lack of completion. Often, the World represents travel.
The Minor Arcana
Swords {spades}, air elements, represent difficulties, challenges, conflicts; and strength
Ace - a new cycle/beginning, breakthrough, sudden resolution, triumph
Two - faith {possibly blind}, trust, balance in good advice given and received
Three - heartbreak, sorrow, delay, disappointment-keep communications open
Four - recuperation, solitude, respite, lifting of tensions-move with the flow of events
Five - loss, parting of the ways, humiliation, defeat-move away and forward
Six - resolution, success-avoid pessimism-possible journey by water
Seven - uncertainty, possible sacrifices/failure {sadly, often caused by others}
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