All | The Fool | The Magician | The High Priestess | The Empress | The Emperor | The Hierophant | The Lovers | The Chariot | Strength | The Hermit | Wheel of Fortune | Justice | The Hanged Man | Death | Temperance | The Devil | The Tower | The Star | The Moon | The Sun | The Last Judgment | The World
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0. The Fool
Normal
Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment
Reversed
Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity
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1. The Magician
Normal
Skill, diplomacy, address, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, self-confidence, will
Reversed
Physician, Magus, mental illness, disgrace, disquiet
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2. The High Priestess
Normal
Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent herself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science.
Reversed
Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.
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3. The Empress
Normal
Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Reversed
Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation.
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4. The Emperor
Normal
Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will.
Reversed
Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
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5. The Hierophant
Normal
Marriage alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness; inspiration; the man to whom the Querent has recourse.
Reversed
society, good understanding, concord, over-kindness, weakness.
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6.The Lovers
Normal
Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Reversed
Failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustration and contrarieties of all kinds.
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7. The Chariot
Normal
Succor, providence also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.
Reversed
Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
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8. Strength
Normal
Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity.
Reversed
Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord.
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9. The Hermit
Normal
Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.
Reversed
Reversed – concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
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10. Wheel of Fortune
Normal
Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.
Reversed
Increase, abundance, superfluity.
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11. Justice
Normal
Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.
Reversed
Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
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12.The Hanged Man
Normal
Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.
Reversed
Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
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13. Death
Normal
End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.
Reversed
Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.
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14. Temperance
Normal
Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.
Reversed
Things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood, sometimes even the priest who will marry the Querent; also disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.
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15. The Devil
Normal
Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil.
Reversed
Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
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16. The Tower
Normal
Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of an unforeseen catastrophe.
Reversed
According to one account, the same in a lesser degree also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.
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17. The Star
Normal
Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says-hope and bright prospects.
Reversed
Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.
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18. The Moon
Normal
Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Reversed
Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.
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19. The Sun
Normal
Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Reversed
The same in a lesser sense.
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20.The Last Judgment
Normal
Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit.
Reversed
Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.
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21. The World
Normal
Assured success, voyage, route, emigration. flight, change of place.
Reversed
Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.