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
0. The Fool
Normal
Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment
Reversed
Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity
1. The Magician
Normal
Skill, diplomacy, address, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, self-confidence, will
Reversed
Physician, Magus, mental illness, disgrace, disquiet
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.
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.
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.
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.
6.The Lovers
Normal
Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Reversed
Failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustration and contrarieties of all kinds.
7. The Chariot
Normal
Succor, providence also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.
Reversed
Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
8. Strength
Normal
Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity.
Reversed
Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord.
9. The Hermit
Normal
Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.
Reversed
Reversed – concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
10. Wheel of Fortune
Normal
Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.
Reversed
Increase, abundance, superfluity.
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.
12.The Hanged Man
Normal
Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.
Reversed
Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17. The Star
Normal
Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says-hope and bright prospects.
Reversed
Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.
18. The Moon
Normal
Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Reversed
Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.
19. The Sun
Normal
Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Reversed
The same in a lesser sense.
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.
21. The World
Normal
Assured success, voyage, route, emigration. flight, change of place.
Reversed
Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.