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Tarot Cheat Sheet

Major Arcana

{0 - The Fool} Unexpected opportunity, major choice.

{I - The Magician} You have the ability you need to succeed, mastery.

{II - The High Priestess} Intuition, secrets to be revealed, unexplored potential.

{III - The Empress} Nurturing to full potential, marriage, motherhood.

{IV - The Emperor} Ambition, authority, financial stability, achievement.

{V - The Hierophant} Traditional values, a wise person provides guidance.

{VI - The Lovers} Love relationship, perhaps love choices.

{VII - The Chariot} Triumph over difficulties, strength of will needed.

{VIII - Strength} Gentleness with inner strength and courage.

{IX - The Hermit} Withdrawal for contemplation, inner wisdom.

{X - The Wheel of Fortune} Change of fortune, a new cycle commencing, progress.

{XI - Justice} Fairness, the need for a balanced mind, legal matters.

{XII - The Hanged Man} Understanding, different perspective, self sacrifice.

{XIII - Death} Major change, transformation, death.

{XIV - Temperance} Patience, moderation, compromise, balance, healing.

{XV - The Devil} Manipulation, overindulgence, self enslavement.

{XVI - The Tower} Destruction of something built upon false beliefs.

{XVII - The Star} Hope, healing, optimism, better times ahead.

{XVIII - The Moon} Uncertainty, illusion, fluctuating, emotions, unseen depth.

{XIX - The Sun} Success, happiness, good health, happy marriage.

{XX - Judgment} Renewal, revival, reward for efforts, karma.

{XXI - The World} Triumph and achievement, success, happiness.

Minor Arcana | WANDS - Fire

{Ace} New venture or way of life, pregnancy or birth.

{Two} Initial accomplishment, possible partnership.

{Three} Completion of first stage of project, progress.

{Four} Stability, holidays, marriage plans.

{Five} Conflict, quarreling, competition.

{Six} Success, achievement, promotions.

{Seven} Defending position, overcoming obstacles.

{Eight} Fast progress after delays, travel.

{Nine} Perseverance: pull reserves together for final push.

{Ten} Feeling overburdened or weary, determination required.

{Page} Good news work related, active cheerful child.

{Knight} Change of home, long journey, energetic young man.

{Queen} Warm cheerful woman always very busy.

{King} Entrepreneurial dynamic man who can be rash.

Minor Arcana | CUPS - Water

{Ace} New relationship, new start that brings happiness for all at home.

{Two} Important union, balance in a relationship, reconciliation.

{Three} Happiness and achievement, wedding/family celebrations.

{Four} Boredom and discontent.

{Five} Feelings of disappointment, let down, betrayal, regrets.

{Six} Happiness from the past, old friends, an old love revived.

{Seven} Feeling overwhelmed with choices: one must be made, imagination.

{Eight} Abandoning a path, disillusionment, emotionally unfulfilled.

{Nine} The “wish” card, emotional, material fulfillment.

{Ten} Committed and contented love, marriage, happy home life.

{Page} Happy news: emotional nature, sensitive creative child.

{Knight} Love proposals, romantic idealistic young man.

{Queen} Kind thoughtful sensitive woman with caring nature.

{King} Warm thoughtful man in the caring or creative professions.

Minor Arcana | SWORDS - Air

{Ace} Triumph over adversity, inner strength, mental clarity.

{Two} Stalemate.

{Three} Quarreling, misery through separation.

{Four} Rest and recovery following strain.

{Five} Deceit, hidden agenda, unfair dealings.

{Six} Harmony after strain, long journey over water.

{Seven} Diplomacy: not aggression, situation not going as anticipated.

{Eight} Feeling restricted by fear, being withdrawn.

{Nine} Sense of anxiety and despair, feelings of oppression.

{Ten} Disappointment, end of cycle, failed plans.

{Page} Delayed/disappointing news, minor problems with a child.

{Knight} Swift movement, chaotic, quick minded serious young man.

{Queen} Perceptive efficient no nonsense type lady.

{King} Man in uniform connected to law, government, etc.

Minor Arcana | PENTACLES - Earth

{Ace} Start of successful venture, important document, gift.

{Two} Maintaining balance with more than one area of life.

{Three} Success through effort, gains and recognition.

{Four} Overly cautious, fear of loss, material focus.

{Five} Temporary hardship, guard against loss.

{Six} Successful gains, sharing, gift.

{Seven} Work and patience rewarded, good new financially.

{Eight} New job, moneymaking venture from existing talent.

{Nine} Financial success and material security.

{Ten} Financial and family stability, property, inheritance.

{Page} Good news: financially, academic methodical child.

{Knight} Eventual positive outcome, reliable young man.

{Queen} Woman of worth who is capable and practical.

{King} Successful man who works with finance/figures.

What your headache is tellin you

Barbara Walker - The Double-Triadic Hexagram, “The I Ching of the Goddess”, 1986. The original Triangle stood for the Goddess’s Trinity of Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer, she of a thousand names, such as Maya the birth-giving Virgin, Durga the preserving Mother, and Kali Ma the Death-dealing Crone. Her primary symbol was a downward-pointing Triangle, the Yoni Yantra, sometimes called Kali Yantra. This represented a Vulva (Sanskrit yoni), and femaleness in general: by extension, a womb, motherhood, female sexuality, the Life Spirit embodied in menstrual blood, or the world-activating power of the Goddess herself. The same symbol stood for ‘woman’ and ‘Goddess’ among ancient Egyptians, pre-Hellenic Greeks, Tantric Buddhists, and the gypsies who migrated westward from Hindustan. The primordial female Triangle became a male-female Hexagram by eight stages, graphically represented as follows. Figure 1 - At first there was only the Goddess alone, containing within herself all the elements in a fluid, unformed state. Figure 2 - With the passage of ages and by her will, eventually a spark of Life was formed within her core, represented by a dot. Tantric sages called this spark the Bindu, and one of the Goddess’s titles was Bindumati, Mother of the Bindu. Among Cabalists it became Bina, the Womb of Earth. Figure 3 - The Bindu grew and slowly became a separate being within the Mother, though it still lay wholly inside her borders. At this early stage of the Divine Creation, Darkness (the God) was still enveloped in a greater Darkness (his Mother). The God was still one with the author of his being, Maha-Kali, the Great Power. Figure 4 - At the fourth stage, the God was Born. Represented by an upward-pointing Triangle - which often symbolized the masculine principle of Fire - the God broke through the boundaries of the Primordial maternal Triangle. Here, at the moment of ‘Birth,’ the idea of the male Deity was conveyed by three solid lines, while that of the female Deity became three broken lines. Thus was the design taken apart, and its components utilized as Trigrams and Hexagrams in the I Ching. Figure 5 - Male and female Triangles, one separated, came together again in a very ancient figure that later rounded off to the Mathematical Symbol of Infinity in so-called Arabic Numerals, which were actually Hindu in origin. The two Tangential Circles or teardrop shapes of this sign meant the same as two Tangential Triangles: the two sexes in contact. The female Triangle above now took on the aspect of a nourishing breast, while the male received her nourishment. Figure 6 - Tantric yogis continued to hold that sexual union in true love was an intimation of Divinity, giving the partners a sense of merging ‘like pouring of water into water’. Similarly in Egypt, the Goddess and her God were represented by vessels of water, their conjunction by a combination of the two waters, as in the Sacred Talisman known as Menat. In the Middle East, a Sacrificial God was preceded by a vessel of water in procession to his place of Execution, a tradition that was followed even in the story of Jesus. Like Shiva, the Christian God also was born of the same Mother on whom, as a Divine spouse, he begot himself. Figure 7 - By penetrating each other to the farthest boundary, God and Goddess formed between them the ancient Tantric Symbol of the World, a Diamond, flanked by four new Triangles that were assimilated to the Elements, the four directions, the four corners of the Earth (when the Earth was supposed to be square), the four winds, the four divisions of the Zodiac, the four Sons of Horus, or the Norsemen’s related Spirits of north, east, south, and west that upheld the Heavens. All these ideas could be expressed in a simple glyph of six lines. Figure 8 - Finally, the ultimate interpenetration was shown by the full Hexagram. Male and female principles extended even beyond each other’s boundaries, becoming ‘One’ in sixfold Symmetry. This was the Union proposed by Cabalists as well as Tantric sages: the symbol of Eeternal Conception and Re-Creation. This was the hidden reason for the Rabbinic traditions claiming that the Ark of the Covenant contained male and female images sexually joined, ‘in the form of a Hexagram,’ and that the triple six of Solomon’s golden talents represented the king’s sexual union with his goddess, who gave him his great Wisdom. This explains also the early Christian’s horror of the sixfold symbol of Aphrodite, similarly united with Hermes as the first ‘Hermaphrodite,’ and their insistence that three sixes made a Devilish Number (666) and six was the ‘Number of Sin’.  The ultimate absorption of the God into the Yoni Yantra (Goddess) was his Immolation, usually conceived as a voluntary Sacrifice of his Life for Salvation of the Earthly World, which needed the Life-Force inherent in Divine Blood. As Kali the Destroyer, the Goddess devoured her consort and returned to the original solitary female form of the Yantra (Fig. 1). Thus the Cycles of Creation and Destruction were carried on throughout the Life of the Universe.

From Kladderadatsch, 1942.

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Why hasn’t anyone told me this?

Black Thread: A Witch’s Best Friend

I’ve met a lot of Witch’s from numerous backgrounds who have only ever used black thread as a means of keeping things out (black being a color for banishing negativity and numerous other bad spirits and mojo)

After listening to one friend describe how she used black string as a banishing agent for her windows WITHOUT first cleansing her house, it occurred to me how many of us don’t think about it keep bad things IN.

In short, I’ve started using it on curse objects and anything I use to absorb bad luck or anything of the like. For instance, if you are burying a box at the crossroads, tie it up in black thread to keep the bad or good inside and keep anything else out. You can even tie off your box of Witchy things with black string or thread to keep the good in ad the bad out. Or if you curse a poppet for future use and need to keep it in your witch box wrap it up in thread to keep it from tainting everything else in your box :)

Just a thought is all. :)