Emperor
In the Health position
Hidden health; physical and emotional.
Meaning: Father figure. Habits and strategies
creating success and results. Authority
and domination. Defense and protection.
Established rules. Asserting boundaries when needed and moving them when necessity calls for it. Self-possession and, above all things, self-control.
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Ace of Pentacles
In the Health position
Visible health; physical and emotional.
Meaning: A windfall of money. An opportunity bearing fruit appears. A new idea leading
through a gate of possibility. What you need shows up. You see the forest for the trees. An appreciation of nature. Dynamically living inside the body.
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Seven of Pentacles
In the Attitude position
Hidden mental attitude.
Meaning: Results are seen. Things move rapidly according to plan. Stop and reassess.
Reconsider the final goal. Rest is needed. Your head clears upon waking.
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Hermit
In the Attitude position
Visible mental attitude.
Meaning: Silence. Space. Thought. Sequester.
Meditation. Curiosity. Questioning. Removing yourself from the noise of everyday life. Inner knowledge cultivated by personal investigation. Acute listening to the universe inside of you.
Sharing wisdom with others. Leading by
example.
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Six of Swords
In the Relationships position
Hidden relationships.
Meaning: Theft. Escape—but at what cost? Treason. Rescue. Better times lie ahead. Travel, voyage, and passage. A new beginning. Emotional waters and the connective depth
between people.
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Ace of Cups - Reversed
In the Relationships position
Visible relationships.
Meaning: An inability to experience emotions.
Feeling closed off. Held hostage by recurrent emotions. Lack of empathy. Chemical imbalance. Depression. Slave to emotions. Extreme remorse and sadness. Despair. Melancholia that won't dissipate. Take any emotion you feel and bring it out of your body and into the mind's eye. Examine it. Learn from it.
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The Lovers - Reversed
In the Career position
Hidden career.
Meaning: Obsession and compulsion over a romantic object of desire. Attachment to the point of mania. Desperation. Refusal to let a
relationship end. Sex addict. Repeated abusive patterns in romantic entanglements.
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Knight of Cups
In the Career position
Visible career.
Meaning: Romance. Sweet nothings. Charming nature. Romantic messages are on the way. Poetry and prose. Passionate suitor. Dazzling display of affection.
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Nine of Swords
In the Spirit position
Hidden spiritual path.
Meaning: A slave to mental agony. Obsessivecompulsive thinking. Wakefulness and distress. Anxiety over self-worth. Guilt and shame over who you are. Feeling like a failure. Worry and stress.
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King of Cups - Reversed
In the Spirit position
Visible spiritual path.
Meaning: Emotionally manipulative. Egomaniac.
Pathological liar. A person able to prey on the emotions of others and create distraction and destruction for their own personal benefit. Emotionally immature. Giant inequities masked by false stories and fairness. Deep-seeded fear and disgust of the self.
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Ten of Swords
In the Outcome position
Outcome of the present path.
Meaning: The cycle has ended. Destructive thoughts and patterns no longer hold you
hostage. Everything you clung to in order to define yourself, even dark, negative things, is gone as the cycle completes. This death, above all others, leads to the new emergence of your soul, possibilities, and a new narrative.
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