Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 45 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Four The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb. "Divinatory Meanings": Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last th...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 44 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Three Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind. "Divinatory Meanings": Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Zero : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 0 ZERO THE FOOL With light step, as if earth and its trammels had little power to restrain him, a young man in gorgeous vestments pauses at the brink of a precipice among the great heights of the world; he...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 53 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Queen Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 07 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Nine A goodly personage has feasted to his heart's content, and abundant refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 10 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Knight Graceful, but not warlike; riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet, referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes characterize this card. He too is a dreamer, but the images...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 19 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Seven A young man on a craggy eminence brandishing a staff; six other staves are raised towards him from below. "Divinatory Meanings": It is a card of valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking one...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xvii : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XVII THE STAR A great, radiant star of eight rays, surrounded by seven lesser stars--also of eight rays. The female figure in the foreground is entirely naked. Her left knee is on the land and her right foot...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 03 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Five A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to a small keep or holding. "Divanatory Meanings": It is a card...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 14 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Two A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore; he holds a globe in his right hand, while a staff in his left rests on the battlement; another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross...
Part I. The Veil And Its Symbols. Secti : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 4 THE TAROT IN HISTORY Our immediate next concern is to speak of the cards in their history, so that the speculations and reveries which have been perpetuated and multiplied in the schools of occult research may...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 40 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Queen The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 49 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Nine One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation. "Divinatory Meanings": Death, failure...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xii : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XII THE HANGED MAN The gallows from which he is suspended forms a "Tau" cross, while the figure--from the position of the legs--forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 57 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 9 THE METHOD OF READING BY MEANS OF THIRTY-FIVE CARDS When the reading is over, according to the scheme set forth in the last method, it may happen-as in the previous case-that something remains doubtful, or it...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 56 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], BIBLIOGRAPHY A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CHIEF WORKS DEALING WITH THE TAROT AND ITS CONNEXIONS As in spite of its modest pretensions, this monograph is, so far as I am aware, the first attempt to provide...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 48 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Seven A man in the act of carrying away five swords rapidly; the two others of the card remain stuck in the ground. A camp is close at hand. "Divinatory Meanings": Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence;...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 15 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Three A calm, stately personage, with his back turned, looking from a cliff's edge at ships passing over the sea. Three staves are planted in the ground, and he leans slightly on one of them. "Divinatory...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 11 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Queen Beautiful, fair, dreamy--as one who sees visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream. "Divinatory Meanings": Good, fair...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Vii : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], VII THE CHARIOT An erect and princely figure carrying a drawn sword and corresponding, broadly speaking, to the traditional description which I have given in the first part. On the shoulders of the victorious...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xv : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XV THE DEVIL The design is an accommodation, mean or harmony, between several motives mentioned in the first part. The Horned Goat of Mendes, with wings like those of a bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 52 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Knight He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 58 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 8 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF READING THE TAROT CARDS Shuffle the entire pack and turn some of the cards round, so as to invert their tops. Let them be cut by the Querent with his left hand. Deal out the first...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 46 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Five A disdainful man looks after two retreating and dejected figures. Their swords lie upon the ground. He carries two others on his left shoulder, and a third sword is in his right hand, point to earth...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 05 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Seven Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit. "Divinatory Meanings": Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Secti. Part 02 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PART II THE DOCTRINE BEHIND THE VEIL 1 THE TAROT AND SECRET TRADITION THE Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 42 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Ace A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown. "Divinatory Meanings": Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xx : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XX THE LAST JUDGMENT I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character. The great angel is here encompassed by clouds, but he blows...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 54 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Ace The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Secti : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 2 THE TRUMPS MAJOR AND THEIR INNER SYMBOLISM
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Iii : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], III THE EMPRESS A stately figure, seated, having rich vestments and royal aspect, as of a daughter of heaven and earth. Her diadem is of twelve stars, gathered in a cluster. The symbol of Venus is on the shield...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 09 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Page A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form. "Divinatory Meanings": Fair...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. I : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], I THE MAGICIAN A youthful figure in the robe of a magician, having the countenance of divine Apollo, with smile of confidence and shining eyes. Above his head is the mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit, the sign...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 17 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Five A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the "Divinatory Meanings": Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 13 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Ace A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club. "Divinatory Meanings": Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, orig...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Vi : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], VI THE LOVERS The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences. In the foreground are two human figures, male and female, unveiled before each other...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 50 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Ten A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card. "Divinatory Meanings": Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 25 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Queen The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality corresponds to that of the King, but is more magnetic...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xviii : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XVIII THE MOON The distinction between this card and some of the conventional types is that the moon is increasing on what is called the side of mercy, to the right of the observer. It has sixteen chief...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 62 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 4 SOME ADDITIONAL MEANINGS OF THE LESSER ARCANA WANDS. "King".--Generally favourable may signify a good marriage. "Reversed": Advice that should be followed. Queen.--A good harvest, which may be taken in several...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 21 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Nine The figure leans upon his staff and has an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy. Behind are eight other staves--erect, in orderly disposition, like a palisade. "Divinatory Meanings": The card...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 29 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Ace A hand--issuing, as usual, from a cloud--holds up a pentacle. "Divinatory Meanings": Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold. "Reversed": The evil side of wealth, bad...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 37 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Ten A man and woman beneath an archway which gives entrance to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs accosting an ancient personage seated...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 33 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Five Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement. "Divinatory Meanings": The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated--that is, destitution--or otherwise...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Ii : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], II THE HIGH PRIESTESS She has the lunar crescent at her feet, a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place, and a large solar cross on her breast. The scroll in her hands is inscribed with...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 27 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 2. THE LESSER ARCANA OTHERWISE, THE FOUR SUITS OF TAROT CARDS, will now be described according to their respective classes by the pictures to each belonging, and a harmony of their meanings will be provided...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 39 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Knight He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein. "Divinatory Meanings": Utility, serviceableness, interest...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 60 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 6 THE ART OF TAROT DIVINATION We come now to the final and practical part of this division of our subject, being the way to consult and obtain oracles by means of Tarot cards. The modes of operation are rather...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xvi : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XVI THE TOWER Occult explanations attached to this card are meagre and mostly disconcerting. It is idle to indicate that it depicts min in all its aspects, because it bears this evidence on the surface. It is...
Part I. The Veil And Its Symbols. Secti. Part 03 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CLASS I 2 TRUMPS MAJOR OTHERWISE, GREATER ARCANA 1. "The Magus, Magician, or juggler", the caster of the dice and mountebank, in the world of vulgar trickery. This is the "colportage" interpretation, and it h...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 23 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Page In a scene similar to the former, a young man stands in the act of proclamation. He is unknown but faithful, and his tidings are strange. "Divinatory Meanings": Dark young man, faithful, a lover...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 35 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Eight An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies. "Divinatory Meanings": Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 31 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Six A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 22 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Ten A man oppressed by the weight of the ten staves which he is carrying. "Divinatory Meanings": A card of many significances, and some of the readings cannot be harmonized. I set aside that which connects...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 61 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 5 THE RECURRENCE OF CARDS IN DEALING In The Natural Position 4 Kings = great honour; 3 Kings = consultation; 2 Kings = minor counsel. 4 Queens = great debate; 3 Queens = deception by women; 2 Queens = sincere...
Part I. The Veil And Its Symbols. Secti. Part 02 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CLASS II 3 THE FOUR SUITS OTHERWISE, LESSER ARCANA The resources of interpretation have been lavished, if not exhausted, on the twenty-two Trumps Major, the symbolism of which is unquestionable. There rem...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Ix : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], IX THE HERMIT The variation from the conventional models in this card is only that the lamp is not enveloped partially in the mantle of its bearer, who blends the idea of the Ancient of Days with the Light...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 38 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Page A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him. "Divinatory Meanings": Application, study...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 26 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], THE SUIT OF WANDS King The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 30 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Two A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed. "Divinatory Meanings": On the one hand it is...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Three Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another. "Divinatory Meanings": The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 34 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Seven A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 20 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Eight The card represents motion through the immovable-a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even...
Introduction : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PREFACE IT seems rather of necessity than predilection in the sense of "apologia" that I should put on record in the first place a plain statement of my personal position, as one who for many years of literary...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 63 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 3 THE GREATER ARCANA AND THEIR DIVINATORY MEANINGS Such are the intimations of the Lesser Arcana in respect of divinatory art, the veridic nature of which seems to depend on an alternative that it may be...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xxi : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XXI THE WORLD As this final message of the Major Trumps is unchanged--and indeed unchangeable--in respect of its design, it has been partly described already regarding its deeper sense. It represents also...
Part I. The Veil And Its Symbols. Secti. Part 04 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PART I THE VEIL AND ITS SYMBOLS 1 INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL THE pathology of the poet says that "the undevout astronomer is mad"; the pathology of the very plain man says that genius is mad; and between these...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 24 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Knight He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids. The motion of the horse is a key to the character of its...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 32 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Four A crowned figure, having a pentacle over his crown, clasps another with hands and arms; two pentacles are under his feet. He holds to that which he has. "Divinatory Meanings": The surety...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Iv : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], IV THE EMPEROR He has a form of the "Crux ansata" for his sceptre and a globe in his left hand. He is a crowned monarch--commanding, stately, seated on a throne, the arms of which axe fronted by rams' heads. He...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xi. Justice : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XI JUSTICE As this card follows the traditional symbolism and carries above all its obvious meanings, there is little to say regarding it outside the few considerations collected in the first part, to which...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 36 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PENTACLES Nine A woman, with a bird upon her wrist, stands amidst a great abundance of grapevines in the garden of a manorial house. It is a wide domain, suggesting plenty in all things. Possibly it is her own...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 28 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], PART III THE OUTER METHOD OF THE ORACLES 1 DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE GREATER AND LESSER ARCANA IN respect of their usual presentation, the bridge between the Greater and Lesser Arcana is supplied by the court...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 43 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Two A hoodwinked female figure balances two swords upon her shoulders. "Divinatory Meanings": Conformity and the equipoise which it suggests, courage, friendship, concord in a state of arms; another...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Secti. Part 03 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 3 CONCLUSION AS TO THE GREATER KEYS There has been no attempt in the previous tabulation to present the symbolism in what is called the three worlds--that of Divinity, of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. A large...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 04 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Six Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers. "Divinatory Meanings": A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as--for example--on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 47 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Eight A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage. "Divinatory Meanings": Bad news, violent chagr...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 59 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], 7 AN ANCIENT CELTIC METHOD OF DIVINATION This mode of divination is the most suitable for obtaining an answer to a definite question. The Diviner first selects a card to represent the person or, matter...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 51 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], SWORDS Page A lithe, active figure holds a sword upright in both hands, while in the act of swift walking. He is passing over rugged land, and about his way the clouds are collocated wildly. He is alert...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. V : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], V THE HIEROPHANT He wears the triple crown and is seated between two pillars, but they are not those of the Temple which is guarded by the High Priestess. In his left hand he holds a sceptre terminating...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 12 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], THE SUIT OF CUPS King He holds a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right; his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 16 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], THE SUIT OF SWORDS King He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xiii. Death : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XIII DEATH The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in change, transformation and passage from lower to higher, and this is more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xix : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XIX THE SUN The naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a red standard has been mentioned already as the better symbolism connected with this card. It is the destiny of the Supernatural East...
Title Page : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT; BEING FRAGMENTS OF A SECRET TRADITION UNDER THE VEIL OF DIVINATION. BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE [b. 1857 D. 1942] WITH 78 PLATES, ILLUSTRATING THE GREATER AND LESSER ARC...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 08 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Ten Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 55 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Two A youth and maiden are pledging one another, and above their cups rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which there appears a lion's head. It is a variant of a sign which is found...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 41 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], THE SUIT OF PENTACLES King The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. X : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], X WHEEL OF FORTUNE In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of liphas Lvi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate--as I have intimated--to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 02 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Four A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Viii : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], VIII STRENGTH, OR FORTITUDE A woman, over whose head there broods the same symbol of life which we have seen in the card of the Magician, is closing the jaws of a lion. The only point in which this design...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 18 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], WANDS Six A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side. "Divinatory Meanings": The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations;...
Part Ii. The Doctrine Behind The Veil. Xiv : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], XIV TEMPERANCE A winged angel, with the sign of the sun upon his forehead and on his breast the square and triangle of the septenary. I speak of him in the masculine sense, but the figure is neither male n...
Part Iii. The Outer Method Of The Oracles. Part 06 : * "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot", by A.E. Waite, ill. by Pamela Colman Smith [1911], CUPS Eight A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous concern. "Divinatory Meanings": The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are...