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According to Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The Empress is the inferior (as opposed to nature's superior) Garden of Eden, the "Earthly Paradise".Waite defines her as a Refugium Peccatorum — a fruitful mother of thousands: "she is above all things universal fecundity and the outer sense of the Word, the repository of all things nurturing and sustaining, and of feeding others."
The veil of the Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with palm leaves (male) and pomegranates (female), [8] growing on a tree shaped like the Tree of Life. The motif that hangs behind the High Priestess’s throne, veiling whatever mysteries she guards, is suggested in the pattern of The Empress' gown. The two are sisters, one bringing life ...
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future. They formulate a question, then draw cards to interpret them for this end.
The Major Arcana in the Rider–Waite Tarot deck. The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack.There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered).
Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) at his work table, from the Cours théorique et pratique du livre de Thot (1790).. Etteilla, the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution to the esoteric development of the ...
Strength (VIII) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. Strength is a Major Arcana tarot card, and is numbered either XI or VIII, depending on the deck. Historically it was called Fortitude, and in the Thoth Tarot deck it is called Lust. This card is used in game playing as well as in divination.
It represents a synthesis of various esoteric traditions, integrating the symbolic language of the Tarot with the principles of Thelema. [19] In Tarot, "Abrahadabra" is associated with five cards in the Major Arcana: The Fool (A), The Magician (B), The Sun (R), The Hierophant (H), and The Empress (D). [9] The word as a whole is represented by ...
Eight of Coins from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. Eight of Coins is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana" Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1]