SourceDeath
A rider whose passage joins mortality with transformation.
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SourceSourceJudgment
A trumpet’s summons calls the figures from their tombs.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceJustice
Accountability according to deeds, distinguished from spiritual election.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceStrength
A woman’s gentle mastery of the lion rather than a contest of force.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceTemperance
The blending of life’s essences between earth and water.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Chariot
Triumph and directed power whose external victories have limits.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Devil
Material bondage depicted through a horned figure and chained pair.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Emperor
Seated sovereignty as executive power, reason, and realization.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Empress
Fruitful earthly life represented through stars, grain, water, and Venus.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Fool
The Tarot traveler poised between innocence, freedom, and uncertainty.
Western Tarot symbolism
SourceThe Hanged Man in Lévi
The inverted Tarot figure read as the adept and the completion of the great work.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental MagicSourceThe Hermit
A lantern held aloft as an invitation from attained knowledge.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Hierophant
The public transmission of sacred order through an established institution.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe High Priestess
Keeper of a partly concealed law between contrasting temple pillars.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Lovers
Human love shown beneath an angel within a scene of Eden.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Magician
A raised wand and downward hand connect intention with manifestation.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Moon
A path into uncertainty lit by reflection and shadowed by fear.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Star
A figure pours the water of life beneath one great and seven lesser stars.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Sun
Childlike directness and renewed consciousness under a bright sun.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe Tower
Collapse interpreted as the breaking of a false house of thought.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceThe World
The final trump as fulfillment, cosmic harmony, and conscious completion.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceWheel of Fortune
Movement held against equilibrium within a changing universe.
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