Western Tarot symbolism
Tarot Card Recurrence
The recurrence table groups two, three or four cards of the same rank, ranging from Kings through Aces. Upright assignments change with the number present: Kings move between minor counsel, consultation and honour rather than carrying one fixed meaning. A separate reversed table continues onto the next page and gives different assignments, including small profit, imprudence and usury for groups of Nines. These group rules are additional conventions rather than descriptions of any single card's artwork.
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In the sources
The method account
LiteraryThe recurrence table groups two, three or four cards of the same rank, ranging from Kings through Aces. Upright assignments change with the number present: Kings move between minor counsel, consultation and honour rather than carrying one fixed meaning.
Procedure and qualifications
LiteraryA separate reversed table continues onto the next page and gives different assignments, including small profit, imprudence and usury for groups of Nines. These group rules are additional conventions rather than descriptions of any single card's artwork.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s procedures. Historical divinatory claims, assigned social categories and origin labels are attributed to the text rather than independently verified.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
4 Kings = great honor ; 3 Kings = consultation ; 2 Kings = minor,counsel.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; method account, active reader leaf 154
Exact supplied-edition method text actually read; quotation anchor, active checksum and original-leaf mapping checked. No new artwork inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0154
- Original scan leaf
- 160
- Recorded leaf number
- 160
- Current Reader position
- 154
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
4 Nines = usury ; 3 Nines = imprudence ; 2 Nines = small profit.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; method continuation, active reader leaf 155
Exact supplied-edition method text actually read; quotation anchor, active checksum and original-leaf mapping checked. No new artwork inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0155
- Original scan leaf
- 161
- Recorded leaf number
- 161
- Current Reader position
- 155
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
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