Western Tarot symbolism
Celtic Cross
The source places six dealt cards around and over a Significator, assigning covering influence, opposition, aim, foundation and passing or approaching influence. Four further cards form a vertical line to the right, concerning the subject, environment, hopes or fears and outcome. The printed diagram specifies a left-facing Significator. The preceding directions require the facing side to be decided in advance when a card has no visible direction, so behind and before depend on that chosen orientation rather than a universal left-right rule.
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The method account
LiteraryThe source places six dealt cards around and over a Significator, assigning covering influence, opposition, aim, foundation and passing or approaching influence. Four further cards form a vertical line to the right, concerning the subject, environment, hopes or fears and outcome.
Procedure and qualifications
LiteraryThe printed diagram specifies a left-facing Significator. The preceding directions require the facing side to be decided in advance when a card has no visible direction, so behind and before depend on that chosen orientation rather than a universal left-right rule.
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
The cards are now disposed in the form of a cross,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 157
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-P0157
- Original scan leaf
- 163
- Recorded leaf number
- 163
- Current Reader position
- 157
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
The Significator is here facing to the left.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 159
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-P0159
- Original scan leaf
- 165
- Recorded leaf number
- 165
- Current Reader position
- 159
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Continue exploring
Forty-Two-Card Tarot Method
The alternative method repeatedly regroups cards before forming six rows of seven.
Same subject and traditionTarot Card Recurrence
The supplied handbook assigns separate meanings to repeated ranks and to their reversed counterparts.
Same subject and traditionTarot Significator
A selected card represents the person or matter of inquiry and can change in a repeated reading.