Western Tarot symbolism
Two of Pentacles
A dancing young man holds two pentacles joined by an endless cord resembling a sideways eight. The prose connects the design with recreation but also assigns written messages, obstacles and agitation. The main reversed list includes simulated enjoyment and several writing-related meanings. The additional list calls troubles more imaginary than real upright and assigns ignorance or injustice reversed.
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The card account
LiteraryA dancing young man holds two pentacles joined by an endless cord resembling a sideways eight. The prose connects the design with recreation but also assigns written messages, obstacles and agitation.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe main reversed list includes simulated enjoyment and several writing-related meanings. The additional list calls troubles more imaginary than real upright and assigns ignorance or injustice reversed.
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 card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed. Divinatory Meanings: On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and itsOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 146
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0146
- Original scan leaf
- 152
- Recorded leaf number
- 152
- Current Reader position
- 146
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Tivo.—Troubles are more imaginary than real. Reversed: Bad omen, ignorance, injustice. Ace.—The most favorable of all cards. Reversed: A share in the finding of treasure. ItOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 152
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0152
- Original scan leaf
- 158
- Recorded leaf number
- 158
- Current Reader position
- 152
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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