Tarot Verbatim
Guidance Whether a story is a comedy or a tragedy, is uplifting or grim, often depends on where you begin and end it. Do that with your life, and you will see. You can also cast most stories either way. As we write our life story in the living of it, the same thing applies at least to some extent. Here we have some regrettable past, a turning point, a recurring turning point really, and a good outlook. Businesses look for losing companies to buy, to capitalize on the loss. You can do the same with life events as if they were stock in you.
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‘Group Tarot Cards Reading’ (just below this) is the actual word-for-word messages from the pictures of the four cards you see – to everyone. These readings are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. So, go ahead and pick the sentences you feel are yours and decide whether to encourage or reject them for yourself.
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Two of Pentacles – Two of Wands – Five of Cups
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GROUP TAROT CARDS READING
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Headings [So you can choose which belongs to you]
Tarot Readings: The Upswing of the Cycle (Two of Pentacles and Two of Wands)
Tarot Readings: The Downswing of the Cycle (Two of Pentacles and Five of Cups)
Tarot Readings: It Ain’t All Bad (Two of Pentacles and Five of Cups)
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Tarot Readings: The Upswing of the Cycle (Two of Pentacles and Two of Wands)
I was having a bad time, but things look good ahead now.
Going from past failures to having it under control.
A solid citizen after the ups and downs of what I’ve been through.
Cycles of stability and instability.
The prognosis is grim but you will recover.
I plan to get out of this sorry rut.
After the room spinning, and a hangover, I’ve got a plan.
Looking back and then looking forward.
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Tarot Readings: The Downswing of the Cycle (Two of Pentacles and Five of Cups)
The past will come back to haunt us.
The sadness will continue.
Waves of remorse are ahead.
I mourn a death that is bringing money in.
Sometimes my bank account is depressing.
Will be sorry for rocking the boat.
I’m going to miss his silly antics.
Incessantly, I fail to plan.
I plan to keep drinking.
Recurring bouts of homesickness to look forward to.
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Tarot Readings: It Ain’t All Bad (Two of Pentacles and Five of Cups)
Moneyed people keep the losses coming.
Things you wish had never happened pay off over and over.
That goofball, that loser, is financially secure.
When you don’t know where to turn, things are going to turn around.
Bankruptcy is a way to financial security.
We are going to turn that money loser around.
Any good investment has its downside.
Now, Part Two
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*Go to Learn Tarot by Pictures. It is what each of the four cards, by itself, has to say. It shows you how that illustration makes that card’s meanings in today’s Spread. All the words of each Tarot card reading you see here are a phrase-by-phrase translation of the scene pictured on those cards: no filler, no psychic impressions, no spirit guide. Word-for-word Tarot Verbatim™.
You can put all this together and intuitively see yourself how Tarot Verbatim™ works.
This is a group reading, with no Questioner and no Question to limit what the cards say, so there’s more variety – even contradictions – and also the pronouns are more flexible. If it feels like it’s yours, and it says ‘he,’ and you’re a ‘she,’ feel free to adopt it anyway.
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Two of Pentacles – Two of Wands – Five of Cups
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……………………….In Two of Wands we have a good outlook, financial security, and the future. We have financial security.
………………………. In Five of Cups we have a depressing loss that haunts the future, fincial depletion, and the past. These two cards are opposite on all fronts: contrast.
………..…..…………. So it makes all the sense in the world that, who should show up but Two of Pentacles. Two of Pentacles is about cycles and movement. Ups and downs, good and bad, turnarounds, flux.
………..…..………………………. Two of Pentacles and Two of Wands Two of Pentacles and Two of Wands, in a word, say ‘upturn.’ In our sentences, they say it in a number of ways.
….………..………………………. Two of Pentacles and Five of Cups Two of Pentacles and Five of Cups, on the other hand, say ‘downturn.’ You can probably go through the sentences and pick out the phrases that each of the three cards say in Tarot Verbatim™.
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HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL THREE 2-CARD COMBINATIONS
resonates with your subconscious awareness!
………..…..……………………….Two of Pentacles and Two of Wands The Upswing of the Cycle … but things look good ahead now. … going to having it under control. A solid citizen … the ups and downs … Cycles of stability. The prognosis is … you will recover. I plan to … this rut. After the room spinning, I’ve got a plan. … and then looking forward. … will come back. … will continue. Waves of _ are ahead. Bringing money in. Sometimes my bank account … Will be _ for rocking the boat. I’m going to _ his silly antics. Incessantly, I plan. I plan to keep …. Recurring __ to look forward to. Pay off over and over. That goofball is financially secure. Things are going to turn around. __ is a way to financial security. We are going to turn that __ around. Any good investment has its _side. x. …
….………..………………………. Two of Pentacles and Five of Cups I was having a bad time but …. Going from past failures to …. … after the ups and downs I’ve been through. Cycles of instability. … grim but you will recover. Get out of this sorry rut. The room spinning, and a hangover. … looking back, and then …. The Downswing of the Cycle … come back to haunt us. The sadness continues. Waves of remorse. I mourn a __ that is bringing __ in. Sometimes my __ is depressing. Sorry for rocking the boat. Miss his silly antics. Incessantly, I fail to. Keep drinking. Recurring bouts of homesickness. It Ain’t All Bad Things you wish had never happened _ over and over. That goofball, that loser. When you don’t know where to turn, things turn around. Bankruptcy is a way to …. Turn that money loser around. Any _ has its downside. x.
……….…..……………………….Two of Wands and Five of Cups A bad time but things look good ahead. … past failures … having it under control. A solid citizen after the downs I have been through. Stability and instability. The prognosis is grim. I plan to … this sorry __. After a hangover, I’ve got a plan. Looking back, and looking forward. … will haunt us. The sadness will __. … of remorse are ahead. Remorse is ahead. I mourn a … money in. My bank account is depressing. Will be sorry. I’m going to miss …. Fail to plan. I plan to drink. Homesickness to look forward to. Homesickness to look forward to. Things you wish had never happened pay off. That loser is financially secure. When you don’t know where to turn, things are going to …. Bankruptcy … financial security. We are going to __ that money loser. Good investment … downside. x...
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Two of Pentacles………. Two of Pentacles is going through a phase or going through the motions; on and on, ins and outs; into it, something else; keep whatever-it-is up; waves; instability, silly antics. It means continuing, and it means a cycle – any kind of cycle – flux forever. A juggler in a sillly costume, with a dunce cap, keeps plates moving, and they are connected with the math sign that means ‘repeating indefinitely.’
Two of Wands ………. Here is the banker surveying his real estate below, planning more profit from it from the ramparts of his mansion. He has the world in his hand … humor from the artist. So this is about the future, a plan, financial security or wealth, real estate, and a good outlook or prognosis. Two of Wands is one of the cards that will put its fellows into future tense.
Five of Cups………. Five of Cups is a loss, being the loser, failure and fail, being broke, the sad past, bad times and bad scenes, to repent, regret, being sorry, mourning and not seeing the future because of the effect or haze of the past: being haunted. It means sadness and disappointment. A black-robed bent figure gazes at spilled wine, his back to remaining full cups. Sky is gray. With the spilled wine, it also speaks of a drinking problem as well as turning one’s back on drinking (the remaining cups). It refers to sickness
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Tarot Verbatim
Guidance RE-DOING AND RE-CYCLING THE PAST: The past is a fact, but we can rework it as raw material without being delusional. We can recycle the parts that we no longer have use for, and polish or even reinterpret the best parts we would like to feature. Handling the past in three piles: the parts we take with us as a foundation as we head for the future; the parts we redact (black out); the parts we are stuck with, wishing to God things had been different: We can plan what use we make of the parts this way. (Now, the part we make a foundation of for the future is either what we acquired because we were looking where we were going, or what we acquired because we wised up after running into the tree.) What we pursue on a daily basis right now is making us a good or a regrettable past. The messages are also about turning financial bad times around.
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If you just want your daily look ahead, Guidance and Tarot Readings are all you need. ‘Guidance’ (above) is a summary of what the cards are telling visitors to be aware of this day.
‘Group Tarot Cards Reading’ (just below this) is the actual word-for-word messages from the pictures of the four cards you see – to everyone. These readings are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. So, go ahead and pick the sentences you feel are yours and decide whether to encourage or reject them for yourself.
Did you come here for your predictions? – You are done now – See you tomorrow. The family of commenters here would love for you to join in (the very last thing, at the bottom.
Five of Cups
Hierophant – Knight of Wands – Two of Wands
GROUP TAROT CARDS READING
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Tarot Readings: Motivated by Regret or Loss (Knight of Wands and Five of Cups)
Tarot Readings: The Pursuit Of Wealth (Knight of Wands and Two of Wands)
Tarot Readings: Miscellaneous Personal Progress (Knight of Wands)
Tarot Readings: Business: Getting Out of a Loss (Knight of Wands and Five of Cups)
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Tarot Readings: Motivated by Regret or Loss (Knight of Wands and Five of Cups)
I will be getting healthy as fast as I can because I am sick now.
A DUI is why I am driving at safe speeds and look where I’m going.
Pursuing a plan to give up drinking makes someone okay.
Things in my past that haunt me are the reason I went straight and am stable now.
He is so shamed that he will be pursuing the religious life.
Planning to get out of the way things have always been.
I’m going to be okay, I’m getting over the blues.
After that bad scene, I will go only where it’s safe.
You will get over the disappointment, it’s going to be fine.
It’s okay to regret what should have been, but pursue what will be.
Things will be safe in a hurry after that tragedy.
Tarot Readings: The Pursuit Of Wealth (Knight of Wands and Two of Wands)
Putting being broke behind and having a secure middle-class lifestyle.
Losers pursue titles and pensions.
Will get ahead fast then repent in church.
In the pursuit of wealth, you sacrifice sure things.
Leaving a comfortable place to pursue your fortune feels bad.
Tarot Readings: Personal Progress (Knight of Wands)
If only I could openly plan to get out of this .
What we routinely pursue will make our good, or our regrettable, past.
A depletion of physical energy is ahead.
Will be out of physical, clinical, depression quickly.
Failed here, will physically move away.
Respectability costs me dearly but I am sticking with that course.
Is failing but will get to a ‘C’ quickly.
Tarot Readings: Business: Getting Out of a Loss (Knight of Wands and Five of Cups)
The financial plan is conservative: just get away from bad times.
It’s perfectly okay to get out of here fast; stability is lost.
When you left, things were okay but the outlook is grim.
The hotshot will lose to the mainstream runner (candidate).
Getting real estate out of their name so they will be broke.
It’s their loss they passed by this very ordinary investment.
Now, Part Two,
Do you want to know a little, or a lot, about how this Tarot Verbatim™ thing works? If so,
*Go to Learn Tarot by Observing section below. This tells about the combined four pictures in the Tarot Readings – the pictures above here. It explains how these four cards get together in your mind to make the messages. HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL SIX 2-CARD COMBINATIONSis a stream-of-consciousness bridge to your subconscious if you use it regularly – people report.
*Go to Learn Tarot by Pictures. It is what each of the four cards, by itself, has to say. It shows you how that illustration makes that card’s meanings in today’s Spread. All the words of each Tarot card reading you see here are a phrase-by-phrase translation of the scene pictured on those cards: no filler, no psychic impressions, no spirit guide. Word-for-word Tarot Verbatim™.
You can put all this together and intuitively see yourself how Tarot Verbatim™ works.
This is a group reading, with no Questioner and no Question to limit what the cards say, so there’s more variety – even contradictions – and also the pronouns are more flexible. If it feels like it’s yours, and it says ‘he,’ and you’re a ‘she,’ feel free to adopt it anyway.
Five of Cups
Hierophant – Knight of Wands – Two of Wands
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Hierophant and Two of Wands Hierophant and Two of Wands complement one another intricately along the lines of meaning ‘a sure thing.’ Hierophant means respectable, official, conservative; Two of Wands means security, financial security and financial control. It is a plan, an outlook, a projection, and long term.
Hierophant and Two of Wands Hierophant is religion (or church); Two of Wands is the bank (or financier, or the man who owns the town). Hierophant is respectability, and Two of Wands is stability.
Two of Wands and Five of Cups Two of Wands is the good future; Five of Cups is the sad past. A projected loss for a budget, they say, or ‘going to lose.’ They also speak of lost stability and a sad future.
Knight of Wands and Five of Cups Knight of Wands is in a hurry, getting places, pursuing or running away, making (fast) progress. Put him next to certain cards and in Tarot Verbatim™ he is ‘headed for’ maybe something that isn’t progress at all. Here, Knight of Wands and Five of Cups are ‘headed for a loss’ or getting away from a loss as fast as they can.
Five of Cups is a loss, the sad past, regret, being sorry, mourning and not seeing the future because of the effect or haze of the past: being haunted. With the spilled wine, it also speaks of a drinking problem as well as turning one’s back on drinking (the remaining cups).
Our story, when put together, is about handling the past: whether we leave it behind and head for the future, whether we are stuck wishing to God things had been different, or whether we make a foundation of it for a better future (either because we have been looking where we are going, or because we wised up after running into the tree). It is about turning financial bad times around.
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HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL SIX 2-CARD COMBINATIONS
resonates with your subconscious awareness!
Hierophant and Knight of Wands Getting healthy as fast as I can. Driving at safe speeds. Pursuing __ makes someone okay. ***I went straight. Pursuing the religious life. … to get out of the way things have always been. I’m __ okay, I’m getting over __. **I go where it’s safe. … get over … fine. It’s okay to … but pursue …. … safe in a hurry …. Putting __ behind and having a middle class lifestyle. Openly __ to get out of here. What we routinely pursue makes our good …. ***Physical energy. … out of physical __ quickly. *Physically move away. Respectability … that course. … will get to a ‘C’ …. … is conservative: Just get away from …. ***It’s perfectly okay to get out of here fast. When you left, things were okay. The mainstream runner [candidate]. … getting __ out of their name …. … passed by this very ordinary __. … passed by this safe _. x
Hierophant and Two of Wands Will be healthy. … safe … looking …. A plan … makes someone okay. … straight and stable. … will be … the religious life. Planning to … the way things have always been. *I’m going to be okay. I will __ where it’s safe. It’s going to be fine. It’s okay … what will be. Things will be safe. A secure middle-class lifestyle. **Openly plan. What we routinely _ will make our good, …. __ of physical __ is ahead. Will be __ physical …. … will physically …. Respectability … sticking with that __. Will get to a ‘C.’ The financial plan is conservative. It’s perfectly okay to …; stability is __. … things _ okay; _ the outlook is …. … will __ to the mainstream __…. real estate __ name …. ***Very ordinary investment. Safe investment. x
Hierophant and Five of Cups … healthy … I am sick now. A DUI is why … at safe …. To give up drinking makes someone okay. **Things in my past that haunt me are the reason I __ straight. He is so shamed … the religious life. The way things have always been. I’m okay … the blues. After that bad scene … safe. … the disappointment … is fine. **It’s okay to regret what should have been. Safe … after that tragedy. … being broke … having a middle-class lifestyle. **If only I could openly …. What we routinely _ … regrettable past. **A depletion of physical …. … out of physical …. Failed here … physically. Respectability costs me dearly. Is failing … a ‘C’ __. … conservative … bad times. It’s perfectly okay to __; _ is lost. ***Things were okay … grim. … lose to the mainstream __. … _name so __ broke. It’s their loss they __ this very ordinary __. x
Knight of Wands and Two of Wands Will be getting __ as fast as I can. … at __ speeds and looking where I’m going. Pursuing a plan …. I went __ and am stable now. **… he will be pursuing …. Planning to get out of the way …. **I’m going to be …. **I will go …. ***You will get over …. **Pursue what will be Things will be __ in a hurry. THE PURSUIT OF WEALTH Putting __ behind and having a secure lifestyle. **Plan to get out of this. What we pursue will make …. __ of energy is ahead. Will be … quickly. Will move away. … am sticking with that course. *** … will get to …. Financial plan … just get away from …. … to get out of here fast: stability …. When you left, the outlook …. … will __ to the _ runner. Getting real estate out of …. … passed by this investment. x
Knight of Wands and Five of Cups MOTIVATED BY REGRET OR LOSS Will be getting __ as fast as I can, because I am sick now. A DUI is why I am driving at __ speeds …. Pursuing __ to give up drinking. Things in my past that haunt me are the reason I went __. He is so shamed that he __ pursuing …. Get out of the way things have always been. **I’m getting over the blues. After that bad scene, I will only go …. ***Get over the disappointment. Regret what should have been, but pursue …. … in a hurry after that tragedy. ***Putting being broke behind. **If only I could get out of this. What we pursue … our regrettable past. ***Depletion of energy. … out of __ quickly. Failed here … physically move away. __costs me dearly, but I am … with that course. Is failing but will get to …. GETTING OUT OF A LOSS *Just get away from bad times. … to get out of here fast: __ is lost. When you left … is grim. … lose to the __ runner [candidate]. Lose the race. Getting __ out of so __ broke. It’s their loss they passed by this …. x
Two of Wands and Five of Cups I will be … I am sick now. A DUI is why I am looking …. ***A plan to give up drinking. *Things in my past that haunt me are the reason I am stable now. He is so shamed that h will be …. Planning to … the way things have always been. I’m going to … the blues. After that bad scene, I will …. You will __ the disappointment. Regret what should have been … what will be. … will be … after that tragedy. … being broke __ and having a secure lifestyle. **If only I could plan to …. Will make our regrettable past. *A depletion is ahead. Will be out of …. Failed here, will …. … cost me dearly but I am …. Is failing, but will …. The financial plan … bad times. ***Stability is lost. ***The outlook is grim. ***Will lose. … so __ will be broke. It’s their loss … this investment. x
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Hierophant is the official story, the official title, the official name (as on the title) the respectable face of things, the physical aspect, the protocol or routine or ordinary way, average, middle, mainstream, clean or cleaned up. It is ‘should’ a lot. Decent, harmless, good, safe, all right, usual, okay. The illustration shows the pope and assistants doing an official ceremony, which is what they usually do.
Knight of Wands mainly is speed. In a hurry, moving out, fast progress, getting out of Dodge, rush job, runs, hot pursuit, getting to, heading on a course. You see him with his nervous horse, looking panicky himself (in my opinion), the wind whipping his clothes as he goes.
Two of Wands There stands the banker, the man who owns the town, with the globe in his hands (a bit of humor from Pamela Coleman Smith, the artist?) on the roof of his castle, planning how he is going to make even more money from that real estate. Financial security, financial planning, real estate, secure future, the future (often contributing simply ‘will’ or ‘will be’). The plan. Strangely, this card never shows up for that rich man women want as the boyfriend.
Five of Cups is a loss, being the loser, failure and fail, being broke, the sad past, bad times and bad scenes, to repent, regret, being sorry, mourning and not seeing the future because of the effect or haze of the past: being haunted. It means sadness and disappointment. A black-robed bent figure gazes at spilled wine, his back to remaining full cups. Sky is gray. (The red and green colors coming from the cups invite the subject of losing body fluids.) With the spilled wine, it also speaks of a drinking problem as well as turning one’s back on drinking (the remaining cups). It refers to something that cost you dearly. It refers to sickness
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HOW TO USE THE MATERIAL WE HAVE FOR YOU HERE. Read the sentences, and pick out the ones that seem to apply to you, to the people around you. They are a Tarot analysis of your day’s circumstances. As the day (or several days) unfolds, you may find the information is relevant. The question is: “Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.” Often, your adopting the attitude you feel in the blog works for your day!
Without a question to focus the answer, four cards can mean even contradictory things. Without a question also the pronouns in a group reading are less specific, more flexible, especially in some of these Rider Waite Tarot spreads. Especially when a pronoun is in parentheses, feel free to substitute. The Advice section sums up a general meaning of all the sentences.
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Poor times in the past and prospects for wealth are what make people happy.
Ten of Cups
Five of Cups, Nine of Cups, Two of Wands
Marriage Perspective:
He/She is so broke that this marriage will bring prosperity.
Wanted to have this happy marriage years ago that he/she is looking forward to now.
Looking forward to a fulfilling married life while mourning the past.
This is the secure marriage you want, that you missed.
Would lose the marriage to gain the money.
You never got what you really wanted but now there’s a happy future with this marriage.
Family Perspective:
The family wants a good future for the black sheep.
Out of this unfortunate past will come enough money to make the whole family happy.
Looking ahead to getting what you really want, and that disappoints the family.
He will make it, be rich, and the family will be poor.
The family will be disappointed when the black sheep is rich.
Would lose the family to gain the money.
Would do without a good financial future to have the family he/she wants.
Everyone is going to be very happy to get together, and someone will be missing.
Financial Perspective:
Such an impressive and secure neighborhood, you could only wish …
Losing makes you sad, having it all will make you happy.
The financial outlook, compared to the past, is: There’s a boom for everyone.
People will be sad even in the best of times when there’s plenty.
They are going to miss those happy well-off days.
After a terrible time, the future you want and happy times.
Everyone gets everything they want in the future, and feels sorry for themselves.
Now will be the poor times, when everyone has the good life.
Poor times in the past and prospects for wealth are what make people happy.
Our spread is an example of the ‘spoiler card.’ We begin with it, Five of Cups means loss, mourning, missing, regret and melancholy. Then we have ‘your wish is granted, whatever you want’ and lots of money, lots of everything in Nine of Cups; we have a good future, a solid sure thing, financial security
in Two of Wands; followed by a happy marriage, everyone is happy. So we have a contrast, obviously.
Nine of Cups, Two of Wands and Ten of Cups all speak of prosperity, financial security, having it all.
Five of Cups is mourning the loss. So a bad experience has created a good outlook. So the happy marriage with its prosperity and good future arose from losing it in the past. Or despite wealth, one is blue. Or we have a choice as to family or being well off, and we chose one and lose the other.
Advice is to make the best use of losses. If losing something makes you all that sad, best to plan to have an abundance of that, to be happy. And it’s all relative: Feeling rich depends on where you came from, doesn’t it? If you grow up in the ghetto, a good job means you are now rich, but if you grow up pampered, what does it take to make you feel rich? In a sense, the poorer and more miserable you are, the better your prospects are. The fatter you are, the easier it is to lose weight and feel good. This is about that: That it’s all relative.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Five of Cups is a party pooper if ever there was one. Five of Cups means loss, mourning, missing, regret and melancholy. It refers to the past. A black robed, head bowed figure faces the spilled and has its back to the full. The landscape all droops and is in depressing shades of grayish.
Nine of Cups: ‘Your wish is granted, whatever you want’ and lots of money, lots of everything in Nine of Cups, excess and excessive. This is the dude with the gold faucets and the silk undies. A fat man with an expression of surfeit is hugging himself, nine empty cups behind him … He done et the whole thang.
Two of Wands: A good future, a solid sure thing, financial security, a good outlook. It refers to the future. A bankster contemplates his real estate empire from the rooftop, with the globe in his hands … Bank of America, perhaps? … as he contemplates how to make even more money for his future.
Ten of Cups: A happy marriage, everyone is happy. The good people in the good neighborhood. This is the Moral Majority … they don’t have a dog. They are the elite. Now, in the Rider Waite illustration, why isn’t there a picket fence? I’ll tell you why: Because the illustrator was being English at the time. I mean, there’s a rainbow over the house, the kids are prancing around, the couple’s arms upraised to the sky: Yes, they have moved on up!
