Pentacles
King

The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull’s head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved or blazoned with the pentagram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In many old Tarot packs this suit stood for current coin, money, deniers. I have not invented the substitution of pentacles and I have no special cause to sustain in respect of the alternative. But the consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of some change, because the cards do not happen to deal especially with questions of money.

Divinatory Meanings: Valour,
realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and
attainments of this kind; success in these paths.

Reversed: Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity,
corruption, peril.

Pentacles
Queen

The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein.

Divinatory Meanings: Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security,
liberty.

Reversed: Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.

Pentacles
Knight

He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.

Divinatory Meanings: Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude-all on the normal and external plane.

Reversed: inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.

Pentacles
Page

A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.

Divinatory Meanings: Application, study, scholarship, reflection another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.

Reversed: Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

Pentacles
Ten

A man and woman beneath an archway which gives entrance to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs accosting an ancient personage seated in the foreground. The child’s hand is on one of them.

Divinatory Meanings: Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.

Reversed: Chance, fatality, loss, robbery,
games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.

Pentacles

Nine

A woman, with a bird upon her wrist, stands amidst a great abundance of grapevines in the garden of a manorial house. It is a wide domain, suggesting plenty in all things. Possibly it is her own possession and testifies to material well-being.

Divinatory Meanings: Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.

Reversed: Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.

Read by Leisa ReFalo

Leisa ReFalo combines her background in software engineering with a deep and abiding interest in all things Tarot. She is the author of two Tarot decks: the Tarot of Color (an attribution deck that shows the depth of correspondences), and the Kaleidoscope Tarot (an abstract deck where a card is represented by a single color and symbol), and the genius behind the programing for:

• English Qabalah Calculators
• Birth Card Calculator for the Tarot School
• Tarot of the Name Site
• Tarot of Color Free Readings

Leisa is a professional Tarot reader, and co-founder of the Portland Tarot Society. Her work can be seen at: www.tarotconnection.net, www.tarotjourney.net, www.tarotofcolor.com, and www.portlandtarot.org

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

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An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies.

Divinatory Meanings: Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.

Reversed: Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.

A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there.

Divinatory Meanings: These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels–and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.

Reversed: Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.

Pentacles
Six

A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart.

Divinatory Meanings: Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance now is
the accepted time, present prosperity, etc.

Reversed: Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.

Pentacles
Five

Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.

Divinatory Meanings: The card foretells
material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated–that is, destitution–or otherwise. For some cartomancists, it is a card of love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities. These alternatives cannot be harmonized.

Reversed: Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.

Read by Dan Pelletier

Dan Pelletier lives north of Seattle Washington with his wife of 22 years, Jan, his two cats, Spook and Pookha, and 32 rosebushes. He has been reading Tarot for himself and others for over thirty years.

Dan is also co-owner of The Tarot Garden, a highly respected resource for tarot decks and related information on the Internet. He has written articles appearing on the Tarot for Life website newsletter, Seeker’s Journey, and Tarot Passages; and has published interviews with deck creators on the tarotgarden.com website library.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Pentacles
Four

A crowned figure, having a pentacle over his crown, clasps another with hands and arms; two pentacles are under his feet. He holds to that which he has.

Divinatory Meanings: The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.

Reversed: Suspense, delay, opposition.

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Pentacles
Three

A sculptor at his work in a monastery. Compare the design which illustrates the Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or amateur therein has received his reward and is now at work in earnest.

Divinatory Meanings: Métier, trade, skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as a card of
nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.

Reversed: Mediocrity, in work and otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness.

Pentacles
Two

A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that 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 its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.

Reversed: Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.

Pentacles
Ace

A hand–issuing, as usual, from a cloud–holds up a pentacle.

Divinatory Meanings: Perfect
contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.

Reversed: The evil side of wealth,
bad intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shews prosperity, comfortable material
conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not.

Swords
KingHe sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional
Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the power
of life and death, in virtue of his office. Divinatory Meanings: Whatsoever arises out of the idea of
judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of
the crown, and so forth. Reversed: Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.

Swords
QueensHer right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left
hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity
with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol
of power. Divinatory Meanings: Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence,
sterility, mourning, privation, separation. Reversed: Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.

Swords
KnightHe is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero
of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is
clean of heart. Divinatory Meanings: Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war,
destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies
death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality. Reversed:
Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.

Swords
PageA lithe, active figure holds a sword upright in both hands, while in the act of swift walking. He is
passing over rugged land, and about his way the clouds are collocated wildly. He is alert and lithe,
looking this way and that, as if an expected enemy might appear at any moment. Divinatory
Meanings: Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities
thereto belonging. Reversed: More evil side of these qualities; what is unforeseen, unprepared
state; sickness is also intimated.

Swords
TenA prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card. Divinatory Meanings:
Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not
especially a card of violent death. Reversed: Advantage, profit, success, favour, but none of these
are permanent; also power and authority.

Swords
NineOne seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no
sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation. Divinatory Meanings: Death, failure,
miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair. Reversed: Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt,
reasonable fear, shame.

Swords
EightA woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of
temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage. Divinatory Meanings: Bad news, violent chagrin,
crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness. Reversed: Disquiet, difficulty,
opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.

Swords
Seven

A man in the act of carrying away five swords rapidly; the two others of the card remain stuck in the ground. A camp is close at hand.

Divinatory Meanings: Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import, because the significations are widely at variance with each other.

Reversed: Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.

Swords
Six

A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted that the work is not beyond his strength.

Divinatory Meanings: journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.

Reversed: Declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love.

Read by Dan Pelletier

Dan Pelletier lives north of Seattle Washington with his wife of 22 years, Jan, his two cats, Spook and Pookha, and 32 rosebushes. He has been reading Tarot for himself and others for over thirty years.

Dan is also co-owner of The Tarot Garden, a highly respected resource for tarot decks and related information on the Internet. He has written articles appearing on the Tarot for Life website newsletter, Seeker’s Journey, and Tarot Passages; and has published interviews with deck creators on the tarotgarden.com website library.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Swords
FiveA disdainful man looks after two retreating and dejected figures. Their swords lie upon the ground.
He carries two others on his left shoulder, and a third sword is in his right hand, point to earth. He
is the master in possession of the field. Divinatory Meanings: Degradation, destruction, revocation,
infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these. Reversed: The same; burial and
obsequies.

Swords
Four

The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.

Divinatory Meanings:Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have
suggested the design.

Reversed: Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.

Read by Paul ReFalo

Paul ReFalo is a Forensics Scientist for the State of Oregon.

He brought meditation training to the Oregon prison systems. He is the director of the Portland Shambhala Meditation Center.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

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Swords
ThreeThree swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind. Divinatory Meanings: Removal, absence,
delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and
obvious to call for specific enumeration. Reversed: Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction,
disorder, confusion.

Swords
TwoA hoodwinked female figure balances two swords upon her shoulders. Divinatory Meanings:
Conformity and the equipoise which it suggests, courage, friendship, concord in a state of arms;
another reading gives tenderness, affection, intimacy. The suggestion of harmony and other
favourable readings must be considered in a qualified manner, as Swords generally are not
symbolical of beneficent forces in human affairs. Reversed: Imposture, falsehood, duplicity,
disloyalty.

Swords
Ace

A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown.

Divinatory Meanings: Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much higher significance than comes usually within the sphere of fortune-telling.

Reversed: The same, but the results are disastrous; another account says–conception, childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.

Cups
King
He holds a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right; his throne is set upon the sea;
on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the Sign of
the Cup naturally refers to water, which appears in all the court cards. Divinatory Meanings: Fair
man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art
and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence. Reversed:
Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable
loss.

Cups
Queen

Beautiful, fair, dreamy–as one who sees visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream.

Divinatory Meanings: Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.

Reversed: The accounts vary; good woman; otherwise, distinguished woman but onenot to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour, depravity.

Read by Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Cups
Knight

Graceful, but not warlike; riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet, referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes characterize this card. He too is a dreamer, but the images of the side of sense haunt him in his vision.

Divinatory Meanings: Arrival, approach–sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement.

Reversed: Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.

Read by Brad Thomsen

Brad Thomsen has enjoyed expressing himself creatively in both musical and theatrical pursuits.

A graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he has also been a part of several theater projects. He now resides in Portland, OR.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

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Cups
Page
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish
rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form. Divinatory Meanings:
Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a
studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to
business. Reversed: Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

Cups
Ten

Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene beyond.

Divinatory Meanings: Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who is taking charge of the Querent’s interests; also the town, village or country inhabited by the Querent.

Reversed: Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.

Read by Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Cups
Nine
A goodly personage has feasted to his heart’s content, and abundant refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material side only, but there are other aspects. Divinatory Meanings: Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is made. Reversed: Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and include
mistakes, imperfections, etc.

Cups
Eight
A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous
concern. Divinatory Meanings: The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are
entirely antithetical–giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In practice, it is usually
found that the card shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be
important is really of slight consequence–either for good or evil. Reversed: Great joy, happiness,
feasting.

Read by Bill Vincent

Bill Vincent is a media and music producer living in the Nashville, TN area.

Visit myspace.com/ILoveRustyJ to hear some of the new stuff I’m working on. The album will be available on iTunes soon as well.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

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Cups
Seven

Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit.

Divinatory Meanings: Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but nothing permanent or substantial is suggested.

Reversed: Desire, will, determination, project.

Read by Leisa ReFalo

Leisa ReFalo combines her background in software engineering with a deep and abiding interest in all things Tarot. She is the author of two Tarot decks: the Tarot of Color (an attribution deck that shows the depth of correspondences), and the Kaleidoscope Tarot (an abstract deck where a card is represented by a single color and symbol), and the genius behind the programing for:

• English Qabalah Calculators
• Birth Card Calculator for the Tarot School
• Tarot of the Name Site
• Tarot of Color Free Readings

Leisa is a professional Tarot reader, and co-founder of the Portland Tarot Society. Her work can be seen at: www.tarotconnection.net, www.tarotjourney.net, www.tarotofcolor.com, and www.portlandtarot.org

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Cups
Six

Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.

Divinatory Meanings: A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as–for example–on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct.

Reversed: The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.

Read by Paul ReFalo

Paul ReFalo is a Forensics Scientist for the State of Oregon.

He brought meditation training to the Oregon prison systems. He is the director of the Portland Shambhala Meditation Center.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Cups
Five

A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to a small keep or holding.

Divanatory Meanings: It is a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration.

Reversed: News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects.

Read by Dan Pelletier

Dan Pelletier lives north of Seattle Washington with his wife of 22 years, Jan, his two cats, Spook and Pookha, and 32 rosebushes. He has been reading Tarot for himself and others for over thirty years.

Dan is also co-owner of The Tarot Garden, a highly respected resource for tarot decks and related information on the Internet. He has written articles appearing on the Tarot for Life website newsletter, Seeker’s Journey, and Tarot Passages; and has published interviews with deck creators on the tarotgarden.com website library.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Cups
Four

A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with his environment.
Divinatory Meanings: Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary
vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he sees no consolation therein. This is also a card of blended pleasure.
Reversed: Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.

Cups
Three

Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another.

Divinatory Meanings: The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing,

Reversed: Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.

Read by Brad Thomsen

Brad Thomsen has enjoyed expressing himself creatively in both musical and theatrical pursuits.

A graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he has also been a part of several theater projects. He now resides in Portland, OR.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Cups
Two

A youth and maiden are pledging one another, and above their cups rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which there appears a lion’s head. It is a variant of a sign which is found in a few old examples of this card. Some curious emblematical meanings are attached to it, but they do not concern us in this place.
Divinatory Meanings: Love, passion, friendship, affinity,
union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and–as a suggestion apart from all offices of divination–that desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.

Cups
Ace

The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana.

Divinatory Meanings: House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.

Reversed: House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.

Read by Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Wands
Queen

The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally
and otherwise, the Queen’s personality corresponds to that of the King, but is more magnetic.
Divinatory Meanings: A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the
card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman, she is interested in
the Querent. Also, love of money, or a certain success in business. Reversed: Good, economical,
obliging, serviceable. Signifies also–but in certain positions and in the neighbourhood of other
cards tending in such directions–opposition, jealousy, even deceit and infidelity.

Wands
King

The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three correspondences in the remaining suits, what is called a cap of maintenance beneath his crown. He connects with the symbol of the lion, which is emblazoned on the back of his throne.

Divinatory Meanings: Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty, and may mean news concerning an unexpected heritage to fall in before very long.

Reversed: Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.

Read by Dan Pelletier

Dan Pelletier lives north of Seattle Washington with his wife of 22 years, Jan, his two cats, Spook and Pookha, and 32 rosebushes. He has been reading Tarot for himself and others for over thirty years.

Dan is also co-owner of The Tarot Garden, a highly respected resource for tarot decks and related information on the Internet. He has written articles appearing on the Tarot for Life website newsletter, Seeker’s Journey, and Tarot Passages; and has published interviews with deck creators on the tarotgarden.com website library.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

Download or Play the Card

Wands
Knight

He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids. The motion of the horse is a key to the character of its rider, and suggests the precipitate mood, or things connected therewith.

Divinatory Meanings: Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.

Reversed: Rupture, division, interruption, discord,

Read by Paul ReFalo

Paul ReFalo is a Forensics Scientist for the State of Oregon.

He brought meditation training to the Oregon prison systems. He is the director of the Portland Shambhala Meditation Center.

Ator Tarot by Robin Ator

The Ator Tarot is a light-hearted and simplified re-creation of Coleman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite. It is a limited-edition deck printed in the USA and can be purchased at Glow in the Dark Pictures from the Artist.

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