c. More details for each card:
The beauty with the Tarot cards is that you can keep going into details and found many new meanings for each card. Each card is full of powerful symbols. To give you a feeling of how deep each card can be, I will once more go into more details for each one of them.
Now that you learnt about a general meaning for each card you have to realize that each card can put upfront either our strengths or our weaknesses depending on how we are, act and on the situation we are living.
For example: the Sun: You can be warming others by your kind presence or by being too shiny, which would mean being pretentious, affect others around you!
Unfortunately, I cannot go here into too many details, as it is endless, but I invite you to read the book “The way of Tarot” by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa.
0: It is a non-number (The Fool). It is the potential of everything.
1: The beginning.
2: A pair or a dual, break, gestation. Take the time needed without being in conflict with people around us.
3: Trinity, creativity, project, thought, creative speech, communication.
4: Demonstration, realization, construction.
5: Change; focus on our hearth, maturity, independence.
6: Hesitation, emotional choice and/or second harmony.
7: Give again an impetus, will, success, unexpected inner feeling.
8: Balance, solidity (we do an outside appraisal to decide if we keep going or not)
9: The end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one, a choice.
10: End of an achievement.
This is a small list of other possible key words mentioned in the Alejandro Jodorowsky’s book (the way of Tarot). Keep in mind that each card has a positive and negative interpretation. Therefore for each strength corresponds a weakness and vice versa. Ex: the Pope: mediator-> dictator/ The Fool: positive independence->selfishness
The Fool:
Freedom, energy, travel, seeking, origin, wandering, essence, liberating force, the irrational, chaos, flight, madness.
I. The Magician:
Shrewdness, initiation, beginning, need of aid, dexterity, youth, potentiality, gives something concrete expression, disciple, malice, verve, talent, trickster (sacred)
II. The High Priestess:
Faith, knowledge, patience, sanctuary, fidelity, purity, solitude, silence, severity, matriarchy, rigor, gestation, virginity, cold, resignation.
III. The Empress:
Fertility, creativity, seduction, desire, power, feelings, enthusiasm, nature, elegance, abundance, harvest, beauty, hatching, adolescence.
IIII. The Emperor:
Stability, domination, power, responsibility, rationalism, support, government, matter, solidity, leader, balance, order, power, father.
V. The Pope:
Wisdom, ideal, communication, teaching, verticality, plan, mediator, faith, guide, example, to marry, spiritual power, saintliness.
VI. The Lover:
Eros, heart, choice, emotional domain, conflict, ambiguity, trio, social life, community, siblings, doing what you love.
VII. The Chariot:
Action, lover, prince, triumph, ease, to fertilize, to colonize, to travel, to dominate, noninterventionism, warrior, eternity.
VIII. Justice:
Woman, maternity, sovereign, balance, court, completion, taking a stand, valor, judging, perfection, presence, conning, authorizing, forbidding, balancing.
VIIII. The Hermit:
Solitude, wisdom, letting go, therapy, crisis, experience, poverty, shedding light, ascetic, very old age, walking backward, cold, receptive, ancient, silence.
X. The Wheel of Fortune:
Fortune, block, renewal, enigma, solution, cycle, impermanence, change, eternal return, beginning and end, body-heart-mind, fate, to revolve.
XI. Strength:
Animal nature, wild beast, creativity, depth, voice, puberty, to speak, to stop speaking, rebirth, force, beginning, to communicate, to feel.
XII. The Hanged Man:
Sacrifice, halt, not choosing, gestation, fetus, meditation, gift of the self, depth, upside down, to wait, delay, suspension, rest.
XIII. The Nameless Arcanum:
Change, mutation, revolution, anger, transformation, cleansing, harvest, skeleton, to cut, advance, to eliminate, to destroy, rapidity.
XIIII. Temperance:
Guardian Angel, measure, blend, to circulate, harmony, to heal, to protect, benevolence, prudence, to moderate, health, even-tempered.
XV. The Devil:
Temptation, passion, attachments, sequence, money, contract, depth, darkness, fear, taboo, subconscious, sexuality, impulses, creativity.
XVI. The Tower:
Temple, construction, joy, overflowing, shock, expression, celebration, dancing, to uncork, opening, moving house, exploding.
XVII. The Star:
Chance, to feed, to sanctify, to kneel, fertility, talent, inspiration, femininity, song, stellar, cosmic, ecology, irrigate, finding one’s place, star.
XVIII. The Moon:
Night, intuition, feminine, cosmic mother, dream, receptivity, to reflect, mystery, attraction, imagination, magnetic, gestation, madness, poetry, uncertainty, phases.
XVIIII. The Sun:
Heat, love, new life, construction, passage, awareness, cosmic father, twinship, to radiate, to cross, childhood, success, evolution.
XX. The Judgment:
Vocation, call, birth, renaissance, consciousness, work, union, family, transcendence, to emerge, music, to prompt.
XXI. The World:
Realization, soul, world, fullness, success, heroism, genius, holiness, to dance, ecstasy, universal, fulfillment, totality.