the fool
A blank canvas, unformed potential
A fresh start
Taking a risk
Not caring what the world thinks
Surrender
Answering a ‘call’
Trusting in the universe
Overcoming self-doubt
Embracing uncertainty
Defying social norms and being your rad self
A cliff-edge or precipice (leaving safety behind)
Sunshine (positivity, action, embracing life)
A dog or animal helper (because you are not alone, you are supported)
A small bag (travelling light, taking only what you need)
A wand, held lightly (you have access to magic, even if you don’t know how to wield it yet)
Flowers (purity, beauty, lightness of spirit)
Source: https://littleredtarot.com/learn-tarot/library/majors/0-the-fool/
the magician
Setting intentions / being intentional / declaring your intent
Directing energy consciously
Willpower
Being dynamic
Putting thoughts into action
Making something tangible
Getting started
Having all the resources you need
Being powerful
Leadership
Success
Four suits or four elements (access to resources)
Magic wand (channelling ‘magic’ energy from the Universe)
Pointing to the ground (making something tangible, earthing your energy)
Lemniscate / infinity sign (transcendence)
Flowers (growth, visible manifestation of life force)
Yellow and red colours (passion, life, energy)
the high priestess
The answer is within you
Listening to / trusting your intuition and feelings
Looking beneath the surface / exploring your subconscious
Getting therapy or accessing self-help resources
Exploring or studying spirituality
Taking a non-rational approach
Knowing something you can’t explain
Stillness, quiet, passivity, meditation
A witch, shaman, psychic, or ‘wise woman’ figure
Lunar cycles
Spellwork and ritual
Mystery
The moon (intuition)
Water, especially still water (emotion)
A veil (a division between worlds, or layers of consciousness)
Scripture or text (wisdom, learning)
A temple (a place of spiritual devotion)
Blue and purple colours (serenity, spirituality, peace)
the empress
Self-love and love for/from others
Creativity and self-expression in all forms
Abundance, richness
Nature, cycles, feeling in tune with the seasons and the natural world
Being in the flow
Sexuality, sensuality, enjoying your physicality
Fertility
Life force
A maternal figure in your life
Plants growing (fecundity, growth)
Crops (abundance, richness)
Venus symbols (love, sexuality, pleasure)
A crown (power, being in charge)
Pregnancy (fertlity and birth)
A river (feelings in motion, flow)
the emperor
Rules and laws
Structure
Discipline
Doing what needs to be done
Making (perhaps difficult or unpopular) decisions
Creating solid foundations, doing groundwork
Wielding power (for good or bad purposes)
Oppression, dictatorship, an institution or situation that traps and controls
A paternal figure in your life
Armour (protection)
An older person (wisdom gained through experience)
Red robes (strength and leadership)
Symmetry and straight lines (structure, order)
A ram’s head (the zodiac sign of Aries, the initiator)
the hierophant
Ancestry
Connecting to your past
Honouring your ancestors
Family history research (where family can be genetic or chosen)
Talking with elders
Initiation into a religious or spiritual community or path
A new start, spiritually
Spiritual wisdom or teachings
Religious or spiritual study
Becoming a teacher or mentor
Reaching a milestone in any kind of study
Key (initiation, unlocking secret wisdom)
Pope-like figure (a conduit between worlds, a translator)
A teacher (passing on of wisdom)
the lovers
Love (of all kinds)
Making heart-centred choices
Doing the right thing
Compassion
Partnerships and relationships
Self-love
Being your ‘best self’
Roses (love!)
Angel (transcendence, choosing a ‘higher path’)
Any two or more parts creating a whole representing a sense of completion
the chariot
Focus
Focused action
Self-belief and confidence
Commitment, drive and determination
Getting super-clear about your goals
Fighting for what you believe in
Activism
Overcoming obstacles
Hard, passionate work
Courage
Armour (doing battle)
Black and white creatures pulling the chariot (focusing opposing energies)
Riding without reins (driving forwards by sheer force of will)
The chariot itself (movement)
Crescent moons
strenght
Inner strength and courage
Loving activism, fighting fear and hate with compassion
Dignified resistance
Emotional labour (and its value)
Forgiveness
Love in the face of anger or fear
Checking in with your emotions and overriding those that will burn you out
Accepting and loving the ‘shadow self’
Making positive, compassionate choices
Lemniscate / infinity sign (transcendence, magical powers, tapping into something higher)
Lion (the ‘wild beast’ within us, anger, lust, etc)
A woman taming a lion (love and gentleness overcoming that wild beast)
White clothing (peace, innocence)
Flowers (love, care, beauty)
the hermit
Solitide, retreat
Peace and quiet
Giving your mind space
Working things through on your own
Claiming space and time for you
Mentoring / teaching
Finding a mentor / teacher
Self-guided or guided study
A lamp (inner wisdom guiding you)
A staff (leaning on knowledge and wisdom)
Mountaintops or isolated places in nature (solitude)
Hooded cloak (devotion to study)
the wheel of fortune
Change is happening
A change in luck, especially good
Predictions and prophesies
Feeling like something is ‘destined’ to happen
A shift in power dynamics
Taking responsibility
Focusing on what you can do (rather than being frustrated by what you can’t change)
All things are interconnected
Seeing the bigger picture
justice
Key words and concepts
Rational, logical thought, objectivity (is this helpful or harmful?)
Binary, ‘right/wrong’ thinking (ditto)
Knowing what is ‘right’
Justice, fairness, balance
Accountability
Social justice principles
Intersectionality
Cause and effect
Cutting through bullshit
Legal affairs (whether ‘just’ or not)
Some common symbols
Scales (balance, fairness)
Sword (rational thought, cutting through confusion)
Symmetry (logic, structure)
Thrones, crowns, robes (power and status)
the hanged man
Passivity
Holding back
Patience
Acknowledging that you do not know everything
Allowing events to unfold
Meditation and mindful practice
Inner peace
Independent thinking, taking a different perspective
Self-acceptance
Overcoming ego
Not being afraid of what’s inside you
Hanging upside down (independent perspectives, your own truth)
Halo or other magical symbols (transcendence, enlightenment, inner peace)
death
Personal transformation
Starting over, moving on
The ending of a cycle
Letting go, saying goodbye
Preparing to begin a new cycle
Ritual to honour change
Being in the flow of change, not resisting
Letting go of an old identity, accepting that you have changed
Honouring the seasons of life
Skeletons (death)
Shedding skin (change)
The grim reaper (change is inevitable, and is coming)
Sunrise (rebirth, a new day)
Flowers (renewal)
temperance
Balance, harmony
A blending of dualities
Alchemy
Seeking the middle path
Not making extreme decisions
Taking a nonbinary attitude
Testing the waters
Self-care, grace, gentleness
Integration into something you were resisting
Non-gendered angel (transcending the duality of gender)
One foot in the water (testing the water, blending elements of earth and water)
Water – being poured and in the landscape (intuition, feeling)
Sunrise (a new day, a new start)
Two cups (love)
Flowers (natural renewal)
the devil
Bondage
Addiction
Materialism
Destructive behaviours
Getting trapped in harmful cycles
Choosing to get free, or choosing not to get free
Losing sight of what is important in life
Confronting fear
Accountability to yourself
Delusion…and self-awareness
Committing to your own freedom
Chains (bondage)
Nakedness (vulnerability, poverty of spirit)
Hellish imagery (a spiritual prison)
A devil or demon (inner demons)
A key (freedom)
Upside-down pentagram (materialism)
the tower
Revolution
Disaster
Shock
Mourning
Blowing apart old structures, demolition of the status quo
Toppling systems of power (on small or large scales)
Potential
Making way for the new
Finding a new way
Rebuilding after disaster
A blessing in disguise as a disaster
Rehabilitation. Regeneration
Lightening (a sudden shock, disaster, destruction)
A tower (the old establishment, the old way)
Falling people (fallout, harsh consequences)
the star
Hope
Love and support
Coming home to yourself
Self-care
Healing
Being true to yourself
Being guided by your intuition
Integrity, honesty
A positive new start or new vision
The water bearer (Aquarius)
Nakedness (being vulnerable, but feeling safe)
Pouring water (soothing emotion)
Stars (guiding lights)
Cups (containers of emotion)
the moon
Shadow work
Getting in touch with your wild nature
‘Letting you wolf howl’
Listening deeply to your intuition
Secret messages, signs and symbols
Being totally non-rational
Witchcraft, magic and spellwork
Lies and deception
Deceiving yourself
Wearing a mask
Howling dog and/or wolf (your wild nature)
Crab or lobster (messages from the subconscious rising to the surface)
Sea, water (intuition, emotion)
Mountains in the distance (a journey)
The moon (intuition, hidden realms, inner wisdom)
A mask (deception, obscuring the truth)
the sun
Positivity
Saying yes
Joy
Practicing gratitude
Success, things coming together
Life’s simple pleasures
Allowing yourself to simply be
Starting an exciting project
Connecting to a dynamic life force
Warm, yellow rays of sunshine (life force, energy)
Sunflowers (growth and renewal)
A naked child or person (simplicity)
judgement
Liberation, freedom, casting off shackles
Laying down of old baggage
Total accountability for self
Forgiveness of self
Forgiveness of others
Letting go
Allowing yourself to move forwards
Horn (hearing a call)
Angel (transcendence, call coming from ‘above’)
People, birds or other things ‘rising up’ (the soul transcending, lightness)
the world
Completion
A sense of wholeness
Knowing who you are in the world, having a sense of place
Feeling deeply connected to all things
Reaching your goal
Bringing things to their end, wrapping up projects
Focusing on your goal
Celebration
Preparing to start over
A dancer (pure self-expression)
Flags (movement and joy)
Wands (magic)
Circles (wholeness, completion, cycles)
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