Classic meanings: Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, also speedy intelligence, gold.

In relation to love and feelings, this card has additional arcanum: If knowing you’re asexual makes someone see you differently, then they don’t deserve to be in your life.

Original description of the card by the author – Arthur Edward Waite: A hand—issuing, as usual, from a cloud—holds up a pentacle.

Classic 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 favorable readings must be considered in a qualified manner, as Swords generally are not symbolical of beneficent forces in human affairs.

In this tarot spread the card has complementary explanation: Don’t get her wrong. She’s happy to be your morning lollipop, but she needs to eat, too.

Original description of the card by the author – Arthur Edward Waite: A hoodwinked female figure balances two swords upon her shoulders.

Classic meanings: The card signifies strength in opposition. If attacked, the person will meet an onslaught boldly, and his build shows that he may prove a formidable antagonist. With this main significance there are all its possible adjuncts—delay, suspension, adjournment.

A special insight for love: You had talked too much. I had said too little.

Original description of the card by the author – Arthur Edward Waite: The figure leans upon his staff and has an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy. Behind are eight other staves—erect, in orderly disposition, like a palisade.

Classic meanings: Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities thereto belonging.

In relation to love and feelings, this card has additional arcanum: Thank god he’s holding me because if he weren’t, I’d float away like a large happily smiling ballon.

Original description of the card by the author – Arthur Edward Waite: A 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.

Classic meanings: Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality, that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil.

In this tarot spread the card has complementary explanation: It had been a nice night, but not one they’d repeat. Like, ever.

Original description of the card by the author – Arthur Edward Waite: The design is an accommodation, mean or harmony, between several motives mentioned in the first part. The Horned Goat of Mendes, with wings like those of a bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit of the stomach there is the sign of Mercury. The right hand is upraised and extended, being the reverse of that benediction which is given by the Hierophant in the fifth card. In the left hand there is a great flaming torch, inverted towards the earth. A reversed pentagram is on the forehead. There is a ring in front of the altar, from which two chains are carried to the necks of two figures, male and female. These are analogous with those of the fifth card, as if Adam and Eve after the Fall. Hereof is the chain and fatality of the material life.

The figures are tailed, to signify the animal nature, but there is human intelligence in the faces, and he who is exalted above them is not to be their master for ever. Even now, he is also a bondsman, sustained by the evil that is in him and blind to the liberty of service. With more than his usual derision for the arts which he pretended to respect and interpret as a master therein, Eliphas Lévi affirms that the Baphometic figure is occult science and magic. Another commentator says that in the Divine world it signifies predestination, but there is no correspondence in that world with the things which below are of the brute. What it does signify is the Dweller on the Threshold without the Mystical Garden when those are driven forth therefrom who have eaten the forbidden fruit.