The card of singularity and uniqueness. You can conjure and will also experience wonders. Every person is something special and possesses a distinct, unique share of the universe. You will thus want to make something genuine, at which no one else has yet succeeded.
Make a difference! Be unique and not polite!
- ■ Basic Meaning
To this day, magicians possess an amazing personal significance: It is not about requisites, also not about tricks or an act of will. We have experiences on our individual life journey that “no eye has yet seen” and always discover intriguing solutions. Such magic is unmistakable, but not supernatural. It is always at your disposal; it grows and prospers with the successful design of personal possibilities.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
You are one with yourself, with God, and with the world: The universe loves you and needs you!
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Widen your horizon! Harness all of your chances!
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
Much appears to be “jinxed” as long as your own way is not pursued. Bring your character into play—examine your aptitudes and tasks.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Nothing is impossible with “God” and love. With consistency and ingenuity you can change your world into a rose garden!
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
“More ideas per horsepower”: No one can see your entire personal opportunity and no one can take it away.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Wings on the Head and Feet
The messenger of the gods (Greek: Hermes) appears with wings on his head and feet. The Magus appears here likewise. We also see the snakes on the head, the caduceus, and the sun disk.
The Caduceus Rod – 
The Hermes-Rod is called the caduceus (or in Greek: kerykeion). The two crossed snakes symbolize the connection of urges and senses, of gods and humans, and likewise between humans.
The Uraeus Snakes – 
The Uraeus snake is an erect cobra. Portraits from the pharaohs and the ancient Egyptians show them as small figures on a headdress. They appear here as a symbol for knowledge, wisdom, and insight.
The Winged Sun Sign
An ancient Egyptian symbol for midheaven, the sun, and consciousness. It is also the sign of the gods, the crest, and the cosmic order, of which we are a part; symbol of the highest power.
Torch, Cup, Sword, Pentacle
The four elements, dowry, gifts of life, tasks, and “magical tools” which to master: fire—deeds, will; water—feelings, the soul; air—intellect, spirit; earth—outcomes, the body.
The Ape – 
Symbolic animal of the Egyptian god Thoth, the precursor of the Greek god Hermes, god of magic, scholarship, writing, wisdom, and the calendar. Also: the animalistic side of the Magus.
Pen (Arrow) / Scroll
The arrow stands for mental alacrity, determination, and accuracy. Pen and scroll are symbols of the god Thoth. Intelligence and spirited work, nothing supernatural, are the trump!
The Winged Egg – 
The “egg of Columbus!” In Harry Potter the “Snitch,” the golden ball, which decides victory or defeat. Symbol of the winged possibilities that everyone has grasped and hatched!
The Phoenix Rod – 
The phoenix burns itself from time to time, in order to emerge anew from its ashes. This is also how the magician cleanses himself and molts from an imposter or misfit to a wizard and philosopher.
Channel / Path – 
The Magus is a wanderer between the worlds. A large parallel line traverses the image, so one can see the entire height, like a canal, a tightrope, a path: Bridge between the worlds.
From history we know oracle priestesses such as Pythia of Delphi, sybils (prophets) such as Cassandra of Troy, and religious women. Above all, today we see, just as with all we imagine in tarot, a personal mirror. There is also a priestess in you!
Form your own opinion—and live it!
- ■ Basic Meaning
Every person, every entity has their own meaning. The network or matrix in the image symbolizes the inner canvas, the networking, and interconnection in which all emotional impressions and experiences can be found. Likewise the curtain also relates concretely to the personal living quarters and general domain that every person needs. Sometimes it is important to create your own space. Other times it can be important to not isolate or entrap yourself.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
To understand the personal significance of thoughts, feelings, and deeds through meditation or reverence.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Unfamiliar prescriptions will not help here. Advocate your own opinion.
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
You are always your own fortuneteller: What you think and believe will be reality for you, even if it is delusion. Bury your sterile obedience and stubborn obstinacy. Give yourself and others a chance to find a sense of self!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
The mystery of the high priestess is her ability to perceive, sort, and name feelings, needs, and ideas.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Listen to your inner voice!
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Moon Crown –
The threefold moon or Isis crown, after the Egyptian mother goddess Isis, is also found in many depictions of Mary. The three visible moon phases, the three stages of life from a maiden to a woman to an aged woman.
The Sevenfold Moon Sickle –
Allusion to the classic seven planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). The seven days of creation. The seven tones of a musical scale. Character and integrity.
Bow and Arrow / Harp –
Bow and Arrow: Typical for the maiden hunter goddess Diana (Greek: Artemis). The harp symbolizes the Erato, the muse of love poetry, song, and dance. Allusion to symbols of infinitude.
The White Camel
Wandering through the desert, overcoming hard times, the ability to store water over a long period of time (emotions, needs, ideas). Intelligence, forwardness. The long journey to yourself.
The Fruit –
The goal of the search, the oasis, the refreshment of memory and vision. Personal productivity. The fertility of one’s self. Goal of the journey and our source: Origin, reserved strength, provisions for the journey.
The Gemstone –
The power of the soul to process experiences and build clear values. Negative: Hardening and fixation on specific wishes and fears. Positive: Clarity, refinement; pure experience without assessment.
Matrix Veil I –
Network of inner connections, impressions, and correlations. The matrix of self-meaning, “inner switchboard,” the power to recognize your inner voice, your own interpretations, and connections.
Matrix Veil II
Legends and poems describe the veiled image of Isis. However the High Priestess is only half veiled; she shows her hair, marks her own realm, and stays perceptible…
White and Black
…The mystery of the High Priestess is not a riddle, especially the ability to sort out clear purposes and skills, emotions and needs, to determine and to live with one’s negative feelings.
Teal
Green: Nature, water, fresh, young, inexperienced, unripe. Blue: Water, spirit, heaven. Coolness, expansiveness, longing, the blues, sentiments, intoxication. Teal: Self-meaning. Emotional, deep, languid, tenacious, flowing.
The myth of Venus tells that a magical belt makes her irresistible. The waistline is naturally sexual. Furthermore it is a symbol for the connection of body and soul. The direct expression of inner movement is emotion—a large theme for women as well as men.
The Empress and love goddess in you.
- ■ Basic Meaning
The Empress is evocative of empresses and queens. She also stands for the major goddesses in early history, the threefold deity in Christianity and other religions, for mothers of gods such as Isis and Mary, and not least of all for the goddesses of love, such as Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.
Lastly the card is a mirror of one’s own womanhood (and the feminine side in man). She mirrors the personal experiences as a woman and/or with women, the legacy of the mother, grandmother, and female ancestors.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
The enjoyment of sense and sensuality.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Take care and responsibility for your daily well-being. Banish false goddesses from your life!
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
For your well-being: Establish appropriate rules for yourself and adhere to them!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
When we love and are loved, our personal nature blossoms. Love grows where sense and senses get a chance to, and with it, the beauty of your being.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
The key: Authenticity and satisfaction.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Figure’s Posture
The remarkable posture of the Empress stands for her movedness: the concept of emotions, the manifestation of inner movement. She thus stands for spontaneity and personal ease.
Threefold Moon Crown with Cross –
The combination of the High Priestess’s Isis crown and the Emperor’s orb. Also: the connection of spirit (cross) and earth / material (circle, sphere). Wedding of heaven and earth. Refinement of nature.
Moons with Crescents and Spheres –
The visible crescent moon points at, like the tip of the iceberg, the invisible, that hides in the shape of black moons and in the large translucent spheres behind them.
Pelican with Young –
Following established conceptions: a pelican. The legend of the pelican narrates that he nourishes his children with his blood. This is also a picture of fertile transference: to embrace and pass on the impulses of life.
The Sparrow –
Symbol of meaninglessness and the slight, but also after the older concept as a symbol of lust (though often concerning “receptiveness”). Together with the dove: “Sparrow in the hand—dove on the roof”?!
The Dove –
An attribute of the love goddesses, the goddesses of wisdom and the Holy Spirit. Peace dove, sign of spirituality and sexuality. But also: aloofness, hysteria, and “deafness.”
The Shield with Double Eagles
Sovereignty over the land and the air, no higher (spiritual) authority will be accepted! Also: Sparrow, dove, eagle—from inconspicuous to the most powerful—everything natural receives its place by the Empress.
Zodiac Belt –
Venus’s mythical zodiac belt makes her irresistible. Thus it concerns the hips and sexuality, but also the connection of the conscious and the unconscious, of the upper part of the body and the abdomen.
The Bee
A symbol of the earth mother Demeter, but also Zeus and Zeus / Dionysus. The queen bee as a female leader. The sweetness of life. But also industriousness and important, diligent work.
The Lotus Scepter
Blossomed femininity, fulfilled sexuality. The one hand holds a phallus-like lotus stalk and the other is receptively open. Flowers: the beauty of nature and the blossoming of a person.
To be ruler in one’s own life; to govern one’s self; to be the top priority; to not recoil at the unfamiliar; to explore a desert and transform it into a garden—this is the power of the “Emperor.” These talents are naturally for women just as much as men!
The Emperor and God of Spring in you.
- ■ Basic Meaning
Emperors and kings, Zeus, Jupiter, and many father figures belong to this image. It is a mirror of distinct manhood (and the masculine side of the woman). The card concerns the personal experiences as a man and / or with men, the legacy of the father, grandfather, and male ancestors. The Emperor is the strength in us to explore new possibilities of livability. The ram is the pioneer in us, the first symbol of the zodiac, the “absolute beginner.”
- ■ Spiritual Experience
“Man can endure everything if he can endure himself.” —Anonymous
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Employ your pioneering spirit. Examine the situation. Create your own facts.
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
Much is gained when one understands this card not only as an external (personal or public) alignment, but also as a symbol of personal self-determination.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Every relationship requires pioneering to overcome problems and to find new possibilities in love.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Every person brings something new into the world. The new wants to be developed.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Ram –
The ram is the first zodiac symbol of the year: Easter time, beginning of spring, renewal of life. Pioneer in a new land. Also in the Christian Easter liturgy: Where there was a desert shall be a garden!
Sundial / Nucleus –
Vigor, permanent movement, command of contradictions, suspension of antagonisms in communal decisions (the orb in the middle), reserves of strength, motor functions, movement as a principle of life.
Lamb with Flag –
Again evidence of Easter and the beginning of spring: Life is stronger than death; a new life dawns. Or: birth and renewal as a life principle. The primal power of life.
Shield, Double Eagle, Red Sun
Sovereignty over the land and the air, no higher (spiritual) authority will be accepted! Also: Union of antagonisms. The glow of dawn and sunset. Red: blood, blaze, fury. —Will, love, leadership. Menstruation, wound.
The Ram Scepter –
Start from nothing. “Through the wall with the head” and “Where there is a will, there is often no way” (Judith Bärtschi). The will must build the way. The first = (Latin) princeps (prince, principle). Negative = stickler for principles.
Orb with the Cross
Orb = Symbol of power. Globe, model, worldview. Also: Material that will be blessed. The cross as a symbol of materially embodied spirituality and as a symbol for the union of antagonisms.
The Lilies –
Another parallel to the Empress. Symbol of (worldly) dominion that also has spiritual traits. “God” and Mary, mother of God as supreme rulers. Sovereignty, purity, innocence.
The Bee –
(Napoleon replaced lilies in the crest with bees.) The bee refers to the earth mother Demeter and also Zeus / Dionysus, father of the gods. Industriousness, sting, honey, diligence, divine leadership.
The Gold Crown with Crystals
Sun and clarity. Or greed and hardship. Positive: Power of vision, cosmic charisma, clarity of feelings and thoughts. Negative: Fixed thoughts, frozen feelings, spiritual hardening.
Monochrome
Symbol of determination, but also lack of imagination. Everything is said in one card (color). Only an aspect is pertinent. Negative: “To see red,” arbitrariness, unfiltered emotions. Positive: “Only love counts!”
V — The Hierophant / High Priest
“Hierophant” in Greek means: the Holy proclaimed. “Hierophant” is the name of High Priest in most ancient inaugural schools. The card refers likewise to the pope of the Catholic (formerly the entire Christian) Church. Like every card—a mirror for you!
The key lies in you!
- ■ Basic Meaning
What was once a task for the priests and high priests is today a theme for all of us: How do we find personal answers to the big and small mysteries of life? How do we organize corresponding celebrations and ceremonies?
Large as well as small images symbolize personal strengths and weaknesses that together guide to the bottom line, the “divine spark,” the holy in every human that is often sealed and “preserved!”
- ■ Spiritual Experience
Everyone is a spiritual teacher for each other when they reveal something holy.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Ordain others with your secrets and open yourself to the needs of others.
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
Perceive the “meaning of life”: What makes sense revitalizes the senses.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
What experiences, which days of the year, which turning points in life are meaningful for you and your loved ones? Shape these large and small occasions with concern and commitment. There is nothing more important.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
The key: Your own expertise.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Threefold Figure
It is usually understood so: The minor gods / priests = the past (Isis), the child in / on the chest of the main image = the future (Horus), and the main image, the high priest = the present (Osiris).
The Child in the Pentagram –
A large pentagram surrounds the main image. It mirrors itself in the small pentagram and the small child: Inner child, self-upbringing, self-dedication, to accept one’s own strengths and weaknesses.
Female Priest / Goddess –
Like the small child: A young, not yet developed spirituality. To teach and to learn, to know and to search inextricably belong together. The three images together first make the High Priest / Hierophant.
Key Scepter / Three Rings –
Jesus appointed the first Pope Peter with a collection of keys: “What you would like to bind on the earth should also be bound to heaven. And what you would like to release from the earth should also be released from heaven.”
The Rosette Window –
Halo, window to the soul, gate to transcendence. The stone roses can be seen as the heart. Altogether the five rosettes are recognized behind the head of the main figure, the number of quintessence.
Four Archangels / Evangelists
Luke, the bull—earth. Mark, the lion—fire. John, the eagle—water. (Symbolic succession, scorpion—snake—eagle). Matthew, the angel or lad—air. Many more correlations.
The Blessed Greeting –
Do yourself a favor. Take it in your hand! Also: A part is visible, the other is invisible. And: As above, so below. As in heaven, so also on the earth. The interaction of both sides brings blessedness.
Dove and Snake –
Pure, holy spirit and terrestrial temptation. Also: Heavenly and earthly wisdom. Also: dove as symbol of hysteria, aloofness, and “deafness.” To integrate antagonisms.
Bull and Elephants – 
Steadfastness, the boulder amidst waves, groundedness, beliefs that are anchored to the earth. Proverbial patience, but also the long memory of an elephant.
Masks / Masters
Renewal is essential, because the old examples are fossilized and hollow. Or: The essence of certain parameters. They are made penetrable by the power that is greater than a single person.
The fantastic card. The spirit or angel is located certainly and completely between Cupid and the lovers. The more he resembles gray clouds (“thick air,” atmospheric friction, unclear ideals, aspirations, etc.), the more the lovers stand in shadow, although everything looks so beautiful.
The marriage of life…
- ■ Basic Meaning
We see ourselves through love, but sometimes we also dread love or to be loved. As long as we search for our “better half,” the danger exists that we bisect ourselves. Or the search for conformity: There can only be one person you fully and completely understand: yourself. One should not demand from a partner what one cannot fulfill themselves. Accordingly, one should not expect from a partner what only “God” can send: Inner peace, salvation, fulfillment.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
The disappearance of the shadows in the sun …
- ■ As the Card of the Day
“Love yourself and it doesn’t matter who you marry.” —Eva M. Zurhorst
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
Lieb has a choice: He who loves, has more of everything in life than someone who does not love!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Lastly, love fells your barriers against relationships and family and will become what has always been beautiful: The new paradise …
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Love emerges and exists through mutual “creation.” No relationship exists for a long time without a surplus, without something productive that grows in the process.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
Black and White Royal Children –
They stand for the sun and the moon, masculine and feminine traditions. Only recently is it possible to explore “the other side of the moon,” to reach the highest mountains and the deepest oceans.
Red Lion and White Eagle –
Alchemistic symbols of the true will (red lion) and pure purpose (white eagle). Many symbols on the card point to the motivations of marriage, the reconciliation, and suspension of opposites.
Black and White Children –
Also here the union of inner antagonisms. And the conciliation with the inner child. Also the experience that many opposites are like twins, the same only in seemingly different figures.
Blessed Figure / Spirit –
Angel or spirit as a reference point, guardian angel, the higher union of both lovers. But also, shadows that weigh on them, “thick air,” unclear thoughts and expectations, meeting of Cupid / Eros.
The Snake Egg
The egg of the world, picture of creation and world formation in the ancient Greek tradition of the Pelasgians. Here: A new stage of life begins, a new phase, a new world.
The Arrow-Shooting Cupid / Eros –
The ecstasy of the lovers. The good spirit that merges them. The higher union. The child (in a literal or figurative sense of mutual production and creativity), the asset of relationships.
Lance and Cup
Motif from the legend of the Holy Grail: Jesus on the cross with the lance opening his side. His blood falls (as in the legend) in the grail chalice. Here: Symbol of the violation and vulnerability of opening up.
The Flowers –
Inner masculine and feminine attributes. The flowers stand for nature’s beauty and a person’s blossoming. A bouquet of flowers stands for the beauty of people, everyone in their own uniqueness!
The Club –
Inner masculine attributes (or “rolling pin!”). Positive: Mastery of raw strength and rugged instincts. “A rugged wedge sits on a rugged block!” Negative: Crudeness, rudeness, missing fine motor skills.
The Stylites – 
Figures of the superego that escalate and incorporate contradictions that the royal children have hewn. Symbol of piety and frivolity. For many interpretations: Lilith and Eve.
The Chariot is composed of the experience of one’s own personality, the conscious control (the charioteer) of the unconscious drives, karma, and life history (the chariot). The sphinxes stand (better: sit here) for the riddles of life.
To venture one’s own course.
- ■ Basic Meaning
ABRACADABRA stands on the canopy of the chariot. Which is the fateful relationship in your life? That which you possess yourself! The best and most effective solution of all personal riddles is the formulation of the correct wishes! The “Way of the Wishes” is the way of the fulfillment of meaningful wishes and the suspension of unwarranted fears. As long as you are on the way of your own journey, everything that you do will be worth it. Conversely, even the finest achievements are meaningless if you do not help yourself along the way of this journey of wishes.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
The goal is the journey.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
The Chariot conveys that you must venture something: Formulate your wishes and live accordingly.
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
The card of self-awareness: That means to experience yourself. And to drive yourself (not to be the passenger)!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
A good card for fresh air in the relationship: Give yourself and your partner permission to be extra free!
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Develop your personal tastes, preferences, and customs that do you well. Represent your standpoint and your opinion with your whole heart.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Cross Composition
Stronger than any other card, the Chariot concentrates itself on to the motif of the circle: All that comes to pass makes a “round object.” Also: Symbol of self-governance. Negative: To spin in circles.
Blue-Red Plate / Bowl –
A target, a bowl from above? The Holy Grail was described as a red goblet or as a goblet with red lifeblood. Here: Grail and spirituality as steering wheel and target.
The Yellow-Gold Armor –
Consciousness, golden center, meaningful boundary (as a supplement to the openness of the plate / bowl). But also: Robots, automatism, armor (armored chariot), hardship, vanity, gold as jealousy and greed.
The Gold Armor with Crystals
Sun and clarity. Or greed and hardship. Positive: Strength of vision, charisma of the stars, clarity of feelings and thoughts. Negative: Fixated thoughts, frozen feelings, emotional / spiritual hardening.
ABRACADABRA –
Magic spell, enigma (like the sphinxes). Unresolved contradictions (one’s own person) produce a feeling of being bewitched or strangeness. However, the greatest chances can also exist in personal life riddles.
Crab with Crescent Moon –
Here sense and sensibility are taken to the extreme. Negative: Unhealthy stubbornness. One becomes a riddle. Positive: Conscious self-will, clarity of feelings and needs.
The Sphinxes –
Symbol of the four elements: fire, water, air, and earth. They stand for the riddle of life. They do not pull the wagon. They only run ahead: The riddles of today are the way of tomorrow.
Crescent / Shell as a Seat
Supplement to the crab’s crescent moon on the head of the knight. His subconscious moods, with all of their mysteries and fickleness, or he carries his conscious understanding of wishes and anxieties.
The Four Pillars
The pillars of the earth, the four directions of heaven, the power of matter, that sets thresholds and boundaries, though otherwise full freedom for self growth, to allow one’s own journey.
Momentum
The sphinxes do not pull the wagon. It is an automobile = a self-mover. In the ideal case, the golden knight is a moved mover. The card shows the gifts and opportunities of self-awareness.
Consciousness cares for the equality of the heights and depths of human existence, and it grows thereon. The harmony of mind and spirit, especially indicated by the color teal, is our strong means to balance the roller-coaster ride that our life’s journey sometimes follows.
The more accurate the investigation, the more loving the judgment!
- ■ Basic Meaning
To measure the remote and to identify apparent contradictions is also the most effective way to the goal of justice. “The scale measures the vague.” —J. Fiebig. A certain vagueness; the effort to absolutely identify things and experiences; the skill of appreciating people and things, without trying to know or judge; this may sometimes be irritating, but it is often essential to compare, weigh, and then apply the approach of justice.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
“The more insight into something, the greater is the love…”—Paracelsus
- ■ As Card of the Day
Sit yourself down with counterarguments and learn from them.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
“We transform our experiences most swiftly with judgments. We memorize these judgments, but we intend them to be the experiences. Naturally, judgments are not as reliable as experiences. It is a certain, necessary technique to freshly perceive experiences, so that one can always create new judgments from them.” —Bertolt Brecht
- ■ For Love and Relationships
This “technique” means impartiality and consciousness.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Established judgments guide success!
The 10 Most Important Symbols
Balance with the System
Checks and Balances—mutual controls and equations—is one of the principles of the modern constitutional system. Seldom is this moved into a picture so beautifully as in this card.
The Goddess of Justice
Since antiquity, Justice (Justice with scale and sword) has been one of the four cardinal values. Among the ancient Egyptians, the goddess Maat weighed the souls. Here: Conciliation of personal difficulties.
On Tiptoes –
The extraordinary foot posture shows how sensible and accurate this system of balances must be. Creative, or rather artificial, movements that make one larger lack traction.
The Sword with Crescent Moon –
The sword makes the difference. As in the tale of the Little Mermaid, it is about whether we walk on two legs, and consequently about sexuality, and also about cognition and differentiation in every respect.
The Crescent Moons
The moon means femininity. Both globes between the crescent moons emphasize the synchronous feminine organs such as the ovaries. The concept of hysteria stems from the Greek word for uterus (hysteria).
The Mask –
Negative: Poor perspective, partiality, hysterical numbness of the senses. Positive: Impartiality, to look beyond appearance with the weapons of the soul.
The Crown –
Negative: Self-extolment, self-overestimation, megalomania. Positive: Connection to the higher self, to the experiences of others, to the cosmic dimensions. Higher perception from which a verdict can be rendered.
The Feathered Cloak
Airy: Feathered, quality of a bird. Alongside the rigor of the spirit and the weight of gravity exists the positive side of the spirit’s weapons in lightness: A good spirit makes the heavy light.
The A and O
Alpha and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet (“From A to Z”): Equality between heaven and earth, between all possible conflicts and polarities.
Teal / ”Monochromaticity”
The soul, spirit, and (inner) nature. Positive: Spirituality and beliefs. Negative: Anesthesia and drunkenness (blue), premature feelings and immature ideas. Pale colors: Missing liveliness, neutrality.
Only superficially does the “Hermit” stand for loneliness or renunciation. He actually conveys a special experience of happiness. Furthermore, the “Hermit” embodies a person who has solved his problems in due course without sweeping anything under the rug.
Readily hold the light…
- ■ Basic Meaning
The notion that a hermit’s lifestyle must automatically be bound to asceticism and renunciation is considered from the wrong side. A hermit has worn out the material side. For him it is not renunciation, but actually the shedding of burdens in order to lead a life “in the presence of God.” In various religions, this goal is the definition of the highest state of happiness. Beneath the superficial renunciation often lies a special experience of happiness. This should also be a guide for you in your current questions.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
A way to and with “God.”
- ■ As Card of the Day
Sometimes this card signifies withdrawal, but more often quiet, reinforced efforts to shed the unimportant and focus on what is essential.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
You will resolve debts, in the material as well as in the moral sense. That will do you good!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
A good card to solve existing problems!
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Prefer answers to your questions that create lasting settlements and that the problems are not swept aside, but dealt with.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Auburn Figure –
It is difficult to see the image. One must search! Auburn garment = red cloth, large flame, or tongue. Passionate search. Task: To look yourself in the face. To call for yourself!
The White Hair –
The color of the beginning (like a white, empty piece of paper). But also: Wisdom of old age, maturity, the fruit of life’s experiences. White as the color of accomplishment, the settlement of healing and sanctification!
The Eight-Cornered Lantern –
The inner light, the divine spark in ourselves—we must only take him by the hand and comprehend! Also: comprehended intelligence, lighting, illumination of the shadow sides. To be ready!
The Sun in the Lantern –
Evidence of our divine, cosmic origin. Everyone has an amount of the cosmic order and beauty. And: It is always only a small part of the larger light that we comprehend.
The Spikes –
Virgo zodiac sign. Emblem of Persephone / the woman from Hades / Pluto: Fertility, sowing, and harvesting in life. The grain of wheat that dies and produces manifold fruit.
The Opening in the Jungle –
Guidepost to your goal, introduction to a new cycle. A glimpse behind the scenes. Search for fulfillment and new life possibilities, a new quality of life. Connection of beginning and end.
The World Egg –
The snake-wound egg: Picture of creation and world formation in the ancient Greek creation myth of Pelasgians. Here: It starts a new stage of life, a new phase, a new world.
The Sperm –
Like the spikes and the grain of wheat: Renewal of life, procreation, fertilization, new beginnings. Also: Unused potential. Beginning of a new quality of life.
The Three-Headed Dog – 
Cerberus, watchdog of the underworld: his heads look to the past, the present, and the future. Here: The task / opportunity to suspend the shadows of the past and the shadows of the future!
The Beams of Light
The beams emit from a second light source or even from (two) more. Two light sources: Human and cosmos. Three light sources: Past, present, and future. Multiple
perspectives.
The sphinx mediates between two wheels: The personal wheel of life and the wheel of destiny are placed in one another. Sometimes they grind; a wheel does not want to go as the other one does. Sometimes the two wheels fit so well into each other that we feel fortunate and delighted.
“Luck is the gift of destiny.” —Novalis
- ■ Basic Meaning
“Luck and glass, how easy they break”—such “folk wisdoms” do not apply. “Destiny” is another word for all of the powers of life that are important but elude your grasp or influence. The “destiny” does not lie in your power, but you can learn to deal with it so that it enhances your self-conception and authority in both your inner and outer lives. “Luck” is a creative act, a production that involves coincidence.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
—Louis Pasteur
- ■ As Card of the Day
Be mindful of connections between the different spheres of life. Make yourself your own picture!
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
The collaboration with destiny grows with the loving, but also critical acceptance of “destiny.” A major time is beginning for you!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Thinking outside of the box gives you more tolerance for your partner—and more leeway, then, if you don’t understand them sometimes!
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
The time is ripe for big correlations and better solutions!
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Spoked Wheel –
Steering wheel. Unity and transition in one. Movement and quiet together. Wholeness, “a round thing.” Ten spokes bind the inner life (hub) and the outer life (the bicycle).
The Wheel with the Star –
The wheel of eternity, the cosmic wheel, the higher order of life. The superior will. The “will” of eternity. Also: The other (unconscious, repressed, longed for) side of one’s own will.
Both Wheels Together
The perpendicular wheel stands for the personal will; the parallel stands for the “wills” of the cosmos and life. Luck emerges when both intertwine well together: Skillful dealings with fate.
The Lightning
Lightning of perception, insight into correlations, powerful experiences. Sometimes fractions of seconds decide our fate! Also:
lightning-fast shifting, intuitive operations.
The Sphinx with the Sword
The sphinx stands for the mystery of life. It also stands for the four elements together (the body of the bull, the paws of a lion, the torso of a young man, and eagle’s wings or the sword).
The Snake Monster –
In the Egyptian myth Set or the Greek Typhon. Symbol of the underworld and destruction, described as the largest and most frightening of all creatures, with one hundred snake heads.
The Ape –
The Egyptian god Thoth, epitome of intelligence, trades, and arts, forerunner of the Greek god Hermes. Typhon leads below and Thoth leads above.
The Handled Cross –
Also crux ansata or ankh cross: Hieroglyphic, but here it somewhat varies. Stylistic depiction of the male sex organ: To beget new life, symbol for renewal of life.
The Crosier –
Crook, walking staff, protection, guardian, spiritual guide. Negative: Demolishing of protection and value. Positive: Typhon’s destruction is also a power that creates anew.
Purple Colors
The dark purple qualifies as the color of wisdom. Blue (knowledge, spirituality) combines with the red of love and concern. Strong passions, strong concerns.
The nude woman and the great beast capture the archetype of the beauty and the beast. The salvation of the one depends on the salvation of the other. This card also stands for a personal culture, in which we succeed in bringing our creative powers to blossom.
The beauty and the beast—You are both!
- ■ Basic Meaning
The great beast and the nude woman embody the vigorous side of human nature: As ferocity and beauty, they increase vitality and lust for life. At the same time, they warn against their subconscious variations, that one calls anima and animus. These express themselves in “animalistic” urges and in “wild thoughts” that are so subconscious, like a sorcerer’s apprentice who doesn’t know what he says and does.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
“As below—so above”: The human has two pleasure centers—one between the legs and one between the ears.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
The bliss lies when the entire person is present to assemble all strengths in the focal point of the moment.
- ■ As a Prediction / Tendency
The key to lust is the salvation of the will—all involved!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Forget meaningless ideals and senseless habits. Give “lust” a new chance!
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
The lust to increase means to be always more present in the given moment. Thus, this is also the card of high points and the peak experiences—in sexuality and in every other area of life.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Great Beast I –
The great beast appears as 666 in the Bible (New Testament, the Apocalypse of John): The “Anti-Christ,” the short-lived god that tests the world and then rightly sang and perished soundlessly.
The Great Beast II
Similarly: The basilisk. The chimera, the tremendous monster of antiquity, a daughter of Typhon (refer to the Luck card). Her siblings were Hydra, Cerberus, and the Sphinx. Bellerophon killed her.
The Nude Woman –
Negative: Indecency, insolence, crudeness, barbarism. Positive: No false shame, sexuality, embodiment, lust, openness, the naked truth.
The Poster of the Nude Woman
Positive: Surrender, ecstasy, otherworldliness, lust, desire and will for lust. Negative: Powerlessness, lack of willpower, arbitrariness, allowing oneself to be swept away, betraying oneself.
The Long Hair –
Positive: Vitality, lively energy, unbound power. Negative: Vanity, narcissism. Also: Lengthy processes, boredom.
Red Sun / Peacock Fan –
Earth’s interior, lava, red sun, or vagina surrounded by a peacock’s fan and/or many small suns. Negative: Engine control, boastfulness, and vanity. Positive: The center of lust, lust as the epicenter.
The Red Rein –
It corresponds with the red sun and the peacock fan. Renews the symbol of the vagina, passion, and lust. Here: As a red feather, as a red thread, a guidepost and principle that leads us and we harness!
The Ten Snakes / Threads –
Ten flattened, snakelike threads of life, sperm, spirits. The proliferation and dissemination of driving urges—possible with conscious lust and not with unconscious loss of self.
The Lion Snake –
The Egyptian monster god Chnoubis, who stands for fertility, conception, and birth. A primeval conception of God, today either a primitive past or salutary recollection.
The Shadowy Figures –
Totem, forbearers, ancestors, archaic times: The monsters of yore still make us shudder, yet they are powerless against the terrors of modernity that man himself has created.
“The Hanged Man” possesses a clear and definite standpoint. His “standpoint” is the heavenly, transcendent perspective. Heaven is thus the realm of the (personal) gods and ideals, the otherworld and the surreal, also the will, because “Man’s will is his heaven!”
You may be turned upside down …
- ■ Basic Meaning
You see the world with other eyes. It is literally crazy that the world also has its own meaning. It seems absurd but is actually true. No one has ever told you it is so, but it is. Tie yourself down; accept it. Have faith. You are a pendulum in the hand of the higher power. “Not my will, but thine be done.” Understand what the “will” of creation intends for you, where it wants to nail you down, what it wants to effect through you.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
The card conveys the experience of reversal: a new freedom that emerges from conscious surrender.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Search for guiding principles that possess your values.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
One way or another this reaches the “end of the road”: a passion that indicates either a great story of suffering or an uplifting fervor.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Here, the head is in the lowest position and the abdomen is above. This could be evidence of another type of wisdom that you only obtain when you surrender yourself.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Change your awareness and see the world through new eyes.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Stance of the Figure I –
The image stems from Germanic-Celtic myths. The god Odin and the great sorcerer Merlin spend days and nights in this position. Shamanic rituals also recognize the hanging.
The Height
The hanged man possesses a clear point of view; it is not to the earth, but instead is located in heaven. Here it is about the surreal world, which literally means the world over the reality.
The Inversion
One way or another: We always rely on what we believe. All the more important that this is no superstition or unbelief. There for it is important to do phases of study in which we turn our values upside down.
The Stance of the Figure II
Together, the snake pit and the arms build a triangle; the legs of a cross / reversed four triangle and cross signs together: Alchemist. Sign for fire: Sulfur, XII = also a fiery position.
The Reversed Handled Cross –
Paradox: On one hand, the Hanged Man is a symbol of impotence. On the other, the handled cross (crux ansata, ankh cross) is upside down: Full erection through the handled cross-style male sex organ.
The Snake Pit –
Negative: Raw instincts, seductions, misunderstood emotions. Positive: Harkens to the ancient Greek idea of healing sleep with snakes under the bed for dream production (Temple of Asclepius).
The Snakes
The snakes warn of dull urges and false instincts. The curled snake is also a symbol of higher development, the wisdom of learning from experience.
Nails / As Attached –
Negative: Symbol of surrender, dependence. Positive: Symbol of commitment. Neutral: Your own beliefs are always determinate. It is important to examine them.
The Phantom Face –
Negative: Loss of self, depersonalization, relapse to default, robotic state of being. Positive: Repeal of the ability to control the ego, emphasis on the entirety of humanity.
Crosshatch Pattern –
Compressed soul network. It is reminiscent of the High Priestess’s veil, but here it is not directly associated with a person. The network of large, numerous feelings and their placement and assembly.
Something is coming to an end. We are sad when something beautiful experiences its end; however, we are happy if something bad comes to an end. The image also says: There is something to settle. Your “positive aggression” is needed, the power to make necessary and incisive changes.
Relinquish, in order to harvest: The “Grim Reaper” will harvest!
- ■ Basic Meaning
The sadness over death and loss is inevitable. Do not suppress the fear of death. One can be dead long before one dies. And one can also live long after one is dead! Either way, death does not mean nothing: “Godfather Death” will harvest something—thus he appears in many depictions as the Grim Reaper! Here the black rider wears a Harvest Crown in his standard.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
“And as long as you haven’t experienced, / This: to die and so to become! / You are only a troubled guest / On the dark earth.” —Goethe
- ■ As Card of the Day
Which fruits are ripe now—which results are you still missing? What doesn’t fit with you anymore?
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
The impact of your life goes above and beyond your death. Thus, the question is pressing: what do you want to experience, create, and harvest in your life?
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Create a place for a new sunrise.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
When a life is to bear fruit, what is needed for the desired crop must be done in the appropriate rhythm.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Black Skeleton –
Scythe as indicator: Godfather Death, the Grim Reaper. Also: Skeleton as the structure, the inner principle, the inner framework, the backbone, x-ray vision. The color black: Ending condition and original condition.
The Scythe –
Not only a symbol of destruction (as is often read), but also a symbol of the harvest! The Grim Reaper will harvest! That is the job of the reaper. Here it means relinquishing in order to harvest.
Scorpion, Snake, Eagle
Since ancient Egypt, this series of symbols is known as a series of transformations (similar to the journey of the caterpillar to butterfly) from low to high and conversely from abstract to concrete.
The Scorpion –
The concept “die and become.” His stinger is either injurious or protective. The concept of the zodiac sign Scorpion: “I demand.” Greed, wolf nature. Or: Perfect happiness as the supreme desire!
The Snake –
The snake warns of dull desires and false instincts. The curled snake is also a symbol of higher development, the wisdom through learning from experience.
The Eagle –
Freedom of the soul. Here it is a symbol of transformation from low to high. Sign of immortal life. Also: eagle eyes, the king of the air. Negative: Fantasies of omnipotence, aloofness, compulsion to control.
The Pale Blue Figures –
A current of souls in a time corridor, a “time tunnel.” A network of many souls, from many lives and many generations. Network of souls = immortality: Homeland, but also a necessary cutting of the (umbilical) cord.
The Fish –
The fish symbolizes wealth, luck, the overcoming of egotistical attitudes, but also the realm of the subconscious. Life in the network of the tide, here the network of souls and generations.
Black Threads / Wires –
Connection of the many souls with one another, manifestation of interweaving, also the challenge not to get enmeshed. No person is an island. But no one is only a victim of their background!
The Wilting Blossoms –
The impermanence of pleasure. But also: The harvest of the reaper, the beauty of the moment, the moment that will become eternity: “We are all unprecedented.” —Peter Rühmkorf.
Often we experience a “purgatory” with this card, a process of purification, because at first opposites push against each other. The card reminds us to recognize the ingredients in the contradictions of life to create new solutions. Often it is the only purpose of life—all the better!
An artful transformation of the facts…
- ■ Basic Meaning
The alchemists denote the mysterium coniunctionis (the mystery of connection) as the “marriage of heaven and earth,” for them the “great work” (magnum opus). However, the largest work is the purpose of life. Therefore the long journey is dealt with in the picture—the journey of purposes that are so big that they require an entire life span; goals that awaken the “angel” in you, your higher self, your biggest possibilities and bring them to fruition.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
We experience a “purgatory,” a purification, as long as the correct measurement is not found.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Take the real contradictions of your life in your hand …
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
… all the more you succeed in taking these things as they are—not despite, but actually because—they will help your personal volition to be successful.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
By your actions, you create new facts and create yourself anew. It is important to let your partner share in it.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Establish a “creative workspace” in your daily routine, where you can regularly refuel.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Double Face –
Unification of the two “king’s children” (refer to the Lovers). Unification of masculine and feminine facets, even more: Unification of wish and necessity, possibility and reality!
The VITRIOL Formula I –
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem. This Latin adage becomes the initials also known as the VITRIOL-Formula and says: Visit the inner realms …
The VITRIOL Formula II
… of the earth; if you do it correctly, you will find the hidden stone. The hidden stone is the stone of wisdom. What does it mean? Well, “The stone of wisdom is the whiteness of the stone.” —J. Fiebig
The Philosopher’s Stone
…This means the liquefaction of the solid, the transformation of solid material to subtle energy (and vice versa). That is the white in the alchemic colors—and the sequence black—white—red!
White Lion and Red Eagle –
Black—white—red = crucial, green and gold = transition stages. Lion and eagle stand for ferocity and wisdom. Unlike the Lovers, they have swapped their colors: they stand in “purgatory.”
The Philosopher’s Stone II
The philosopher’s stone corresponds to the true will. C. G. Jung indicated this. The true will stirs only after the death of the ego (refer to Death) and leads to the right life purposes.
The Double Face II
Similarly the card warns of a split consciousness, which expresses itself in behavior “where the left hand doesn’t know what the right one is doing,” where a person possesses two faces that stay foreign to each other.
Eight Circles on the Chest Armor –
Positive: Functional consciousness, flexibility, exchange, expansion of perspectives and content of consciousness (refer to Justice). Negative: Arbitrariness, multiple personalities (split personalities).
Skull / Raven / Sign of the Cross –
The crucible stands for your inventive spirit, your power to create, also for the true will. Skull, raven, and cross display death and rebirth, the successful transformation.
The Bee
On the green garment of the figure. They are a sign of Demeter and Jupiter, symbol of industriousness, honey and the “sweet life,” also the ability to pierce something through the stinger.
Once this card is drawn, it will signify that the threshold of taboo has been transcended. Once was now only present subliminally is now visible. The advantage lies precisely in that, but also the possibility.
Do not get chased into the goat’s horns!
- ■ Basic Meaning
On one hand, the Devil represents a kind of vampire, a real burden and inconvenience. We are right to be afraid. We can shed this gloom when we finally understand him.
On another, very different hand, the Devil embodies a deprived child. That is a part of us that we have handled like a stepmother or stepfather, although we secretly and rightfully have a desire to find him. We can only take this home.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
“Bring light into the dark and you find old trash—and new treasures!”
- ■ As the Card of the Day
You are being offered the chance to shed a pair of old “horns.”
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
When you bring light into the dark, the vampire crumbles into dust and the deprived child acquires shape and color.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
It is neither a curse nor a shame—mostly it is a sign of quality, when the “dreaded shadow side” is revealed in a relationship.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Take all of the necessary time to face the unknown and to distinguish and learn what you can use and what you cannot.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Billy Goat –
Also described as a goat, Capricorn, or donkey: natural power. Negative: Raw, primitive. Positive: Original, the power of the base instincts. Also: Symbol of (im)modesty. “Nagging goat.” Successful climber.
The Billy Goat II
Relinquish prejudice! The buck stands for drive and instinct, like every animal. Do not allow someone to be stamped as the “scapegoat.” And reversed: Do whatever it is you fancy!
The Horns –
Here it is less about escapades (“to take the partner by the horns”) and more about the uncivilized spirit in all of us that must shed the horns: Symbol of the not-yet civilized nature—blessing or curse!
The Large Phallus I –
The Devil concerns taboos. It is understandable, that here sexuality also plays a role. Nevertheless, it is important to emphasize: The main sex card is not the Devil, but instead Lust and above all the Lovers!
The Large Phallus II
It represents the conception of new life possibilities. Saturn is traditionally the “Guardian of the Threshold.” Saturn’s rings suggest that these possibilities exist subliminally until now.
The Big Testicles I –
It is about practical taboo work: The unborn, unbegotten life yet to be distinguished. They are possibilities, that we better not develop and set free, but rather …
The Big Testicles II
… place it under taboo! And reversed: There are taboos that are not meaningful (anymore), that are harmful to life and should be eliminated. Two fully different directions of taboo work, both urgent!
The Sun Wand with Uraeus Symbol –
Therefore, it is important to bring sun into darkness and light into the underworld. It is to maintain or re-establish meaningful taboos. And it is to abolish taboos that have become meaningless!
The Wreath of Blossoms –
The human and his consciousness represent a late step in the history of evolution. The danger: To make the buck into a gardener. Then the consciousness will be as askew as the wreath in the picture …
The Third Eye –
… The big chances exist in the testing of the many as of yet unrealized possibilities; to integrate the primal, simple nature into consciousness and through that, to crown it and to elevate it.
The card warns of megalomania and lacking steadfastness. It can lead to shock, but through (penetrating but gentle) encouragement, give up personal objections and excuses—the personal ivory tower—when the time is ripe for it!
Riders in the storm
- ■ Basic Meaning
The Tower of Babylon stands for human megalomania. Experience is not only the destruction of the tower, but also the “Babylonian confusion”: The people do not understand each other any more. The Pentecostal event represents the reversal: The “Holy Ghost” comes down to the young in the form of storms and fiery tongues; they begin to speak and everyone hears the other in their mother language. Instead of language confusion, it is the removal of language and understanding boundaries.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
Pentecost—the direct communication from heart to heart!
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Apply all of your energy! Consciously breathe in and out!
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
It is about hazard prevention as much as the desire to dare a descent and to fully apply oneself. Here, landing is not an issue. This card is only about the entity “outside,” between heaven and earth.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
The more consciously and directly you act, the more love you gain and the better you can protect yourself from forcible hypocrisy.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Experience your development as an experiment. Open your eyes!
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Opened Eye –
Symbol of sun and god. Symbol of omniscience and omnipresence, as well as a symbol of the creativity and creative power but also destruction and surveillance (“Big Brother is watching you”).
The Rays / Fault Lines I –
The lines that emanate from the immense eye can represent either rays of light or fault lines. Negative: Broken mirror, loss of identity. Positive: Cracked façade, a peek behind the curtains.
The Rays / Fault Lines II
Everything in the image is oriented towards a focal point, an eye, or a perspective. Negative: Egotism, only a glimpse will be tolerated. Positive: To take full responsibility, to achieve a full overview.
The Tower
What is here to breach? The tower is a protective tower, a watchtower; it offers a wide view, power, and security. On the other hand, it could represent an ivory tower, pride, isolation, encapsulation, or life in captivity.
Between Heaven and Earth –
The stances of the figures reveal not only a fall, but potentially also a flight. We can think about how popular skydiving and BASE jumping are as hobbies.
The Dove with the Twig –
Palm leaf, olive branch: Allusion to the Bible, to Noah’s Arch and to the Holy Ghost. Also: Dove as symbol of Aphrodite and Sophia, love and wisdom. Also: Symbol of hysteria and “deafness.”
The Lion Snake –
The Egyptian creator god Chnubis or Chnum, who stands for fertility, procreation, and birth. A primeval conception of God, seen today as either primitive prehistory or wholesome recollection.
Falling and Flying –
Flight is an old dream of humanity. Flying and falling play important rolls in our nightly dreams as well. We lose the “fear of flight” through positive practice!
The Fire-Spitting Throat –
Allegory for ancient gods of the underworld such as Vulcan / Hephaestus, Dis, Pluto, Orcus, and others. The fire of heaven (sun, eye) finds its opposite and supplement in the fire from the depths of the earth.
The Black Background
Negative: Loss of horizons, general view, and orientation. Positive: Light into darkness. Power to start anew, to journey into the unknown, and to illuminate the night. The journey to the stars.
“The Star” is the epitome of our most beautiful hopes, but also every pipe dream, because it lacks groundedness. The card warns of narcissism or loss of self. It invites the search of one’s own location and the personal contribution in the cosmos.
A star is born—Stars don’t fall from heaven …
- ■ Basic Meaning
All of our dreams are anchored in the stars; personal truth is the source of our dreams. This source can never go dry; one must only find it, and as the figure shows us, take it in the hand and make it fertile. When the star doesn’t only illuminate the night, but also the day, the truth manifests itself in its entire beauty. Sometimes this card warns of indecency or indecent exposure.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
To realize and adopt one’s own place in the cosmos. To experience one’s personal participation in creation.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Reveal yourself, make your contribution! Lose your false inhibitions and feelings of shame to present yourself in your personal beauty.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
To follow one’s own star means: to become clear and materialize one’s own dreams. Bad experiences will be handled; beautiful hopes will be fully dreamed and realized!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Thaw your icy emotions!
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Don’t hide your light under a bushel, but do not forget that you are only a part of the much more tremendous Milky Way.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
Stars and Crystals –
Symbols of hope and splendor, but also coldness, untouchability, and distance. The crystals mean clarity, beauty, and transparency, but also icy, frozen, and fixed emotions.
Far Out
In a good or a bad sense, the figure is “far out,” way out there, “completely detached,” as in a space station, beyond earthly realities and relationships.
The Averted Face –
A warning of lacking identity, lacking self-perception, and additionally, lacking self-understanding. Positive: Cosmic self-awareness, to serve the cosmos and thus, to achieve one’s own self understanding.
The Nudity
Negative: Warning of insolence and indecency. Positive: Personal truth, a fairy-tale like beauty (in European fairy tales beauty means the lived personal truth).
The Long Hair –
Vitality, beauty, vanity. Through its length, the hair is reminiscent of Rapunzel. Vast otherworldliness and aloofness, or to the contrary, cosmic attachment.
The Figure’s Posture
Positive: Like a practice from Tai Chi. To hold, receive, and to release. Emotion, unity of body and soul. Negative: “to be high,” marionettelike behavior, to be strange to oneself.
The Colors Blue and Red
Blue: Mind, soul, air, water, vastness, desire, coolness. Red: Love, vitality, positive and negative heart’s desires. Together: Conscious leadership. Or cool emotions, meeting of heart and soul.
Roses and Butterflies –
Butterfly: Beauty and lightness of the soul. Flightiness of the moods. Rose: Beauty and truth of the inner self. Love, expansion, self-growth, and transformation.
The Seven-Cornered Slide –
Beauty, strength, the order and structure of creation and the cosmos. Seven as the number of wholeness (as in 7 days of creation, 7 days of the week, 7 fundamental tones on the musical scale), as in the seven symbols of the other cards.
The Outsider’s Perspective
Heightened “bird’s-eye view.” Negative: Satellite, observer status (instead of introducing oneself). Positive: Overview, the view of everything, clear definition of one’s own location and connection to the world.
This card demands your courage for great feelings! Swim freely. Learn about your connection with “all” treasures and pleasures. Release yourself from unnecessary dependencies! The conscious interaction with passions and belief systems releases you from old problems and anxieties.
“The Moon” stands for the collective subconscious, for the “oceanic emotions.”
- ■ Basic Meaning
With this card, we experience ourselves in emotions that we do not initially assess. The danger exists in absorbing spiritual areas of change. The big opportunity lies therein: we should empathize with each creature; we are at home everywhere and can acquire an expanded identity. In every experience and in every creature we also recognize a piece of the “divine” as well as a renewed sense of the actual person.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
The release from burdens, pains, and fears; the fulfillment of promises, desires, and wishes.
- ■ As the Card of the Day
The big feelings and “the last things in life” are realities that want to be experienced as well as everything else.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
The promise of this card is the transformation of a “dry” or a yearning everyday experience into a fulfilling, exhilarating enjoyment of life!
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Give room to your dark side without surrendering to it. Take your partner with you.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Make your piece with “God” and the world. The card invites you to open your heart and to release your self-absorptions.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Whole Picture I
Not only the large descending crescent moon above in the picture: The interplay of sun and moon, the large and small rhythms of life, the cycles and evolution: Everything that is the moon.
The Whole Picture II
The moon rises from the depths and is newly born as the sun. But also: The sun and moon are diametrically opposed to each other = full moon. The great unconscious is the opponent or the friend of the consciousness …
The Wave Crests –
The quality of time. The heartbeat, the breath, our life. The tides in nature and in our personal lives, life lines, biorhythm, changing of the moods, the life phases, and the generations.
No Figures?
The card warns of emotions in a full moon night that literally absorb us. We dive under, stay there numbed, or bark at the moon. Positive: The pearly gates are as open as much as they are closed.
The Scarab Beetle –
The scarab beetle is known today as a symbol of luck. Sign of the ancient Egyptian sun god, master of rebirth and immortality: He stands for the eternal return of the sun.
The Two Hermanibuses –
In ancient Egyptian mythology, Hermanibus accompanies the souls on their passive from death to rebirth. Positive: Rebirth, new beginnings. Negative: The return of the forgotten and repressed.
Dogs / Towers –
The towers show wide-open gates of heaven. Seldom is the passage between worlds so close, so open. Likewise the towers are light towers and watch towers: The dogs are helpers and/or border control.
The Small New Flames –
…in the shape of the Hebrew “J.” The flames indicate a glistening atmosphere, the passage between heaven and earth, the wandering of souls, the “fireflies,” the divine spark.
“The Realm of the Mother” –
The large sun in the picture is seen as an open vagina, as the womb of the earth. It combines both of the worlds above and below the horizon. The journey into and out of the “realm of the mother.”
The Phoenix Wands –
The phoenix burns itself from time to time to emerge anew from the ashes: “Die before you die.” Death and rebirth IN life. We experience the salvation and mercy of the Moon.
The sun symbolizes daily renewal, light, and warmth. We find our place in the sun when we can say with our whole heart: “It is good the way it is!” The creative, well-rounded development is characteristic of sunlight as well as for human consciousness.
Every day is a birthday.
- ■ Basic Meaning
“The birth is not a momentary event, but a continual process. The goal of life is to become totally born … to live means to be born in every minute.” —Erich Fromm
We need a “permanent birth,” a self-imposed life design, not through habit and routine, but through free will and influential to free will. A self-thinking lifestyle occurs in the place of conventional behaviors and thoughts.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
“Love God and do as you please.” —Augustine
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Don’t preserve yourself. Remove or circumvent that which tarnishes your further growth and well-being.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
When you age and ripen with the sun, what remains with you is the open commitment to the world. It gives you a playful joy on being.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
An enlightening perspective for the partnership: The longer, the better—that means, each partner receives enough sun if the relationship itself also grows.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Protect and keep yourself from deception and superficiality.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
Rosette / Rays or Flags –
The sun as the collective consciousness (like the moon as the collective unconscious). The “flags” represent the connection of the collective consciousness to the personal, individual consciousness.
Sun Ellipse / Zodiac Signs –
The (visible) sun rays through the zodiac wheel: Twelve manifestations of the one sun. The big sun ellipse has the shape of the number zero and is a sign of wholeness.
The Sun Ellipse II
Different than a circle, the ellipse has two focal points. Alongside the fire of heaven is the fire in the earth, here represented through the green mountain, symbol of the power of earth, nature, and vitality.
Light and Shadows
The sun bestows light, warmth, and energy. It allows growth—and aging. The sun dries things out, it hardens, and it makes things brittle. The sun sees everything—except the dark side.
Winged Children / Elf Couple I –
Positive: The inner child that can move and develop. Here it comes into its own. Negative: The petty tyrant or the puer aeternus, the eternal child, the refusal to grow up.
Winged Children / Elf Couple II
Every person possesses their own sun (see the Hermit). This is only a small part of the cosmic light. When that is confused, the small ego either assumes the role of the big sun …
Winged Children / Elf Couple III
… will want to know, control, and decide everything. Or it will only allow the sun to do things (no ego, but also no self-consciousness). Then one directs oneself only to the collective sun, doing, what everything is doing.
The Red-Gold Wall –
Demarcation, the realm of the highest, the divine, transcended individuality. Otherwise: Borders that must be surpassed. Peak experiences that demand we overcome obstacles.
Two Circles or Brands –
Not simple to decipher. Probably similar to the atomic model of the Emperor. Or: As the testicular spheres of the Devil: decide which as-of-yet unused life possibilities are still meaningful.
The Green Mountain / Peak –
High points and peak experiences. Place where spirit and matter, heavenly and earthly fire meet. Green: Nature, growth, and also hope. Otherwise: Unripeness, immaturity.
The image makes only a visible departure from the traditional motif of Judgment Day. “Aeon” means as much as the “(new) era” or “(new) calendar.” In terms of content, it contains the current theme of the card: revelation, transformation, and resurrection.
The youngest day is today.
- ■ Basic Meaning
Problems or solutions, with which you have already been “pregnant,” good and bad, that so far have not been like a “bloody chamber”—these and other still brewing here bring you to a qualitatively new challenge. Beloved habits and accustomed inadequacies are tested. Now count the actual dissolution and transformation of the past.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
The relief after a confession, pronunciation, or declaration of love …
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Draw a line under what was. Conciliate or dismiss yourself …
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
Everything is important. You have decided in your past and are now free to decide newly for yourself and to choose whatever way you desire.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Learn to forgive without forgetting—and to condone without holding a grudge.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
An interruption in the daily routine works wonders! Develop overall concepts and visions that are fair to your experiences and needs. You have enormous energy reserves.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Blue Snake of the Sky –
Egyptian goddess of sky Nut / Neuth, who swallows the sun at night and allows it to rise again in the morning. Similar to the rainbow serpent of the Australian aboriginals. Also: womb, process of birth.
The Blue Snake of the Sky II
Also the feathered snakes of the Native Americans. The large cauldron (= world creation in many myths), oven, furnace. Condensation, transformation, and birth of personal gifts and purposes.
The Three Small Characters –
The three life stages? Our layout, our genes, and our potential for creation, sorted like the sperm in the other pictures. Also: The Hebrew / Arabic letter Shin / Sin.
Old and New Horus –
The small seated and the large transparent figure are interpreted as the older and newer Horus. It is about time’s changes, fundamentally about the change from yesterday to today.
Daily Rebirth I
Rebirth means salvation when the old is completed. Otherwise it means a permanent return of the ages (“… and eternally greets the groundhog”), a compulsive repetition.
Daily Rebirth II
Many people in the Western world desire rebirth because they want to see a fresh start. In East Asian philosophy, it first promises the end of the circulation of reborn luck and peace.
The Two Red Focal Points –
Two focal points, as with the ellipse of the Sun. Positive: Connection, integration of antagonisms, reworking of contradictions. Negative: Crack in the consciousness. Lacking processing.
Red Sun with Golden Wings –
Red Sun = Dusk or dawn. Winged Sun: Parallel to the winged egg in the picture of the Magus / Magician. To reveal and unfold the experiences that stick to us and hatch within us.
The Aeon I
From the last words of Goethe’s Faust: “Yes, I’ve surrendered to this thought’s insistence / The last word Wisdom ever has to say: / He only earns his Freedom and Existence, Who’s forced to win them freshly every day …
The Aeon II
“… Then, to the moment I’d dare say: ‘Stay a while! You are so lovely!’ / Through aeons, never to fade away.”
A dancer with a foot on the head of a snake. A body of equilibrium in the middle of the picture. Pendulum and sickle emphasize the quality of time. Altogether, also a picture for the never-ending braided ribbon of evolution, for the development from being to consciousness.
At the pace of time!
- ■ Basic Meaning
Pendulum and sickle: Like clockwork and the harvester, they symbolize the quantity and quality of time—your proportion of eternity. What will you harvest? There is a frame of your role in the world concerning time and place, your house and homeland in the universe. It is similar to the sketch underneath the head of the snake. Thus, with this draft, your time and space is only generally outlined. You can and should fill it out however you choose!
- ■ Spiritual Experience
Take your proportion of the world and the world will take a proportion from you. So live twice!
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Your strengths and purposes are now to step yourself up to center.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
You develop a consciousness for your personal boundaries and opportunities.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
A woman stands in the middle of the picture of the Universe. That means the man must recognize himself in the woman in order to understand the world. And the woman must recognize herself in the world in order to understand herself.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
Do not ask only what the universe would like to say; look at what the universe has given to you and what that has told you.
The Figure’s Nudity –
Warning of barbarism. Strengthening of the power to look at the “naked facts” in the eye. Also: Birth, marriage, death—the vertices of the circle of life—that are also bound to nakedness.
Snake / Ribbon –
“All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.” —Francis Bacon. Also: Symbol of evolution, DNA sequences, “a never-ending braided ribbon.” Moreover, a sign of personal development.
The Snake
It warns of dull desires and false instincts. As the curled snake in this picture, it is also a sign of higher development, the wisdom of learning through experience.
The Four Elements / Evangelists –
Every person possesses the power of the four elements. What one makes out of these elements is the essential fifth element—The Quintessence—this is also represented by the person in the middle of the picture.
Pendulum and Sickle –
Clockwork: The significance of an era. The measurement of time and the quality of time. The hours’ flower: The beauty and value of every moment. Everyone has their time, their measurement, and their borders.
Pendulum and Sickle II
The polarities of life (the pendulum that swings back and forth). Nothing is inherently understandable. The purpose of the encounters with polarity is the development of personal worth.
Opened Eye / Midheaven –
Symbol of sun, God, and self. Also: Literally the power of the moment—in its double meaning as a specific moment in time and as the beauty of life that lies in the eye of the beholder.
Ribbon / Organ of Equilibrium –
Like the bodies of equilibrium in the ear: They determine balance or equilibrium. They determine the personal values to which we hold ourselves to in the course of time, as well as our balance and security.
The Sketch –
Your heritage and your purpose in the world, your house and home in the universe are predestined, as if drafted. How you fill the sketch in is up to you. Again: This is your quintessence!
The World of the Woman
The sum of XXI = III = the Empress. Eighteen steps lie between them. Eighteen = XVIII — The Moon = under another salvation. The Universe shows like the Empress, good old Mother Nature in a redeemed form!
The figure of the joker embodies the amount of openness and indeterminacy that is present in every situation—no matter how established or familiar it may appear at first glance. Thus the card stands for beginning and end, for naivety or the highest wholeness.
“Life is like a box of chocolates …”
- ■ Basic Meaning
Zero as the model and search for the absolute: inner silence enables the abandonment of external models and fixed expectations. Silence and freedom create a great openness. It develops connections and synchronicities (coincidences) between the one and the whole. One can also call it the “Forrest Gump Principle”: To be in the right place at the right time. One cannot cause or achieve more. Any less would be an abandonment of available possibilities.
- ■ Spiritual Experience
Now! The power of the present!
- ■ As the Card of the Day
Do not allow yourself to go crazy. It is foolish to worry about events or consequences that simply cannot be judged in this moment.
- ■ As Prediction / Tendency
The fulfillment of essential wishes makes one perfectly happy.
- ■ For Love and Relationships
Two “jokers” that you love, that are also two “zeroes” that merge into a leminscate—every recumbent eight that stands for infinity.
- ■ For Success and Happiness in Life
As a “joker” you are free to not know the answers and to learn from them.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Suspension of Antagonisms
Fire and ice, dove and butterfly on one side and crocodile, tiger / panther on the other: Either fragmentation = no teamwork. Or integration = wholeness of the consciousness.
The Zero Point
The zero warns of a life of “nothing but expenses.” As of yet untapped talent. On the other hand: As in mathematics, the zero point of a coordinate system = the reference point for everything = the absolute.
The Green Man –
The green man, the May Man, appears in many folk customs and represents nature in full development. Green = Negative: Immature. Positive: Permanent development, constant advancement.
The Horns –
Here it is less about escapades (“cuckolding”) than the primal in us that still must shed its horns: Symbol of the not yet civilized nature—curse or gift!
Twins / Network of Flowers –
The union of opposing aspirations. Negative: Inner inconsistencies and fragmentation. Positive: Symbol of birth, virility, permanent fresh starts.
The Grapes –
Grapes = Enjoyment and tough work (vineyards). Likewise it is about the maturity of life: “He who thinks that all fruit ripen when the strawberry does understands nothing about grapes.” —Paracelsus
Circles / Pentacles –
Positive: Functional consciousness, flexibility, exchange, addition to perspectives and perception (refer to Justice / Art). Negative: Arbitrariness, multiple personalities (non-integrated character traits).
Loops and Grinding –
As the number zero: Everything or nothing, emptiness or accomplished life cycle. Also: Umbilical cord, cutting nature’s silent umbilical cord.
The Sun between the Legs
Emphasis of gender, sexuality, and vitality. “As below so above.” Humans have two pleasure centers, the one between the ears and the other between the legs (refer to Lust).
The Big Boots –
Protection from wretchedness. To progress well. To bring the forces of nature “into slippers,” like “Puss in Boots.” Negative: “What one doesn’t have in the head, one has in the legs.”