Card Meanings: “Crowley Deck” (USE YOUR INTUITION)

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The Ace of Cups. Fertility. Productiveness. Beauty, pleasure. Happiness

The Queen of Cups: A woman with gold-brown hair and blue eyes. She is imaginative, poetic, kind, yet not willing to take much trouble for another. Coquettish, good-natured, underneath a dreamy appearance. Imagination stronger than feeling. Very much affected by other influences.

The Princess of Cups: A young woman with brown hair and blue or brown eyes. Sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. Imagination, dreamy, at times indolent, yet courageous if roused. Ill-dignified, she is selfish and luxurious.

The Two of Cups: “Love”. Marriage. Pleasure, warm friendship. Harmony of masculine and feminine united. Mirth, subtlety, sometimes folly, dissipation, waste and silly action

The Three of Cups: Abundance. Hospitality, eating, drinking. Pleasure, dancing, new clothes, and merriment. Success, sensuality, passive success, good luck and fortune. Love, gladness, kindness and bounty.

The Four of Cups: Luxury. Receiving pleasure, but some slight discomfort and anxieties therewith. Blended pleasure and success. Success and pleasure approaching their end. A stationary perion of happiness which may or may not continue. Aquisition and contention; injustice sometimes.

The Five of Cups: “Disappointment”. Love lost or a marriage broken off. Unkindness from friends. Loss of friendship. Death or end of pleasures. Sorrow and loss of those things from which pleasure is expected. Sadness, deceit, treachery, ill-will, detraction, charity and kindness ill-requited. All kinds of troubles from unexpected sources.

The Six of Cups: “Pleasure”. Beginning of success, happiness and enjoyment. Happiness. Loving and being loved. Balance and peace. Commencement of steady increase, gain and pleasure, but commencement only. Also affront, defective knowledge, and in some instances, contention and strife arising from unwarrented self-assertion and vanity. Sometimes thankless and presumptous. Sometimes amiable and patient.

The Seven of Cups: “Debauch”. Lying, deceipt, illusion, deception. Error, slight success, but not enough energy to retain it. Possible victory, but neutralized by the supineness of the person. Illusionary success. Deception in the moment of apparent victory. Lying, error, promises unfulfilled. Drunkenness, wrath, vanity, lust, fornication, violence against women. Selfish dissipation. Deception in love and friendship. Often success gained, but not followed up

The Nine of Cups: “Happiness”. Complete success. Pleasure. Wishes fulfilled. Complete and perfect realization of pleasure and happiness. Self-praise, vanity, conceit, much talking of self, yet kind and loveable, and maybe self-denying therewith, Highminded, not easily satisfied with small and limited ideas. Apt to be maligned through too much self-assumption. A good, generous, but maybe foolish nature

The Ace of Disks. Material gain, labor, power, wealth. It represents materiality in all senses, good and evil and is therefore in a sense illusory.

The Prince of Disks: A young man with dark brown hair and dark eyes. Increase of matter, increase of good and evil, solidifies, practically amplifies things, steady, reliable. If ill-dignified, animal, material, stupid. Slow to anger, but furious if roused.

The Knight of Disk: A Man with dark eyes and dark hair. Laborious, clever and patient in material matters. If ill-dignified, he is heavy, dull, and material. Can be avericous, grasping, dull, jealous, not very courageous, unless assisted by other symbols.

The Two of Disks: “Change”. Pleasant transformation. Visit to friends. The harmony of change. Alternation of gain and loss, weakness and strength, ever varying occupation, wandering, discontented with any fixed condition of things; now elated, now melancholy, industrious, yet unreliable, fortunate through prudence of management yet sometimes unaccountably foolish. Alternatively talkative and suspicious. Kind yet wavering and inconsistent. Fortunate in journeying. Argumentative

The Four of Disks: “Power”. Gain of money and influence. A present. Assured material gain, success, rank, dominion, earthly power completed but leading to nothing beyond. Prejudiced, covetous, suspicious, careful and orderly, but discontented. Little enterprise or originality.

The Six of Disks: “Success”. Prosperity in business and material things. Success and gain in material undertakings, power, influence, rank, nobility, rule over people. Fortunate, successful, just and liberal. May be purse-proud, insolent from success or prodigal.

The Seven of Disks: “Failure”. Unprofitable speculation and employment. Little gain for much labor. Promises of success unfulfilled. Loss of apparently promising fortune. Hopes deceived and crushed. Disappointment. Misery, slavery, necessity and baseness. A cultivator of land, and yet is a loser thereby. Sometimes it denotes slight and isoleted gains with no fruits resulting therefrom, and of no further account, though seeming to promise well. Honorable work undertaken for the love of it, and without desire of reward.

The Ten of Disks: “Wealth”. Riches. Completion of material gain and fortune, but nothing beyond. As it were, at the very pinnacle of success. Old age, slothfulness, great wealth, yet sometimes loss in part and later heaviness, dullness of mind, yet clever and prosperous in money transactions.

The Queen of Swords: A graceful woman of grey hair and light-brown eyes. Intensely preceptive, keenly observational, subtle, quick, confident, often perserveringly accurate in superficial things, graceful, fond of dancing and balancing. Ill-dignified: cruel, sly, deceitful, unreliable, though with a good exterior

The Princess of Swords: A young woman with light brown hair and blue eyes. Wisdom, strength, acuteness, subtleness in material things, grace and dexterity. Ill-dignified, she is frivolous and cunning

The Two of Swords: “Peace”. Quarrel made up and arranged. Peace restored, yet some tension in relationships. Action sometimes selfish and sometimes unselfish. Contradictory characteristics in the same nature. Strength through suffering. Pleasure after pain. Sorrow and sympathy for those in trouble, aid to the week and oppressed. Can mean tactless or talkative.

The Three of Swords: “Sorrow”. Unhappiness. Tears. Disruption, interruption, separation, quarrelling, sowing of discord and strife, mischief-making. Mirth in evil pleasures, faithlessness in promises.

The Four of Swords: “Truce”. Convalescence, recovery from sickness, change for the better. Rest from sorrow, yet after having passed through it. Peace after war. Relaxation of anxiety. Quietness, rest, ease and plenty yet after struggle.

The Five of Swords: “Defeat”. Loss, malice, spite, slander, evil-speaking. Contest finished, and decided against the person, failure. Anxiety, trouble, poverty, avarice, grieving after pain, laborious, unresting, loss and vileness of nature. A busy-body and separator of friends, hating to see peace and love between others. Cruel yet cowerdly, thankless, and unreliable. Clever and quick in thought and speech.

The Seven of Swords: “Futility”. In character untrustworthy. Vacillation. Unstable effort. Journey, probably over land. Partial success, yielding when victory is within grasp, as if the last reserves of strength were used up. Inclination to lose when on the point of gaining through not continuing the effort. Love of abundance, fascinated by display, given to compliment, affronts and insolences, and to detect and spy on another. Inclined to betray confidences, not always intentional

The Nine of Swords: Cruelty. Illness. Suffering. Malice. Pain. Despair. Pitilessness. Suffering. Want. Loss. Misery. Lying.

The Ten of Swords: “Ruin.” Death. Failure. Disaster. Undisciplined warring force, complete disruption and failure. Ruin of all plans andprojects. Disdain, insolence and impertinence, yet mirth and jolly therewith, Loving to overthrow the happiness of others, a repeater of things, given to much unprofitable speech, and of many words, yet clever, acute and eloquent.

The Ace of Wands: Force, strength, rush, vigor, energy. It governs according to its nature various works and questions. It implies natural as opposed to invoked force.

The Queen of Wands: A woman with red or gold hair, blue or brown eyes. She is steady and resolute, with great power to attract. Kind and generous when not opposed. When ill-dignified, she is obstinate, revengeful, domineering, tyrannical and apt to turn suddenly against another without a cause.

The Prince of Wands: A young man with yellow hair and blue or grey eyes. Swift, strong, hasty, rather voilent, yet just and generous, noble and scorning meanness. If ill-dignified, cruel, intolerant, prejudiced and ill-natured.

The Princess of Wands: A young woman with gold or red hair and blue eyes. Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. If ill-dignifies, superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering.

The Knight of Wands: A blond or red-haired man with blue or hazel eyes. Active, generous, fierce, sudden and impetuous.

The Two of Wands: “Dominion”. Influence over another. Boldness, courage, fierceness, shamelessness, revenge, resolution, generous, proud, sensitive, ambitious, refined, restless, turbulent, sagacious withal, yet unforgiving and obstinate according to dignity.

The Three of Wands: “Virtue”. Power, established force of strength. Realization of hope. Completion of labor, success of the struggle. Pride, nobility, wealth, power, yet can be conceitful and arrogant.

The Four of Wands: “Completion”. Settlement. Arrangement completed. Perfected work. A completion of a thing built up with trouble and labor. Rest after labor. Subtlety, cleverness, mirth, beauty, success in completion. Reasoning faculty, conclusions drawn from previous knowledge. Unreadiness, unreliable and unsteady, through over-anxiety and hurriedness of action. Graceful in manner. At times insecure.

The Five of Wands: “Strife”. Quarrelling. Fighting. Violent strife and contest, boldness and rashness, cruelty, violence, lust and desire, prodigality yet possible generosity

The Six of Wands: “Victory”. Gain. Victory after strife, success through energy and industry, love, pleasure gained by labor, carefulness, sociability and avoidance of strife, yet victory therin. Yet can mean insolence pride of riches and success.

The Seven of Wands: “Valour”. Opposition, sometimes courage therewith. Possible victory, depending on the energy and courage exercised; obstacles, difficulties, yet courage to meet them, quarrelling, ignorace, pretence, wrangling and threatening, also victory in small and unimportant things, and influence over a subordinate

The Eight of Wands: “Swiftness.” A hasty communication. Letter, message. Too much force applied too suddenly. Very rapid rush, but too quickly passed and expended. Violent but not lasting. Rapidity. Courage, boldness, confidence, freedom, warfare. Violence, love of open air, field sports, gardens, meadows. Generous, subtle, eloquent. Can mean untrustworthy, rapacious, insolent, oppressive. Theft and robbery

The Nine of Wands: “Strength”. Power. Health. Recovery from sickness. Tremendous and steady force that cannot be shaken. Herculean strength, yet sometimes scientifically applied. Great success, but with strife and energy. Victory preceded by apprehension and fear. Generous, questioning and curious, fond of external appearances, intractable and obstinate.

Queen of Pentacles: A woman with dark hair and dark eyes. She is impetuous, kind, timid, rather charming, great-hearted, intelligent, melancholy, truthful, yet of many moods. Ill-dignified, she is undecided, capricious, foolish, changeable

Knight of Pentacles: The essence of earth behaving as fire, A force of nature whose methods are as predictable and dependable as they are unstoppable. The voice of duty, honor, and responsibility. The will to the change the world, not through bold action, but through the thorough and unwavering application of proven means

The Hanged Man. Enforced Sacrifice. Punishment. Loss Fatal and not voluntary. Suffering generally, The Hanged Man represents reversal of view. The significance of this card is that everything isn¹t as it appears to be on the surface. The man appears to be hanging but in fact he is in perfect control and balanced and centered within himself. He sees all of the others with there problems and the err in there ways and yet they look at him as though he is upside down, when in fact, he has perfect vision.

The Hermit. Wisdom sought for and obtained from above. Divine Inspiration. He has mastered all elements of the past key numbers and stands on top of the mountain of attainment.

The Magician: “Magus” Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, and sometimes occult wisdom.

The Tower: Ambition, fighting, war, courage. In certain cases, destruction, danger, ruin, fall

The Chariot. Triumph, Victory, Health. Success, though sometimes not stable or enduring.

The Universe: The matter itself, Synthesis. World. Kingdom. Often denotes the actual subject of the question

The Star: Hope, faith, unexpected help. But sometimes also, dreaminess or deceived hope

The Emporer. War, conquest, victory strife, ambition

The Devil: Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession. Being seduced by the material world and physical pleasures. Lust for and obsession with money and power. Living in fear, domination and bondage. Being caged by an overabundance of luxury. Discretion should be used in personal and business matters.

Aeon: Final decision. Judgement. Sentence. Determination of a matter without appeal on its plane

Death: Time. Age. Change, end on one is beginning of another Transformation. Rarely means death and destruction. This card represents transformation and rebirth of the consciousness into higher planes.

Temperance: “art” Combination of Forces. Realization. Action (material). Effect either for good or evil. perfectly balancing and combining the two qualities of male and female, or positive and negative. This is also a perfect balance of the conscious and the subconscious mind. The triangle is the higher knowledge that is acquired through introspection as the will to learn and understand can cause within us great doubt, but by following truth, we can select a path that leads us to the wisdom we so desire

The Wheel of Fortune. “Fortune” Cood fortune and happiness (within bounds), but somethimes also a species of intoxication with success.

Lust. Courage, Strength, Fortitude. Power not arrested in the act of Judgment, but passing on to futher action. Sometimes obstinancy.

Adjustment. Eternal Justice and Balance. Strength and Force, but arrested as in the act of Judgment. Possible legal procedings, a court of law, etc.