The Arcana

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A R C A N A

0. FOOL The Fool represents innocence, divine inspiration, madness, freedom, spontaneity, inexperience, chaos, and creativity. The Fool Arcana tends to be the "jack of all trades" person. 1. MAGICIAN Magician Arcana is commonly associated with action, initiative, self-confidence, manipulation and power (more specifically, the power to harness one's talents.) 2. PRIESTESS Priestess Arcana is a symbol of hidden knowledge or other untapped power, wisdom, female mystery and magic when it appears in tarot readings. 3. EMPRESS Empress represents prosperity, creativity, sexuality, abundance, fertility and comfort (most often in helping maintain peace around them like an ideal mother would.) 4. EMPEROR Emperor symbolizes the desire to control one's surroundings, and its appearance could suggest that one is trying too hard to achieve this, possibly causing trouble for others; some elements in life are just not controllable. 5. HIEROPHANT Hierophant is a symbol of education, authority, conservatism, obedience to rules and relationship with the divine. The definition of a "hierophant" is a person who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles. 6. LOVERS Lovers Arcana initially represented two paths life could lead to, and thus a symbol of standing at a crossroad and needing to make a decision. It can also be a symbol of finding agreement with friend, partner or even two conflicting elements within. 7. CHARIOT The Chariot Arcana is a symbol of victory, conquest, self-assertion, control, war and command. 8. JUSTICE Justice Arcana symbolizes a strict allegory of justice, objectivity, rationality and analysis. 9. HERMIT Hermit is associated with wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches. 10. FORTUNE Fortune Arcana symbolizes of fate and varying luck, fortunes and opportunities. What goes up will go down, what goes down will go up. 11. STRENGTH Strength Arcana is associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. It can also represent creative or physical energy that needs to be or is about to be unleashed, sometimes out of desire to be recognized. 12. HANGED MAN Hangedman Arcana is associated with self-sacrifice for the sake of enlightenment, and the bindings that makes one free, paradoxes and hanging between heaven and earth. 13. DEATH Commonly associated with foreboding doom, Death Arcana also symbolizes the metamorphosis and deep change, regeneration and cycles. 14. TEMPERENCE Temperance Arcana is a symbol of synthesis, prudence, harmony, and the merging of opposites. 15. DEVIL Devil Arcana represents the urge to do selfish, impulsive, violent things and be slave to ones' own impulse and feelings. Occasionally, it is also portrayed as a symbol of temptation. 16. TOWER The Tower Arcana is commonly associated to overly arrogant, prejudiced and authoritarian organization, which walk to their own ironic demise. 17. STAR The Star Arcana is commonly associated with hope, self-confidence, faith, altruism, luck, generosity, peace and joy 18. MOON Moon Arcana is associated with creativity, inspiration, dreams, madness, illusions, fear, fantasy, the subconscious and trickery. In tarot readings, it can also represent being attuned subconsciously to the world around, gaining the ability to sense things. 19. SUN The Sun symbolizes happiness, joy, energy, optimism, and accomplishment. Occasionally, it is also associated with one's initial happiness. 20. JUDGEMENT Judgement Arcana is commonly associated with a balance of Light and Darkness, person's awareness of himself, and others. 21. THE WORLD The World Arcana is a representation of the world, the totality of it, symbol of fulfillment, wholeness, harmony.

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