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tarot symbols of specific cards
 the fool  the magician  the high priestess  the empress  the emperor  the hierophant  the lovers  the chariot  strength  the hermit  the wheel  justice  the hanged man  death  temperance  the devil  the tower  the star  the moon  the sun  judgement  the world   

 
tarot symbols in alphabetical order
 
ABOVE: Pineal gland
Heaven, God
ABSINTHE: A liqueur containing wormwood
ABYSS: Pitfall, womb of the earth, subconscious
ACE: Gift, impetus, new consciousness
ACORN: Fertility, fecundity, spiritual growth
ADAM: Humanity, earth life
ADAM KADMON: Primal energy, first man and woman
The world soul
AGATE: A protective stone against: 
Red - Spiders and Scorpions
Green - Disease in the Eye
Brown - Evil Eye 
The Brown Agate additionally makes a warrior victorious, protects against all poisonous reptiles, wins love, gives riches, happiness, health and long life
AIR:
Spirit, mind
Masculine element
Ranked highest in the elemental cosmology
Breath of life, speach
AKASHA: Record of experiences, karma
ALBUS:
A geomantic sign meaning White Head, Wisdom, Sagacity or Clear Thought, related to the Astrological Sign of Mercury, watery, Cancer, 12
ALLIGATOR: Connected with Water, Serpents, Dragons or Death
ALMOND TREE: Sweetness, delicacy, possibly virginity
ALOE: Used in spells to bring about restriction
AMBER: Aligned with the Sun
Protection against evil fortune and attacks from witches
AMETHYST: A protection against sorcery if the names of the Sun and Moon were inscribed on it. The amulet was then tied to the neck with the hairs of a peacock and the feathers of a swallow
AMISSIO:

A Geomantic Sign meaning Loss or That which is taken away
A bad figure
It corresponds to Venus, Fire, Libra and 8

ANDROGYNY: Union of the strongest and most striking opposites
ANGEL: Hidden forces, heavenly power or wrath, messages from heaven, sublimation of earthly desires
Messengers

Raphael - key #6, super conscious, angel of air, God as healer, charity
Michael - key#14, angel of fire and sun, Son of God, Holiness
Gabriel - key #20, angel of water, calls to God, strength
ANIMALS: Five senses, emotions, desires
(note their actions)
ANKH: A symbol of life, associated with the Phallus
Also known as the Crux Ansata
Formed from the male (Osiris) and female (Isis) symbols
Union of heaven and earth, masculine and feminine
A key for unlocking the mysteries of life and death
With eagle - freedom from bondage
ANTLERS: The Celtic Horned God
Fertility
A Shaman
APPLE: Earthly desires, fruitfulness, fecundity, ripeness, desirable
APPLE TREE: The temptation, taken from the Garden of Eden
AQUAMARINE:

Related to a happy marriage

AQUARIUS:

A Zodiacal sign which reigns over legs, ankles, lameness, fractures, gout, cramp, rheumatism, foul blood
Denotes questions concerning any form of mining or ballooning.

AQUISITIO:

Geomantic sign meaning success, obtaining or absorbing
It is a good figure, corresponding to Jupiter, Air, Aries, and the number, 7

ARBOR: A shelter constructed from nature
ARCANA: Means secret or hidden
ARCH: A new life or beginning, fresh insights, a birth portal
ARIES:

A Zodiacal sign governing small pox, measles, pasture grounds, ceilings, warrens or hiding places and land recently ploughed

ARMOR: Protection, defensiveness
ARROW: Direct will, phallic, vengeance, the rays of the Sun and divine light and fire
The weapon of Apollo, Diana, Artemis
ASH:

Identified with Odin, the World Tree, Yggdrasil, was an ash
Rebirth and the Seat of Justice

ASPEN: Tree of the Autumnal Equinox, old age and shield makers, associated with Hercules
The measuring rod used in Ancient Ireland to gauge corpses for their coffins
AURA: Electricity, colors designate health, force field around the body
AURABORA: Enlightenment, purity of thought, promise of peace
AXE: Light and its power
BABEL: House built on words, lost word of God, language
BANNER: White banner with red cross - innocence and blood
Red banner - action and vibration
With Red Five Petaled Rose - symbol of Mars and the life force
Held in right hand - conscious awareness, self-consciousness
Held in left hand - automatic reactions, sub-consciousness, has become automatic
Betokens freedom from material bonds, vibration, action
BATTLEMENTS: Not the final boundary, gateway to beyond
BEAR: A lunar animal, symbolic of the lowest instincts
May represent the autumn/winter months
BEARD: Masculinity, strength
White Beard - age and wisdom
BEASTS: In four corners, the fixed signs of the zodiac, the four elements
BEES: Order, sociability, industry, royalty, wealth, the soul, diligence and eloquence
BEETLE: Things unclean or horrid, An ingredient in some spells
BEGGAR: The lowest level of economic or social status
An impoverished soul
BELOW: A sign of mortality, flesh, human or animal intelligence as distinct from spiritual or divine intelligence
BELLS: Cosmic harmonies
The connection between heaven and earth
BELT: Limitation, time
A vow, initiation
When slanted suggesting the slanting circle of the elliptic representing the influence of stellar forces
Girding the Loins - preparation of a task or journey
BIRD: Messengers, telepathy, freedom, the element of air
Ideas, messages
BLACK: The void before there was light
Unknown, shadow, mysterious, protection
BLINDFOLD: Not focused on materialism, inner vision at the expense of outer
BLOOD: Life or vital power
As wine is a symbol for blood, so blood is symbolic of wine
BLUE: Faith, peace, serenity, patience
The color of the fifth (throat) chakra
BOAT: The transition from life to death
A personal journey or progress through life
The relationship of conscious to unconscious
BOAZ & JACHIN: Pillars which according to tradition stood at either end of the Temple Veil in Jerusalem before the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish captivity in Babylon
They represent according to different sources mercy and severity or spirit and matter
BODY: Tabernacle, temple or kingdom of God
BOOK: Record of truth, measure of time, memories, akasha, Torah
Knowledge, wisdom
BREAD: Flesh, the body, life substance
BREATH: Ego, solar and lunar energies, inspiration, spirit, life
BRIDGE: The threshold between two realms
The ability to overcome what is within the gap
BROWN: Grounded, potential for growth
Barrenness, stagnation
BULL: Sign of Taurus, the element of Earth
Symbolic of the Sky, Sun, Moon, and Earth
The heavenly sperm that fertilized the earth
Masculinity
BUTTERFLY: Soul, rebirth, immortality, element of air, happiness, freedom
A transformative journey
CACTUS: Keeping one's own counsel, surviving where nothing else can, and also (because of the thorns) self-protection, virginity
CADUCEUS: Moral balance, healing energies, two entwined serpents indicate sickness and health, Kundalini
CANCER:
Zodiacal sign of the Crab ruling asthmas, lung diseases, cancer, insanity, seas and watery places, hydraulic machines, and aquatic experiments
CANDLESTICK: Seven candles, chakras, spine
CANOPY: Protection, mind, celestial influence
CAPRICORN:
Zodiacal sign of the Goat which governs sprains and broken limbs, barns, hot-houses, storage rooms, barren fields, tombs, mausoleums etc.
CAPUT DRACONIS:
Geomantic sign meaning the Dragon's head, a very good sign indicating natural, steady progression towards serenity and being in touch with peaceful energies
CARCER:
Geomantic sign meaning prison or to be bound, it is either good or bad according to the nature of the question
It has the nature of Saturn, it is earthy, its zodiacal sign is Pisces and its number is 10
CAT: Power of darkness, astral world, nine lives, good eyesight, the sinister aspect of Venus
Black Cat
Associated with misfortune, death and witchcraft, related to the waning moon
CAUDA DRACONIS:
Geomantic sign meaning the Dragon's tail, a very bad sign indicating betrayal, lies, obscene and cruel behavior, hypocrisy an perfidy, hidden watchful enemies, dangerous seduction and lethal partners
CAVE: Dante's journey into the underworld, the Mystic’s dark night of the soul
CENTAUR: Half man and half horse, symbolic of the spiritual nature unable to control the animal, also symbolic of wisdom
Centaurs were known to have the twin gifts of prophecy and divination, and a reputation for intemperance
CERBERUS: The three-headed dog who guards the Greek Tartarus or Hades, associated with death
CHAIN: Largely self-imposed, restriction
CHAIN OF ROSES: Union of desires so strong that the wild unconscious forces bow before it
CHALICE: The Cup of Life, the Grail
A female symbol, the holy vessel
CHARIOT: human personality, which can be a vehicle for the expression of self
CHEN:
Chinese trigram representing moving or exciting power, northeast, inciting movement
CHERUBIM: Sacred wisdom, innocence
CHI CHI:

An I Ching Hexagram formed from the two trigrams, Li (below) meaning the clinging fire, and K'an (above) meaning the abysmal of water
The figure of perfection and the pause for thinking that perfection brings, things can only get worse

CH'IEN:

The trigram from the I Ching, its significance is untiring strength and power, its direction is South

CHILD: The regenerated personality
CHOSEN PEOPLE: Humanity, spiritually enlightened
CHRIST: Higher self, cosmic truth, spirit, the heart
CIRCLE: Spirit, eternity, circles of manifestation, perfection, retention of power, heaven, Sun, Moon, imprisonment or enclosure, protection, exclusion, division, control
In its numerical sense it makes as zero the entire number system after nine
CIRCLE in a SQUARE: The unity within the Quaternary of elements, the Freemasonry concept of "Squaring the Circle."
CITY: Thought centers
CLOAK: The mantel of discretion.
CLOUDS: Storm clouds indicate unwise thinking, human thoughts in discord
CLOVER:

Domestic virtue and good luck for women, trinity

CLUB:

A weapon associated with giants or heroes of gigantic strength

COCONUT: Purity or chastity
COFFIN: The tombs of world belief
COLORS: Black - negative, ignorance, passive, female
Blue - peace, life, intuition
Gold - enlightenment, soul power
Green - healing, growth, desire
Grey - balance of opposites, harmony
Indigo - peace, devotion
Red - courage, vitality, passion, action, energy
Silver - magnetic, mystical
White - truth, perfection, purity
Yellow - knowledge, intellect
COMBINED ANIMAL PARTS: Bat Wings, Goat Legs, Horns, Bird Feet
An animalistic, instinctive nature
CONJONCTIO:

Geomantic sign meaning reunion, the union of two elements that naturally complement and attract each other, pulled by a magnetic, cosmic force, yin and yang coming together, a sacred marriage, an unbreakable bond

CORN:

Plenty, fertility, resurrection

COSMIC LEMNISCATE: A symbol of eternal life and dominion
Harmonious interaction of the conscious and subconscious, idea and feeling, desire and emotion
CRAB: The sign of Cancer, sacred to Diana
The fertilizing power of water
CRANE: Justice, wisdom, longevity and the good and diligent soul
CRAYFISH: Unconscious mind, the early stages of unfolding, primordial and primitive
CRESCENT: Soul
CROSS: Solar cross - with equal arms indicates union of male (positive) and female (negative), union with God, balanced energy
Triple cross - intellectual and physical worlds, divine, generative power
CROSSED CIRCLES: The Golden Dawn used the crossed circle to represent CHOKMAH
CROSSED KEYS: Silver and gold representing the lunar and solar currents of energy
CROSSED SWORDS: Fighting
CROWN: Mastery, attainment, royal status, divinity, priesthood, creativity, the formative and material word, may be set against the cosmic purpose
Kether
Triple Crown - the Three Worlds: Heaven, Hell and Earth
CRUX ANSATA: The ankh
CRYSTAL: Healing and protection, a tool for seeing, sometimes as a substitute for the more highly valued Scrying Tools: Diamond or polished Coal
CUBE: The square in three dimensions, Earth, order and measurement, that which was, is and shall be, material manifestation, physical world
Half Cube - only the visual sensory side of reality is being seen
CUPID: Choice
CUPS: Symbol of knowledge and preservation, love, pleasure and enjoyment, associated with water
Silver - the subconscious
Gold - the conscious
CUIRASS: The protective power of creative imagination
CYPRESS TREE: Sacred to Venus, wisdom
Chokmah
DAGGER: Weapon of treachery
DANCER: Rhythm, attainment, victory over the elements
DECAGRAM:

A ten-pointed star
Unity, spiritual achievement, death, perfection, or totality (of the self, the Universe)

DESERT: Lack of substance or life, barren thoughts
DESOLATE PEAK: the Rosicrucian mystical journey
DEVIL: Sensation divorced from understanding by spiritual blindness, false concepts of the physical world, bound by material, slave to necessity and blind chance
DIADEM: Dominion
DIAMOND: Great power and wealth
DOG: Guardian, fidelity, companion to man, helper, friend, all non human forms of life are elevated and improved by the advance of human consciousness, domestication, the superconscious
DOLPHIN: Ancient friend of man
DONKEY EARS: Stubbornness
DOOR: Portal, entrance to the temple, threshold
DOVE: Peace, Holy Spirit, bird of Venus
DRAGON: Evil, wisdom, the celestial kingdom, celestial order established upon earth, the waters of the earth, air, the guardian of esoteric wisdom or of great wealth
EAGLE: Higher thought power, aspiration, hope, denoting the four seasons or four suits of the Minor Acrana, associated with the Scorpion sign of the Zodiac, symbol of power
Freedom, majesty, strength 
EAGLE (Two Headed): Omnipotence
EARTH:
One of the four Greek elements
Concrete physical manifestation, feminine and frequently maternal
EAST: Within, hidden, interior
EDEN: Paradise, solar plexus
EGG: Immortality and resurrection, the cosmic egg is the world egg, containing all levels of creation, ideas, seed forms
The Egg with the Serpent around it - wisdom producing or nursing life
With wings - spiritual life or life ascending
A Gnostic symbol
EIGHT: The intermediary between terrestrial order (the square) and eternal order (the circle), associated with the Serpents of the Caduceus, with infinity, with the balancing of forces or with the equilibrium of different forms of power
The number of regeneration, genius, strength, inspiration, evolution, justice
ELEMENTS: Fire, air, earth and water
ELLIPSE: Super conscious
EMERALD:

Fidelity, unchanging love, aid in the forecasting of events

ETHER: Fifth element, quintessence, life substance
EVE: Feminine principle, receptivity, soul, feeling
EYE: Meaning third, organ of true spiritual vision
EVIL: Errors in thinking, missing the mark
FALCON:

Swiftness, strength, wisdom, cruelty

FAN:

Related to the Moon, a symbol of power or authority as well as of air, wind and the celestial kingdoms

FEATHER: Eagle, scorpio
Wind, air and freedom
FEET: Support, progress, comprehension
One in water, the other on land - equally at home in the conscious or subconscious
FEMALE: The subconscious mind
FENCE: Limitation
FIELD: Substance, body
FIG: Fertility
FIGURE EIGHT
ON ITS SIDE:
Cosmic lemniscates, harmonious interaction between conscious and subconscious, between life and feeling, desire and emotion, dominion over the material, eternal life
FIRE:

One of the four elements of the Greeks
Associated with the Sun, lightning, light, gold, volcanoes
Some volcano myths tell that man first obtained fire from the volcano (or earth)

FISH: Symbol of ordination of dedication to spiritual service, creativity, pregnancy, virgin birth, increase, ideas
King of Cups - the fish comes from the sea of universal subconscious
Page of Cups - arising from one's own subconscious, idea or thought
FIVE: The most holy or lucky number, or the number of uncertainty or discouragement
The Pentagram, man, the five senses, the four cardinal points plus the centre, the four Alchemical elements together with that which encompasses them all
Five frequently occurs in nature and is associated with an erotic meaning, as most odd numbers it is a male number
FIXED SIGNS: Fixed conditions in the mind or on earth
FLAME: Spirit
FLOWERS: Vegetable kingdom, reproductive organs
White - spiritual thoughts, love, happiness
Red - human desires
FLYING CREATURES: Telepathy, messengers, mental thoughts
FORTUNA MAJOR:
Geomantic Sign meaning Great Fortune, Success, Interior Aid and Protection
A very good sign which equates to Sun, Earth, Aquarius, and the number 12
FORTUNA MINOR:
Geomantic Sign meaning Lesser Fortune or External Aid and Protection
Not a very good figure, it equates to Sun, Fire, Taurus and the number 10
FOUNTAIN: Peace, rest, spiritual strength or nourishment, the Water of Life (Inner Life, Celestial Life or Eternal Life) coming forth in abundance to give strength
FOUR:

The world, the earth, the establishment, rational thinking, The number of the elements, the winds
A totally 'safe' number, the square, and by implication the cube and the tesseract, a feminine number

FRANKINCENSE: Consecration, spirituality, love
FRUIT: Fertility
FURNACE: Testing, trial, purification, sacrifice by Fire, renewal by Fire
GABRIEL: Strength of God
The archangel of water (spirit and emotions)
GARDEN: Solar plexus, substance, Earth, sub-consciousness
GARLAND: Festivities, fruitfulness
GATE: The meanings of Door or Window with the additional connotation of keeping the wild and unfamiliar out and the tame and known in
It is a symbol of ingress of any kind, but equally of egress, things or forces let out
GEMINI:
Zodiacal Sign of the Twins, duality of all things
GENTILES: Worldly thoughts
GEOMANCY: Literally divining by Earth, a system of divination in which marks are made upon the ground or upon a piece of paper
GIRDLE: Spiritual force, time
GLOBE: Cosmic egg, universe
Winged Globe - transcendence, knowledge, exultation, symbol of dominion
GNOMES: Spirits of Earth
GNOSIS: Knowledge
GOAT: Bestiality and overindulgence in sex, depicted as fertility when in the arms of the Queen of Pentacles, the Devil
GOLD: Metal of the sun
GRAPES: Pleasure, abundance, life, fertility, sacrifice
GRAPEVINES: Growth and continuation in abundance and pleasure, nervous system
GREEN: Balance, harmony, healing, prosperity
GREY: Reconciliation of opposites, neutral, uncertainty
HALO: Auric egg, spiritual force, the path of the saint
HAWK: The soul, solar transfiguration, mind of the evil doer, victory over sin
HAND: Right - positive, masculine
Left - negative, feminine
HEAD: Crown, place of intellect
HEART: Any symbol in the shape of a heart represents sub conscious, emotions and seat of judgment
Pierced with an Arrow - conjunction, pain, wounded love
HEIGHTS: Spiritual ascendancy
HEPTAGON: Geometrical figure derived from a Heptagram or 7-pointed start
Dual meaning of Seven and Star
HERMAPHRODITE: Union of opposites, complete
HERMIT: Inner teacher, higher self
HEXAGON: Six-sided geometrical figure
HEXAGRAM: Six-pointed Star, the Shield of Solomon
Magical power, witchcraft, union of the triangles of water and fire, a hermaphroditic symbol, the human soul perfected
HIPPOGRIFF: A composite mythological animal formed from a Gryphon (Head of an Eagle, body and hind quarters of a Lion) and a Horse
Union of Fire (Lion) Earth (Horse) and Air (Eagle
HOLLY: Christmas, birth
HORNS: Penetrating, strength
HORSE: Vitality, five senses, fertility, controlled, subdued life force, solar energy
Winged - Solar power, intellect

HOURGLASS:

Time passing, but also relates to the lemniscate, an hourglass on its side, which is a symbol of infinite time

I:
An I Ching Hexagram, increase
IBIS: Vigilance, immortal life, thought, the mind
ICE: Frozen mental attitude
IDEAS: Love, healing
IRIS: Greek goddess of the rainbow
A flower sacred to the sun
JACHIN & BOAZ : Pillars which according to tradition stood at either end of the Temple Veil in Jerusalem before the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish captivity in Babylon
They represent according to different sources
severity and mercy  or matter and spirit
JACKAL: Sharp eyes, keen sense of smell, animal kingdom
JESTER: The Court Fool
JEWELS: Love and wisdom
JEW: Religious thoughts
K'AN:
Chinese Trigram meaning Peril, Difficulty, Danger, West
KEN:
Chinese Trigram meaning Resting, the act of arresting or keeping still, Northwest
KEPHRA: The Scarabaeus Beetle, a dung beetle which pushes a ball of dung around all day, the rising Sun and the transformations of life
KEYS:

That which opens, frees, allows and (conversely) closes, imprisons and forbids, open of the mysteries
Crossed Keys - A symbol of the Pope and of Papal Authority,
Keys of St. Peter, hidden doctrine, one silver and one gold meaning solar and lunar current in radiant energy

KING: Will
KNIGHT: Chivalry
K'UN:
Chinese Trigram, meaning capaciousness, submission, yielding quality, North
KUNDALINI: Seven chakras rising up the spine, serpent fire
LADDER: Climbing ropes, beanstalks or pine trees the variants are many and the meaning usually the same: a vertical bridge between Heaven and Earth, leading to perfection, kundalini, roadway to the gods
LAMB: Intellect, loving, obedience
LAETITIA:
Geomantic sign meaning Joy, of joyful energy, the dynamic whirl of a happy, life-celebrating relationship,giving, convivial and festive occasions.
LAME: Lacking understanding or progress, disabled thoughts
LAMP: Intelligence, spiritual light, light center in the heart
LANTERN: Light of intellect, search for truth, a seeker, a lost one
LAUREL WREATH: Symbol of Victory, the journey is circular, the Fool begins again after completing a previous cycle
LEAD: Labour, responsibility, metal of Saturn
LEAFLESS TREE: Trefoil flames of the 12 sings of the zodiac, each divided into three decans, The tree of life
LEAVES: Vitality, growth
LEFT:

Sinister (Latin for left) and sneakiness

LEFT SIDE OF THE BODY: Female, receptive, past, subconscious mind
LEMNISCATE: A Figure 8 on its side, Infinity in Mathematics and Eternity or Infinity in occult studies
LEO:
Zodiacal Sign of the Lion, governs fevers, convulsions, pestilence, small-pox, measles, jaundice, explosions, accidents by fire, fire, wild beasts, wild places, ovens
LEOPARD: associated with Dionysus
LIGHTING: Masculine, positive
LI:

I Ching Trigram, brightness, elegance, lightgiving, East

LIBRA:

The Zodiacal Sign of the Scales, Equilibrium

LIGHTING FLASH: The voice of God, the right manifesting itself, just punishment, truth, reality, inspiration, life power descends down the Kabalistic Tree of Life
LILY: Purified thoughts and spiritual unfoldment
LINGAM and YONI: Male/female, sexual symbol, procreation, delight
LION: Fire element, the Sun, Mars, royal power, heraldry, action, desire body, Leo sign of the Zodiac, all powerful sub human force,
One of the four Cherubic Animals
Green Lion -
Animal nature, impure
Red Lion -
Force, passion, animal reproduction
LOBSTER: The unconscious mind
LOTUS: Divine knowledge, mystic centre, crown chakra, purity, birth, evolution, the Mystic Center, the last Revelation, the intersection of Heaven and Earth, the Universe, bisexuality and the completion of a created being into a single unified whole
LUNAR CRESCENTS: (as on the Chariot card) Cancer which is ruled by the moon. (Golden Dawn)
MALE: The conscious mind
MALTESE CROSS: The coming together of different forces
MANDALA: Circular symbol, simple order in creation, all thing move to or from the center
MAYA: Illusion regarding the world
METALS: Gold, silver, mercury, lead, copper, tin, iron, also refers to the planets
MIRROR: Judgment, reflection
MIRROR of VENUS: Solar cross surmounted by a circle, symbol of planet Venus, indicates fertility
MITERED HAT: The Piscean age (when shaped like a fish)
MONKEY: Simple mischief
MOON: Feminine astrological symbol of personality, subconscious mind, reflected light of subconscious
All three phases at once - Body, Mind and Spirit
Full - Fruitfulness, generosity
Moon in Glory - Pictorial representation of the Full moon (around the disc are rays), the Triple Goddess
New - The Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess
Waning - The Crone aspect of the Triple Goddess
Waxing - The Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess
MOUNTAINS: Attainment, realization, path leading to the heights, abstract thought, the long mystical journey is through the stark mountains 
The aspirations of man
Snow Capped - Abstract principles of mathematics behind and above all warm, colorful and vital activities of cosmic manifestation, indicates cold, God's ambitions for man
MOUTH: Communication, consciousness expressed, receptive and generative
MYRTLE: Tree of death
NATURAL MAN: Seeds of what man can become spiritually
NINE: Consciousness and psychism, efficiency, renewed energy
The triad of triads and therefore a number of great power, associated with the occult and with the triple synthesis or disposition on the corporal, intellectual and spiritual levels simultaneously, a male number
NORTH: Darkness, unknown, ignorance, hidden
NORTHEAST: The direction of the unknown
NUDE: Truth, free of dogma, innocence
OAK:

The tree of Zeus, Jupiter, Hercules, Thor, and all other Thunder Gods, a royal tree, the Midsummer Fire is built with Oak

OCTAGON:

A symbol of regeneration, it is mid-way between the square and the circle (Terrestial and celestial order)
As a geometric figure it is derived from the octagram, it is symbolic of totality

OCTAGRAM:

An eight-pointed Star, frequently employs a pair of implied Greek Crosses in its structure, therefore combines the meanings of Cross and Star
The Cross is symbolic of balance between opposites and a Fire symbol
The Star is significant of the forces of the Spirit fighting against darkness and of the Collective Unconscious
Equlibrium of opposing forces of destruction

OIL: Love, vital fluid, illumination, prana
OLIVE: Peace, plenty, mercy
OLIVE OIL: Peace, love, Holy Spirit
OMEGA:

The final letter of the Greek Alphabet. In its shape it resembles  that of the Egyptian Sky-Goddess, Nuit

ONE:

The Prime number, the number of Genesis, of consciousness,  unity, light, Ego, Creation, Being, the Active Principle, eccentricity or egoism.
God/Man, Adam or the Paradise state, the Prime Masculine number

ORANGE: Strength, energy, social
ORB:

Royalty, the World and dominion over it
Cross surmounting an Orb - worldly dominion under the Lord

OVAL:

Horizontal - A halo, symbol of Godhood on Earth
Vertical - The Egg, Creation

OWL: A familiar of Merlin the magician, associated with  Hecate (Goddess of Death or Hell), Athena and Kore
OX: Strong, patient, self-sacrificing, forever toiling, generative force
PALM: Victory over death and the male aspect of life, active force shown on the veil behind the High Priestess
Easter, resurrection, severity
PAPAL TRIPLE CROWN: The lower trefoil design represents the lower material world. The middle represents the formative world. The top tier represents the creative world
PATH: States of becoming, steps to the heights, spiritual attainments, esoteric knowledge
PEACOCK: Immortality, the immortal soul, twilight, the night stars, psychic duality nurtured by unity
PEARLS: Wisdom, of great price, the soul, combination of fire and water, associated with the Moon
PELICAN: Mother love, sacrifice
PENTACLE: The suit Pentacles in the Tarot is made up of three elements: the Circle, Pentagram, and Coin, symbolically they total: Sun (Solar Power and Fire) + Pentagram (figure of Power, the Erotic Use of Power, the four cardinal points with Centre) + Money (Gold. physical wealth, tangible power)
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n the form of an amulet, protects against evil spirits
PENTAGON: The Geometric figure derived from the Pentagram, the significance of the Star but is directly 'physical' in its effects, the binding or confining of a kind of physical power
PENTAGRAM:

The prime symbol for power confined or constrained, Earth and Heaven combined
The seal of Solomon, five pointed star, symbol of the world made flesh, expressing mind's domination over the elements, represents order or confusion depending on the direction of its points, figure of man, relates to Hierophant, mental dominion
Inverted - earth, the material

PHOENIX: Grace, rising from the ashes of experience, highest state of Scorpio
P'I:

An I Ching Hexagram indicating standstill or a time of confusion and disorder

PILLAR: Support, a phallic figure, firm and Earth connecting Men and everything below with Gods and all that is above
White
- positive aspect of life, light, Jachin, principle inherent in all things, mercy
Black - inertia, darkness, Boaz, negation of activity, severity
PINE CONE: Fruitfulness, particularly associated with Dionysus and Attis
PISCES:
The Zodiacal Sign of the Fish, fruitful and luxuriantly productive sign, symbolic of all places having to do with water: Seas, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, marshes, wells, etc.
PLANETS: Interior chakras or stars
POMEGRANATE: Female seeds, death/resurrection, fertility, passive aspect of life, fecundity
POOL: Womb, substance, receptivity, female symbol
POPPY: A death flower, associated with sleep
POPULUS:
A Geomantic figure meaning people and which is neither good nor bad
Corresponds to the Moon, Capricorn and to the number 16 as well as Water
PRECIPICE: Stepping down from spiritual heights to physical manifestation
PUELLA:

A Geomantic Sign meaning Girl or pretty face, corresponds to Venus, water, Libra, the number 2

PUER:

A Geomantic Sign meaning Boy, rash and inconsiderate, corresponds to Mars, Fire, Taurus and the number 3.

PURPLE: Spirituality, penitence, and forgiveness
PYRAMID: Earth in the material aspect, triangular shaped face of the pyramid suggests the threefold principle of creation 
That which is eternal
RABBIT: Fertility, associated with the Moon
RAINBOW: Sign of good fortune from God, perfection, seven rays, protection
RAM: Assertive, noble beast, physically strong, planet Mars, power, leadership, first sign of the Zodiac
RED: Desire, energy, aggression
REPTILES: Action, kundalini, sexual will
RHOMBUS: Communication between inferior and superior
RIGHT: That which is just or good
RIGHT SIDE OF THE BODY: Male, out going, future, aware, conscious mind
RING: The Sun, an enclosure of safety or trust
RIVER: The blood, currents of thought or vital forces
The constant circulation of the life force into materialization and out again
ROD: Mastery, phallus, discipline
ROD (Flowering): Virility
ROSE: White - freedom from lower forms of desire and passion, purity and peace within
Red - Venus, nature, physical desires, cultural activities, desire
ROTA: Royal road, wheel, karma
RUBEUS:
Geomantic Sign meaning passion, redhead, vice or fiery temper, corresponding to Mars, Fire, Gemini and to the number 13
SAGITTARIUS:
The Zodiacal Sign of the Archer, or Centaur, fruitfulness, fireplaces, hills, high lands, military weapons
SALAMANDER: Fire element, able to live in midst of fire
SALT: Preservative, inertia, resurrection, Earth element
SCALES: Balanced judgment, equilibrium, the symbol of Libra
SCARAB: Self-existent being, immortality
SCEPTER: Related to all of the following: Cross, wand, club, thunderbolt, sword, phallus, Thor's hammer and the arrow
Straightforward Earthly power is its main implication, fertility or implied physical force
SCORPIO:

Zodiacal Sign, the Scorpion or the Eagle, extremely fruitful sign of long ascension. It is an unfortunate sign which takes much of its nature from the two animals which represent it.

SCORPION: Treachery, danger, immortality, the Hangman
SCROLL: Akasha, hidden mysteries, divine law, past events impressed upon the subconscious
SCYTHE: The implement of Death, connected with Father Time
SEA: All potentials, universal principles
SERPENT: Symbol of wisdom, tempts man for knowledge of self, subtlety, secrecy, serpent biting its tail represents the law of endless transformation, radiant energy descending into manifestation, sense consciousness, desire, tempter
Coiled/Uplifted - Salvation, regeneration
SEVEN: An indivisible number and therefore compared to God, Cycles of time, periods of growth, planets, chakras
SHEEP: Purity, innocence
SHELL: 'Good luck' scallops that were carried on pilgrimages
SHELLFISH: Protective, ideas, insulated, early stages of conscious unfoldment, sign of Cancer in the Zodiac, may invade the territory of waking consciousness and give rise to fears
SHIP: Body, activity, sanctuary, material treasures, that which is beyond our control, lessons in faith, voyage across darkness, across terror, life, as expressed by the Solar Boat, as the ship of death it is the means by which the body is carried from one life to the next.
SHOES: One's understanding
SICKLE: The implement of Death, connected with Father Time
SIGN OF SATURN: Limitation and inertia, Capricorn 
SILVER: Metal of the moon
SIX: Symbolic of the union between Fire and Water and therefore of the human soul, ambivalence and effort, the cessation of effort.
SKIRT: When divided into eight parts, each decorated with geomantic symbols (as in the Chariot) it represent dominion over terrestrial forces
SNAKE: Wisdom, knowledge, magical power, treachery, cruelty, death and evil, connected with the Lemniscate and with Ouroboros, the serpent which swallows its own tail
Two Headed Snake - conflict between equals
SOLAR CROSS: Solar symbol of balance of forces
SPEAR: A solar weapon, solar sacrifice, crucifixion
SPHERE: Rotation, cyclic, creative motion, perfection, Sun, Moon
SPHINX: Ancient wisdom holds the riddle of human existence, guardian of the temple, combinations of human and animal attributes
White - Betokens mercy
Black - Severity
SPIDER: Creation, aggression, convergence
SPIRAL: Kundalini force, rising in consciousness
SPOKES: Universal radiant energy
SQUARE: Limitation, solidity of Earth, foundation, materiality, foursquare
ST. ANDREW'S CROSS: A cross in the form of the Greek Letter 'X', the union of the upper and lower worlds
STAFF: Sign of power, implement of the magician
STAFF (Raised): Creative power of the mind
STAIRS: Rising to a higher state of consciousness
STARS: Sixth sign of the Zodiac, spirit, truth, guiding light
Five-pointed - star of the Magi, symbol of man
Six-pointed - shield of Solomon, magical power, union of the elements, human soul perfected, dominion over the laws of the great world
Seven-pointed - mysticism, wisdom, spirituality
Eight-pointed - radiant cosmic energy, power and material success
In sevens - the seven main Chakra points of the body, or the seven ancient planets
Fifteen-pointed - symbolic of Spirit, 15 is associated with the Devil and of a markedly erotic nature
Sixteen-pointed -
Stars tend to indicate their proximity to God or Heaven by the number of points which they have, this Star is closer to God than a four-pointed Star
STONE: Conscious union with truth on the physical plane
STREAM: Thought currents, river of life, sub-consciousness, forever flowing to the sea of consciousness
SULFUR: Desire, hell, devil, red lion, passion
SUN:
Trigram meaning flexibility, penetration, harmony, unison or relatedness and decrease
SUN: Source of light, radiant energy, where all creatures derive their personal force, immortality
Sun in Glory - sun with rays at the Cardinal and Ordinal points, symbolizes the majesty of the sun and its power
SUNFLOWER: Nature at its fullest, sacred to the sun
Four sunflowers - the four elements
SWALLOW: Bi-polar, having to do with the Sun and the Moon
SWORD: Protection, knowledge, mind, constructive or destructive activity, elimination of outworn forms, bravery, freedom, phallus
Upward - victory
Double edged - action destroys as well as builds, and the false must be cut away from the true
Broken Blade - As a symbol of manhood, the broken blade represents castration. As a symbol of bravery and freedom, the broken sword symbolizes fear and imprisonment (not necessarily imposed from without)
SYLPHS: Spirits of the air, similar to cupid
'T' OF LIVING WOOD: Tied to this, the hanged man is still earth bound
T's Three Black T's (as on the Chariot) symbolize the limiting power of Saturn as well as the Hebrew letter Tav
TABERNACLE: Transitory, state of consciousness, body
T'AI:
Peace, an I Ching Hexagram, departure of the small, arrival of the great
TAILS: Flame - wrong use of the signs of the zodiac
Grapes - wrong use of the wine of life
TARES: Negative error thoughts
TAU: Eternal life, Hebrew, salvation
TAU CROSS: Cross in the form of the letter 'T' or Tau, also called St. Anthony's Cross or the Egyptian Cross
TAURUS:
Zodiac sign of the Bull, barns, remote pastures, trees, chimneys, cellars
TEMPLE: House of God, body
TEN: Perfection, beginning a new cycle, completion, over completion, decadence, death
TENT: Temporary body structure, transitory building
THIRD EYE: The stone, clairvoyance, golden flower
THORNS: Martyrdom, pain, used to ward off witches, ghosts, strangers
THREE: Trinities
Child, birth, life and death
Beginning, Middle, End
Childhood, Manhood, Old Age
Heaven, Earth, Hell or Underworld
the Frost World, The Earth, the Fire World
THRESHOLD: Entering new way, crossing
THROAT: Desire, Venus centre, speech, Heirophant
THUMBS: Executive, ability, will
THUNDERBOLT: Jove, lighting flash, celestial fire
TOMB: Materiality, body
TORA: Wisdom, in the Jewish religion the Law, specifically the Ten Commandments given to Moses on Sinai and written in letters of black fire on skins of white fire
Personification of the Law, a Woman or Angel, who intercedes twice for mankind
TORTOISE: Corresponds to the Zodiacal Sign of Cancer the Crab, longevity, slowness and deliberation
TOWER: False ideas, speech, human thoughts, personality, misapprehension, fallacy of personal isolation, foundation built on false science
TREE: Nerves, sheltering, nourishing, spine, regeneration
Evergreen - everlasting
Fir - elevation, nobility
Oak - strength, integrity, honour
Olive - passion
Palm - healing, victory, help
Pine - humanities
TREE of KNOWLEDGE: Good and evil are concealed in the great Arcanum of antiquity, the great mystery of equilibrium, understanding of good and evil, discernment, free will, separation from God, femininity, represents polarity or imbalance, the secret of mortality
TREE of LIFE: A diagram of Creation showing the Divine manifesting itself downward to the lowest levels of existence and back upward again. In Kabbalistic interpretations of the Tarot each card is related to one of the 10 points on the Tree or to one of the 20 Paths which connect the points
Nerves, spinal column, masculine, roots, centred solar plexus, absolute life principle, spiritual point of balance, secret of immortality, to ultimately attain completion and eat the fruit growing in the illusionary garden of worldly things
TREFOILS: Trinity, fool's garment
TRIANGLE: The simplest geometric figure, signifies motion in the direction of its Apex
Apex Upward - a sign of Fire
Apex Downward - a sign for Water
Apex Downward with a Line Parallel to the Base - a sign for Earth
Apex Upward
with a Line Parallel to the Base - a sign for Air. A combination of the Fire and Water or the Earth and Air triangles - the Hexagram or Shield of Solomon
Triangle of Spirit - Points upward, often from within a square, the three of the triangle added to the four of the square add up to seven
TRIPLE CROSS: The Pope's vicarage over Heaven, Earth and Hell
TRIPLE CROWN: The Three Worlds: Heaven, Hell and Earth
TRIPLE STAFF: Spirit, soul and body
TRISTITIA:
A Geomantic Sign meaning Sorrow, grief, perversion or condemnation, corresponding to Saturn, Earth, Aquarius and the number 14
TRUMPET: Power of sound
Trumpet blast - the creative word that liberates man from material limitations
TUI:
The Trigram meaning pleasure, complacent satisfaction, joyful
TWELVE: Important nerve centres in the body, sons of Jacob, tribes of Israel, disciples of Jesus, signs in the Zodiac, man's spiritual faculties, spiritual number of fulfillment
TWO: The Prime Feminine Number, duality, change, all pairs, oppositions, conflicts, supplements, complements, partners, man's awareness of his existence and therefore the number of the beginning of intellect as distinct from ego, perception
The number One is fulfilled only through the number Two, producing Three
TYPHON: Darkness, evil monster
UNDINE: Water spirits, associated with the suit of cups
UNICORN: Allegory of Christ, innocence, moral purity, mystery
URNS: Temporary containers, life fluid
Silver - soul, feminine
Gold - spirit, masculine
URIM and THUMMIN: Truth, perfection, revelation, light
.V.T : The last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Tav originally drawn as a cross. The combination of the male and female
VALLEY: Field of experience, sub-consciousness, life
VAMPIRE: Stealer of life, a euphemism for rape
VASES: Transformation, astral fluid, womb
VEIL: Virginity, cover for hidden mysteries
VIA:

Geomantic Sign meaning Street or Way, attributes are the Moon, Water, Leo, and the number 7

VINE: Abundance, wisdom, life
VIRGIN:

Chastity, the New Moon (The Triple Goddess as Chaste Maide, Artemis), the Virgin Mary

VIRGO:

Zodiacal Sign of the Virgin, studies or libraries, cabinets, concealed or private drawers, hot houses

VOICE: Logos, power of the spoken word
VOLCANO: Fire, fire worship
WAND: Will and magical power, continual renewal of life, phallic significance
In a pair - the powers of involution and evolution
WALL: Manmade limitation
WALLET: Memory, abilities, talents, tools
WATER:
Astral fluid, universal substance, sub-consciousness, cleansing, emotions, the reservoir of cosmic mind stuff that can be stirred into vibration by meditation
Reflection, receptivity and the subconscious
Five rivulets - the five senses
WATERBEARER: Aquarius
WATERFALL: Phallic symbol, male potency
WATER LILIES: Eternal life
WATER POTS: Nerve center filled with the water of life
WEST: Past, solar plexus
WHEAT: Fertility, fruitfulness, abundance
WHEAT from CHAFF: Separating truth from falsehood
WHEEL: Cycles, motion, chakras, whole cycle of cosmic expression, the Sun and its motion and power
Eight Spokes, Eight Pointed Star - the channels of universal radiant energy, spirit, a fifth element
Center or Pivot - the archetypal or thought world
Inner Circle - creative
Middle - formative
Outer - material
WHITE: Purity, light of perfect wisdom, light of God
WHITE SUN: Kether, the Crown. In the Golden Dawn system, the Fool corresponds to a path leading downward from Kether.
WIDOW: Belief in lack or separation, half-truths
WILDERNESS: Undisciplined and uncultivated thoughts, transitory state
WINDOW: The going in and coming out of the mind, soul and spirit
Meaning affected by the number of panes and shape
Square - established order
WINE: Vitality in soul and body, life, spirit, blood
WINGED DISK: Inspiration
WINGS: Free from material limitations
WOLF: Destructive and untamed consciousness, the manifestations of nature before man tamed and civilized them, the conscious
WORLDS: Archetypal - ideal, creative, formative
Matter - Earth
WREATH: Attainment, spiritual, force of nature, praise, victory, the kingdom of growing things, success, acquired wisdom
Forming an 'O', unity and eternity
Y: Three in one, three paths
YELLOW: Mind, thought, expanded perspective
YOD: Drops of light, dew from heaven, the descent of spirit, Hebrew letter symbolizing the hands, betokens power, skill, dexterity, Zodiac sign of the virgin 
Blessings, small sparks of fire, leaves or droplets of water
Life force from above
YOKE: Two paths, male/female, yoga
YONI: Female symbol
Z: Sudden knowledge, lighting flash
ZERO: Eternity, source of all infinity, absence of quality, quantity and mass, freedom from every limitation, infinite and eternal conscious energy, super-consciousness
ZODIAC: Characteristics of humanity, symbols of the cycles of existence


tarot colors in alphabetical order

 
BLACK: The unknown, the center of the earth or situation, black shadow (anima), the darkside of the soul, new psychological territory
Darkness, formality and convention. Since black is the absence of light it can symbolize ignorance and restrictions
BLUE: Open sky, space and clear water, spirituality, tranquility, meditation
Consistency of purpose, strength and reliability
BROWN: Connected to nature and the earth, rooted in the soil
Practicality, plainness and honesty
DARK RED: More violent or passionate emotions than bright red
GREEN: Healing, prosperity, fresh, young, promising, inexperienced, immature
Fertility, vegetation, stability and healing
GREY: Unawareness or deliberate indifference
Neutrality or uncertainty
OLIVE GREEN: Envy and cunning
ORANGE: Strength, success, joy
Ambition, intelligence and earthly desires combined
PINK: Emotional love, harmony, self-love, friendship
PURPLE: Spirituality, intuition, mystic ideals, a highly developed imagination
RED: Heart, soul, willpower, vitality, love, passion, courage
Passion, earthly desire, action and the need to use direction, optimism and cheerfulness
REDDISH BROWN: Sensuality
VIOLET: Experiencing boundaries, a mixture of blue and red meanings
WHITE: Beginning, ending, healing, white shadow (animus), union through the mind, new intellectual frontier, purity, protection
YELLOW: Sun, consciousness, zest for life, clairvoyance, communication
Pure intellect and scientific thought

Textbook of the Tarot by Janet Berres of the International Tarot Society
A Complete Guide to the Tarot by Eden Gray
Sources of the Waite/Smith Tarot Symbols

Dictionary of the Tarot by Bill Butler
Pictures from the Heart by Sandra A. Thomson

 

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