| card name | card energy | too much energy | too little energy (Rx) | in balance | What the card says |
| 0 The Fool | moving forward with no fear; "ignorance is bliss" |
heedless; careless; blind to what lies ahead fooling oneself |
timid; cautious | moving ahead successfully aware and unafraid |
"I don't know, but I like it!" |
| I The Magician | performing magic on a worldly level; creation by willpower and desire |
confusing the trick with real magic; using illusion and trickery |
inept in performance unskilled in manifesting what is needed or wanted |
skilled and capable; handles all the tools; knowing the difference between trickery and magic |
"I have an idea!" |
| II The High Priestess | possessing psychic powers, intuition and secret knowledge; a librarian of the arcane |
too secretive and private; addicted to the accumulation of arcane knowledge for its own sake |
unable to keep a secret; no sense of one's mystery or one's own subconscious motives |
secret knowledge used for good |
"I have a secret!" |
| III The Empress | able to produce; fecund, fertile, mothering; giving birth; creating new life; "the Great Mother"; Gaia |
overgrowing, smothering, suffocating, crowding out; workaholic, overproductive |
starving, bare, infertile; wasteland; barren, unproductive |
appropriate growth; appropriate productivity |
"I give birth!" |
| IV The Emperor | Leadership, command, fathering |
Overbearing, bossy; a martinet; strict; tyrannical; impatient; controlling |
leaderless, rudderless; lacking direction, motivation or discipline |
moving with authority; leading without ordering; fatherly and charismatic |
"I rule! I command!" |
| V The Hierophant | symbolizing organized religion; providing and ensuring a community's moral leadership; inspiring; "putting clothes on God |
preachy; overly moral; extremist; fundamentalist; zealot; literal; resistant to change |
morally leaderless; hypocritical; feet of clay; lacking inspiration; betraying the community trust |
inspiring and exemplifying one's expressed standards |
"I keep the faith!" |
| VI The Lovers (The One Who Loves) |
being in love and gaining the attention of the object of one's affection; choosing |
clinging; doting; driving away one's love by too much attention; wanting something too much |
loving secretly; unable to express one's feelings; shy; unable to make a choice |
stating or showing one's affection appropriately |
"I choose you to love!" |
| VII The Chariot | moving forward and winning by harnessing disparate energies |
crushing; rolling over people forcing; prizing winning over all else; moving too fast |
weak, immobile, unable to organize; tending to sit and wait; missing opportunities to bring different points of view together |
moving ahead successfully aware and unafraid |
"I move ahead against all obstacles!" |
| VIII Strength | using both inner and outer strength or forces to gain one's way |
forcing; imperious dominating |
weak, ineffective, lacking leadership conciliatory |
using just the right amounts and kinds of healthy force leading by example |
"I use strength to serve, not to dominate!" |
| IX The Hermit | making one's way alone finding out truths for oneself "me, myself, and I" |
reclusive, misanthropic secretive, unsociable |
dependent upon others lacking self-reliance incapable of making it alone unable to keep secrets |
knowing when to go it alone and when to ask for help; can be trusted with secrets balancing introversion with extroversion |
"I trust my own thinking!" |
| X The Wheel | the natural cycle of change "what goes around comes around" |
chaotic upheaval; unable to keep up; too much change all at once |
staid, stuck, in a rut out of rhythm, unlucky |
in the flow taking advantage of the natural cycles of life, lucky |
"This, too, shall pass!" |
| XI Justice | fair and equal well-adjusted "what's good for the goose is good for the gander." |
hypercritical, judgmental picky, nagging, needing adjustment and balance (?) |
inequality, unfairness |
"good" karma, fair and even-handed in one's dealings |
"I am just!" I'm a fair person. |
| XII The Hanged Man | having a different perspective; a suspension of the usual; turning inward "hearing the inner voice" "go on retreat" "it's a vision thing" betray as a result of seeing things differently |
lost in one's own world; blind to what is around self-deluded into betraying |
lacking inner strength, intuition or psychic ability; blindly obedient |
able to "go within"; outer and inner needs both met; having perspective and vision; having the courage of one's convictions |
"I see things differently!" |
| XIII Death | ending life "death comes to all things" |
war, famine, disease; too many losses |
fear of endings; eternal |
moving forward to accept a loss knowing something awaits beyond |
"I am sorry for (your/my) loss!" |
| XIV Temperance | balancing "walk in balance, walk in beauty" |
afraid to step off the path; never "going to extremes" |
wildly out of balance; excessive, addictive |
balance within reason |
"I walk in balance!" |
| XV The Devil | attachment, addiction; dependency; over-reliance; base desires |
addiction; slavery, going overboard; 7 deadly sins(?) |
anarchy, isolation, (see The Hermit) no sense of "earthiness" |
social adherence; correctness; manners |
"I behave, but not all the time!" "I obey..." "I serve..." "I wanna do right, but not right now" |
| XVI The Tower | energy from outside shakes things up "bolt from the blue" |
chaos, destruction loss, ruin, despair |
boredom, decay, rot | a little change, a little bad luck just enough to shake things up |
"I will rock you!" |
| XVII The Star | moving toward a distant goal "eyes on the prize" |
obsessed; goal-oriented blind to what is around one |
rudderless; short-sighted | moving ahead successfully aware of surroundings but with vision |
"Follow your dream!" |
| XVIII The Moon | creativity, imagination "mystery by moonlight" |
delusion; addiction; lost in dreams |
prosaic, worldly; lacking imagination |
balancing the real and the dream world to advantage |
"Add a little mystery to your life!" |
| XIX The Sun | warm blessings "the sun is smiling on you" |
burned, dessicated; too much of a good thing |
luckless; in shadow | moving ahead successfully | "I shine on you!" |
| XX Judgement | rebirth, resurrection; starting over "second chance" |
always starting, never finishing; |
unable to break the old pattern; unable to start anew | beginning again when needed; leaving behind what must be |
"I am the resurrection!" |
| XXI The World | moving forward with no fear "ignorance is bliss" |
heedless; careless blind to what lies ahead |
timid; cautious | moving ahead successfully aware and unafraid |
"the card says!" |