Major Arcana is defined as the most divinely beautiful cards among all other tarot cards. Also, Major Arcana holds the beauty of mysticism and symbolism.
The Emperor
This card stands for qualities like ambition, authority, competitiveness, worldly power, weakness, manipulative ways, indecision, immaturity etc.
The Chariot
This card signifies qualities like worldly success, struggle, overcoming adversity and impediments in the path of fulfillment, ambition, perseverance, avarice, envy, imbalance, dogmas etc.
The Magician
This card stands for qualities such as wit, communication skills, initiative, action, creativity, domination of the material world, and love for risk, confusion, lack of energy and inspiration, failure.
The Pope/Hierophant
The divinatory significance of this card is unconventionality, dubious, slander, distortion of truth, love for misleading, rejection of moral values, routine, authority, ritual, teaching, religious guidance, duplicity.
Wheel for fortune
It represents good fortune, benevolent destiny, progress, effortless success, new beginnings, when upright.
If reversed, brace yourself for ill luck, gambling, delays, problems, interruptions, difficulties.
The Lovers
When upright it signifies dilemma, foresight, union, harmony, making choices through intuition.
When reversed, it means indecisiveness, procrastination, infidelity, conflict, duality, disharmony, deception, contradiction.
The Fool
It stands for spontaneity, navet, innocence, unexpected incidents, important decisions, new internal beginnings, optimism, joy, force, and energy when upright.
When reversed, it signifies impulsiveness, wastage of creative energy, instability, gambling, foolishness, rashness, not finishing previous tasks, seekers of constant change.
Strength/ Fortitude
When Positive it means reconciliation, resolve, generosity, optimism, self control, courage, determination.
The Empress
It represents THE DAUGHTER OF THE MIGHTY ONES and its rulership is Venus. When upright, it stands for marriage, pregnancy, fertility, maternal care, love, creativity, domestic stability, security, ambition, growth.
If the card is reversed, it forebodes poverty, unwanted pregnancy, promiscuity, sterility, relationship blues, creative blocks, domestic disturbance, lack of affection, failure to attain success.
The Hanged Man
It represents THE SPIRIT OF THE MIGHTY WATERS. If the card is upright, it stands for transformation, rebirth, revivification, a waiting period, present sacrifices for future benefits, flexibility of mind, adaptability, temporary suspension of advancement, devotion.
When the card is reversed, it signifies apathy, oppression, selfishness.
Justice
This is ruled by Libra and represents THE DAUGHTER OF THE LORDS
OF TRUTH. If upright it will stand for justice, fair play, straightforwardness, clarity, marriage, divorce, legal action, resolution of conflicts, lack of prejudice.
If reversed, it will represent bias, inequality, injustice, imbalance, delay, confusion.
The Devil
If the card is upright, it represents materialism, conflict between spiritual/creative fulfillment and security, hoarding money, frustration, lust, oppression, carnal craving, and self knowledge.
If reversed it means avarice, overleaping ambition, evil, exclusive focus on material success, and abuse of authority.
The Tower
Positive qualities are upheaval, change, conflict, ruin, freedom at last and enlightenment
The High Priestess
This card stands for qualities like femininity, wisdom, intuition, mystery, duality, secretive, suppression of femininity, illusion, misogyny, lack of foresight, disharmony, surface knowledge, ignorance of truth
The cards of the major arcana don't possess only these rigid, isolated meanings. They can be interpreted in many more ways, but that requires time, practice and experience. Take cues from your intuition and devise your own descriptions.
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