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2. The Hanged Man. A man with a halo round his head, crucified upside down, hanging by one foot
over an abyss. The other leg is bent and crosses the straight one at right angles, forming a triangle. A
symbol of the reversal of values at initiation.
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3. Death. A skeleton on a horse or with a scythe stalks across the land reaping a harvest of people,
whose limbs appear dotted about the countryside, lying almost as if planted, in open furrows. This card
signifies drastic change - not necessarily physical death. A card of transmutation - the skeleton
surviving whilst the flesh is sloughed off.
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4. Temperance. An archetypal angel stands on verdant grass beside a pool - one foot is in the water
and one on the land, pouring water from one vessel into another. An image of balance which is
occasionally portrayed by the figures of the torch-bearing lion and water-bearing eagle chained
together.
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5. The Devil. A traditional type of devil with an inverted pentagram between his horns - a man and a
woman are chained to him in an illusory bondage.
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6. The Tower. A tower which has been struck by lightning the top is destroyed and the figures of a
man and a woman are shown hurtling to the ground. Destructive, but a case of energy striking at
inertia.
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7. The Star. A naked female figure kneels by a pool of water. A large (usually seven pointed) star
shows in the background, and like the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, she has two vessels of water, but
pours one back into the pool and the other on to the earth.
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8. The Moon. Moonrise on a primitive landscape. Two standing stones or towers are shown in the
background whilst a dog and a coyote bay at the moon, and a scaley lobster-like creature crawls out of
the water towards a path that wends its way between these towers.
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9. The Sun. A bright sunny day with a naked child galloping past a wall on a white horse. An
alternative design shows two children holding hands in front of the wall. A third design shows a
pilgrim in the same position.
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0. Judgement. The last trumpet sounds and the angel with the trumpet is shown summoning the dead
from their coffins. Three figures, man, woman and child arise from the coffins surrounded by the sea.
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1. The World. A naked woman with a scarf draped across her, stands with a wand in each hand. She is
surrounded by a garland, and the four holy creatures (Eagle, Man, Bull and Lion) occupy the four
corners of the card.
It is with the Major Arcana that the magician does most of his practical work, the Minor Arcana (the
remaining 56 cards) being mainly used for divination (in which the whole pack is employed) and for
some elementary types of magic.
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