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Valour · Realizing intelligence · Business and normal intellectual aptitude · Sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind · Success in these paths
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Vice · Weakness · Ugliness · Perversity · Corruption · Peril
The figure calls for no special description. The face is rather dark, suggesting courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull’s head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved or blazoned with the pentagram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In many old Tarot packs, this suit stood for current coin, money, deniers. I have not invented the substitution of pentacles, and I have no special cause to sustain the alternative. But the consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of some change, because the cards do not happen to deal especially with questions of money.