Rider-Waite Tarot Card Meanings List

Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.

Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will.

Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science.

Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.

Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will.

Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness; inspiration; the man to whom the Querent has recourse.

Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.

Succour, providence also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.

Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours.

Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.

Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.

Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.

Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.

End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage ...

Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.

Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil.

Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe.

Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says-hope and bright prospects.

Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.

Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.

Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit.

Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.

Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a sense the virility ...

Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible; on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; on the other, physical suffering ...

He symbolizes established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery; those are his ships, bearing his merchandise, which are sailing ...

They are for once almost on the surface - country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity ...

Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it ...

The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such ...

It is a card of valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position. On the intellectual plane, it signifies ...

Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, as that of an express messenger; great haste, great hope, speed towards an end ...

The card signifies strength in opposition. If attacked, the person will meet an onslaught boldly; and his build shews, that he may prove a ...

A card of many significances, and some of the readings cannot be harmonized. I set aside that which connects it with honour and good faith. The ...

Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman. Beside a man, he will bear favourable testimony concerning him. A dangerous rival, if ...

Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.

A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a ...

Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty, and may mean news concerning an ...

House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.

Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and - as a suggestion apart from all offices of ...

The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.

Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now ...

It is a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission ...

A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as - for example - on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things ...

Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but ...

The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical - giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In ...

Concord, contentment, physical bien-etre; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is made.

Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship; if with several picture-cards ...

Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application ...

Arrival, approach - sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement.

Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness ...

Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art and science, including those who profess ...

Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may ...

Conformity and the equipoise which it suggests, courage, friendship, concord in a state of arms; another reading gives tenderness, affection ...

Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for ...

Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design.

Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these.

Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.

Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import, because the ...

Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.

Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.

Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death.

Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities thereto belonging.

Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the ...

Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.

Whatsoever arises out of the idea of judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown ...

Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.

On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as ...

Metier, trade, skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.

The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.

The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated - that is, destitution - or otherwise. For some cartomancists, it is ...

Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc.

These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels - and ...

Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.

Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.

Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.

Application, study, scholarship, reflection another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.

Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude-all on the normal and external plane.

Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.

Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in ...