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This is not
a complete list of all the important symbols in the Tarot. It
is a sampling of symbols that are prominent. Feel free to add
you're own associations and symbols to the list.
Animals|Colors|Elements|Human Made Objects|
Landscape Features|Numbers|Plants|Shapes
| Animals (Back To
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Bees: Industry, wealth, diligence
Butterflies: The soul, rebirth, eternal life
Cats: Perceptive power, pure consciousness of the feminine
Crustaceans: Emerging from the unconscious, fertilizing
power of water
Dogs: Loyalty, instinct, faithfulness, guardian of the
underworld,
Eagles and Hawks: Temporal power, dominion, strength
Ibis: Thoth god of wisdom,
Lion: Powerful, non-human forces; noble animal nature
Phoenix: Rebirth and renewal through destruction
Snake: Renewal, death and rebirth, transformation, time,
cyclical nature |
| Colors (Back To
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Black: The unknown, transformation.
Blue: Spirituality, the subconscious mind.
Green: Creativity, fecundity, love.
Grey: Wisdom
Orange: Inquiry, investigation, experimentation.
Purple: Leadership, lucidity, circular motion
Red: Passion, will, force.
White: Purity, innocence
Yellow: Intellect, thought, communication. |
| Elements (Back To
Top) |
Air: Thought, action, discernment,
choice
Earth: Physical reality, money, health, home
Fire: Creativity, desire, growth, spirit
Water: Emotions, compassion, connection, intuition |
| Human Made Objects (Back
To Top) |
Arrow: Will, element of fire, spirit,
energy, direction
Columns: Authority, gateway, duality, change of consciousness,
Crown: Attainment, victory, the will.
Crown: Dominion, royal position, high status, spiritual
aura,
Key: Unlocking mystery, removing a block,
Path: The way, life's journey,
Sceptre or Fleur-de-lys: Phallus, thunderbolt, source
of energy, fertility, magic wand
Thrones: Dominion, power, seat of authority, fixed being,
royalty, domain, the physical world
Torch: Illumination in darkness, truth
Towers: Rising above the mundane, gaining perspective,
coming closer to God, detaching from the physical world |
| Landscape
Features (Back To Top) |
Barren Landscapes:
Lack of
love and affection
Frozen Peaks/Icy Wastes: Potentiality, frozen emotion,
icy stupor
Lightening: Divine inspiration, communication with the
divine, intuition, divine intercession.
Lowlands: Beginning stages of the spiritual path,
Mountains: The quest, need to ascend, meditation, higher
realms,
Stars & Canopies: Higher consciousness, increased
awareness, bodies encompassing spirit
Stream: Changes, stream of consciousness flowing to ocean/cosmic
consciousness |
| Numbers (Back To
Top) |
One: Unity, beginnings
Two: Duailty, choice
Three: Integration
Four: Completion, physical reality
Five: Change
Six: Harmony, synergy, reciprocity
Seven: Challenges
Eight: Vibration, movement
Nine: Completion, harvest
Ten: Transformation |
| Plants (Back To
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Corn or Grain:
Fertility,
plenty, fertilization, death and renewal, sustenance, loving
environment,
Grapes: Fertility, sacrifice
Iris: Rainbow, messenger
Laurel: Victory, evergreen, immortality
Lilies: Spiritual purity, annunciation
Palm: Victory over death, male aspect of life
Pomegranates: Fertility, femininity, death and rebirth
Roses: Love, passion, the heart, beauty and pain,
Sunflowers: The Sun, following, solar power, lion-like
qualities,
Trees: Evolution, integration, sacred spirit, ancient
wisdom,
Vine: Abundance & fertility; debauchery & overindulgence |
| Shapes (Back To
Top) |
Cross: Unity of masculine and feminine.
Cube, square: Physical world, four elements, stability,
persistence
Lemniscate: Eternal life, harmonious interaction, rhythm
Pyramid: Resolution, transfiguration, four elements transcended
by spirit,
Sphere: God/dess, encompassing all, completion, the cosmos
Triangle: Trinity, resolution of duality, life cycles |
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