1. The Materialist

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In many esoteric systems of tarot card interpretation, the Fool is interpreted as the protagonist of a story, and the Major Arcana are the path the Fool takes through the great mysteries of life. This path is known traditionally in cartomancy as the "Fool's Journey", and is frequently used to introduce the meaning of Major Arcana cards to beginners.[21][22]

According to A.E. Waite's 1910 book Pictorial Key to the Tarot,[23] the Fool card is associated with:

Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment. [If the card is] Reversed: Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.

Wheel of Fortune

A common aspect to most interpretations of this card within a reading is to introduce an element of change in the querent's life, such change being in station, position or fortune: such as the rich becoming poor, or the poor becoming rich.

Spending Traits: You have a conflicted relationship with money, displaying both impulsive tendencies towards overspending and a concern for the potential negative consequences of their habits. You prioritize their immediate desires and enjoyment, but also recognize the importance of practicing self-control and discipline in order to achieve a more secure financial future. Your spending habits include a focus on luxury items and experiences, as well as using shopping as a coping mechanism for emotional distress, which has led to high levels of debt and credit card usage.

Theme (to go above card): "Break free from the cycle of overspending and empower your financial future.”

Your Money Mindset: The Materialist card warns against overspending and accumulating debt that can trap you in a cycle of financial hardship. It reminds you to take control of your spending habits and resist the urge to indulge in instant gratification. You may need to reassess your values and priorities, focusing on more fulfilling aspects of life beyond just material possessions. To avoid the pitfalls of the Materialist, you must develop a healthier relationship with money by setting clear financial goals, creating a budget, and sticking to it. Ultimately, this card is a reminder to seek greater fulfilment in all areas of your life, not just through material possessions.

Symbolism: Jewelry, Handbags, Sportscars, Watches, Shopping Bags, Champagne, Diamonds/ Gems

Shopping Sprees, Not paying off debts, instant gratification

Traditional Symbolism: Sphinx, Spinning Wheel, Dogs, Clouds, Bundle of Possessions, White Rose, Joker Card, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, Snake

*The Fool Card is often used to introduce Tarot

2. The Indulgent
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19.THE SUN.—Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.

Spending Traits: You take a positive and balanced approach to spending, emphasizing both enjoying life's pleasures and responsible financial management. You prioritize quality over quantity, with a focus on beauty and luxury. Your spending habits include indulging in luxury items, fine dining, and leisure activities, as well as investing in financial growth opportunities and giving to charitable causes. While you are confident in your financial management skills, there is potential for overindulgence and materialism if not balanced with responsible spending habits.

Your Money Mindset: The Indulgent card acknowledges the enjoyment of the fruits of your labor but warns of the potential for overindulgence and excess. It depicts a figure in a position of financial abundance, surrounded by luxury and beauty. While money can bring pleasure and joy, unchecked spending habits can lead to financial instability and imbalance. This card reminds you to be mindful of your spending habits and use your resources wisely. By developing a healthy relationship with money, setting clear financial goals, creating a budget, and balancing pleasure with responsibility, you can create a sustainable and fulfilling financial lifestyle that brings both pleasure and stability.

Symbolism: Take out container, Travel/ Plane ticket, Wine and Beer/ Cocktail, Fast food, Large Steak, Uber/ Taxi, Electronics, Multiple credit cards

Traditional Symbolism: The Sun, Sunflowers in a Field, Horse (Link to Uber/Taxi), Flag

3. The Disciplined
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Spending Traits: You display a practical and grounded approach to money, prioritizing responsible financial management and a preference for saving and planning for the future. Your spending habits are focused on necessities and practical investments, with occasional indulgences such as vacations or entertainment. You are aware of the potential risks and rewards of financial decisions and are willing to seek advice from trusted experts or mentors. You strike a balance between enjoying the present moment and planning for the future, and may also prioritize charitable causes or giving back to the community.

Theme (to go above card): "Find balance in the wisdom of savings and the joy of spending.”

Your Money Mindset: The Disciplined card represents the value of frugality and savings, but warns of the potential pitfalls of excessive saving and missed opportunities for financial growth. It depicts a figure in a position of authority, with a conservative and practical approach to money. While being financially responsible is important, excessive saving and reluctance to spend may hinder financial growth. This card reminds you to find a balance between saving for the future and enjoying the present moment, taking calculated risks and allowing occasional indulgences. By developing a healthy relationship with money, setting clear financial goals, creating a budget, and finding a balance that works for you, you can create a sustainable and fulfilling financial lifestyle that allows you to enjoy the present moment while also planning for the future.

Symbolism: Charts/ Spreadsheet, Calendar, Piggy Bank, Treadmill, Clock/ Timer

Traditional Symbolism: Lion, Infinity Sign, Coins

4. The Intuitive

Spending Traits: You approach money with a focus on both intuition and strategic planning, prioritizing sustainable and fulfilling financial goals aligned with their personal values and priorities. You balance spending and saving while tapping into hidden talents and resources to generate income. Your spending habits include practical investments, personal or professional development, and high-quality sustainable goods and services, as well as travel and leisure activities that align with their values. You may also prioritize charitable giving and philanthropy. With a deep sense of self-awareness and mindfulness in financial decision-making, you are willing to seek guidance and support when needed.

Theme (to go above card): "Trust your intuition and unlock your financial potential.”

Your Money Mindset: The Intuitive card represents the power of intuition and reflection in financial decision-making, acknowledging the need for both planning and tapping into inner wisdom. This figure represents the use of intuition and reflection in financial choices, reminding you to trust your inner voice for making wise decisions. It is a sign that you are in a period of introspection in your financial journey, seeking to balance your spending with saving and finding ways to make your money grow. By tapping into your unique strengths and abilities, you can create a sustainable financial future that aligns with your goals and values. Balancing practical financial planning with intuition and reflection is key to creating a fulfilling financial life that brings both material and spiritual abundance.

Symbolism: Gift and Donations, Piggy Bank,

Traditional Symbolism: Flowing Water, Stars, Mountains, Bird, Planet Uranus, Aquarius

5. The Abundant
The Magician
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On the broad level, the Magician is interpreted with energy, potential, and the manifestation of one's desires; the card symbolizes the meetings of the physical and spiritual worlds ("as above, so below") and the conduit converting spiritual energy into real-world action.[6]

The Magician is associated with the planet Mercury, and hence the signs of Gemini and Virgo in astrology.

Spending Traits: You exude abundance and prosperity, with skilled financial decision-making and strategic spending and saving habits. You prioritize creating wealth and prosperity while balancing short-term and long-term financial goals, investing in the future while still enjoying the present moment. Your spending habits include practical investments, professional development, and high-quality sustainable goods and services, as well as travel and leisure activities that align with your values. You may also prioritize charitable giving and philanthropy and be willing to take calculated risks to achieve financial goals. You may also have an entrepreneurial mindset, exploring business ventures and utilizing hidden talents or skills that can generate income.

Theme (to go above card): "Manifest abundance with wise financial choices.”

Your Money Mindset: The Abundant card symbolizes the power of resourcefulness and abundance in financial decision-making, acknowledging that wise use of resources and strategic choices are essential for financial success. The figure in this card represents the ability to create wealth through skillful and resourceful means. When the Abundant card appears in a reading, it suggests that the person has financial abundance but may be at risk of overspending and not making the most of their resources. To make the most of this card, it is important to develop a balance between spending and saving, investing in the future while still enjoying the present. By using resources wisely and making strategic choices, one can manifest financial goals and create a life of abundance and prosperity. An aligned Abundant card represents abundance and skillful financial decision-making, while an unbalanced card represents the risk of overspending and blocking oneself from financial manifestations.

Symbolism: Grapes, Fish, Food, Money Tree, Nest Egg

Traditional Symbolism: Table with Items (Coin, Sword, Cup and wand) on it, Figure with one arm up and one arm down, Infinity sign, Plants/flowers - growth, egg, garden of flowers, symbols of fire, earth, air, water, Planet Mercury, Gemini, Virgo, lightning rod/wand

6. The Balanced
Temperance

Spending Traits: You value balance and harmony in financial decision-making and practices patience and moderation in spending and saving. You prioritize strategic financial planning and sustainable financial habits, while still enjoying occasional indulgences to celebrate milestones. Your spending habits include practical investments, high-quality sustainable goods and services, and travel and leisure activities that align with personal values. You may also prioritize charitable giving and philanthropy and have savings accounts, retirement funds, and emergency funds. Personal or professional development is important to you, and you strive to maintain a balance between enjoying the present and planning for the future.

Theme (to go above card): "Find balance and harmony on the path to financial abundance.”

Your Money Mindset: The Balanced card represents the power of balance and patience in financial decision-making. It shows a figure in a position of balance, using inner wisdom to make the most of financial resources. This card reminds you to maintain balance in your financial decision-making by spending moderately, saving wisely, and investing strategically. To make the most of the Balanced card, find a balance between indulging in life's pleasures and staying on track with financial goals. Celebrate milestones along the way, but maintain patience in the journey towards true wealth. Aligned, this card represents balance and patience in financial decision-making. Unbalanced, it represents the risk of overspending or over-saving, and impatience with the journey towards real wealth building.

Symbolism: Scales, Yin Yang

Traditional Symbolism: Flowing water cups being poured into each other, Weightless/Winged Figure, Ganymede, Goddess Iris, Rainbow, Iris Flowers, One foot on water, one on land, Tetragrammaton, Square, Triangle

7. The Empowered
Combination of The Empress and the Emperor

Spending Traits: You exhibit self-control, discipline, and humility in financial decision-making, with a focus on long-term goals and strategic planning to achieve financial stability and security. You invest in personal growth and development, and seek to create abundance and prosperity, all while maintaining a balance between enjoying the present and planning for the future. Your spending habits include high-quality investments, business ventures, charitable giving, personal and professional development, luxury goods and services, travel, and creating a lasting legacy by investing in future generations.

Theme (to go above card): "Master your wealth, build your empire.”

Your Money Mindset: The Empowered card represents achieving financial success and building wealth through discipline and self-control, with humility and self-awareness being key to continue growing. The figure in the card is depicted as focused, skilled, and in control, building an empire of wealth. When this card appears, it signifies that you have reached financial abundance and are on track to building wealth. It reminds you to remain humble and conscious of your values while continuing to build wealth. To make the most of this card, you must maintain discipline and focus on your long-term financial goals, investing strategically and saving wisely. The Empowered card represents true financial abundance and wealth building, but an unbalanced interpretation could lead to becoming too attached to financial status and neglecting personal values and priorities.

Symbolism: Crown, muscle flex emoji, Home ownership, Lion,

Traditional Symbolism: Throne, Domain, Ownership, About to give birth, Both cards have a staff, Crown of stars, Growing Crops, Seated

Empress: Venus Emperor Mars, Aries

8. The Next Realm
The World

21.THE WORLD—Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.

The World represents an ending to a cycle of life, a pause in life before the next big cycle beginning with the fool.[3] The figure is male and female, above and below, suspended between the heavens and the earth. It is completeness.

Freedom - flying in open air, state of ecstasy, bliss, snake eating its own tail, unification of inside and outside

Symbols: Two wands in hand - can make anything happen

Details: Four symbols on each corner (Traditionally Astrological symbols: Taurus, Leo…)

PENTACLES
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In occult and divinatory usage the suit is connected with the classical element of Earth, the physical body and possessions or wealth. Coins as a Latin suit represent the feudal class of traders, and therefore to worldly matters in general.

In the Rider–Waite tarot deck and derivative decks, the suit is called the suit of pentacles, and each card incorporates one or more discs each displaying a pentacle. In The Book of Thoth it is called the suit of discs, and the cards are associated with the Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn signs of the Zodiac.

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Bitcoin logos made by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and 2010

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