Every symbol can really mean anything at all. Please reread that sentence a few times. It is the secret of how tarot works, how the world works, and how you will avoid wasting hours of your life arguing with people about what a tarot card really means. Of course, it is not quite as simple as that, but symbols are “multivalent”—they can carry a range of meanings. These meanings are dependent on one thing: context. Thus meaning is given to a tarot symbol by the question that someone asks you, the deck you are using, the moment you’re performing the reading, as well as your own experience,
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