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0—The Fool

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  • Naïveté
  • Thoughtlessness
  • Immaturity
  • Impulsiveness
  • Lawlessness
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0—The Fool

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  • New Beginnings
  • Optimism
  • Innocence
  • Joy
  • Inventiveness
  • Untapped Potential

*If the first card, may indicate foolhardiness or that you are asking the wrong question.

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0—The Fool

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Element: Air
Planet: Uranus

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1—The Magician

Upright

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  • Action
  • Power
  • Originality
  • New Opportunities
  • Will Power
  • Quick Thinking
  • Confidence
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1—The Magician

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  • Trickery
  • Deception
  • Lack of Confidence
  • Indecision
  • Abuse of Power
  • Warning to Be Careful Who You Trust
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1—The Magician

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Planet: Mercury

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2—The High Priestess

Upright

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  • Intuition
  • Wisdom
  • Mystery
  • Psychic Ability
  • May symbolize a secret that is to be revealed or that you wish to be revealed
  • Guide of Inner Self and Potential
  • Suggests you trust your intuition
  • May represent the most important woman in a man’s life or someone who will provide wise counsel
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2—The High Priestess

Inverted

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  • Emotional Insecurity
  • Hidden Obstacles or Opponents
  • Lack of Intuition
  • Secrecy
  • Temptation to use emotional blackmail
  • May represent a woman who is a bad influence on a man
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2—The High Priestess

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Planet: Moon

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3—The Emperess

Upright

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  • Fertility
  • Birth
  • Motherhood
  • Harmony
  • Nature
  • Prosperity
  • Artistic Ambition
  • Love
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3—The Emperess

Inverted

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  • Domestic Upheaval
  • Emotional Blackmail
  • Overprotection, maybe by you or a woman in your life
  • Poverty, watch your finances
  • Infertility
  • Suppressed Artistic Expression
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3—The Emperess

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Planet: Venus
Season: Spring

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4—The Emperor

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  • Achievement
  • Authority
  • Protection
  • Support, perhaps by a strong male in your life
  • Trustworthiness
  • Discipline
  • Consolidation
  • Reason
  • When referring to you, suggests that you will be able to influence others or that you have a strong sense of your authority
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4—The Emperor

Inverted

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  • Weakness
  • Failed Ambition
  • Status-Driven
  • Tyrannical
  • Untrustworthy
  • You or a male influence is bullying others, being overbearing, or abusing power
  • May suggest insecurity around a man of influence
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4—The Emperor

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Aries
Dates: 3/21-4/20

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5—The Hierophant

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  • Wise Counsel
  • Spiritual Consolation
  • Knowledge
  • Identification
  • Faith
  • Conformity
  • Tradition
  • Symbol of Moral Law, Spiritual Advisor
  • Recommends traditional approaches rather than novel ones
  • Usually represents lessons to be learned
  • May indicate marriage or legal responsibilities or documents
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5—The Hierophant

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  • Misinformation
  • Lack of Faith
  • Deviousness
  • Bad Advice
  • Confusion
  • Disorderly Conduct
  • Can represent a crisis of faith or self, possibly leading to disorderly conduct
  • May feel stifled by others expecting you to conform
  • Suggests that you may make your own rules and may desire an unconventional approach
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6—The Lovers

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  • Desire
  • New Love, will enter your life
  • Relationships
  • Physical Attraction
  • Commitment
  • Love
  • Sex
  • Suggests an important choice that will affect the rest of your life, likely between duty and your heart’s desire
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5—The Hierophant

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Taurus
Dates: 4/21-5/21

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6—The Lovers

Inverted

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  • Lust
  • Moral Lapse
  • Temptation
  • Indecision
  • Separation
  • Failed Love Affair
  • Emotional Loss
  • Suggests your heart rules your head and that a drastic change of attitude will lead to happiness
  • Warns of being unfaithful to yourself
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6—The Lovers

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Gemini
Dates: 5/22-6/21

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7—The Chariot

Upright

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  • Triumph
  • Movement
  • Change
  • Self-Belief
  • Assertiveness
  • Good New
  • You will be victorious in your struggle
  • Suggests travel and change
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7—The Chariot

Inverted

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  • Rage
  • Tyranny
  • Selfishness
  • Arrogance
  • Delays
  • Travel plans gone awry
  • You or someone around you is being arrogant, selfish, or bullying others
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7—The Chariot

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Cancer
Dates: 6/22-7/23

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8—Justice

Upright

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  • Justice
  • Truth
  • Integrity
  • Balance
  • Arbitration
  • Responsibility
  • Good omen for partnerships, business dealings, and legal matters
  • Can signify that a wrong done to you will be righted
  • Karmic card that heralds good fortune and rewards for past efforts, even if you don’t know why
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8—Justice

Inverted

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  • Prejudice
  • Injustice
  • Poor Judgment
  • Bad Advice
  • Business deals may flounder or legal matters won’t go your way even if you are morally correct
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8—Justice

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Libra
Dates: 9/24-10/23

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9—The Hermit

Upright

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  • Introspection
  • Solitude
  • Guidance
  • Advice
  • Patience
  • Suggests the need for careful consideration
  • Possible desire for peace, quiet, and solitude
  • Warns against hasty choices
  • Recommends taking advice from a trustworthy choice
  • Regarding health, suggests convalescence and rest
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9—The Hermit

Inverted

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  • Obstinacy
  • Suspicion
  • Fear
  • Impatience
  • Folly
  • Arrogance
  • Suggests a refusal to take advice
  • Indicates impatience that will lead to bad decisions and isolation
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9—The Hermit

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Virgo
Dates: 8/24-9/23

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10—The Wheel of Fortune

Upright

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  • Destiny
  • Movement
  • Vision
  • Good Luck
  • Start of a New Cycle
  • Synchronicity
  • Heralds new life, luck, and fortune
  • Signifies an end to current problems and rewards for past efforts
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10—The Wheel of Fortune

Inverted

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  • Signifies a period of misfortune
  • Obstacles
  • Bad Luck
  • Unpleasant Surprises
  • Reminder that the wheel turns both ways
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10—The Wheel of Fortune

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Planet: Jupiter

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11—Strength

Upright

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  • Strength
  • Compassion
  • Will Power
  • Patience
  • Courage
  • Triumph
  • Fortitude
  • Ability to cope with extreme pressure and win
  • Could mean a rapid recovery from ill health
  • Suggests that it’s a good time to give up a bad habit
  • Signals triumph over most things, including relationship challenges or defending yourself from things like jealousy or ignorance and oppression
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11—Strength

Inverted

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  • Cowardice
  • Fear
  • Inertia
  • Defeat
  • Loss of Opportunity
  • Warns of missed opportunities and giving up when you may be close to the finish
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11—Strength

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Leo
Dates: 7/24-8/23

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12—The Hanged Man

Upright

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  • Transition
  • Flexibility
  • Rebirth
  • Deliverance
  • Release
  • Symbolizes self-sacrifice, be that material or emotional
  • Ability to adapt to change
  • Suggests a pause in life, or limbo, until something or someone is given up for greater gain
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12—The Hanged Man

Inverted

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  • Materialism
  • Inflated Ego
  • Lack of Will Power
  • Easily Influenced
  • Can represent ill health, anxiety, and stress
  • Indicates that this is a time for patience
  • Represents a trial of passage, has religious undertones
  • May indicate selfishness or playing the martyr for emotional manipulation
  • Weakness of will may lead you in the wrong direction and cause missed opportunities
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12—The Hanged Man

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Element: Water
Planet: Neptune

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13—Death

Upright

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  • Endings
  • Transformation
  • Sweeping Change
  • Clearance
  • Symbolizes a time of absolute endings and absolute beginnings
  • Shocking events or changes may occur, clearing the way for a new start and a greater value of life
  • Out with the old, in with the new, a time of transitions
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13—Death

Inverted

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  • Stagnation
  • Loss of Opportunity
  • Loss of Friendship
  • Fear of Change
  • Sense of dread at potential change
  • Indicates it’s time to show what you are made of
  • May also mean that you are resisting change when change is essential
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13—Death

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Scorpio
Dates: 10/24-11/22

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14—Temperance

Upright

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  • Harmony
  • Health
  • Moderation
  • Compromise
  • Peace
  • Self-Control
  • Ability to handle volatile factors to bring about a positive result
  • Heralds a time of harmonious relationships
  • Moderation is the key and spirituality will bring comfort
  • Suggests a guardian angel of sorts is watching out for you
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14—Temperance

Inverted

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  • Impatience
  • Lack of Foresight
  • Conflict
  • Quarrels
  • Domestic Strife
  • Overindulgence
  • Warns of making hasty decisions out of impatience as they will thwart progress
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14—Temperance

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Sagittarius
Dates: 11/23-12/21

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15—The Devil

Upright

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  • Permanence
  • Commitment
  • Good omen for marriage and commitment to a relationship
  • Gaining control or awareness of addictions and obsessions
  • Examine the situation closely
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15—The Devil

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  • Lust, especially of the flesh
  • Greed
  • Entrapment
  • Ignorance
  • Tyranny
  • Obsession
  • Addiction
  • Doesn’t suggest favorable outcomes
  • Concerning relationships, warns of people that are bad for us and warns against obsession
  • Examine the situation closely
  • Warns against the destructive consequences of actions motivated by greed, lust, or power
  • Examine your motives
  • Can be a symbol to change while you can
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15—The Devil

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Capricorn
Dates: 12/22-1/20

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16—The Tower

Upright

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  • Reevaluation
  • Necessary Change
  • A Blessing in Disguise
  • Not a very positive card
  • Shock and upheaval will create new opportunities and make you stronger and wiser
  • Represents sudden and shocking changes and events
  • Often can represent problems with your home or the purchasing of a home
  • Can be material or emotional upheaval
  • Forces you to see that shock and upheaval can force you in new or beneficial directions
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16—The Tower

Inverted

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  • Sudden Change
  • Downfall
  • Disruption
  • Disaster
  • Unnecessary Suffering
  • May represent a false accusation or imprisonment or isolation as a result
  • The shock may be caused by your own attitudes and choices
  • This phase will pass and new opportunities will come of it
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16—The Tower

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Planet: Mars

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17—The Star

Upright

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  • Hope
  • Generosity
  • Serenity
  • Wishes Coming True
  • Good Health
  • Spiritual Awareness and Renewal
  • Brings insight into the future
  • Optimism
  • An excellent omen when considering a relationship or enterprise
  • Good time for art, travel, health, education, and spiritual development
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17—The Star

Inverted

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  • Self-Doubt
  • Lack of Trust
  • Cynicism
  • Pessimism
  • Warns against the perils of self-doubt and negativity
  • Even negatively, you will be surprised by good luck
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17—The Star

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Aquarius
Dates: 1/21-2/19

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18—The Moon

Upright

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  • Imagination
  • Unexpected Possibilities
  • Illumination
  • It will be a time of highly charge emotions and confusion
  • If upright and in a favorable position, any secret affairs will remain secret, otherwise your secret will be exposed
  • Can lead to artistic expression
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18—The Moon

Inverted

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  • Fear
  • Confusion
  • Highly Charged Emotions
  • Bewilderment
  • Stands for a lack of progress because of deep-rooted fears and anxiety
  • Warns of lies and deceit
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18—The Moon

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Sign: Pisces
Dates: 2/20-3/20

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19—The Sun

Upright

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  • Happiness
  • Greatness
  • Enlightenment
  • Vitality
  • Good Health
  • Love
  • Fulfillment
  • May represent good news regarding children
  • Dispels negative energy and promises a happy ending
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19—The Sun

Inverted

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  • Misjudgment
  • Delays to plans and acheivements
  • Potential Failure
  • Inflated Ego
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19—The Sun

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Planet: Sun
Season: Summer

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20—Judgment

Upright

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  • Rebirth
  • Rejoicing
  • Absolution
  • New Potential
  • Rewards for Past Efforts
  • Heralds a time of accomplishment
  • Take stock of your life and consider a new phase
  • Signals recovery with a new lease on life regarding ill-health
  • Brings opportunity that, once offered, must not be ignored, could change your life
  • Generally speeds up events in life
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20—Judgment

Inverted

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  • Guilt
  • Loss
  • Self-reproach
  • Fear
  • Warns of obstinacy and refusal to move with change when change is needed, causing delays
  • Warns of fear of everything, change, death, illness, and warns of self-doubt and guilt over past mistakes that will blur the future
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20—Judgment

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Element: Fire
Planet: Jupiter

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21—The World

Upright

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  • Fulfillment
  • Completion
  • Satisfaction
  • Joy
  • Success
  • Herald’s your heart’s desire and a time of achievement, recognition, success, and triumph
  • Fulfilling relationship may be on offer
  • Marks the end of one cycle and the beginning of another
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21—The World

Inverted

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  • Stagnation
  • Lack of will
  • Impatience
  • Delays
  • You may need to overcome some challenges before you succeed
  • Don’t be lacking in vision or feel insecure as success will still be yours
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21—The World

Element, Planet, Sign, Dates

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Planet: Saturn

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