Heart-two hearts, one overlapping the other. One heart, the light-colored one, is topped by flames. The other heart is dark, and has snakes emerging from its surface. The fiery light heart is watched-over by angels, the dark snake-riddled heart is watched-over by a pair of spike-tongued dogs. Upright Meanings: love; a love divine; a heart on fire with love; a love which burns for years and years. If you’re not in love yet, you may be getting there. Matters of the heart. Reversed Meanings: a treacherous heart; an evil heart; someone is professing feelings of love which they do not mean; someone who appears to love, but secretly hates the ostensible object of their affection; someone who plays with others’ tender feelings for their own selfish purposes.
Honour-a Roman officer, possibly the same one we saw in the Fortitude card, is standing on a pier. There are ships behind him with their sails up, a boatman in a smaller ferry-boat behind him, and artillery on the pier around him, so it looks like he is getting ready to depart soon. He is wearing a headband of some sort, there is what appears to be a crown of leaves in the shadow at the bottom of the picture, and an eagle hovers in the sky to the left of the ships’ sails. The Roman soldier is looking resolutely to the right, and gesturing with a stick. Upright Meanings: honor, integrity; doing not what one wants, but what one feels impelled to do because one’s sense of ethics, justice, or societal obligations demands it. Going away because honor demands it. Reversed Meanings: dishonor; disgrace; losing face; returning in shame, or leaving in shame; someone for whom honor means little or nothing at all; the losses which come with the loss of honor; going into exile of some sort, because of lost honor.
Hope-a bare-foot man, possibly a poor sailor, is leaning on a huge anchor and stares off to the right of the picture. Behind him, on very rough seas, one ship is sinking and a second ship is danger of sinking. Upright Meanings: hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Rumination. Refusing to see reality. Imagining what one would prefer to have happen, rather than facing what is. Reversed Meanings: Hopelessness. Things are so bad, even fantasy doesn’t help. Having to stop living on dreams and actively work at making things better. Being forced to leave the world of fantasy in order to deal with reality.
Hymen or Marriage-a man and woman stand facing each other, gazing into each other’s eyes and joining hands before a podium which is being occupied by an angel, who is pointing to the torch he is holding aloft. On the front of the podium are engraved two entwined cornucopias. Behind the man and the angel on the wall is an engraving of yet another angel. Behind the woman to the right is a large pillar. Upright Meanings: a wedding or engagement to come. An alliance started, a contract agreed upon and entered-into, a commitment to follow-through. This is a good marriage. A certain marriage may be playing an important part in your life. ‘A marriage of true minds.’ Reversed Meanings: a bad marriage, an ill-advised marriage, or a formerly-good marriage which goes bad. Break-up, divorce. An alliance is started, a contract is agreed-upon, a commitment is made, or a marriage entered-into, for bad or nefarious purposes. This could represent two or more people who have banded together to do wrong to others in order to benefit themselves. Criminals who work in pairs.
Industry-a young woman sits on a low brick wall, spinning wool into thread. Over her head, a tree branch has sprung into full-bloom from an apparently-dead three. Upright Meanings: work; using one’s time profitably; being active, not idle; changing raw materials from nature into something useful to humankind, and all industries which do this; being kept busy, for ‘an idle mind is the Devil’s playground’ –sort of thinking. Reversed Meanings: plants, factories, or businesses idled; lack of productive output; laziness; sloughing-off; nothing’s happening; industries or captains of industry who do not work for the benefit of the world’s peoples, but for themselves—companies or executives lacking a social conscience. An industry which actually does harm, rather than good.
Innocence-a child sits under a tree, which leans protectively over the child. Beside the child is a dog, and the child has his arms wrapped around the dog. Upright Meanings: innocence; the joys of childhood; not knowing about the grittier or more-adult aspects of human existence, and perfectly content to be so; an honest heart; fearless; the child-and-pet bond; being clean; a feeling that life either is, or should be one long, sunny, beautiful summer day. Reversed Meanings: experience; a more jaded or jaundiced view of human existence. Corruption; rape, sexual assault, beatings, torture, or exposure to any violence which has ended one’s former innocence and ‘dirtied’ one’s perspective.
Justice-the goddess of Justice stands blindfolded, holding a balanced pair of scales in her left hand, and resting the sword of justice, held in her right hand, against her right shoulder. Upright Meanings: justice, either legal or karmic. Any occupation associated with the law. The judiciary, which can be counted on to do the right thing. Justice is on the inquirer’s side, or working in their favor. Impartiality. Refereeing. Reversed Meanings: injustice, or a miscarriage of justice. Corrupt cops. Morally-repugnant acts carried out under the aegis of justice. A corrupt judge, or a judiciary which cannot be counted on to do the right thing, because they are beholden to someone. A legal decision handed down which many see as in-just.
Lady-a well-dressed woman in eighteenth-century dress stands looking off to the right. Upright Meanings: anyone of the female gender. A good woman, with good values, good ethics, and/or a good disposition and good manners. Reversed Meanings: a bad woman. She could be unpleasant or crude, but most likely she’s a woman of bad morals and/or criminal intent. She will do what is best for her, not for anyone else. She could be an enemy of the inquirer.
Can you please share it? I can only find it incomplete and I love this deck, I’m feeling very connected to it.
I’ll double-check that posting and reload. Thank you for calling this to my attention.
Done! The complete deck, with an updated notation on the box, is now posted. I apologize for the oversight.