AtDDtA(15): Mr. Ace

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/11/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Let's not forget the unique position of the Ace in the Tarot, as well. . . .

WANDS
Ace

A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club. Divinatory
Meanings: Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in
these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a
sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of
enterprises; according to another account, money, fortune,
inheritance. Reversed: Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish
also a certain clouded joy

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktwaac.htm

CUPS
Ace

The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues
from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams
are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends
to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all
sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser
Arcana. Divinatory Meanings: House of the true heart, joy, content,
abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.
Reversed: House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktcuac.htm

SWORDS
Ace

A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is
encircled by a crown. Divinatory Meanings: Triumph, the excessive
degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of
great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much
higher significance than comes usually within the sphere of
fortune-telling. Reversed: The same, but the results are disastrous;
another account says--conception, childbirth, augmentation,
multiplicity.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktswac.htm

PENTACLES
Ace

A hand--issuing, as usual, from a cloud--holds up a pentacle.
Divinatory Meanings: Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also
speedy intelligence; gold. Reversed: The evil side of wealth, bad
intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shews prosperity,
comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to
the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktpeac.htm

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/index.htm

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite_tarot_deck

Much issuing of hands from clouds, I see, but ...