posted August 16, 2012 10:29 AM            

Two of Pentacles is also about maintaining a stable position during turbulent times. It's a good card to have when surrounding cards are unstable. it shows that the seeker is able to maintain balance even though the seas are rolling uncontrollably around them. The band within the two of pentacles that the man is essentially juggling to keep everything "afloat" is the infinity symbol.

posted August 16, 2012 11:07 AM            

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Originally posted by whereabouts:
Agree with ShyVirgo. 2 of Wands is also "future". Something sent out to "manifest" into whatever is returned in the III of Wands.

Two of Pentacles is also about maintaining a stable position during turbulent times. It's a good card to have when surrounding cards are unstable. it shows that the seeker is able to maintain balance even though the seas are rolling uncontrollably around them. The band within the two of pentacles that the man is essentially juggling to keep everything "afloat" is the infinity symbol.

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I totally agree with this. Every last word.

posted August 16, 2012 11:51 AM            

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Originally posted by ShyVirgo1979:
I can't think of any other cards that r similar. The lovers is another choice card but it doesn't really hafta do with balance. It just means choice plain and simple. The 2 of pents is more complex than just a choice. See above interp

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posted August 16, 2012 11:17 PM            

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Originally posted by PhoenixFire:
The Lovers & The Devil, looks similar but feels like opposites. The Lovers is choice, the Angel over the couple. The Feeling is of motivated by emotions of love/ passion. The devil is the choice to be enslaved, motivated by lust. The couple is together again, but in chains and now the Devil has replaced the Angel.

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posted August 16, 2012 11:57 PM            

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Originally posted by whereabouts:
The difference between the two is that in The Lovers, the two are bound by love. In the Devil, they are chained to each other by obsession.

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posted August 17, 2012 12:02 AM            

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Originally posted by hmm:
well, someone's poetic :P

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posted August 17, 2012 12:04 AM            

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Originally posted by hmm:
what about justice, judgment, emperor, herophant...all those seem pretty close to me?

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posted August 17, 2012 12:08 AM            

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Originally posted by hmm:
8 of cups and hermit?

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posted August 17, 2012 05:30 AM            

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Originally posted by hmm:
8 of cups and hermit?

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8 cups - abandoning something, turning your back on it

the hermit - solitude and spiritual growth to get ready for other things on a different level.

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Originally posted by hmm:
what about justice, judgment, emperor, herophant...all those seem pretty close to me?

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Judgment is very similar to re-birth, some - perhaps painful and laborious - transformations that give one a new lease on life.

Justice is pretty literal, I guess.

The Emperor is stability/power structures

The Hierophant as described by Waite

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He wears the triple crown and is seated between two pillars, but they are not those of the Temple which is guarded by the High Priestess. In his left hand he holds a sceptre terminating in the triple cross, and with his right hand he gives the well-known ecclesiastical sign which is called that of esotericism, distinguishing between the manifest and concealed part of doctrine. It is noticeable in this connexion that the High Priestess makes no sign. At his feet are the crossed keys, and two priestly ministers in albs kneel before him. He has been usually called the Pope, which is a particular application of the more general office that he symbolizes. He is the ruling power of external religion, as the High Priestess is the prevailing genius of the esoteric, withdrawn power. The proper meanings of this card have suffered woeful admixture from nearly all hands. Grand Orient says truly that the Hierophant is the power of the keys, exoteric orthodox doctrine, and the outer side of the life which leads to the doctrine; but he is certainly not the prince of occult doctrine, as another commentator has suggested.
He is rather the summa totius theologić, when it has passed into the utmost rigidity of expression; but he symbolizes also all things that are righteous and sacred on the manifest side. As such, he is the channel of grace belonging to the world of institution as distinct from that of Nature, and he is the leader of salvation for the human race at large. He is the order and the head of the recognized hierarchy, which is the reflection of another and greater hierarchic order; but it may so happen that the pontiff forgets the significance of this his symbolic state and acts as if he contained within his proper measures all that his sign signifies or his symbol seeks to shew forth. He is not, as it has been thought, philosophy-except on the theological side; he is not inspiration; and he is not religion, although he is a mode of its expression.

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