Divination and Tarot Trivia

1. Which card represents indecision and retreat in the reverse orientation?

From Quiz Tarot Cards - Name That Reading!

Answer: Seven of Wands - Lord of Valor

The Seven of Wands is one of fourteen cards in the Suit of Wands. When upright, the card represents successful advancement.

From Quiz The Fairy Ring

Answer: Befind

Befind is always seen holding a spindle, accompanied by two other fairies who hold a measuring rod and shears. Similar to the fates the norns, who measure the thread of life, weave its pattern and cut the thread at death.

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: Cups

Cards in the "cups" suit always indicate that the effects of the card will occur spiritually, emotionally, or psychologically. They are considered feminine in the yin/yang sense of feminine, not that they have anything to do with women.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: 78

There are 22 cards (or keys) in the Major Arcana & 56 in the Minor Arcana for a total of 78.

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: Pentacles

Pentacle cards always indicate practical, material, common-sense kinds of energies. You can think of them as "hobbit cards". The pentacle is used as a symbol of hardworking, practical energies because of the relationship of the pentacle to the earth in some forms of occult practice.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: Major and Minor Arcana

Arcana = keys, secrets.

From Quiz Who Will You Marry? - English Divinations

Answer: Your future husband will walk in the door.

Thomas Hardy wrote about this superstition in his novel "Under the Greenwood Tree". I remember hearing people claim they used to do this, but no one ever admitted to achieving the end result. Incidentally, the man need not walk in the door himself; it might very well be his "shade" which is supposed to be the form similar to a ghost of a living person that comes.

From Quiz The Fairy Ring

Answer: Lhiannan Shee

The sole purpose of her existence is to find a human man to love her. Lhiannan Shee's embrace draws both life and breath from the human, while she becomes bright and strong. The Manx fairy sometimes takes blood, too, and is a true vampire.

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: Knights

Knights mean action. Simple as that. Every suit means a different kind of action. The Knight of Wands means aggressive/sexual action; Swords means an action requiring analysis or intellect, for example a court case; Cups imply an action requiring emotional analysis or empathy; Pentacles represent an action in the everyday, or suggests that the action should be approached from a common sense view.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: pentacles

Pentacles correspond to diamonds in our modern deck of playing cards and are associated with money and financial matters.

From Quiz Who Will You Marry? - English Divinations

Answer: Open the book at random and stab with your finger to find the relevant word.

This is a long held tradition. It is difficult to manage, though, because the answer is liable to be very cryptic. It is often only after the question has resolved itself that any connection with the quotation becomes evident.

From Quiz Tarot Cards - Name That Reading!

Answer: Power wrongly used

The Strength card is one of twenty two cards of the Major Arcana. In the upright orientation it symbolizes self-control.

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: Court Cards

They are called court cards. They work a bit differently from other cards, often times implying events external to the person. Face cards are what you call them in a normal deck of cards; baccarat is a game, and the "Pecto regalis" I just made up. Sorry.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: cups

Cups correspond to hearts in today's modern deck.

From Quiz Who Will You Marry? - English Divinations

Answer: a rose

It is quite true that a rose can be kept till Christmas if stored in the right conditions of dry darkness. I have seen a whole arrangement of roses at Christmas that were preserved this way. The ritual is that the girl must take the rose and wear it over her bosom. She must than obtain a compliment from the man of her choice. Once he has done this he is doomed. Sometime during the coming year, he will propose to her. Well, who knows?

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: Minor Arcana

The answer is Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana are the "named cards" you are probably more familier with such as Death, Moon, and the Hanged Man. Optimus Prime is the leader of the Transformers.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: swords

Swords are usually associated with misfortune and conflict. Wands correspond to clubs and signify activity and change.

From Quiz Tarot Cards - Name That Reading!

Answer: Pentacles & Knight of Pentacles

The Knight of Pentacles is also known as the Lord of the Wild and Fertile Land. In the reverse orientation it represents a greedy and grasping person.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: the Fool

The Fool is said to represent the beginning and the end of the cosmic journey of the soul. It is both the Alpha and Omega, hence the zero (0) symbolizing the cyclical nature of the pilgrimage.

From Quiz Tarot Cards - Name That Reading!

Answer: Beginnings

The Fool is the very first card of the deck, number zero in the Major Arcana. In the reverse orientation it represents ill-advised risks.

From Quiz The Fairy Ring

Answer: Garconer

He loves to seduce young women. Although many fairies have done this to earthly women and men, he seems to be the most interesting of them.

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: The King of Swords

The ruling spirit of a card has to do with it's suit, not really with what kind of card it is. Sylph is an air elemental and rules the Sword suit. Pentacles are ruled by Gnome; Wands are ruled by Salamander; and Cups (though not appearing in the question) are ruled by Undine. Not all tarot decks or practitioners use elementals in their readings.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: the Hermit

The Hermit (key 9), representing Absolute Wisdom, seemed to be a personal symbol for guitarist Jimmy Page, himself a student of the occult. Chanteur means "singer" and is not a card in the Tarot deck. The Moon (key 18) is, however, as is Temperance (key 14) though I doubt Led Zep was much familiar with that term.

From Quiz Who Will You Marry? - English Divinations

Answer: the trade their future husband would follow

This is one of the superstitions that Thomas Hardy wrote about. This time it was in "The Woodlanders". He only mentions it in passing, but when I lived in Dorset I met an old spinster who claimed she had performed the ritual and next morning her mother had complained that the milkman was "dratted late". She claimed that that made her determined not to wed - she had no wish to get up in the middle of the night to see a husband off to work. Well, it was a better excuse than admitting that she had never had a proposal because she was known for a foul temper.

From Quiz Tarot Cards - Name That Reading!

Answer: The Devil

The Devil is the fifteenth card in the Major Arcana. In the upright orientation it represents a desire for material wealth, while in the reverse orientation it represents true evil. It also represents the Lord of the Gates of Matter.

From Quiz Who Will You Marry? - English Divinations

Answer: shoes

The rhyme goes like this - "I pin my garters to the wall, And put my shoes in the shape of a T In hopes my true-love for to see, Not in fine apparel nor in fine array, But in the clothes he wears each day. If I am his bride to be. If I am his clothes to wear, If I am his child to bear, I hope he'll turn his face to me. But if I'm not his clothes to wear, If I'm not his child to bear, I hope he'll turn his back to me." This is a bit ambiguous. A truelove was actually a man who had committed himself to you, so I suppose it could mean that, if he turned his back, even if he was currently your truelove, you would never actually marry him.

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: A rest.

The Four of Swords often depicts a soldier at rest after battle, dead, or meditating (depending on your deck). This card represents an absence of battle, a time to regain your strength and prepare for what is ahead.

From Quiz Who Will You Marry? - English Divinations

Answer: February 29th

As this came only once every fourth year, some girls determined to get the most out of it. If a girl planned to do this, she should have worn a scarlet petticoat. If the man refused the proposal, she should lift her skirt just high enough to prove that she was wearing one, and then demand that he provide her with a silk dress that would cover it. You might therefore assume that by accosting several men in turn, a clever girl could acquire a complete new wardrobe, with the only danger being that one of them might accept her!

From Quiz Tarot Terror

Answer: Position 3 (directly below the center cards)

In a Celtic cross, two cards are in the center, four cards are at each cardinal position around the two, and four others are on the right hand side. The four cards on the outside work in a clockwise pattern starting at the bottom, with the card furthest down being the distant past and the card at the right being the farthest in the future. The answer is Position 3, directly below the cards.

From Quiz Intro to the Tarot

Answer: significator

Pallida mors and malis avibus are latin for "pale death" and "under evil auspices". Here, they are merely red herrings and have no bearing whatsoever on this subject. Thanks for playing!

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