The hermit cuts the cards and starts to lay them out, one after another. There are seventeen cards in the portion he has cut and so he just lays them down in one go.
The king of coins and page of coins point to a great wealth, an inheritance perhaps through a grandfather, making these women virtual queens: queen of wands, queen of cups. The cards that follow: ace of cups, The Moon, and The Sun suggest travel; perhaps to Rome, Venice, Greece and Egypt. The Temperance card suggests that despite their wealth they were not extravagant and more than this they saw their wealth as helping to nurture the country - this marked by the recently germinated plant in the background of the card.
This seedling grows to become a spreading tree, the next card shows a hand holding a limb from this tree, ace of wands. The tree limb seems to radiate a vital energy. At this point the mood changes. The knight of swords goes off to war, his sword unsheathed. Death mows down men women and children, in the bloody orgy torn limbs lie in the killing fields. In the same field as Death there is a table at which someone is preparing food, The Magician. The monk wonders if either or both of these sisters followed their brother to war. This is followed by the five of coins and The High Priestess in which a queen holds out a fine book, this is followed by the ace of coins and finally the king of swords. He wonders what this could mean, the founding of a library, a press perhaps? Then finally a legacy, both financial and something more, an ideal, a foundation? He wasn't sure, he thought that these were the scions of David Davies, Top Sawyer, Ocean Davies. The page of coins at the beginning suggests that their father, David Davies's son had died young. Was this his magic vengeance?
Marseilles pack
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