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The female figure is said to be Astræa, who personified the same virtue and is represented by the same symbols. This goddess notwithstanding, and notwithstanding the vulgarian Cupid, the Tarot is not of Roman mythology, or of Greek either. Its presentation of justice is supposed to be one of the four cardinal virtues included in the sequence of the [[Major Arcana]], but, as it so happens, the fourth emblem is wanting, and it became necessary for the commentators to discover it at all costs. | The female figure is said to be Astræa, who personified the same virtue and is represented by the same symbols. This goddess notwithstanding, and notwithstanding the vulgarian Cupid, the Tarot is not of Roman mythology, or of Greek either. Its presentation of justice is supposed to be one of the four cardinal virtues included in the sequence of the [[Major Arcana]], but, as it so happens, the fourth emblem is wanting, and it became necessary for the commentators to discover it at all costs. | ||
==Card numbering== | |||
Justice is traditionally the eighth card, and [[Strength]] the eleventh, but the influential [[Rider–Waite Tarot]] switched the position of these two cards in order to make them better fit the astrological correspondences worked out by the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], under which the eighth card is associated with [[Leo]] and the eleventh with [[Libra]]. This switch was originally suggested in the mysterious [[Cipher Manuscripts]] which formed the basis for the Golden Dawn's teachings regarding [[Tarot]] and other subjects. Today many divinatory tarot decks use this numbering, particularly in the English-speaking world. | |||
==Divinatory meaning== | ==Divinatory meaning== | ||