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THE SEXUAL KEY
TO THE TAROT
THE LOVERS.
Theodor Laurence
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A SIGNETBOOK
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
TIMES MIRROR
We should employ our passions in the service of life,
not spend life in the service of our passions.
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Introduction vii
Part One
THE MAJOR ARCANA,
THEIR SEXUAL ROLES
AND SIGNIFICATION
I The Magician 13
n The High Priestess 17
m The Empress 21
IV The Emperor 25
V The Hierophant 28
VI The Lovers 32
VII The Chariot 35
VIII Strength 38
IX The Hermit 40
X Wheel of Fortune 43
XI Justice 46
XII The Hanged Man 48
XIII Death 51
XIV Temperance 54
Introduction
The Magician
THE Ml\.ClClJ\N.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE MAGICIAN CARD
The High
Priestess
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE HIGH PRIESTESS CARD
III
The Empress
THE EMPRE.5.5.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE EMPEROR CARD
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE HIEROPHANT CARD
The Lovers
THE LOVERS.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE LOVERS' CARD
The Chariot
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE CHARIOT CARD
Strength
STRENGTH.
38
STRENGTH 39
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE STRENGTH CARD
IX
The Hermit
THE
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42 THE MAJOR ARCANA
Wheel of
Fortune
IEEL01 FORTUNE.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE CARD
.Justice
:nl5TICE.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE JUSTICE CARD
THE HANGEDMI\N.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE HANGED MAN CARD
Death
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE DEATH CARD
XIV
Temperance
TEMPERANCE.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE TEMPERANCE CARD
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE DEVIL CARD
The Tower
THE TOW.ER.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE TOWER CARD
The Star
THE .STAR.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE MOON CARD
The Sun
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE SUN CARD
J"UDGEMENT.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATION
OF THE JUDGMENT CARD
The World
THE ~ORLD.
SEXUAL SIGNIFJCA.TION
OF THE WORLD CARD
The Fool
THE- FOOL.
SEXUAL SIGNIFICATTON
OF THE FOOL CARD
KING
Auguries: A man, fair of complexion, endowed with
an esthetic phallus; he is a man of responsibility and
does not shirk his sexual duties; a man disposed to
oblige the Querent's sexual needs, his love objects are
usually church-going females; also, a businessman or
a man skilled in law; also, creative sexuality.
Inverted: A double-dealing man; a liar; a seducer;
also, a businessman who uses his power and authority
to extort sex; a cuckold; also, false love to gain orgasm;
dishonesty in sexual relations; erotic exaction; two-
facedness; scandal; vice; loss of virginity or reputation;
impotence.
QUEEN
Auguries: A woman, fair in form and figure; a
dreamer who also acts; a woman of rich sexual powers;
a romantic woman; a woman who will sexually serve
the Querent; a perfect mistress or lover; a woman who
encourages coitus and gains pleasure from the orgasms
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of others; she has wild sexual fantasies but she is prac-
tical in bed; also, sensual happiness, success, pleasure.
KNIGHT
Auguries: A young man, sexually imaginative; also,
the beginning of new sexual relationships; provocative
proposals; sexual arrival; excitement; amatory advances;
new throes of passion; sex in the name of business; las-
civious propositions; invitations to the sexual bed; new
contacts; message of impending joy; hopeful orgasms;
a fresh new phallus.
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PA.GEo CUP.5.
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Inverted: Visionary sexuality will not come to pass;
excessive masturbation leads to failure in healthy sexual
relationships; vital passion spilled through masturbatory
overindulgence; wasted orgasm; weak ejaculation; poor
climax; also, impotence due to undermining thoughts of
evil and violent sexual practices.
SIX
Auguries: The past and memories of sexual joy;
recollections of copulations gone by; looking back upon
virulent erections and violent orgasms; sexual nostalgia;
preoccupation with thoughts of younger, sweeter sexual
playmates; sexual happiness and sensual enjoyment, but
coming from the past; lovers that have vanished; also,
this card may represent lewd love letters from the past
or mementos of days gone by, such as panties in the
case of a lingerie fetishist.
Inverted: Copulation presently coming to pass; re•
newal of passionate endeavor; desire to change sexual
partners and to create a new vibrant sex life; new sexual
horizons; future ecstasy.
FIVE
Auguries: Partial sexual loss; some sexual partners
no longer available; temporary impotence; sexual play-
mates growing away; also, a card of promising future
sexual conquests but not corresponding to expectations;
also, bitter sexual relationships; frustrated desires; mar-
riage with troubles.
Inverted: Amatory news; promising sexual alliances;
transmission of passion; sexual affinity; incestuous rela-
tions; return to virility.
FOUR
Auguries: Sexual weariness; disgust with copulating
organs; imaginary sexual vexations; sexual discontent;
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sexual satiety; boredom with orgasms; sex for sex's
sake wearies one; disgust with demanding sexual desire;
impatience with voracious sexual partners and rapacious
genitals; bitter coital experiences; also, desire to find
new sexual happiness, refreshing sexual experiences,
and titillating sex mates.
Inverted: New sexual relations; exploratory sex;
sexual initiation, perhaps into perversion; new erotic
instruction; sexual novelty; also excesses and fatigue;
bad health due to overindulgence in drinking, partying,
and copulating.
THREE
Auguries: Extreme pleasure of the senses; sexual
plenty; orgasmic fn1fillment;sensual solace; victory over
obstacles to sexual joy and victory over reluctant sex
mates; sexual intercourse concluded in powerful
orgasm; therapeutic. climaxes; effulgent vaginas;
adamantine penises; sexual gaiety; happiness; over-
abundance; all will end well; orgasmic harvest; sexual
comfort; speedy copulations.
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The Suit
of Wands
KING
Auguries: A dark man, handsome, well-built, and
the possessor of an overactive phallus; a physically
minded man; an emotional man; an honest and friendly
man; also, a man who understands the needs of others;
also, honesty; news concerning an unexpected sexual
affair.
Inverted: Good orgasms but via violent sex; strict
sexual partners; also a man of high sexual principles;
a severe man, often ruthless in bed; also, a man
foolishly tolerant of sexual playmates who will do him
more harm than good; a likely victim for sexual ex-
tortion.
QUEEN
Auguries: A dark woman, friendly, loving, but also
exotic, sensual, and magnetic of personality; if the card
beside her signifies a man, she is impassioned by him;
a beautiful woman after whom men chase, but she is
faithful and confines her sexual activities to one
. man
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at a time; a woman of great charm, devoted to servicing
the phallus of her choice; also, dark sexuality; a loving
paramour.
Inverted: A jealous woman; a woman of unstable
emotions; deceitful woman; unfaithful lover; also,
sexual opposition; infidelity; lying; also, a woman not to
be trusted; a friendly but deceptive woman; a husband-
stealer; a home-wrecker; if married, she is a woman
who at the slightest hint of sexual coolness from her
husband will take a lover.
KNIGHT
Auguries: A dark young man, attractive to women;
a young man who "hits and runs" but never "kisses and
tells"; also, hurried copulation, quick orgasm, speedy
erection; sudden flight from one bed to another; de-
parture from socially acceptable sexuality; change of
sex partners; temporary coital abstinence; also, change
of residence or sexual tastes.
Inverted: Onanism; partial orgasm; rupture; genital
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separation; sexual quarreling; breaking up of a sexual
alliance; also, an impetuous youth with an equally im-
petuous phallus.
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Auguries: A dark youth; a possible lover; also a
young messenger or mailman who either brings news of
a lover or is himself a likely sexual candidate; if followed
by the Page of Cups, a dangerous rival phallus; also, a
young heartbreaker who bas nothing for women but a
stiff sex organ; a youthful gigolo; a secret love. •
PACE •t WANDS.:
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TEN
Auguries: Satiety; guilt over evil sexual practices; the
burden of satisfying many sex partners; the burden of
too many orgasms; pregnancy worries; fear of discovery
by cuckolded husbands; sexual oppression; also, ve-
nereal disease as a result of sexual greed.
EIGHT
Auguries: Arrows of love; activity in sexual under-
takings; the path of sexual activity; also, copulative mo-
tion; changed sexual taste or sex mates changed; hurried
orgasms; swift coition; great hope of phallic conquest;
speed towards orgiastic climax; moving penis; vibrant
clitoris; also, sexual decisions made hurriedly.
SIX
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FIVE
Auguries: Games of sexual pursuit lead to misery;
worthless fighting, as over possession of penis or vagina;
imitation love; spurious desire; also, violent competition
for orgasmic riches; the battle of sex after sex; also,
unquenchable lust; the lusts of many for the favors of
one; lusting leads to failure; this is the card of the lover
who will not quit while be is ahead and who will in
time lose the sources of orgasm now at his disposal.
FOUR
Auguries: Orgasmic security; haven of sexuality; a
houseful of lovers; sexual concord; genital harmony;
prosperous affairs; a bounty of orgasms; also, em-
bellished phallus; beautiful genitals; increased love
juices; lovely sexual organs.
THREE
Auguries: Sexual discovery; established duration of
copulation; orgasmic effort; sexual mastery; abundant
semen for multiple coitus; also, sexual help will come
in time of frustration; a man of passion will copulate
and end problems of passivity or frigidity.
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Inverted: Spilled semen; wasted orgasms; unfulfilled
climaxes; masturbation; rejection by desired phalli;
sexual outcast; in time of great sexual need, one will
try to lure you to perversion.
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TWO
Auguries: Erotic fantasies realized; sexual riches;
virile genitals; beautiful phalli; orgiastic bliss; a fortune
of orgasms; victorious copulations; sated desires; abun-
dant penile ejaculations; prolific vaginal excretions;
also, lust and sex rather than love and marriage; a pas-
sionate woman will be asked to copulate with a wealthy
man; a man with a large phallus will come into the
Querent's life.
ACE
Auguries: Vtrility; fertility; sexual creativity; many
orgasms; playful sexual inventions; enterprising sex-
uality; the starting point of sexual escapades; playful
phalli; birth of new coital partners; beginning of exciting
sexual alliances; childlike sensuality; original sexual
diversions to please the senses.
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The Suit
.of Swords
KING o~SWORDS.
KING
Auguries: Sexual potency; command of robust
orgasms; peerless phalli; incomparable sexual technique;
unparalleled passion; erotic power; militant sexuality;
also, a man possessing these; a man who will take com-
mand of sexual pursuits; sexual authority; hyper-
sensuality.
QUEEN
Auguries: Disunion; solitude; female sadness; insensi-
tiveness; frigidity; in a sense, lesbianism; sterility; em-
barrassment; separation from sexual joy; phallic priva-
tion; masturbation due to aloneness; also, mourning
over a lost lover; painful desire for past phalli.
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Inverted: Treacherous female deceitful vagina;bigoted
love; sexual malice; artificial sensuality; also, prudish-
ness; bigotry; suppressed desires; false virginity; false
chastity.
KNIGHTo'tSWORDS .
KNIGHT
Auguries: A forceful man; a cold and efficient man
whose depth of emotion manifests itself only in the
sexual embrace; a man who conquers the sexual objects
of his choice; also, sexual skill; bravery in the face of
opposition; great orgasmic capacity; passion; sexual
determination; fearless coition; dedicated libertinism.
NINE
Auguries: Sad news, as of a sexual partner who has
died, is sexually cheating, has other lovers, or has con-
tracted venereal disease; also utter desolation; castra-
tion; celibacy; pregnancy when not desired; miscarriage;
sexual shame; disgrace; orgasmic delays; disappointing
phalli; coital failure; inefficient copulation; false phalli.
SEVEN
Auguries: Lewd designs; concupiscent wishes; hope
of orgasm; sexual confidence; faith in one's amatory
technique; reliable phalli; also, the card predicts sexual
fantasies realized; new phalli; new sexual partners;
wealth of penile ( clitoral) erections followed by new
and confidence-building orgasms.
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Inverted: Quarrels over orgasms that have failed;
arguments about sexuality; displeasure with phalli;
phallic faultfinding; babbling and slander connected
with one's sexual technique.
SIX
Auguries: Sensuous journey upon the fluids of Barth-
olin glands; prolific seminal discharges; the fluidity of
casual intercourse; sex mates easily acquired; an afflu-
ence of orgasms; also, the Querent will meet a new
sex mate while on a trip or journey; also, expedient
copulation.
FOUR
Auguries: Sexual retreat; solitude; inactive phalli;
tranquility of lustful desires; peace in the face of turbu-
lent sexuality; sensual repose; also, the card of religious
bigots who endeavor to deny sexuality; self-exile from
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passion; masturbatory practices perpetrated secretly;
temporary seclusion for sexual reflection.
THREE
Auguries: The meaning of the design is implicit:
Heartbreak; rupture in sexual companionship; phal-
licism denied; copulation refused; orgasmic delay;
absenc,e of willing genitials; upheaval in the sexual life;
removal of a cherished source of passion and orgasm.
TWO
Auguries: Fusion of compatible phalli; sexual bal-
ance; coital harmony; tender loving relations with
erectile sexual organs; tender copulation; affectionate
embraces and gentle copulation; phallic friendship;
sexual concord.
ACE
Auguries: Triumphant penis or clitoris; sexual suc-
cess; conquest of obstacles, such as the love object's
inhibitions, reservations, and clothes; triumphant of the
erected phallus over hesitant sex mates; also, it is a
card of great force in hatred as well as in love; strong
emotions; winning sexual ways; orgasm the crown of
penile dexterity.
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Inverted: The same as above but with disastrous
results; pregnancy; violent sex; tom hymens; bruised
phalli; sexual anomalies; misused sexual organs; also,
childbirth.
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The Suit
of Pentacles
KING
Auguries: A virile dark man; an affectionate mate;
an intelligent man who can reason his way into any bed;
•also, sexual bravery; aptitude for surmounting obstacles
to orgasm; sexual successes; monetary gifts bring genital
gifts in return.
QUEEN
Auguries: Orgasmic opulence phallic generosity;
sexual freedom; sex for sex's sake; also, a woman mani-
festing these; a woman of magnificent beauty; beauty of
the phallus; generous copulations; fruitful coitus; wealth
of sensual pleasures; exciting sexual escapades; titillated
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phalli; piqued erogenous zones; also, a woman who
worships the male phallus.
KNIGHT
Auguries: A young man, qualified to teach sexual
techniques;a young sensualist;a young man who will
buy a woman's love, not with money but by providing
her with numerous gratifying orgasms; also, sexual
service; utility of phalli; orgasmic responsibility; sur-
roundings of beauty; the good things of life; sexual
achievement and orgasmic plenty.
NINE
Auguries: Safety in penile possession; a youth whose
lover is true; also, certain orgasm; fulfilled promises of
sexual bliss; erotic successes; copulative accomplish-
ments; sexual foresight; the accumulation of orgasms.
EIGHT
- Auguries: Genital manipulation; skillful coition;
copulations of art; industrious sexual labor; plodding
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passion; coital craftsmanship; dextrous phalli; also, the
beginning of fruitful sexual relations; new sexual de-
mands met; also, skill at sexual foreplay.
SEVEN
Auguries: The card of the procurer or pimp; money
talks; orgasms are purchased; also, the card of the
proverbial dirty old man who pays young girls for
sexual intercourse; also, barter; trading sex for some-
thing one wants; orgasms provided in return for social
success; the prostitute's card.
FIVE
Auguries: Sexual destitution; loss of wife, husband,
lover, or mistress; absence of contraception at the point
of dire need; undesired pregnancy; hysterectomy; cir-
cumcision; castration; also, rejection by family, friends,
cohorts, or sexual playmates.
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Inverted: Sexual intercourse interrupted; impotence;
frigiditiy; a desired mate is lesbian or homosexual;
sexual chaos; a hernia; rupture; order threatened by an
unhappy extramarital sex partner; incompatible organs
of sex.
f.
FOUR
Auguries: The surety of status quo; clinging to sex
partners which one now has; enjoyment of present
methods of orgasm; certain copulation.
THREE
Auguries: Orgasms received through artistic love-
making; the Querent, or someone in the Querent's life,
is highly skilled in the art of love; sexual renown; or-
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gasmic glory; skillful copulation; lithe phalli; manipula-
tive genitals; capable sexual techniques; glorious cli-
maxes; sex mates obtained through reputation.
TWO
Auguries: Celebrations, parties; orgies; much gaiety;
carefree sex relations; intersexual relations; genital
recreation; exploratory sexual activities for fun; laughter
and music and wine and dancing; playful seductive
girls; sensuous boys and men; strip poker; troilism;
swinging; happy orgasms.
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