Minor Arcana · Asa İki
Balance and choice within drive, creativity and action.
Upright: fire, drive, creativity and action
Reversed: blocked, excess
A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore; he holds a globe in his right hand, while a staff in his left rests on the battlement; another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily should be noticed on the left side.
Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible; on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; on the other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design gives one suggestion; here is a lord overlooking his dominion and alternately contemplating a globe; it looks like the malady, the mortification, the sadness of Alexander amidst the grandeur of this world's wealth.
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.