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Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.

Prodigality, dissipation, liberality. luxury; unfavourable news.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child. Reversed: Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.