Meaning of The Barque in the Egyptian Tarot

Card No. 12

It is a negative card of the Egyptian tarot deck, so it is never a good sign when it appears during a divinatory reading. This card is depicted by a most unremarkable barque sailing on the waters of the Nile, in the midst of a twilight sunset, but also by a set of scales, which is always meant to symbolise the sense of justice.

As for the barque, its symbols are the passage from life to death, from day to night, from appeasement to anger. It is a card that takes into account the mistakes made in the past, in order to judge them and confront us with them once again. It is therefore the card of the deserved punishment for all our past misdeeds.

Keywords: Beyond – Error – Past – Lie – Sorrow – Punishment

❤️ The Barque Card in Love ❤️

You are in a relationship

The Barque card therefore makes us pay dearly for our past mistakes, and it is not in love that we will be able to escape its judgement. So, if it comes out in a reading, you will have a little worry to feel about your relationship.

For it heralds an imminent abandonment. It speaks to us of a dreadful moment to live through when one is used to living with someone: the moment when that person will never come home again, and sometimes for no apparent reason.

You are single

The Barque card will be no more lenient with those who are single. Indeed, it will intensify their solitude even further, by heralding an isolation in the more or less long term. So it really is not the card to draw where love is concerned, when one wishes to meet someone with whom to share a stretch of the road. But such is the law of a divinatory reading.

🧠 The Barque Card in Work 🧠

Here again, the Barque card may well announce to you some serious worries to come in your professional path. Problems with the hierarchy, disciplinary sanctions, project cancellations or, more unfortunately, a job loss may be on the agenda in the coming days or weeks.

Without painting too bleak a picture, where finances are concerned it is no panacea either that the card announces to us, for it will speak more of credit to repay and of bills to be settled urgently.

🧘 Spiritual Interpretation of the Barque Card 🧘

To come back to the depiction of this card, the nascent twilight in the background sets us before the waning of the light, which gives way to the dark shadows. Here, the barque tells us, is the time for the judgement of our past deeds.

And the set of scales also depicted there thus serves as an impartial judge, penalising us for the acts of cowardice, acts of malice and misplaced lies we may have committed before. The barque card is admittedly negative, but one must always keep things in perspective, for every problem has its solution and situations can change in no time at all, thanks to an action or a kind word.

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