Tarot Arcanum 35: Grief

Grief as an act of moral affliction. Symbolizes the virtue of human tribulation in its depurating action. 

Modulating Attribute: It is associated to the planet Saturn, the letter G, and the number 8. It represents the principle of the knowledge of one’s own insufficiency. 

Transcendental Axiom: “That which is now comes from that which has been, and what has been is what shall be now.”

Forecasting Element: As an element of prediction it promises alarms, consternations, melancholies, sadness, obstacles, unexpected events.