Grand Etteilla Tarot Card 20 — Increase, Multiplication / Good Fortune

What is shown on the card?

A figure hangs upside down by one leg while holding a sword; above, a chain forms a circle, and a small animal appears on the left.

Printed meanings in the 1857 edition

The printed pair and the book’s sentence-building method are historical evidence. Love, work and daily applications are explicitly marked TarotCards24 editorial commentary.

Commentary and difference from RWS

There is no direct RWS equivalent. Card 20 must not be equated with a similarly numbered or illustrated Rider–Waite–Smith card because Grand Etteilla uses its own sequence, printed pairs and sentence-building method.

There is no direct RWS equivalent. Card 20 must not be equated with a similarly numbered or illustrated Rider–Waite–Smith card because Grand Etteilla uses its own sequence, printed pairs and sentence-building method.

Alternative reading: Although the hanging figure resembles a familiar tarot motif, the printed Etteilla terms take priority. A Rider–Waite–Smith Hanged Man meaning must not be imported silently.

Practical interpretation

Love: In relationships, the card may show growing closeness, family, or the strengthening of an existing pattern; Good Fortune requires checking whether both people benefit.

Work: At work, it indicates growth, more commissions or resources, and a favourable opportunity when capacity and purpose fit together.

As a person: It describes a supportive or fortunate person; depending on context, also someone who greatly amplifies a process.

If this is your card today: Identify what is growing and use one concrete result to test whether that increase truly brings good fortune.