Playing Card Meanings

The playing card decks that we use for recreation on long trips or to entertain ourselves with a game of bridge or poker, is also a medium for predicting future. Astonished? Well if you have never really given a thought to what playing cards could mean, then this article may intrigue you, and force you to try to learn the different playing cards meanings. While the meaning of regular playing cards change according to the game that you are playing, with fortune telling or while using them as tarot cards, their meaning changes completely. In this article we tell you what meaning is associated with which card.

Meaning of Fortune Telling Playing Cards

As with regular decks, even while using playing cards for tarot, the number of suits remain the same. There are four suits with thirteen cards in each suit. According to tarot principles, each of the cards in the suit is representative of one of the 13 lunar months and each of the 52 tarot cards corresponds to one of the 52 weeks in a year. Every suit has a specific meaning attached to it. These meanings are given below.

• Hearts: The element corresponding to the suit of hearts is water and the corresponding meanings are love, happiness, friendship, relationships, etc.
• Clubs: The corresponding element for the suit of clubs is fire and it represents ambition, business, achievement and success.
• Diamonds: The corresponding element for diamonds is earth and it signifies career and financial concerns.
• Spades: The element corresponding to the suit of spades is air and it signifies gossip, upsets, challenges, etc.

In order to be able to read the card correctly it is not enough to know just the playing cards meanings but you need to understand the meanings and combinations in totality. This is very important to be able to read playing cards correctly. While conducting tarot readings with playing cards remember that while the numbered cards are representative of phases in your life, the court cards, which are the Jacks, Kings, and Queens, are symbolic of the people who are a part of your life.

Playing Card Meanings
Card Denomination	Diamonds	Clubs	Hearts	Spades
Ace	Start of struggle or conquest	New things in the offing	Change in feelings and emotions. Indication of a guest	Starting of prosperity
2	Practicality to be supreme. Choices to be made	Use of sixth sense in decision-making	Changes in love life	Choosing between two options
3	Creativity supreme. Rewards for a good job done	Events go well. Colleagues and people around are helpful	Celebration on the cards	Brace yourself for infidelity
4	Focus on establishment of home	Focus on personal values and ideologies	Importance of love, support, and security	Time to rest and make decisions
5	Chances of shifting. Economic troubles	Arguments and fights	Breakups, relationship meltdown	Change in viewpoint and victory at the cost of something important
6	Giving help to someone	Success in what you had set out to do	Nostalgia and renewal of relationships and friendships	Sadness ends. Problems start to fade away
7	Your efforts work their magic	Staying ahead of the competition	Impractical, dreamlike expectations	Betrayal, theft, underhand dealings
8	Using a hobby or skill for profit	Communication brings in fortune	Romance in the form of a letter	Life in the forces or in prison
9	Recipient of inheritance	Reserving thoughts and emotions	Time for wishes to come true. A sign of over-indulging over food	Sleep and health may be affected
10	Home improvement projects	Work stress increases	Home atmosphere remains happy	Health is affected
Jack	Lack of focus but ambitious, sporty, lively	Lucky, charming, not studious, interested in sports	Unrealistic, kind, immature	Immature, bossy, unemotional
Queen	Organized, practical, ambitious, efficient	Ambitious, prone to selfishness, good at business	Homebody, loving, supportive	Power hungry, loyal, ambitious
King	Authoritative, protective, good at business	Good intuition, spiritual	A ladies man, sincere, loving	Authoritarian, stubborn, logical, unemotional

Try to avoid reading playing cards as individual cards. The meaning of playing cards make sense only in combination with the other cards that you pull out. It is important to practice the art of reading playing cards with someone who is skilled at it.