Gypsy – King: Untrustworthy man, widower. Hilda Marie – King: A dark man, probably a business man. Madeline Montalban – King: A judge or wily lawyer. King: dark haired man, ambitious, usually successful, his ambition overrides everything else. King of Spades: Dark-haired man or a man with Air predominating in his chart. One who will get in the middle, divide and conquer. King: A man who will cause problems in marriage or relationships. King: An ambitious and authoritative man. The two types must be handled differently, so it is important that readers do everything in their power to distinguish one from the other for their pronouncements to be of the any use to their clients. They are said to describe people who are either of questionable morals (the Queen is portrayed as ‘an unscrupulous woman’) or not interested in helping the inquirer (the King, it is said, is ‘a man whose ambition over-rides everything else’ in other words, his self-absorption precludes him expressing a scrap of interest in the querent). The character of the Spade court cards is another matter. As I have said before, in an increasingly multi-cultural world, this type of significance given to court cards becomes more and more outdated and redundant. Some see Spades as denoting those who are not only dark-haired but also dark complexioned: the swarthy and those with olive skins. I think it more likely that the parallels are coincidental.Īs far as coloring goes, the Spade court cards represent very dark-haired people. I don’t see his Wrath and Quarrel as mirroring ‘conflicts, a difficult love affair’ and ‘matters coming to a head’. Cards surrounding the Ace will make plain whether a breach of friendship, the death of someone the inquirer cares about or bad news concerning business are in the offing.Įtteilla’s notions about the Ace of Spades don’t seem to have affected later interpretations of the card. This is an instance where commentators and practitioners agree that the general significance of a card is unfortunate and quibble only slightly over the aspect of the inquirer’s life about to be disrupted. The lawsuit she says the card may also signify is in line with the ‘troubles, trials and bad luck’ motif, since most people are seriously stressed by the prospect of being taken to court and even of initiating a lawsuit themselves. ![]() ![]() Madeline Montalban agrees with the gypsies in so far as ‘an offer of business’ goes. In the same vein, Hilda Marie’s ‘big building’ we find interpreted by another reader as ‘an imposing building, possibly a hospital’, introducing an undercurrent of illness or death. Even the Gypsy meaning, with its neutral ‘business affairs’, tags on ‘can mean the receipt of sad news’. Commentators describe it as forecasting ‘bad news, loss of someone close, possible death to someone near, an illness, a miscarriage’, ‘conflicts, a difficult love affair’ and ‘matters coming to a head’. Reversed: Pregnancy, Beginning, Growing, Augmentation.Īll the ‘troubles, trials and bad luck’ one could wish for fall within the purview of this Ace. Minor Arcana – Ace: Misfortune, bad news, tidings of death spiteful emotions.Įtteilla – Ace: Fructification, Wrath, Rage, Quarrel. Gypsy – Ace: Business affairs, can mean sad news received. ![]() Madeline Montalban – Ace: A lawsuit (if such is afoot). Things coming to a head.Īce: Bad news, loss of someone close, possible death to someone near, or an illness, miscarriage, and the like.Īce of Spades: Misfortune sometimes associated with death or, more often, a difficult ending.Īce: conflicts, a difficult love affair, misfortune, bad news, tidings of death. ![]() – Great misfortune, spite.Īce: Emotional conflict, obsession, death. These are the types of event the reader would need to warn the inquirer about, hopefully so that she or he could take steps to avoid or, where avoidance was not an option, minimize the effect of the impending woe.Īce of Spades. Another website dubs it the suit of warnings, meaning that it warns of worries and obstacles ahead. It is clearly equivalent to Swords in the Tarot. One website explains that its primary meanings cover: Difficulties, troubles, trials, illness, and bad luck. The suit of Spades is universally recognized as indicating mishaps, ill-chance and maladies.
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