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~ 1 or Aces ~
- Introduce the message of the suit
- Indicate the creative energies available to us
- Indicate potential – we just have to take the first step to explore
- What principle needs to be expressed in our life? Where will it lead?
~ 2 ~
- Indicate a choice and the need to consider two alternatives
- The test is to figure out how to handle the dualities in our lives
- According to Jung, when a symbol occurs twice in a dream, a new aspect of the psyche is at work
~ 3 ~
- Completes activities or events, making way for new situations
- Reflects conflict between higher ideals and worldly concerns
- Tests our ability to handle the mundane, indicate restlessness, urgency and striving
- What is our duty in the situation? Will we embrace it?
- Transformative moment – will we act on it or fight all the way?
~ 4 ~
- Natural order, personal logic, reasoning and inner organisation
- Earthly success from the 3s.
- Personal and societal boundaries that attempt to put an end to chaos.
- Conflict between our desire for order and security and our desire for change
- Natural plateau after intense period of creativity
- Renewal and time for new ideas to generate
- New concepts, new strengths, new abilities
- Opportunity to release the past and stabilise changes
~5 ~
- Symbols of humans and sensory life
- Opportunity to change direction
- Midpoint, so denotes meditation and adaptation.
- Signal a time for testing and the presence of an inner struggle which will require a decision
- Direct our sensory input and feelings into actual creative projects
- Will we take advantage of the opportunity for a new reality?
~6 ~
- Symbolises the Union of masculine and feminine energies and facets of our personality
- Need to look earthward and heaven ward for guidance.
- Draw upon consciousness and intuition in order to understand and sustain conditions and relationships
- Bring balance, equilibrium and coordination.
- Sign of wholeness and completion of effort
- Willingness and self-discipline to accomplish what we set out to do
~ 7 ~
- Ordeals, obstacles, tests or temptations and how to overcome them
- Victory or achievement
- Stimulates increase in energy, ideas and insights
- Movement, development and creation of consciousness leading to transformation.
- A combination of 3 (the Divine) and four (Matter) – sevens represent unification
~ 8 ~
- Can be a number of balance rhythm and renewed energy
- Call for a choice – another opportunity to evaluate and reorganise our priorities.
- Are we spending too much time on one project at the expense of another? Are we harbouring attitudes which inhibit our enjoyment of life?
- Are we collectors of gold coins (positive feelings) or brown stamps (negative feelings)?
~ 9 ~
- Can suggest material success from a spiritual point of view
- Ask us to reflect on whether or not we have learned enough from numbers 1-8 to have a new sense of inner fulfilment.
- Offer another chance for completion, to gain new insight before moving on to the next lesson
- We are once again initiates considering the next phase of our journey
- Have we realised life’s meaning does not come from material wealth but from spiritual wealth?
~ 10 ~
- Represent culmination.
- Transitions to higher wisdom to be gained.
- Beginning and the end. A temporary respite to acknowledge the success of our previous efforts and prepare for the next spiral of growth.
- They are the culmination of ordinary experiences of the suit and offer a glimpse of something more and quite different to be discovered.
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