Playing Card Symbolism: Hearts

Understanding the Suit of Hearts in Playing Card Readings

Aug 6, 2007 Deborah Leigh Ketner

Using a popular system for reading ordinary playing cards, the suit of Hearts indicates matters of the heart and the presence of true love in intuitive readings.

Those who have experience reading playing cards generally agree that no two readers interpret the cards in quite the same way. Therefore, the interpretation of each card is as individual as a signature.

Perception is a very personal and individual process where interpretation of the cards is concerned. Considering that people don't view the world through the same eyes or experience emotions in the same manner - nor do they share identical memories or life experiences supporting personal value systems, how could their perceptions when they intuitively read cards ever be the same?

Your own interpretations of the cards will reflect this same kind of individuality. “Experiencing" - feeling and visualizing - the cards is the first step toward understanding how to read them accurately, enabling the intuiting of important messages from the cards when readings are conducted.

Descriptions of the Suit of Hearts Cards

The following descriptions of the cards help to generate images of that card's particular essence. Don’t become "locked in" on the literal meanings. Allow yourself to feel the flow of intuitive energy inherent to each card.

• TWO: Signifies ambition and personal fulfillment. Remember the feeling of an accomplished personal dream, the sense of having "made it." Excellent aspects when joined with career and marriage cards.
• THREE: Signifies regret and sorrow. The feeling of having broken a friend's precious possession, of realizing "you" broke it. Apologies perceived in the cards will be joined with this card.
• FOUR: Signifies jealousy, resentment, and malice. The feeling of anger mixed with pain when someone takes the person you love away.
• FIVE: Signifies a gift or compliment. The feeling of receiving a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
• SIX: Signifies great promise, like the yellow brick road. The feeling of a bright and sunny road to the future. It involves both personal and professional relationships that develop into marriages or partnerships with tremendous potential for success.
• SEVEN: Signifies genuine friendship, pure platonic love. This card will show you who your true friends are, the ones who will be beside you through thick and thin. It is not as often seen in readings as one might think.
• EIGHT: Signifies celebrating. The feeling of being at a party, having fun, good times.
• NINE: Signifies the wish card. This card means nothing by itself. It's the other cards around it they tell whether your wish will be harmful or helpful to you.
• TEN: Signifies true love, unity. The feeling of love that can last through anything and everything. You know with this person by your side, you can accomplish anything and overcome all obstacles.
• JACK: Represents a male, usually with green eyes and dark blond to auborn hair, who is either young in age or young in maturity (as of "the spirit").
• QUEEN: Represents a woman with green eyes and dark blond to auburn hair who possesses a giving, loving, caring nature at heart.
• KING: Represents a man with green eyes and dark blond to auburn hair, who is older in age or older in maturity - as of the "spirit."
• ACE: Focuses on the home. A neutral card. The other cards surrounding the Ace of Hearts will show you the actual feelings concerning "the home".

Suit of Hearts Personality Traits: Primarily on the various emotional aspects involving "the heart" and "matters of the heart." Loving, caring, humanitarian, caregiving.

The Suit of Spades, Clubs and Diamonds hold their own distinct characteristics.

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Learning to Read the Suit of Hearts