The Ace of Diamonds: The Card of Desire

This card holds a great challenge and a warning. While love and money are not necessarily the antitheses of one another, it is necessary to understand the energy that needs to be expended to conquer and maintain either, let alone the responsibility to nurture both.

The Ace of Diamonds represents one who has great desire for love, both the love of friendship and romantic love, but who is aloof and a loner. Impatience, mercurial, creative, the juxtaposition of mercenary greed with the bestower of gifts and affection are the hallmark of the Ace of Diamonds.

Intrinsically passionate, the Ace of Diamonds demonstrates indecision at crucial moments, thus overwhelming the passion and the inherent ability to seer beyond the moment.

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The Two of Diamonds: The Wheeler-Dealer Card

This card delineates the mission in life. Most often life's mission is accompanied by a partner, who provides ballast and stability.

Intuition is the hallmark of the Two of Diamonds. It is this intuition that provides the motivation to overcome the patterns and ruts of life.

However, it is that same all-consuming motivation that obliterates what is fascinating and rewarding about life. This conundrum is overcome by being open to change and never accepting the inane when the extraordinary can be had with a small additional expenditure.

Success is obtainable, but it must be worked for.

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The Three of Diamonds: The Card of Temptations

This is the card of difficulties and obstacles. Indecision is the hallmark of this card. Difficulties abound when the Three of Diamonds is encountered. Challenges need to be met head-on rather than temporized or ignored. Sacrifice, in the truest sense of the term, is called for: it is both necessary and sufficient to create a life's path based and bordered upon the sacred.

The Three of Diamonds presents all the choices and urges a try-it-on-for-size approach to spirituality. Indulge, but constantly be aware not to take what is not yours to possess.

Contentment, serenity and peace are there, just over the hurdles.

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The Four of Diamonds: The Card of Prices

This is the card of protection, but ONLY when hard work, perseverance and dedication are utilized. Sure and certain effort reaps the rewards. Inner restlessness and dissatisfaction need to be conquered and then the world is available.

The adage regarding free lunches is alive and well. Everything has its price, if not immediately, then sometime down life's byways.

The Four of Diamonds can cause confusion and bumbling, as it appears that what is desired can be had without an effort. The truth becomes apparent when what is received for nothing is nothing.

This card warns against the easy way: action's smooth life's roadways; doing, not expecting, harvests compensation.

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The Five of Diamonds: The Card of Challenges

This is the card of challenges followed by rewards when the challenges are met. Routine and limits are anathema to the Five of Diamonds. Conversely this card demands stability and unfailing regularity.

Restlessness is the hallmark of the Five of Diamonds. Nothing comes easy and problems multiple without scrupulous attention to detail. Responsibility is a burden that needs be shouldered and carried down the road.

Relationships are especially precarious.

Learn to hear, and HEED, the inner voice of reason and responsibility.

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The Six of Diamonds: The Card of Responsibility

This is the card of debts. This is the card of repayments. The hallmark of the Six of Diamonds is that in order to receive one must expend. Actions are the impetus of obtainment.

Constant searching for improvement is the hallmark of this card.

The Six of Diamonds is related to teaching, seeking, discrimination, and obtaining. The adage of seeking and finding is an optimal apothegm for this card.

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The Seven of Diamonds: The Card of Finances

This is the card of attitude regarding money. Putting money in a proper perspective is a life's work as many lessons are learned by travelling down this avenue.

Family, friends and romantic interests are compounded by this card. Will they be bested by the quest for dollars? Will the trials and tribulations regarding the search for financial gain be the death toll of love? Or, will the seeker expend the necessary energy and make the required changes to allow all others in their orbit the same freedoms and choices they demand?

Perspective is the hallmark of the Seven of Diamonds. Perspective is all we truly own in the end. Perspective colours all we encounter. Points of view are both personal and overwhelming. Learn to be a master of balance and shifting perspective, do not allow a point of view to be all encompassing.

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The Eight of Diamonds; The Card of the Sun

This card is the ability and the opportunity to rise to great and then greater heights: respect and admiration accompanying the one who carries this card.

Hard bargains and knowing what one is truly worth is the hallmark of the Eight of Diamonds. Opportunities abound when this card impacts personal and public respect and attitude. Knowing what everything is 'worth' and being able to bargain lead to achievement and accomplishment.

Self-mastery coupled with self-acceptance is the base for the keystone of success.

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The Nine of Diamonds: The Card of Development

This is the card of growth and progress. Major alterations in half-finished chapters from the past can be accomplished with minimal effort.

Without closure life can be filled with remorse, discontent, dejection and stagnation.

The hallmark of the Nine of Diamonds is being in tune with mankind, earth and the universe. The awareness that comes from knowing oneself and understanding one's place in the order of the world is affluence worth the pursuit.

This card cautions against recklessness of thought or action.

Nine is the number of settling affairs. Be certain that no debt from the past is owed. Move away from what was into what can be.

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The Ten of Diamonds: The Card of Expansion

This is the card of opulence. The question becomes whether opulence shall be mundane or spiritual. Choices. Life is about choices.

The talent for assisting, for acquisition and for accusation has the same root. It is how the talent is expanded that is of import.

Creativity and intelligence are the hallmark of the Ten of Diamonds. Generosity, natural intuition and desire the desire for devotion and procuration are the tendencies of this card; success depends upon the one undertaking the task.

Expansion of knowledge, shedding ignorance and setting aside misinformation has its foundations with this card.

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The Jack of Diamonds: The Card of Inventiveness

This is the card of the consignor. The card that embodies the salesman and salesmanship and the various roles they have been assigned in our society.

Wit, charm and cantrip are the hallmark of this card. Independence and instinct are the canards, the warnings, of the Jack of Diamonds. Promises are easy to make, difficult to keep. Beware the immature and the crafty. Monitor closely those who "mean" well: if their intentions are pure why are they so seldom able to deliver on their promises?

The Jack of Diamonds is a cautionary flashing light: beware and be on guard, now and in the future.

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The Queen of Diamonds: The Benefactor Card

This is the card of difficulty in managing money. Worry about finances seldom equates to control or hegemony.

Charm, refinement, living beyond ones means is the hallmark of the Queen of Diamonds.

Constantly seeking new and improved adventures seldom leads to contentment and purpose. Relationships with others may come and go; however the relationship that surrounds self is impermeable and altered only with concentration and hard labour; knowing and understanding what is attainable and being committed are key in moving beyond the vacuous to the enlightened.

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The King of Diamonds: The Point of View Card

This is the card of the master: the master of self and all that surrounds.

Exclusiveness is the hallmark of the King of Diamonds. This card signifies the master/mistress of business. Fear is unknown to the King of Diamonds. Knowing and understanding what surrounds is the key to respect and success,

Learning to guard against the misappropriation of power is the lesson of this card. Determining the fine line between using the world and being of benefit to the world is what is of import.

All genuine knowledge has its inception in experience.

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