The Ace of Hearts: The Looking for Love Card

This is the card of seeking the perfect love. The Ace of Hearts confounds love by indecision and hesitation. Love is always just beyond grasping.

Promiscuity and a certain capriciousness are the hallmarks of the Ace of Hearts. When channeled into creative endeavours, the arts, and especially the written word, the desire for variety can be a powerful asset. Without diligence and a constant awareness success in life never quite happens.

Variety may be the spice of life, but too much stifles the taste of what it overlays.

The Ace of Hearts demonstrates a keen appreciation of metaphysics and would do well to pursue spiritual knowledge.

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The Two of Hearts: The Liaison Card

This is the card of lovers: idealistic and determined to experience all that romance can offer. However, there is also a tendency to be too practical and too demanding for romance to flourish unfettered.

Curiosity and a desire for knowledge are hallmarks of the Two of Hearts. Once a direction has been decided upon it is held with rigor. Constantly seeking companionship and a loathing of being alone. The Two of Hearts attracts companions who have quick minds and a rousing sense of inquiry.

Fulfillment on every level is attainable. It just isn't as easy as it seems on first appraisal.

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The Three of Hearts: The Irresolution Card

All threes are demanding of personal space and time. The Three of Hearts takes it to an art form. The demand for freedom can easily decay into emotional isolation and mental disorientation.

The Three of Hearts has little difficulty finding love. The difficulty is nurturing love and romance; there is certain to be dissatisfied no matter how well the fit of the relationship.

Constantly searching, often confused, frequently indecisive, but always charming; the trick is to learn to accept love and truth without demanding idealized perfection.

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The Four of Hearts: The Healer Card

This is the card of virtue. This card stresses high ideals for self and for those that accompany the quest for enlightenment.

The hallmark of the Four of Hearts is protection. Objectivity is sometimes hard to come by and when the Four of Hearts meets disappointment the protective mode shifts from others to self.

Empathetic on every level, the Four of Hearts requires frequent withdrawal from the world to recuperate and regenerate strength and personal power.

Self-expression can be a stumbling block, but when overcome the Four of Hearts reaches heights of excellence.

The healer needs to be certain that their wagon is in prime condition before offering a ride to another. The desire to "help" can be a cover-up for over-indulgence and dis-ease of either a physical or emotional basis.

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The Five of Hearts: The Distraction Card

This is the card of physical restlessness and emotional agitation. The Five of Hearts is so concentrated on what is wrong in life that there is never an opportunity for what is right to blossom.

Concentration is limited and with it rewards are as well. Friendships as well as romance are short-lived, as the Five of Hearts is constantly on the prowl for something different or better. Conversely, the Five of Hearts only feels replete in a committed relationship.

The Five of Hearts is frequently a dabbler, never reaching an understanding beyond the superficial. This gives the term "dilettante" a bad reputation.

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The Six of Hearts: The Arbitrator Card

This is the card of the authoritative voice: the place to retreat when disputes are raging. The wielder of this card can be decisive and fair-minded to all involved; they have the ability to see through pretense and to uncover motives.

The hallmark of the Six of Hearts is success. Six of Hearts displays great mental agility and a degree of spiritual awareness that cuts through the cyperbole.

The Six of Hearts is a card of personal integrity.

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The Seven of Hearts: The Release Card

This is the card of letting go and of personal sacrifice. It is also the card of suspicion, mistrust and factiousness. A conundrum that requires great stamina and determination of the cycle is to be overcome and progress marked.

The dichotomy apparent in the Seven of Hearts is a reflection of society. Mirror images of the western world's ongoing battle with good versus evil, the high versus the low, and countless other spiritual polarities. The Seven of Hearts prospers spiritually, emotionally, physically and materially when the realization is reached that all such dichotomies are self-imposed and have meaning only when given meaning!

The Seven of Hearts' journey is one we are all taking part in.

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The Eight of Hearts: The Judgment Card

This is the card of decision making and exercising responsibility and discretion in all aspects of life. The Eight of Hearts has unlimited power for agape and eros. Discretion and responsibility are not innate and immature Eight of Hearts' can be manipulative and domineering. Awareness is not an easily won attribute, but is vital for the power of the card to be utilized without negative consequences.

It is through experience and living life that mature awareness is achieved. However, the Eight of Hearts prefers to be a sideline player rather than an active participant; they prefer to make decisions for others rather than for themselves.

The Eight of Hearts comes into their own when responsibility for self is donned and the blame-game becomes anathema.

The Eight of Hearts demonstrates great capacity for being a teacher and a trailblazer when the thinking process has matured and a certain level of wisdom has been garnered.

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The Nine of Hearts: The Card of Opposition

This is the card of dubiety. Observed from one angle all is fulfillment, viewed from the other side all is lost.

The hallmark of the Nine of Hearts is setting aside personal desires, deleting disapprobation, lessening value judgements and understanding that seldom are things as they seem.

All nines are here to settle affairs. Frequently debts from the past are encountered and demand payment with this card; it is necessary to pay our debts and to move on when endings have been reached and completions have been marked. Only disappointment, omission and deficit are encountered by pursuing a path riveted to the past.

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The Ten of Hearts: The Leader's Card

This is the card of the doer. Creative and determined, the Ten of Hearts can be overwhelmed by ambition.

Neoterism is the hallmark of the Ten of Hearts; cutting edge and innovative beyond the ken of most of us the holder of this card moves fast and frequently.

The Ten of Hearts has built-in radar of the next "hot" thing and makes certain to be in the center of it. Impulsiveness oft times prove to be their Waterloo.

The Ten of Hearts requires a modicum of self-restraint and benefits from a partner who can temper, without damping, their enthusiasms.

The Ten of Hearts search for spiritual cuisine can lead to severe heartburn. Beware the Guru and the Neo-mystic.

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The Jack of Hearts: The Martyr's Card.

This is the card of points of view. This red Jack is certain there is only one. It doesn't require many guesses to determine whose is right and that yours is wrong.

The hallmark of the Jack of Hearts is propitiation. Homage is a way of life for the holder of this card. The Jack of Hearts is most often found in the thick of religious debate and debacle. Although immersed in the "spirit" the Jack of Hearts is crafty and self-serving.

André Breton summed the escapist attitude of the red Jack up to perfection: "Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads."

It is a job of work to break this pattern. Time is of the essence!

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The Queen of Hearts: La Femme Rouge

This is the card of limitless potential. Love was created to be shared and shared alike by the Red Queen.

The hallmark of the Queen of Hearts is nurturing. Although self-indulgent to a fault, nevertheless they possess an abundance of care, concern, love and truth that spills over on everyone they encounter.

The holder of this card is about to embark on a period of high creativity or at the minimum a time of great exposure to the arts.

The Queen of Hearts is the portal of psychic attunement, however as with any ability it requires time and dedication to develop this utility.

While the red Queen is love personified there can be a shadow side; addiction and intemperance can overpower the holder of the card if care is not exercised.

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The King of Hearts: The Masculine Rhyme Card

This is the card of virile power and assertiveness. The King of Hearts is determined, devoted and paternal. Paternal devotion displaces both agape and eros. Parenthood and occupation consume the energies and the time of the King of Hearts.

The very heartiness of the King of Hearts can be their downfall. What should be love for everyone is seen as arrogance and patronizing.

The hallmark of the King of Hearts is consummate skill with a twist: that skill is turned into vengeful redress when the red King is vexed. Be wary of the explosive nature of this card.

When approached with a humble demeanor the King of Hearts will share his knowledge and his professional skills like the father he is. Consider the gains that can be made by keeping to the rôle of the supplicant child in the presence of the red King. The holder of this card takes their position as ruler seriously; after all, they are the perfect, omniscient, omnipotent being. Are they not?

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