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Cartomancy with Playing Cards | Jack of Clubs

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In cartomancy with playing cards, the Jack of Clubs (J♣) is the card of friendship and help. Rarely, it can represent an actual person, usually very young, such as a child or teen. When it does, the person is usually helpful, good, constructive.

Jack of Clubs (black), from the Playing Cards series (N84) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co. is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

In love readings, when coupled with Hearts, the Jack of Clubs is a wonderful card of mutual support, indicating that two partners have each other’s back, and that their love finds practical “application” in daily acts of kindness and support for one another. However, if in a more negative context, the Jack of Clubs can show that the situation is more akin to friendship. Note that, if followed by cards that negate its meaning, the Jack of Clubs can indicate lack of help or support, and so it can point to an unsupportive partner.

In work-related questions, the Jack of Clubs is a card of many meanings. When it indicates a type of job, it shows service and help, in whatever context it may be (look at the other cards). Unless assisted by cards of wealth, in itself this card does not promise great realization, as it is more indicative of someone in a helping or secondary position. It is also the card of friends and, by extension, co-workers. Especially with Spades, it can highlight a situation of mobbing, or, failing that, a bad work environment or an underpaid job. Help can also indicate help in health matters, and so with certain cards it can indicate a nurse.

In money issues, the Jack of Clubs does not have a specific meaning, however, with money cards, it can show financial help and support. When quantifying a sum of money, the card tends to restrict it somewhat.

Psychologically, this card indicates a practical, constructive, helpful attitude. Again, look out for negative cards after it, as the meaning may totally opposite. Spiritually, the Jack of Clubs indicates much the same, however in esoteric readings it can indicate a positive familiar spirit or elemental, but not an angel.

Combinations

Face card + J♣ = A friend or colleague (friend can mean someone who will lend a hand)
J♣ + 8♦  + 3♣ = A business partnership (instead of the 3♣, a money card could be present)
J♣ + 5♠ = it can mean helplessness or lack of friends (the 3♠ would indicate loss of support)
4♣ + J♣ = counseling or, more broadly, words that help
Q♣ + 4♠ + K♣ + J♣ = the relationship is stale, it’s turned into more of a friendship

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Playing Cards and Numerology – The Jacks

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The way I was taught to read playing cards, Queens and Kings are often real people, representing women and men respectively, while Jacks are only rarely real people, although the Jack of Hearts can represent a real child.

Jacks tend to represent news and attitudes.
The Jack of Hearts, in addition to representing a child, can represent someone or something who is fresh, naive, immature, honest, happy-go-lucky. In love readings, for instance, it tends to show flirts and situations that haven’t fully matured yet. It is also a card of inexperience.

The Jack of Clubs represents friendship and help. It represents also service to others. Next to another court card representing a person, it shows that he or she is helpful, friendly, positive, serious, constructive. The card is also connected to cooperation and, as an extended meaning, to co-workers.

The Jack of Diamonds represents messages and the knowledge of facts. It shows the acquisition of information. As an extended meaning, it signifies study and research. It can also signify a go-between (you will notice that the Jacks of Diamonds and Clubs are similar to their Sibilla counterparts). The card points to someone who is inquisitive, curious and desirous to delve deeper into something.

The Jack of Spades signifies enmity. It shows a negative attitude toward the querent (or of the querent toward someone or something). It is a card of ill-will. It is also the uniform card, especially when together with the King of Spades. Animosity, a competitive attitude and the desire to dominate another are all part of the meanings of this card.

Despite the Jack of Hearts being the Child card, all Jacks can represent children. Usually, the Jack of Spades is a child with problems, or a sick child, or a child that misbehaves. The Jack of Clubs is a good child, while the Jack of Diamonds is a smart child.

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Vera Sibilla | The Jacks – Boyfriend, Servant, Messenger, Villain (Amante, Domestico, Messaggiero, Nemico)

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Jack of Hearts – The Boyfriend (Amante)

Design: a handsome young man serenading under his sweetheart’s balcony.

UPRIGHT J♥

A generally neutral card with a slightly positive polarity. It shows a man (often the querent or the querent’s love interest) who is motivated by (positive) feelings. He is often single or at least not married. Its age range varies depending on what the cards what to emphasize. Traditionally he is between 20 and 40, but if the cards want to refer to the person’s role in the querent’s life (e.g. brother, son, friend, etc) then he may be of any age. He is a man who is capable of committing and has the querent’s best interest at heart. Only rarely this card does not represent a person, in which instance it shows the idea of “courting” something or someone, waiting for something to happen and longing for it. It is also a card of good news (all Jacks can represent news).

REVERSED J♥

All court cards, when reversed, show two types of people: negative or in distress. When it represents a negative person, the type of negativity they represent is based on their suit. The Jack of Hearts reversed is a seductor without scruples in all sectors of life. He is prone to cheating. Sometimes it shows simply a man who is not in love with the querent, but may not necessarily be negative, if with positive cards. In rare instances, when it does not represent a person, the Jack of Hearts reversed shows lusting after someone or something, and excessive desire.

Jack of Clubs – The Servant (Domestico)

Design: a helpful young man bowing to his master or mistress.

UPRIGHT J♣

A neutral card, but more neutral than the Jack of Hearts. In itself it signifies a young man, often younger than 30 or even in his teens. He is usually already part of the querent’s life (son, brother, friend), but other cards may imply otherwise. Its positive characteristics include being helpful and humble. He can be a friend. The card is connected with manual labor, service and employed work, and even when it does not represent a person it signifies the concept of help being given or offered. It can represent a student, a coworker, an apprentice. With negative cards helpfulness becomes servility, or it can turn into an inferiority complex. In love readings the person represented by this card is not necessarily negative, but the fact that he doesn’t come up as a Heart face card is a warning that the story is unlikely last, unless positive love cards make up for it in the spread (note, what I just said is not necessarily true for gay couples). The card signifies help all around, including advice and friendly words.

REVERSED J♣

The reversed Jack of Clubs is a negative card. It shows a man who behaves foolishly and is unruly, doesn’t know his place and is misguided. It signifies the concept of help being denied. The person can be debauched and, insteading of helping, latching on to the querent (a bum, a deadbeat son, etc). Sometimes it signifies a young man who is troubled and needs help. Upright and with positive cards it shows humbleness, reversed it can signified being humbled or forced to submit.

Jack of Diamonds – The Messenger (Messaggiero)

Design: a postman approaching to deliver the mail.

UPRIGHT J♦

This is very rarely a face card. More often than not it acts similarly to the Two of Diamonds, the Letter, showing the arrival of news and communication. In general, the Jack shows more important news or news more focused on the querent’s situation. It can also signify parcels. It is connected to mediation, agencies, go-betweens, ambassasors etc. It is connected with short trips, running errands and commutes. It is a quick card.

REVERSED J♦

The card signifies delay in the receipt of news or packages (which may become permanent delay with negative cards). This needn’t be tragic though. For instance, it once came up in a positive spread that announced a pregnancy in the family. Two months later my sister-in-law told us she was pregnant and that she had taken her time announcing it because she was afraid revealing it too soon would jinx the pregnancy.  The reversed Jack of Diamonds is also a card of gossip and sharp tongues. It can signify a bad mediator or go-between.

Jack of Spades – The Villain (Nemico)

Design: a stereotypical villain holding a snake and moving in the shadows.

UPRIGHT J♠

The card signifies a man who is moved by negative aims. The person doesn’t need to be evil, he just need to be inimical to the querent, even on just in the question at hand (if you break daddy’s card, don’t be surprised to see him come up as the Enemy). More generally, though, it can signify a man who is trying to disrupt the querent’s life. He can be a thief, a competitor, a meddler or a false friend. He is usually malicious and cunning. Whatever he proposes to the querent (a business deal, a contract, an investment, a one night stand) it is best refused. The one time the card is neutral is when it represents the father-in-law. It can show the arrival of unpleasant news.

REVERSED J♠

Near cards that show the querent’s victory, the reversed Jack of Spades signifies the demise of the enemy. When near negative cards it shows open enmity and someone who is hell-bent on destroying the querent, someone who is beyond help or redeption and will go to any length to see their plans through. Sometimes the card refers to a man who behaves badly out of stupidity or cowardice.

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Reading – Will the University Go Bust?

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Here’s a reading from some time ago, which I recreated using my new Sibilla Originale 1850. The querent’s problem was: Will the university I work for go bust?

A pyramid spread on the question “Will the University I work for go bust?”

The first line is pretty interesting, as we get a chance to see the power of the Peacock card in action. The Two of Clubs is the best card in the deck, capable of lessening the blow of any negative card. And boy do we need it, as right before it we have the worst card in the deck, the Seven of Spades Reversed. Aside from being the card of tyranny and overbearing power, the reverse Seven of Spades talks about ruination and utter and final capitulation.

Why is the university going toward ruination? We have the Ace of Clubs, Marriage, and the Ten of Clubs, Levity. The Ten of Clubs is the card of “just a little”, while the Marriage card is about contracts and legal agreements. So, the university is at risk of going bust because there’s not enough students signing up, but the worst will be avoided thanks to the Two of Clubs, which can be visualized as a sort of divine hand grabbing the debris falling from a collapsing building and putting them back in place before they manage to fall on someone’s head.

The second line tells us something a bit more specific about what is going to save the university from the worst. The Seven of Diamonds, the Child, is about new things, and the Jack of Clubs, the Servant, is, among other things, the card of students, an interpretation which is confirmed by the Two of Diamonds, the Letter, which is one of the cards of studying and books, and when near the Servant it can identify a student. Here we are not talking about a specific student, but about students in general. There will be new (Child) students. At least enough to keep the whole thing going.

In this instance, we may also see the Child as falling between the Ace of Clubs, Marriage, and the Two of Hearts, House. Ace of Clubs + Two of Hearts is the card combo that, in job-related issues, represents a firm or a business. Here we are talking about a university, but the meaning still applies: universities don’t pay their employees in wisdom. They, too, need to make money, just like a business.

The presence of the Child inside this combination of business tells us that the university is preparing something new, perhaps new courses or maybe some new marketing ploy. The querent confirmed that they are looking to concoct some new study course that will make the university he works for more alluring.

The final three cards tell us that, although the university will manage to stay alive, it probably won’t be thriving, at least not in the next period. We need to understand “the next period” in the context of the question: we all know how public institutions tend to suck as much money as they can for as many years as they can without profit before actually being left to their fate, so in the context of a public institution, which this university is, the next period means the next few years, or at least that’s what I think.

The Two of Hearts, the House, shows the place itself, while the Nine of Diamonds, The Fools, and the reversed Three of Hearts, the Balcony, tell us something that seems to contradict the presence of the Peacock in the first line. It would be easy to interpret this combination as one pertaining to violent groups, but this wouldn’t mean anything in the context.

Aside from its usual connotations, the Nine of Diamonds talks about things proceeding irregularly, or without really looking where they are going, while the Three of Hearts is connected with sight, whether literal or figurative. Reversed, it becomes a lack of insight, so whatever it is that the university is coming up with is not going to be that good of a product for potential students to buy into.

Finally, let us look at the angles of the pyramid: Marriage, Peacock and Balcony Reversed. The business (Marriage) will stay open for the foreseeable future (Peacock), but this will not necessarily be a good thing, as the Balcony Reversed is also the card that points to a lack of positive developments.