Suits
Clubs (also known as: wands. staff, spear, rod)
Element: FIRE
The suit of inventors, adventurers inspirational speakers and those with a lot of zeal. It is the suit of excitement and impatience, hot pursuits, grand ideals and gestures and the desire to make ones mark on the world.
Clubs or wands indicate hot tempers, passionate desires, charisma, competitiveness, and enthusiasm.
Hearts (also known as: Cups, chalice, cauldrons, bowls)
Element: WATER
The suit of emotions. Usually represents romantic love life/affairs, our warm connections with our loved ones, family, friends etc.. Enabling the creation of art forms like poetry and paintings music and dance.
Over indulgence in food drinks and drugs.
Cups/hearts indicates the search for beauty and divine love
Spades (also known as swords, knives, daggers, blades)
Element: AIR
The suit of the mind and the voice. Sharp ideas, Sharp tongues of thinking things through and thinking and saying too much.
The suit of cleverness and a love for facts. "Swordplay" in the sense of solving problems and performing calculations, discussions and debate.
The suits is also however a suit of gossips, braggarts, liars and slanderers, which also makes it a suit of anxiety worries, problems and troubles.
Diamonds (also known as: pentacles, coins, disks)
Element: EARTH
This is the suit of health, money, luck and work, the suit of the physical. It relates to our body, our home, our valuables. All that we consider solid, real and of this world. For this reason, Pentacles represent the pragmatic, common sense side of life like the job/work we do to put food on the table and the money we save up to pay the bills. Not surprisingly, however, Pentacles can also indicate indulging in luxuries, those things that money can buy.
the slow-growth, long-term suit, the suit about creating something real rather than seeking excitement like Wands, or theorizing like Swords or dreaming of romance like Cups. Hence, Pentacles stands for the bankers and business owners, the craftsmen, farmers, shopkeepers and laborers. Those who see their worth in something they have built, be it a corporation or a bakery.
This is also a suit about social interaction and responsibilities. Which is why, in regards to feelings, it is a suit about greed vs. generosity, about doing what is enriches ourselves vs. what enriches others. Also what one has or doesn't have and how that affects how others view us. Thus it is as much a suit about how we respond to being lucky or wealthy as it is about luck and wealth.
There you have it.
on the next posts. it will be for the individual cards. So Stay tuned.