Part 3
_Upright_--The ace of diamonds, whether upright or reversed, signifies a letter, a petition, a note, a paper, a document.
_Reversed_--The ace of diamonds, reversed or upright, designates a letter to be shortly received, a petition, a note, a paper, or a document.
TEN
_Upright_--The ten of diamonds, either upright or reversed, represents coin, gold, water, the sea, a foreign city, and change of locality.
_Reversed_--The ten of diamonds, whether reversed or upright, designates bullion, coin, gold, water, the ocean, a foreign city, a journey and change in locality.
NINE
_Upright_--Enterprise. Separation. Advantage.
_Reversed_--Delay. Annoyance. Poverty. A family feud, or a quarrel among intimate friends.
EIGHT
_Upright_--The country. Riches. Love-making overtures.
_Reversed_--Sorrow. Motion. Wealth. Satire. Mockery, and foolish scandal.
SEVEN
_Upright_--Present intentions. Good news.
_Reversed_--Birth. Contrariness. Vexation. In a great measure.
_Hearts._
KING
_Upright_--A blonde man. A lawyer. A man of repute, and remarkable for superior qualities. A person of generosity.
_Reversed_--A very fair man. A tutor. A man in anger. Great disappointment.
QUEEN
_Upright_--A blonde female. A faithful friend. A mild, amiable lady.
_Reversed_--A very fair female. Impediment to marriage. Obstacle to success in business and general affairs. A woman crossed in love.
JACK
_Upright_--A blonde young man. A young soldier or sailor. A traveler. A gay young bachelor, dreaming chiefly of his pleasures.
_Reversed_--A very fair young man. A dissipated bachelor. A discontented military man. A politician out of office.
ACE
_Upright_--The house. A repast. Festivity. A love letter. Agreeable intelligence.
_Reversed_--A friend's visit. Forced or constrained enjoyment.
TEN
_Upright_--The city. Envious people.
_Reversed_--An inheritance. A surprise.
NINE
_Upright_--Victory. Happiness. Triumph. Union. Harmony. Work. Trade. A present.
_Reversed_--Weariness. Ennui. A passing trouble. Curiosity. Encumbrance.
EIGHT
_Upright_--The affection of a fair young lady. Success in your hopes. Nourishment. Food. Board.
_Reversed_--A very fair maiden. Excessive joy. A young woman's indifference to love advances.
SEVEN
_Upright_--The thoughts. A weapon. A jewel.
_Reversed_--Desire. A parcel.
_Spades._
KING
_Upright_--A dark complexioned man. A gentleman of some learned profession. A judge. Advocate. Surgeon. Physician. A literary man.
_Reversed_--A widower. A man in wrath or with a malignant disposition. An envious man. Dishonest lawyer. A quack. An enemy. A general failure in all your anticipations.
QUEEN
_Upright_--A dark complexioned woman. A widow. A lady of some learned profession.
_Reversed_--A widow seeking to marry again. A dangerous and malicious woman. A fast female. Difficulty. Derangement as to marriage.
JACK
_Upright_--A dark complexioned bachelor. An envoy. An ill-bred fellow. A messenger.
_Reversed_--An inquisitive, impertinent interloper. A man plotting mischief. A spy. Pursuit. Treason in love affairs.
ACE
_Upright_--Abandonment. A document.
_Reversed_--Pregnancy. Abandonment. Grief. Distressing intelligence.
TEN
_Upright_--Tears. Jealousy.
_Reversed_--Loss. An evening party. Brief affliction. In the evening.
NINE
_Upright_--A great loss. Tidings of death. Mourning. Failure.
_Reversed_--Disappointment. Delay. Desertion. Tidings of the death of a near relative.
EIGHT
_Upright_--Sickness. Want of prudence. Bad news.
_Reversed_--Ambition. A religious woman. A marriage broken off, or an offer refused.
SEVEN
_Upright_--Expectation. Hope.
_Reversed_--Wise advice. Friendship. Indecision. A foolish intrigue.
_Clubs._
KING
_Upright_--A man whose complexion is between light and dark. A frank, liberal man. A friend.
_Reversed_--A nut-brown complexioned man. A person to meet with a disappointment.
QUEEN
_Upright_--A brunette female. One fond of conversation. An affectionate, quick tempered woman.
_Reversed_--A nut-brown complexioned lady. A jealous and malicious female.
JACK
_Upright_--A slightly dark complexioned bachelor. A lover. A clever and enterprising young man.
_Reversed_--A flirt and flatterer. A young man in anger or in sickness.
ACE
_Upright_--A purse of money. Wealth.
_Reversed_--Nobility. Love. A present.
TEN
_Upright_--The house. The future. Fortune. Success. Gain. Money.
_Reversed_--Money. A lover. Sometimes want of success in a trivial matter.
NINE
_Upright_--Chattels. Goods. Movable article. An indiscretion.
_Reversed_--A trifling present. Gambling.
EIGHT
_Upright_--The affections of a brunette maiden. The art of pleasing.
_Reversed_--A nut-brown maiden. Removal. Separation. A frivolous courtship.
SEVEN
_Upright_--A small sum of money. A debt unexpectedly paid. A child.
_Reversed_--A child. Embarrassment.
THE CONSULTANT.
When coming out in an upright position, in the body of the deal designates merely the person consulting the oracle, in a natural state of mind.
When the card comes out in the deal reversed, it denotes the consultant to be in a disturbed state of mind, or annoyed from some cause beyond his or her control. Coming with the _eight of spades reversed_, for example, by its side, it shows that the consultant's mind has been disordered through prospects of ambition or religious excitement. If accompanied by the _eight of hearts_, it demonstrates that he or she is annoyed through being a victim to the tender passion.
DICTIONARY OF SECONDARY DEFINITIONS
_And Synonyms, Supplementing the Preceding List. Consult Both._
KING OF DIAMONDS--_Upright._ This card, when used as a representative, denotes a very fair man, one with auburn hair, light blue eyes, and florid complexion, who, notwithstanding his hasty temper, will treasure his anger, long awaiting opportunities for revenge, or he is obstinate in his resolutions.
It moreover designates a military officer, and frequently one of fidelity to his country and its honor.
Still, it is most generally employed as the marriage card, for if it does not come out in an oracle wherein matrimony is the wish, the nuptials will be delayed or broken off.
Its synonymical signification would then be:
Alliance; reunion; attachment; vow; oath; intimacy; assemblage; junction; union; chain; peace; accord; harmony; good understanding; reconciliation.
KING OF DIAMONDS--_Reversed._ This card signifies a country gentleman, in which capacity its synonyms are:
Country man; rustic; villager; peasant; farm laborer; cultivator; rural; agriculture.
Again, this card reversed, bears a further signification of a good and severe man, when its synonyms would be:
Indulgent severity; indulgence; compliance; condescension; complacency; tolerance; low descension.
When used as the marriage card, and coming out reversed, the king of diamonds signifies primarily difficulties and obstacles imposed in the way of entering upon or consummating the nuptial contract, and through inference vitiation of the married state, when its synonyms are:
Slavery; captivity; servitude; matrimonial ruptures; conjugal infidelity.
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS--_Upright._ When this card comes out in the oracle upright it bears three primary significations: _a country lady_; _a talkative_ or _communicative female_; and a _good, kind-hearted woman_.
As a representative card it designates a very fair female with auburn or blonde hair, brilliantly clear complexion and very blue eyes. A woman of this character will be given to society, and is naturally a coquette.
When the card is taken as a _country lady_ its synonyms will be through induction or inference:
Economical housewife; chaste and honest woman; honesty; civility; politeness; sweetness of temper; virtue; honor; chastity; a model wife; excellent mother.
When used to designate a _talkative female_, they will be:
Conversation; discourse; deliberation; dissertation; discussion; conference; intellectual entertainment; prattler; blab; idle talk; flippant conversation; table talk; gossip.
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS--_Reversed._ When the card comes out reversed in the oracle its ordinary signification is that of a meddlesome woman, who has interfered in the affairs of the consultant for the purpose of doing him or her injury, and the extent of the injury, contemplated or done, can be estimated from the proximity of this card to that of the consultant, or from the import of those cards intervening between the two. This card has two secondary significations as follows:
_Want of foresight_, whose synonyms are:
Unawares; unexpectedly; on a sudden; napping; astonished; suddenly; fortuitously; unhoped for; surprisingly.
_A knavish trick_, whose synonyms would be:
Roguishness; knavery; cheat; imposture; deceit; sharpness in rascality; trickery; false pretense; artifice; wile; craftiness.
JACK OF DIAMONDS--_Upright._ The primary signification of this card is a _soldier_, a _postillion_, or a light haired _young man, in or from the country_. In addition to these characteristics this card, whether upright or reversed, assumes another, which is technically called _the good stranger_.
As a _soldier_, its secondary value is expressed in the following synonyms:
Man at arms; swordsman; fencing master; combatant; enemy; duel; war; battle; attack; defense; opposition; resistance; ruin; overthrow; hostility; hatred; wrath; resentment; courage; valor; bravery; satellite; stipendiary.
In the quality of _the good stranger_, its synonyms are:
Strange; unaccustomed; unknown; unheard of; unusual; unwonted; surprising; admirable; marvelous; prodigious; miracle; episode; digression; anonymous.
When employed as a representative of a person, it denotes a light haired, unmarried man, who, although one of your nearest relations, will sacrifice your interests to his own; a person of stubbornness; hot headed and hasty, tenacious of his own opinions and unable to brook contradiction.
JACK OF DIAMONDS--_Reversed._ This card's signification is a public or private servant; and in the latter case, without reference to gender, either a male or female domestic. Its synonyms therefore are in accordance with its acceptation:
Servant; waiter; valet; chambermaid; lady's maid; a subordinate; an inferior; a hireling; condition of one employed; servitude; postman; errand boy; messenger; agent; expressman; newsman; message; announcement; commission; directions; a household; relative to post office and the transmission of messages.
ACE OF DIAMONDS--It is a matter of perfect indifference whether this card assumes its place in the oracle in an upright or reversed position, as its primary signification is in no wise varied, although of a most comprehensive nature, being, expressing generally, a _letter_, a _note_, a _paper_, a _petition_, etc.
It requires, however, a great deal of attention to discriminate between the manifold significations of this all-important card, which is governed in a great measure by the cards coming next to it, otherwise the interpreter may be entirely baffled in comprehending the intent of the oracle.
The general synonyms of the _ace of diamonds_ are:
Epistle; writings; the art of writing; grammar; Holy Writ; text; literature; doctrine; erudition; literary labor; book; correspondence; composition; alphabet; elements of all learning; principles; bonds; bills of exchange; notes of hand; evidence of indebtedness.
With the _seven of spades, reversed_, coming next to it, this card denotes the existence of a law suit, in which case we have synonyms, founded on the following basis:
Deed; covenant; agreement; law paper; writs; warrants; litigation; differences; contestations; disputes; discussions; bickering; contest; strife; discord; contradiction; stratagem; trick; broil; pettifogging; wrangling.
TEN OF DIAMONDS--Like its companion, the _ace_, which with this card form the only two in the pack possessing this peculiar quality, the _ten of diamonds_ preserves its value and signification, whether it emerges either upright or reversed. The primary significations of this card are _gold_, _water_, the _sea_, a _foreign city_, _change of locality_.
As the representative of _gold_ its synonyms are:
Riches; opulence; magnificence; splendor; éclat; sumptuousness; luxury; abundance; means.
When its signification is assumed relative to _water_ and the _sea_, the synonyms assume both a specific and general nature:
Fluid; humid; ablution; dew; rain; deluge; inundation; the ocean; river; torrent; stream; fountain; source; lake; pond; cascade; falls.
When the surrounding cards designate this one to be accepted as representing a foreign city, its synonyms are:
Traveler; traveling; foreign parts; beyond the sea; homeless; wanderer; wandering abroad; trading; commerce; a sailor; ships; refuge; exile.
When accepted to signify a _change in locality_, the synonyms, in addition to preservation of its original meaning of a mere change in domicile, or habitation, are inferentially extended to embrace a wider scope, such as:
Departure; displacement; journey; pilgrimage; peregrination; steps; motion; visits; excursions; incursions; emigration; immigration; transmigration; flight; tour; rotation; circulation; deportation; rout; defeat; overthrow; bewilderment; disconcert; to break one's allegiance; desertion; disinheritance; alienation; alien; a foreigner; houseless.
It will be seen that with the varied significations which can be given to this card, it is one of the most important in the pack.
NINE OF DIAMONDS--_Upright._ When coming forth in its natural position, this card is one of particular good omen, as it foretells great success in business operations and consequent gain. Its primary meaning comprehends the grand mainspring to human exertion, _enterprise_, while at the same time it assures you of the desired result, _advantage_ or _gain_. Viewed as such its synonyms are, as to _enterprise_ in the first instance:
To undertake; to commence; to usurp; to take possession of; audacity; boldness; hardihood; impudence; rashness; speculative; speculation; fearless in trade; in love.
When taken to represent _advantage_, the synonyms are:
Gain; profit; lucre; success; thanks; favor; benefit; ascendency; power; empire; authority; government; rule; glory; reputation; happy results; profitable end; victory; cure; fulfillment; termination; satisfaction.
NINE OF DIAMONDS--_Reversed._ We have the other side of the picture, for this card, coming up reversed portends the occurrence of dire mishaps and abject despoliation with its concomitant poverty. In view of this immense difference in the value and signification of this one and the same card in its two positions, too much care cannot be taken to mark the way in which it emerges.
In its modified signification of _delay_, its synonyms are:
Disarranged; sent back; suspension; variation; wavering; slowness; relenting; obstacle; impediment; misfortune; adversity; accidental injuries; miscarriage.
But viewed in its more bitter light as _spoliation_ and _poverty_, its synonyms are:
Destitution; violence; ruin; victim of robbery; a fall; ruined honor; bankruptcy; privation; violated chastity; defrauded; swindled; victimized; separation; sold out by the sheriff; cast upon the town; hopeless.
EIGHT OF DIAMONDS--_Upright._ In its natural position this card is accepted to represent either _the country_ or _riches_, as its signification is relatively determined from its surroundings.
In its signification as the _country_, thereby meaning not only a rural district but the characteristics of a country existence, the interpretation of this card boasts a large number of synonyms:
Agriculture; cultivation; field labor; farming; garden; prairie; woods; shades; pleasure; enjoyment; diversion; pastime; amusement; rejuvenation; rural sports; rustic dances; peace; calmness; natural tranquillity; rural life; forests; vales; mountains; flocks and herds; shepherd; shepherdess; moral quietude.
As the synonyms of _riches_, as they are signified by this card in contradistinction to others, we have:
Augmentation of wealth; increase of estate; advancement; prosperity; general success; happiness; goodness; felicity; beauty; embellishment.
EIGHT OF DIAMONDS--_Reversed._ In this condition the primary signification of the card is _sorrow_ and _movement_. The synonyms for _sorrow_ are:
Sadness; affliction; displeasure; grief; desolation; mortification; bad humor; melancholy; the blues; hypochondria; vexation; trouble.
But with the word _movement_, we have more trouble to apply its actual signification, as shown in the cards, and therefore the interpreter is left in a great degree to her own judgment, to decipher the connection which should bind the oracle to a specific and intelligent reading.
The most applicable synonyms would therefore be:
To walk; step forward; move about; to contemplate; to propose; to make advances; to undertake; to offer proposals; to promenade; to tender offers; to inaugurate a scheme; to further any claims.
SEVEN OF DIAMONDS--_Upright._ This is what is most commonly styled the _conversation_ card, as its initial and primary signification is _discourse for the present_, while it likewise designates the approaching receipt of _good news_; as the oracle demands, to be secure, proper interpretation.
When used as the _conversation_ card, its synonyms are:
Talk; words; matter; tattle; desultory remarks; seasonable language; pleasant gossip; table talk; anecdote.
Secondary to this signification, and in intimate connection, it has oftentimes been employed to denote _designs for the moment_, whether mental or expressed by word of mouth, embracing intent and resolution.
When signifying _news_, the synonyms will be:
Announcement; intelligence; newspaper; advice; advertisement; admonition; warning; teaching; tale telling; history; fables; anecdotal remarks.
SEVEN OF DIAMONDS--_Reversed._ This card is capable, when emerging reversed, of receiving several interpretations, the general and primary one of which is _birth_, or the origin of a human being, or of matter which has, as its synonyms:
Nativity; origin; creation; source; commencement; principle; primitive; extraction; first coming in of fruits and flowers; prime; early; race; family; house; lineage; posterity; the reason for; cause; premises for argument.
This card frequently designates a _great deal_, or a large quantity, qualifying the value of those cards next to it. For example, should it come before the _ten of spades reversed_, or the _ten of clubs_, it will read a great deal of jealousy, or of money.
Commingled with cards, relating to a public or military official, this one is taken to signify _declaration_, whose synonyms would consequently be:
Publication; orders; authenticity; approbation; placard; designation; discovery; disclosure; revelation; confession.
KING OF HEARTS--_Upright._ The primary significations of this card are _a blonde man_, _an advocate_ and a _man of note_, but its secondary significations are those attached to the state and _legislation_.
As the representative of an individual, this card shows a good, kind-hearted man, of an amorous disposition, rash in his enterprises, and generally hasty and passionate in all his actions.
Coming out as a _blonde man_, it has these synonyms:
Honest man; honesty; probity; equity; arts and sciences.
Considered as a _man of note_ or statesman, the synonyms are:
Legislation; legislator; laws; decrees; code; statutes; precepts; commandments; combination; institution; constitution; temperament; complexion; natural and moral law; religious law; civil law; politics; politician; natural right; right of nations; public rights.
KING OF HEARTS--_Reversed._ This card coming out reversed, designates a man of natural light complexion, neither fair nor brown, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes, of an excellent temper, easily imposed upon, credulous, moderately given to love matters, yet addicted to vice and incontinence. Its other primary significations are a _tutor_, or a _man in anger_, possessing vices, the reverse of those good qualities attributed to the card when upright. In this case the synonyms are:
Indignation; agitation; irritation; wrath; rage; fury; frenzy; violence; hatred; aversion; animosity; peril; animadversion; antipathy; resentment; vengeance; affront; outrage; blasphemy; storm; tempest; cruelty; inhumanity; atrocity.
The chief secondary signification of this is a _man in office_, or professional politician, to which are given the following synonyms:
Man of rank; dishonest man; exaction; pillage; injustice; simony; a dishonorable person; a burglar.
QUEEN OF HEARTS--_Upright._ This card represents a blonde female, faithful and affectionate, always the dearest friend or nearest relative to the consultant. As such, the synonyms, attached to the primary signification, are of an excellent nature:
Honest woman; virtue; wisdom; honesty.
This card is likewise taken as symbolical of _friendship_ in its various phases, the synonyms of the term being:
Attachment; affection; tenderness; benevolence; kindly relations; fraternity; intimacy; identity in inclinations; agreement; affinity; harmonious correspondence; conformity; sympathy; attraction; cohesion.
Another signification is attached to this card in a secondary capacity as _justice_, with the following synonyms:
Equity; probity; right; rectitude; reason; the law.
A further secondary signification has been bestowed upon this card, under certain influences, when it is gifted with the attributes of _temperance_ with these synonyms:
Moderation; discretion; continence; abstinence; patience; calmness; sobriety; frugality; chastity; alleviation; reconciliation; respect; conciliation; mitigation; molification; consolation.
QUEEN OF HEARTS--_Reversed._ This card reversed, designates a fair, but not light, woman, with nut-brown hair and grayish eyes, who intervenes to prevent marriage, and intermeddles in all the consultant's affairs generally. It likewise represents either the wife of a man in office, a woman of doubtful character, or a courtesan, a betrayer of honor and of affection. Under this aspect it receives a secondary signification of _dissension_, to which are given synonyms as follows:
Agitations; sedition; conspiracy; rebellion; pride; vanity; seduction; outrage; presumption; disputes; moral wrong; dishonorable proposals.
JACK OF HEARTS--_Upright._ This card, as a representative one, designates a blonde, unmarried man, learned, good tempered and well favored by fortune. Consequently, when it is drawn by a young woman, and the marriage card comes near it, it portends that she will be united to a person of such a description, and that the union will prove both happy and of long duration.
It likewise designates, primarily, a soldier or a traveler, so that should it come up in your oracle it is interpreted, in a secondary connection, in this sense, and assures that you are on the point of undertaking a journey. If bright cards surround it, the journey will be a prosperous one, but should the _eight of spades_ be near it, it will result in illness, and if the _ten of spades_ be adjacent, it will be accompanied with tears.
In this secondary capacity it has synonyms as follows:
Road; highway; lane; pathway; a walk; a course; career; promenade; messenger; ways and means; expedient; enterprise; method.
JACK OF HEARTS--_Reversed._ Should this card come out in the oracle of an unmarried lady, reversed, it instructs her that her lover or intended husband is a person wooing her for selfish purposes, who, although handsome and accomplished, will make a bad match.