How are the card suits connected to Jesus? Card suits. For young French scholars
September 23rd, 2010
Happens often to a player:
I sat down rich and rose up poor.
Who took the cards, seduced by profit,
He doesn't know the happy game.
The game of chance is sinful:
It was not given to us by God, -
Satan invented it!
Sebastian BRANT. 1494
Have you ever asked yourself the question: What do the suits of playing cards mean? Where did the names come from - jack, ace, clubs, spades, hearts, etc. If - yes! Then this article is for you. If you are particularly impressionable, please do not read)
A few words about the history of the issue:
There are 3 versions of the origin of the cards:
1. First - Chinese, although many still do not want to believe in it. Chinese and Japanese cards are too unusual for us both in appearance and in the nature of the game, which is more like dominoes. However, there is no doubt that already in the 8th century in China, first sticks and then strips of paper with the designations of various symbols were used for games. These distant ancestors of cards were also used instead of money, so they had three suits: a coin, two coins and many coins. And in India, playing cards depicted the figure of a four-armed Shiva holding a cup, a sword, a coin and a staff. Some believe that these symbols of the four Indian classes gave rise to modern card suits.
2. Egyptian version of the origin of the cards, replicated by the latest occultists. They claimed that in ancient times, Egyptian priests wrote down all the wisdom of the world on 78 golden tablets, which were also depicted in the symbolic form of cards. 56 of them - the "Minor Arcana" - became ordinary playing cards, and the remaining 22 "Major Arcana" became part of the mysterious Tarot deck used for fortune telling. This version was first published in 1785 by the French occultist Etteila, and his successors, the French Eliphas Levi and Dr. Papus and the English Mathers and Crowley, created their own systems for interpreting Tarot cards. The name supposedly comes from the Egyptian “ta rosh” (“the path of kings”), and the maps themselves were brought to Europe either by Arabs or gypsies, who were often considered to have come from Egypt. True, scientists were unable to find any evidence of such an early existence of the Tarot deck.
3. European version. (Let’s dwell on it in more detail - it is considered the main one). Ordinary maps appeared on the European continent no later than the 14th century. Back in 1367, card games were banned in the city of Bern, and ten years later, a shocked papal envoy watched in horror as the monks enthusiastically played cards near the walls of their monastery. In 1392, Jacquemin Gringonner, the jester of the mentally ill French King Charles VI, drew a deck of cards to amuse his master. The deck of that time differed from the current one in one detail: it had only 32 cards. There were four ladies missing, whose presence seemed unnecessary at the time. Only in the next century did Italian artists begin to depict Madonnas not only in paintings, but also on maps.
4. Occult. According to the writer S.S. Narovchatov, under Ivan the Terrible, a certain Chercelli appeared in Moscow. Chercelli, in Italy was called a Frenchman, in France - a German, in Germany - a Pole, and in Poland - he became Russian. He brought to Moscow a chest wrapped in a shawl, black with red stripes, which seemed to correspond to the colors - black and red. Cards began to be in demand. At first, the authorities were tolerant of practicing with cards, but then they began to persecute them because they saw the interference of evil spirits here. Of the legislative monuments about cards, the Code of 1649 is the first to be mentioned, which prescribes to deal with card players “as it is written about tatyas” (thieves), i.e. beat mercilessly, cut off fingers and hands. Decree of 1696 It was introduced to search all those suspected of wanting to play cards, “and whoever has their cards taken out will be beaten with a whip.” In 1717 Playing cards is prohibited under threat of a fine. In 1733 For repeat offenders, prison or batogs are designated.
So what do the suits and meanings of the cards mean?
The structure of a card deck is known to everyone: ace, king, queen, jack even lower in value, tens, nines, and so on up to sixes or twos in a full deck - a typical hierarchical ladder from highest to lowest:
The Joker is a frivolous figure in tights, a jester's cap, bells... And in his hands is a scepter with a human head strung on it, which has now been replaced by humane artists with musical "cymbals". In pre-revolutionary stage performances, a similar character was called Fradiavolo. “Joker” is taller than everyone else, it has no suit and is considered the strongest in the game. Thus, at the top of the pyramid is not the King, but Daus...
Ace is a word of Polish origin from the German Daus. The German-Russian dictionary indicates the meaning of the word: Daus - devil. It is quite possible that Daus is a corruption of the Greek "diabolos" - a dispeller of slander.
King. Interestingly, all card images had real or legendary prototypes. For example, the Four Kings are the greatest monarchs of antiquity: Charlemagne (hearts), the biblical King David (spades), Julius Caesar (diamonds) and Alexander the Great (clubs).
There was no such unanimity regarding the ladies - for example, the Queen of Hearts was either Judith, Helen of Troy, or Dido. The Queen of Spades has traditionally been depicted as the goddess of war - Athena, Minerva and even Joan of Arc. After much debate, the biblical Rachel began to be portrayed as the queen of spades: she was ideally suited for the role of the “queen of money”, since she robbed her own father. Finally, the Queen of Clubs, who appeared on early Italian cards as the virtuous Lucretia, turned into Argina - an allegory of vanity and vanity.
Jack (French valet, “servant”, “lackey”, etymologically a diminutive of “vassal”; the old Russian name is “serf”, “khlap”) - a playing card with the image of a young man. All real prototypes of jacks (according to the European version) are the French knight La Hire, nicknamed Satan (hearts), as well as the heroes of the epic Ogier the Dane (spades), Roland (diamonds) and Lancelot the Lake (clubs).
“Trump” cards, their very name, have their own special purpose. "Kosher" i.e. Talmudists call ritual sacrifices “pure”... which, as you understand, is connected with Kabbalah.
Now the suits:
In the French version, swords became “spades”, cups became “hearts”, denarii became “diamonds”, and “wands” became “crosses” or “clubs” (the latter word means “clover leaf” in French). . These names still sound different in different languages; for example, in England and Germany these are “shovels”, “hearts”, “diamonds” and “clubs”, and in Italy they are “spears”, “hearts”, “squares” and “flowers”. On German cards you can still find the old names of the suits: “acorns”, “hearts”, “bells” and “leaves”.
There are 3 versions of the origin of the cards:
1. The first is Chinese, although many still do not want to believe in it. Chinese and Japanese cards are too unusual for us both in appearance and in the nature of the game, which is more like dominoes. However, there is no doubt that already in the 8th century in China, first sticks and then strips of paper with the designations of various symbols were used for games. These distant ancestors of cards were also used instead of money, so they had three suits: a coin, two coins and many coins. And in India, playing cards depicted the figure of a four-armed Shiva holding a cup, a sword, a coin and a staff. Some believe that these symbols of the four Indian classes gave rise to modern card suits.
and Middle Ages:
2. The Egyptian version of the origin of the cards, replicated by the latest occultists. They claimed that in ancient times, Egyptian priests wrote down all the wisdom of the world on 78 golden tablets, which were also depicted in the symbolic form of cards. 56 of them - the "Minor Arcana" - became ordinary playing cards, and the remaining 22 "Major Arcana" became part of the mysterious Tarot deck used for fortune telling. This version was first published in 1785 by the French occultist Etteila, and his successors, the French Eliphas Levi and Dr. Papus and the English Mathers and Crowley, created their own systems for interpreting Tarot cards. The name supposedly comes from the Egyptian “ta rosh” (“the path of kings”), and the maps themselves were brought to Europe either by Arabs or gypsies, who were often considered to have come from Egypt. True, scientists were unable to find any evidence of such an early existence of the Tarot deck.
3. European version. (Let’s dwell on it in more detail - it is considered the main one). Ordinary maps appeared on the European continent no later than the 14th century. Back in 1367, card games were banned in the city of Bern, and ten years later, a shocked papal envoy watched in horror as the monks enthusiastically played cards near the walls of their monastery. In 1392, Jacquemin Gringonner, the jester of the mentally ill French King Charles VI, drew a deck of cards to amuse his master. The deck of that time differed from the current one in one detail: it had only 32 cards. There were four ladies missing, whose presence seemed unnecessary at the time. Only in the next century did Italian artists begin to depict Madonnas not only in paintings, but also on maps.
4. Occult. According to the writer S.S. Narovchatov, under Ivan the Terrible, a certain Chercelli appeared in Moscow. Chercelli, in Italy was called a Frenchman, in France - a German, in Germany - a Pole, and in Poland - he became Russian. He brought to Moscow a chest wrapped in a shawl, black with red stripes, which seemed to correspond to the colors - black and red. Cards began to be in demand. At first, the authorities were tolerant of practicing with cards, but then they began to persecute them because they saw the interference of evil spirits here. Of the legislative monuments about cards, the Code of 1649 is the first to be mentioned, which prescribes to deal with card players “as it is written about tatyas” (thieves), i.e. beat mercilessly, cut off fingers and hands. Decree of 1696 It was introduced to search all those suspected of wanting to play cards, “and whoever has their cards taken out will be beaten with a whip.” In 1717 Playing cards is prohibited under threat of a fine. In 1733 For repeat offenders, prison or batogs are designated.
So what do the suits and meanings of the cards mean?
The structure of a card deck is known to everyone: ace, king, queen, jack even lower in value, tens, nines, and so on up to sixes or twos in a full deck - a typical hierarchical ladder from highest to lowest:
The Joker is a frivolous figure in tights, a jester's cap, bells... And in his hands is a scepter with a human head strung on it, which has now been replaced by humane artists with musical "cymbals". In pre-revolutionary stage performances, a similar character was called Fradiavolo. “Joker” is taller than everyone else, it has no suit and is considered the strongest in the game. Thus, at the top of the pyramid is not the King, but Daus...
Ace is a word of Polish origin from the German Daus. The German-Russian dictionary indicates the meaning of the word: Daus - devil. It is quite possible that Daus is a corruption of the Greek "diabolos" - a dispeller of slander.
King. Interestingly, all card images had real or legendary prototypes. For example, the Four Kings are the greatest monarchs of antiquity: Charlemagne (hearts), the biblical King David (spades), Julius Caesar (diamonds) and Alexander the Great (clubs).
There was no such unanimity regarding the ladies - for example, the Queen of Hearts was either Judith, Helen of Troy, or Dido. The Queen of Spades has traditionally been depicted as the goddess of war - Athena, Minerva and even Joan of Arc. After much debate, the biblical Rachel began to be portrayed as the queen of spades: she was ideally suited for the role of the “queen of money”, since she robbed her own father. Finally, the Queen of Clubs, who appeared on early Italian cards as the virtuous Lucretia, turned into Argina - an allegory of vanity and vanity.
Jack (French valet, “servant”, “lackey”, etymologically a diminutive of “vassal”; the old Russian name is “serf”, “khlap”) - a playing card with the image of a young man. All real prototypes of jacks (according to the European version) are the French knight La Hire, nicknamed Satan (hearts), as well as the heroes of the epic Ogier the Dane (spades), Roland (diamonds) and Lancelot the Lake (clubs).
“Trump” cards, their very name, have their own special purpose. "Kosher" i.e. Talmudists call ritual sacrifices “pure”... which, as you understand, is connected with Kabbalah.
Now the suits:
In the French version, swords became “spades”, cups became “hearts”, denarii became “diamonds”, and “wands” became “crosses” or “clubs” (the latter word means “clover leaf” in French). . These names still sound different in different languages; for example, in England and Germany these are “shovels”, “hearts”, “diamonds” and “clubs”, and in Italy they are “spears”, “hearts”, “squares” and “flowers”. On German cards you can still find the old names of the suits: “acorns”, “hearts”, “bells” and “leaves”.
As for the occult principles, their essence is as follows:
1. “Cross” (Clubs) - a card depicting the cross on which Jesus was crucified and which is worshiped by half the world.
(Translated from Yiddish, "club" means "bad" or "evil spirits"
CLUB (טְרֵפָה, literally `torn`), an animal that has died from wounds or physical defects and is therefore unfit for food or sacrifice. The Bible uses the term club in a narrower sense: “You shall not eat the meat [of an animal] torn in the field; Throw it to the dogs” (Ex. 22:30).
Halacha believes that a club is a name for a torn but still living animal (which, in all likelihood, will die, since its wounds are incompatible with life). Carrion (nevela) is mentioned elsewhere (Deut. 14:21)
A new interpretation of the biblical meaning of the word club is noticeable already in the Hasmonean era: Hyrcanus II Jochanan called the club the sacrificial animals stunned with a club before slaughter (Sotah 9:10, cf. Sotah 48a).
The Mishnah names 18 types of clubs among livestock (Chu. 3:1). The Gemara (Chul. 43a) states that the eight main groups of clubs among cattle were revealed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai:
1. claw marks th on an animal;
2. perforation of any of the 11 important organs, which are listed;
3. congenital absence of certain organs;
4. absence of certain cores;
5. certain spinal injury;
6. damage to internal organs as a result of a fall;
7. tearing off most of the meat covering the rumen (the first section of the stomach of ruminants);
8. significant fracture, such as most ribs.)
2. “Vini” (peaks) - symbolizes the gospel peak, that is, the spear of the holy martyr Longinus the Centurion, with which he pierced the stomach of Jesus
3. "Worms" - implies a gospel sponge on a cane: "One of the soldiers took a sponge, filled it with vinegar and, putting it on a cane, gave Him to drink."
4. “Tambourines” - a graphic image of the Gospel forged tetrahedral jagged nails, with which the hands and feet of Jesus were nailed to the wooden Cross.
An interesting fact is that in the USSR during the NEP years there were attempts to depict workers with peasants on maps and even introduce new suits - “sickles”, “hammers” and “stars”. True, such amateur activity was quickly stopped, and maps were stopped printing for a long time as “attributes of bourgeois decay.”
Each of us knows what playing cards are and many have played them. But has anyone ever wondered how the first cards and the suits depicted on them appeared?
One option for the origin of cards and suits is the assumption that the first cards appeared in Asia, from where they were already distributed by the Arabs throughout Europe.
Foreign merchants transporting goods and traveling to different lands traded cards with four suits, which were called pentacles, staves, cups and swords.
The origin of card suits is not known for certain, but there are several plausible theories
According to other assumptions, they appeared in Europe during the reign of Charles IV - they were invented by the royal merry fellow for the amusement of the master's family.
In the Old World, gambling cards were first described around the same time period. From all the variety of decks, their quantitative and qualitative composition, certain commonalities can be identified:
- all decks had 4 suits (as well as special cards called jokers);
- each suit contained several representatives, differing in design or information sign;
- the card combined a suit and a hierarchical place.
The modern deck is a French variation of the combination of card suit and rank, which appeared in the 15th century. The popularity and prevalence of this particular specimen is explained by the low cost of production. On French maps, low rank was indicated by Arabic symbols, which eliminated the difficulty of drawing.
There are the following opinions on how the visual images of the suit were formed:
- equipment of knights (spades - spears, worms - shields, diamonds - banners, crosses - swords);
- four social groups of feudal society (army - spades, church - worms, merchants - diamonds, peasantry - crosses);
- objects associated with the death of Jesus Christ (spades - a spear, worms - a sponge, diamonds - nail heads, crosses - a cross).
The last of these explanations is determined by the church’s well-established condemnation of gambling, including card games, which are considered the creation of the Devil. In many European countries, a rather interesting name for suits has taken root. For example, in Germany, worms are called hearts, spades are called leaves, diamonds are called bells, and crosses are called acorns.
Names of card suits
In the Spanish set of cards, suits are also called by peculiar words. Residents of France call them differently: peaks (spears), squares, hearts, clovers. The most common and familiar terms in Russia are those that came from France, or derivatives similar to them.
Thus, diamonds come from “bells”, clubs are the pronounced word “trefle” in Russian, hearts are a derivative of “chervonny”, and spades speak for themselves.
Hierarchy of card suits
In all the variety of card games, there has never been a universal seniority of suits, so many games have their own scale: for example, in bridge or poker there is a hierarchy - spades, hearts, diamonds, crosses. For this reason, games are organized in such an order that would regulate the location and, so to speak, the strength of the suits.
Trumps and special suits
In “bribe” games there is always a suit that is more powerful than others throughout the game. In some games, one or more suits may have a specific meaning. In the game "Spades", by the way, a specific suit is established, which is trump during the game.
Another example of the use of special suits is the game "Hearts", where the presence of cards with hearts puts you in a losing situation.
WHY CAN’T YOU PLAY CARDS, play solitaire, use card symbols, and even more so, guess at the queen of spades or the queen of hearts? Symbols, images, hieroglyphs are by no means always harmless pictures. These are the same words presented in the form of graphic images. Some words cannot be uttered at all without harm to the soul. There are concepts that should not even be present in thoughts.
For the same reasons, one cannot draw ungodly subjects for the sake of the subjects themselves in any way: naturalistic, symbolic or symbolic (taboo), including cards.
Where did the cards come to us from?
V. I. Dahl’s explanatory dictionary gives the following definition of cards: “glued together, small pieces of paper with images of points in four suits and figures.”Maps have an ancient history; their origin has not yet been precisely established.
The invention of playing cards is attributed to the Chinese. The Ching-tse-Tung dictionary says that cards were invented in 1120 (according to Christian chronology), and in 1132 they were already in widespread use in China. According to another version, cards were invented in Egypt and were intended for fortune telling. Card suits were used in Byzantium to decorate fabrics. In Western Europe, maps appeared in the 14th century. In their modern form with kings, jacks, etc., they have existed since the 15th century.
According to the writer S.S. Narovchatov, under Ivan the Terrible, a certain Chercelli appeared in Moscow. Chercelli, or, as he was popularly called - Chertello, in Italy was called a Frenchman, in France - a German, in Germany - a Pole, and in Poland - he became Russian. He brought to Moscow a chest wrapped in a shawl, black with red stripes, which seemed to correspond to the colors - black and red, but Muscovites said that these were the colors of hellfire.
A gambling epidemic began in the Third Rome, “they were cutting for money.” Cards began to be in demand, and Chercelli decided to develop in Moscow a special type of card business, which by that time had already flourished in the West - card printing. His tempting offer was received rather coolly by Muscovites. The first printer, Ivan Fedorov, flatly refused to participate in such a matter.
At first, the authorities were tolerant of practicing with cards, but then they began to persecute them because they saw the interference of evil spirits here. Of the legislative monuments about cards, the Code of 1649 is the first to be mentioned, which prescribes to deal with card players “as it is written about tatias” (thieves), that is, to beat mercilessly, to cut off fingers and hands. By decree of 1696, it was introduced that anyone suspected of wanting to play cards should be searched, “and anyone whose cards were taken out should be beaten with a whip.” In 1717, playing cards was prohibited under threat of a fine. In 1733, a prison, or batog, was established for repeat offenders.
In the 18th century, the attitude towards this game in Russia softened greatly and in general, when researching prohibited games, it was ordered to “act with caution so as not to cause unnecessary slander, insults and worries.” The passion for the game grew, and no one was interested in why these particular figures were depicted on the cardboard rectangles and what, or rather, who was the ace?
So who is who?
Ushakov's dictionary answers: “ace” is a word of Polish origin from the German Daus and means a playing card with one point. The German-Russian dictionary also indicates another meaning of the word: Daus - devil. It is possible that Daus is a corruption of the Greek "diabolos" - a dispeller of slander.
The structure of a card deck is known to everyone: king, queen, jack (from the French “servant”), even lower tens, nines, and so on up to sixes or twos in a full deck - a typical hierarchical ladder from highest to lowest. Sometimes another card is added to the deck - the Joker. A frivolous figure in tights, a jester's cap, bells... And in his hands - a scepter with a human head strung on it, which has now been replaced by humane artists with musical “cymbals”. In pre-revolutionary stage performances, a similar character was called Fradiavolo.
The Joker card is the highest of all, it has no suit and is considered the strongest in the game. At the top of the pyramid, in any case, there is not a monarch, but that same Daus, from whom you can only shield yourself with the sign of the cross and prayer. Thus, the hierarchy in the card deck is subordinate to the prince of this world, he, the prince who rules the air, is symbolized not by one point, but by number one.
The sacred meaning of the word JOKER lies in the history of the Tarot. The first and main arcana of the Tarot was called Pagad, which also corresponded to the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet - aleph. In its reduced meaning, pagad means fool. In English decks, Pagad was called the Magician and moved to second place, and the role of the Magician, Jester and Fool received a zero lasso.
Mystics and hermeticists correlated Pagada with the image of the Golem, a character from Jewish mythology, a man made of inanimate matter, a clay dupe (cf. fool, jester), who, however, was an otherworldly, all-knowing creature. Through him, a person learned not only about himself, but also about the world on this and that side of existence. And in the Prague legend of the Golem, the motive of the fight against injustice is easily captured.
So, a fool is not who he says he is. This is a cunning man who possesses knowledge that is hidden from the laymen, a buffoon who, under the guise of a fool, tells people the truth. And in Goethe’s Faust, Mephistopheles himself appears as the royal jester.
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov in the imperative mood edifies: “Get acquainted with the spirit of the time, study it, so as to avoid its influence if possible” (Otech. p. 549). Having become familiar with the structure of a card deck, let's look at what the mysterious symbols represent - “clubs”, “wines”, “hearts” and “diamonds”.
Prince of Peace Model of Domination
In different countries, these symbols are called differently and their meaning is interpreted differently. Thus, “worms” are represented by a heart, a cup; “blame” - with a shovel, an acorn, a sword; “tambourines” - diamonds, bells, coins; “Clubs” in most countries bear the same name - “club”. But there are other explanations for this symbolism, according to which all four card suits imply sacred objects - instruments of suffering and death of the Divine Redeemer.“Clubs” or “crosses” is a card with the image of a “trefoil” cross, the cross of Christ, which is worshiped by half the world. Translated from Yiddish, “club” means “bad” or “evil spirits.” Do addicted gamblers think about what a blasphemy their “innocent” activity turns out to be against the Lord!
The card suit “vini”, or, otherwise, “spades” symbolizes the gospel pike, that is, the spear of the holy martyr Longinus the Centurion. As the Lord predicted in His providence, through the mouth of the prophet Zechariah, “that they would look upon Him whom they had pierced” (Zech. 12:10), so it happened: “one of the soldiers (Longinus) pierced His side with a spear” (John 19:34 ).
The card suit "hearts" implies a gospel sponge on a cane. As the Lord said, through the mouth of the prophet David, that the soldiers “gave me gall for food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink” (Ps. 68:22), so it came true: “One of them took a sponge, filled it with vinegar and, putting it on reed, gave Him something to drink” (Matthew 27:48).
The card suit “tambourines” is a graphic image of the Gospel forged tetrahedral jagged nails with which the hands and feet of the Savior were nailed to the tree of the Cross. As the Lord prophesied through the mouth of the psalmist David that “they pierced my hands and my feet” (Ps. 22:17), so it was fulfilled: the Apostle Thomas, who said: “Unless I see in His hands the wounds from the nails, and I do not put my finger in the wound of the nails, and I will not put my hand into His side, I will not believe” (John 20:25).
“Trump” cards, their very name, have their own special purpose. Talmudists call ritual sacrifices “kosher,” that is, “pure,” so the real meaning of card games lies in the humiliation of our shrines, because by covering the cross with the “trump six,” players believe that this “six” is higher and stronger than the Life-Giving Cross!
So, playing cards are by no means a kind of simple game compromised by an element of excitement. This is a model of the domination of the prince of this world over his free and involuntary subjects. This is the meaning of card symbolism, and symbols are no joke. There is a strict prohibition of the Church: under no circumstances should you touch the so-called “depths of Satan” (Rev. 2:24), therefore, when someone in a group suggests playing cards, remember who is higher than the card king.
It often happens to a player: I sat down rich and ended up poor. Whoever took the cards, seduced by profit, does not know the happy game. The game of chance is sinful: It was not given to us by God, - It was invented by Satan! Sebastian BRANT, 1494
There are many versions of when and where people first started using cards for entertainment. In one case, their invention is attributed to the Chinese, who began to paint dominoes out of cardboard. Others believe that the French king was the innovator in this matter, who was able to hide his madness during evening gaming games in this way. One way or another, at the end of the 14th century in France, representatives of the lowest classes became obsessed with this activity, which often harmed both family and work. Most likely, this is where this passion for gambling in people came from.
What is a card suit and what does it mean?
Each suit has its own meaning and different name, not only in languages and cultures, but also in historical periods. Their ancestors were Tarot cards, the name of which is still used in Italy - swords, swords and cups, denarii, wands. The Germans began to call the four symbols in their own way: “leaves”, “acorns”, “hearts”, “bells”.
Each suit of cards received its well-known modern names much later than its origin. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that each of the suits denoted a specific layer of the population, and the values of the cards were invented according to the then existing
Christian believers have a special relationship with cards. They consider them to be the offspring of the devil, who through them is trying to attract people to his side. Gambling or simply having a deck in the house is considered a sin, and the soul of such people will be destroyed and eternal life will not be granted to them if they do not come to their senses in time.
Everyone knows the answer, but not everyone thinks about what they symbolize. According to one of the most common versions, all the suits also represent the suffering of Christ during his crucifixion (the cross itself, the spear, the sponge with vinegar and nails). That is why the church has such a clear attitude towards this entertainment.
Each suit of cards symbolizes one of the known elements. Peaks - air, denotes everything negative that happens to a person at the moment: quarrels, failures, lies, losses. Cross - fire, shows what position a person occupies in society, has power or, conversely, is subordinate. Hearts are water, responsible for love and relationships. Tambourines - earth, helps to find out and clarify all business issues related to work, travel, education, etc. These designations are used in fortune telling using special cards.
What is the most favorable suit of cards?
Most people think these are hearts. In some ways they are right, because the appearance of such a card during fortune telling can promise help in resolving various troubles. Things will go well in this situation, events will develop as usual. One can speak of a person who has the hearts card as wise and prudent. In certain situations, this may mean an imminent vacation.
What about suits that carry a negative connotation? Obviously, the black suit in cards does not bode well. If such a card comes up, then immediate troubles are guaranteed. Believing it or not is everyone's business.
