Hiddeπ Amur∆Ka: Thr𓂀Ce (G)Reatest ॐ
Esoteric Side of Playing Cards (🧵)
The 52 cards represent the 52 weeks in a year. To underline the numerical magic of playing cards, the twelve royals (King, Queen & Jack), represent the twelve months of the year. Each suit of 13 cards represents the 13 weeks in each season.
The two colors of the suits represent masculine, yang (red) and feminine, yin (black). Thirteen cards in each suit correspond to the 12 signs of the zodiac plus the “sun behind the sun,” a reference to the creator or source. 
The four playing card suits represent the four season or solstices, while other historians have said it may allude to the four phases of the moon. Suits may also parallel the four elements found in nature: hearts for water, clubs for fire, diamonds for earth and spades for air. 
Some historians have suggested that the four suits represent the four classes of Medieval society. Cups & chalices (modern hearts) might have stood for the clergy; swords (spades) for the nobility or the military; coins (diamonds) for the merchants; & batons (clubs) for peasants. 
The four suits of the minor trumps represent also the major divisions of modern society: cups are the priesthood, swords the military, coins the tradesmen, and rods the farming class. 
Hearts correspond to Summer. Hearts are ruled by Venus and Neptune. Clubs correspond to Spring. Clubs are ruled by Mercury and Mars. The Diamond season is autumn. Diamonds are ruled by Jupiter. Spades relate to winter, and are ruled by Saturn and Uranus. 
According to Sacred Symbols of the Ancients, the deck’s “special” numbers are seven and nine. Seven is considered the “center” of each suit, and corresponds to the “original seven planets known to the ancients.” Seven also represents the sacred number of the soul of man. 
Nine is the last single digit number, and is considered the universal number representing the complete cycle of human experience. 
“The initiate/teachers of old deliberately concealed much of their wisdom from the ‘profane’ by words or pictures which conveyed opposite, or distorted meanings to all but the serious students who, by meditation & visual impression, could see behind the veil & discover the truth” 
“The Fool of the Tarot or the Joker in the Deck of Playing Cards is the pictorial statement of the One Force, the NO THING (0) yet everything to all men — eternal energy, boundless, measureless and infinite. It is all seasons, all forms, and all activities.” 
“The two colors, red and black, represent the two grand divisions of the year–that during which the sun is north of the equator and that during which it is south of the equator. The four suits represent the seasons, the ages of the ancient Greeks, and the Yugas of the Hindus.” 
“The twelve court cards are the signs of the zodiac arranged in triads of a Father, a Power, and a Mind according to the upper section of the Bembine Table. The ten pip cards of each suit represent the Sephirothic trees existing in each of the four worlds (the suits).” 
“The 13 cards of each suit are the 13 lunar months in each year, and the 52 cards of the deck are the 52 weeks in the year. Counting the number of pips and reckoning the jacks, queens, and kings as 11, 12, and 13 respectively, the sum for the 52 cards is 364.” 
If the joker be considered as one point, the result is 365, or the number of days in the year.
Bicycle = Bi – Cycle / Red + Blue = Purple Reign
52 Cards
5 + 2 = 7
7 x 52= 364 Days
52 Weeks in a Yr
4 Suits, 4 Stations, 4 Seasons
13 Cards Per Suit
13 x 4= 52
13 Lunar Cycles 
“The court cards contain a number of important Masonic symbols. Nine are full face and three are profile. Here is the broken “Wheel of the Law,” signifying the nine months of the prenatal epoch and the three degrees of spiritual unfoldment necessary to produce the perfect man.” 
“The four armed kings are the Egyptian Ammonian Architects who gouged out the universe with knives. They are also the cardinal signs of the zodiac. The four queens, carrying eight-petaled flowers symbolic of the Christ, are the fixed signs of the zodiac.” 
“The four jacks, two of whom bear acacia sprigs–the jack of hearts in his hand, the jack of clubs in his hat-are the 4 common signs of the zodiac. The court cards of Spades will not look upon the pip in the corner of the card but face away from it fearing this emblem of death.” 
“The Grand Master of the Order of the Cards is the king of clubs, who carries the orb as emblematic of his dignity.”
– Manly P. Hall 
Milton Pottenger believed that the United States of America was laid out according to the conventional deck of playing cards, and that the government will ultimately consist of 52 States administered by a 53rd undenominated division, the District of Columbia. 
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache, he appears to be killing himself by means of a sword to the head. The explanation for the “suicide-king” is less dramatic. As printing spurred rapid reproduction of decks, the integrity of the original artwork declined. 
When printing blocks wore out, Bostock explained, card makers would create new sets by copying either the blocks or the cards. This process amplified previous errors. Eventually, the far edge of our poor king’s sword disappeared.
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