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Mar 24 2026

What is Cardology, Really?

OK, so picture this.

You’re at a party — or a coffee shop, or a dinner table — and someone pulls out a regular deck of playing cards. Not to play a game. Not to do a magic trick. But because they genuinely believe those 52 cards contain a map of who you are, why your life looks the way it does, and what you’re really here to do.

You think: that’s a stretch.

And then they tell you what your birth card is, and your jaw drops a little, because — how does a card know that about you?

That’s the moment I fell in love with Cardology. And it’s the moment I want for you, too.

Let me tell you what Cardology actually is. Not the textbook version. The real one. The one I’d tell you over coffee if you leaned across the table and said, “Ashley — what is this thing you keep talking about?”

It starts with a deck of cards you already have.

Here’s something that might blow your mind: that ordinary deck of playing cards sitting in your kitchen junk drawer? It’s not ordinary at all.

The deck of 52 playing cards is an ancient wisdom system. It wasn’t invented for Go Fish. It was created to map the energetic patterns of the Universe — the same patterns that move through everything, including you.

Think about it for a second. There are 52 cards. There are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits. There are 4 seasons. Add up the numeric value of every card in the deck (with the Joker counting as 1) and you get 365 — the number of days in a year. This is not a coincidence. This is a system.

Someone, a very long time ago, encoded the rhythm of time and life into something we’ve been carrying around in our back pockets ever since.

Cardology is the study of that system — and how to use it to understand yourself and your life.

So what does it actually tell you?

Here’s where it gets personal.

Every single day of the year is associated with a specific playing card. The day you were born on is called your Birth Card — and it’s your entry point into the whole system.

Your Birth Card isn’t just a personality type or a fun fact. It’s more like… a soul fingerprint. It reveals:

The core of who you are — your gifts, your tendencies, your deepest nature
The challenges you’ve been bumping into your whole life (and why they keep showing up)
The kind of relationships that light you up — and the ones that drain you
The energy that’s available to you in any given year
Your soul’s deeper purpose in this lifetime

And here’s the thing that always gets people: it’s not vague. It’s not the kind of “you’re sensitive and you love deeply” stuff that could apply to anyone. It’s specific. Almost uncomfortably so.

When I found out my birth card — the 6♣ — was known as the psychic card, and that 6 of Clubs people have a deep responsibility to truth and to showing the way for others… everything that had felt confusing about me suddenly made sense.

That’s what Cardology does. It gives you language for things you’ve always felt but never quite had the words for.

How is this different from Tarot?

I get this question all the time, and I love it because the answer reveals something important about what makes Cardology unique.

Tarot is a divination tool. You ask a question, draw cards, and interpret what they’re reflecting back to you in that moment. It’s powerful, it’s intuitive, and it shifts every time you sit down with it.

Cardology is more like Astrology. It’s based on your birthday — a fixed point in time — and it describes the energetic blueprint you were born with. It doesn’t change depending on what you had for breakfast or how you’re feeling. It’s your map. It’s always your map.

In fact, Cardology weaves together numerology AND astrology — every card carries a number (which has its own energetic meaning) and a suit (which aligns with an element), and your spread of cards is laid out according to planetary positions. It’s a complete system.

You don’t have to choose between Cardology and Tarot or Astrology. Most people who love one, love all three. They’re just different lenses for looking at the same truth.

The four suits — and why they matter so much

One of the most immediately useful things about Cardology is the suits. There are four, and each one corresponds to an element and an area of human experience:

Hearts = Water = Emotions The heart, feelings, intuition, love, relationships. If you’re a Hearts card, you move through life through what you feel.

Clubs = Air = Knowledge The mind, ideas, communication, learning, truth. Clubs people live in a world of thoughts, words, and endless curiosity.

Diamonds = Fire = Building Action, creation, value, manifestation. Diamonds people are here to build things — businesses, families, structures, futures.

Spades = Earth = Wisdom Experience, depth, transformation, knowing. Spades carry the oldest energy in the deck — hard-won wisdom from a life fully lived.

Read that list and notice where you felt a little flutter of recognition. That’s not nothing.

Most people know which suit they belong to before they even check their birth card. Because we’ve always known, on some level, who we are. Cardology just hands you the language.

But it goes deeper than personality

I want to be clear about something, because I think this is what separates Cardology from a personality quiz.

Your Birth Card is not a category you fit into. It’s an energy you’re working with. There’s a difference.

Around your Birth Card is an entire spread of cards — your Life Path Spread. Each card in that spread sits in a planetary position (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn…) and each one has something specific to say about a different area of your life.

Your Mercury card speaks to how your mind works and how you communicate. Your Venus card reveals what you love and how you attract. Your Saturn card shows where your biggest life lessons live. Your Pluto card… well, that one’s the card of deep transformation. The one that’s been doing the heavy work in the background of your life whether you knew it or not.

And then there’s your Yearly Forecast — a completely new spread of cards that activates on your birthday each year, giving you a personal energetic roadmap for the 12 months ahead.

This is why I call it a life-long tool. You don’t learn Cardology once and move on. You grow with it. It meets you wherever you are.

How I found it — and why I’ve never looked back

I came to Cardology the long way around.

I’d always felt things deeply — too deeply, I was told. I was overly sensitive, seeing things others couldn’t see, knowing things before they happened. It created a lot of anxiety. A lot of feeling like I didn’t belong anywhere or fit neatly into any box.

I studied Tarot. I studied astrology. I studied numerology. Each one gave me pieces, but I kept feeling like there was something more — some system that would show me not just what was happening, but who I actually was at my core.

When I found the 6♣ as my birth card and read what it meant, I sat there quietly for a long time. Because there it was. Every confusing piece of me, reflected back in a single card.

Once I knew who I was at my core, everything else started to open up. The right people came in. The right opportunities appeared. The anxiety got quieter. Not because life got easier — but because I finally had a map.

That’s what I want for you. That’s why I do this work.

So… is this for you?

Let me ask you a few questions and you can answer them honestly, just for yourself:

Have you ever felt like you were meant for more, but couldn’t quite name what that was?
Do you find yourself drawn to the same kinds of patterns — in relationships, in work, in how life unfolds — and wonder why?
Is there a part of you that already knows things, feels things, understands things that you can’t quite explain to other people?
Are you ready to stop guessing at who you are and start living from a place of genuine knowing?

If any of those landed for you — even quietly, even a little — then yes, this is for you.

Cardology doesn’t create who you are. It reveals what was always there. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — in the best possible way.

Ready to meet your card?

Everything I’ve shared here? It becomes real the moment you see your own Birth Card looking back at you.

Use my free calculator to discover your card — which suit you belong to, which element is the essence of you, and what energy has been shaping your life all along.

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Your next step

Start here: discover your Birth Card.

Use my calculator on this site to find out which playing card you were born under — and get a first look at your suit, your element, and what your card’s energy is asking of you.

Then come back here. Because I have a lot more to share with you.

We are in a remarkable time right now — a time when knowing who you truly are isn’t just a nice idea, it’s a necessity. The cards have always known that. They’ve been waiting for you to catch up.

Welcome to Cardology. I’m so glad you’re here.

— Ashley
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Mar 10 2026

2026 – 10 of Hearts Year

In the world of Cardology, the year 2026 is a 10♥ year.

group of people you love/success with creative groups

Because each card has a life path spread, when a year is a card, the energy of the year is seen through the life path spread of the card. The Life path spread has 16 cards, so I won’t go through all 16. I’ll focus on the planets that are significant right now.

2026 is a 1 year numerologically and we just entered a Fire Horse year in Chinese astrology.

Just that is a lot of bold, active, courageous energy.

The 10♥ is also fiery and holds masculine, expansive, grandiose, bold, active energy.

10 cards represent success.

They are about a ‘lot of’ the suit…in this case a lot of heart, emotion, and groups of people who support and love each other.

The 10♥ is about community, our tribe, our heart family.
And after some years of feeling disconnected and divided, we now have the energy of family, community and being with those who support us.
Hearts also represent creativity, so this card also brings in an abundance of creativity.

Since the big planetary players for 2026 will be Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, that is what I’m focusing on in this post.

The Saturn card for the 10♥ is the Q♦.

What this reveals for 2026, is that the challenges and possible obstacles will be centered around discernment with our values and how we are contributing to our community or tribe.

Since the 10♥ is about our community, that Q♦ as the challenging (what we need to work on) energy lets us know that we are being asked to be more responsible with and to take time to focus on our community.

The Q♦ gives freely to her community, either through charity, acts of service, leadership or nurturing. Queens are the feminine aspect of leadership. And this Queen helps to build, support and nurture her community.

What are you wanting in your relationships and community?
Do you feel part of a community?
What would you like to cultivate within your community?
What do you need from your community?

The Queen gives freely, knowing she will receive what she needs in return. She knows that her giving doesn’t deplete her, it adds to her. But she is wise in her giving, discerning about how it will best serve the whole. And making sure it is part of her higher values.

Now we come to Uranus. In April Uranus is moving into Gemini.

This is where we’ll experience big leaps and changes.

The Uranus card for the 10♥ is the 5♥.
Uranus reveals the area of progress, changes, movement out of status quo and our authenticity verses community.

Meaning, how can I be authentically me and still belong and partake in my community?
The 5♥ is about emotional freedom. Making changes in how you feel, and where your heart is.

Where have you been feeling restless to make a change within your relationships?
Where have you felt trapped?
Or where have you been acting with overly-dutiful, taking-on-all-the-responsibility in some relationship because you think if you don’t, you won’t be loved or accepted?

A big part of this time now is to be willing to let go of the perceptions that run your heart. The ideas and beliefs that make you feel how you do about life, about how others behave, about how things will go.
All of our “This is how it has to be” for me to be ok and comfortable – those have to be questioned now.

Where or how are any restrictive emotions blocking you from what you’d like to build or launch?

And by restrictive emotions, I’m referring to a limited or suppressed display of emotions.

Tycer and I watched the new season of Alone recently and one participant kept talking about how he felt it was best to teach his son to ignore his feelings. That if he was sad or felt hurt, he needed to ignore that and move on. By the time he had to go home, he had changed his mind about that, realizing that his time alone forced him to be with his emotions, to fully feel and allow them. That it made him better, not weak.

Ask yourself:

Have I been ignoring any emotions out of fear of looking at what they are telling me?
Do I have trapped desires I need to release to be allowed to grow?
Am I feeling trapped and unable to have what I truly want?
Am I overly controlling something I want to happen?

For me, one of the biggest things for this year around the 5♥ is that we are being asked to be OK with NOT knowing. Five cards are the energy of venturing out into the unknown, being willing to make a leap.

We are being asked to question our opinions and NOT have to always have an answer. To allow our inner knowing to guide us and help us make the changes we need to make.

Lastly, the Neptune card, which is the 3♣.
Neptune is our spiritual space, our spiritual ideals and visions, which we are assisted with through our sacred practices.

The 3♣ is the card of mental creativity, creative ideas and taking our creativity and adding in discipline, structure and taking action on them, so they aren’t just overwhelming ideas swirling around in our heads, but tangible creations that better our lives.

With Neptune in Aries, we have the energy of dissolving the ego and taking action on our spiritual ideals, to embody and BE the divine being that we are.

For many years, with Neptune in Pisces, we were mesmerized by false glamour, illusions of what was beauty, easily confused by narratives of how we should look, talk, act and be. Things were very hidden and we were deceived easily. The Entertainment industry is ruled by Neptune – and now we are seeing behind the veil of deception. That what was seen as creativity and imagination was not always just to entertain us, but to brainwash us AND to openly show us the plan to bypass the karma of their actions.

With Neptune ruling our imaginations and creativity, AND being the sacred, we now have the oportunity to use it differently.

How can your creative ideas assist you in this?
Can you see your creative inspiration and ideas as divine and place them in a sacred space to be held as important?
That the manifestation of your creativity IS your divine power and purpose?
(Neptune is our imaginations and the Arts, so I keep seeing an image of a new kind of art and view of creativity that connects us to Spirit in a new way.)
Have you been inspired in a new way?

While this is only a snippet of the cards for 2026, I hope it will create an opportunity for you to use the energy of the year, along with your personal forecast cards. We have this tool to help us navigate whatever presents itself.

YOU are in control – not anything outside of you!

Feb 18 2025

Planetary Days vs. Your Personal Planetary Day

Did you know that via Cardology, you have a specific planet that rules each day of the week? Whatever day you were born on is your Mercury day. If you were born on a Sunday, that is the start of your week, and Sunday is your Mercury day, making Monday your Venus day, Wednesday would be your Jupiter day, and so on, with your week ending on your Neptune day.

As well, in Astrology, each day is ruled by a specific planet.

Sunday is the Sun

Monday is the Moon.

Tuesday is Mars.

Wednesday is Mercury.

Thursday is Jupiter.

Friday is Venus.

Saturday is Saturn.

As part of working with astrological energies, we can plan or activate the planetary energy of the day in our daily routines to match and resonate with it.

But what if the ancient pairing of a day of the week to a planet doesn’t match your personal planetary day with your cards?

This post will clarify that and give you some ideas of how you can work with what might feel like contradicting or opposing daily energies! You don’t have to choose one over the other.

First off, if you don’t know what day you were born on, you can go here, https://www.timeanddate.com/date/weekday.html put in your birthday and it will tell you what day you were born on.
In Cardology, the day you were born is always your Mercury day. It is the day that starts your personal week. If you were born on a Monday, your personal week goes from Monday to Sunday. (Did you know that you have a weekly forecast as well as your personal daily card?)

Cardology doesn’t have a ‘Sun’ or ‘Moon’ day like Astrology and Astrology doesn’t have a Uranus or Neptune day like Cardology.

If using the planetary days of the week is something that interests you, how can you honor both your personal planet of the day and the astrological planet of the day?

First, a list of the Astrological planetary days and what the energetic focus is:

-Sunday is the Sun and focuses on your vitality – what energizes you? What makes you feel seen and focuses on YOU.

-Monday is the Moon day and focuses on you emotional needs and nurturing yourself. It’s a great day to check in on your emotional state and what is needed in that area.

-Tuesday is Mar’s day and focuses on action, activity, moving your body, creating and releasing heat and asks you about your courage and assertion.

-Wednesday is Mercury’s day and focuses on communicating, talking, learning and writing/sharing! Fast-paced and subject to sudden changes.

-Thursday is Jupiter’s day and focuses on optimism, going big, taking a risk and doing things that take you to higher levels – of thinking, of living and of your faith.
Jupiter also loves to travel!

-Friday is Venus’s day and focuses on beauty, art, love, relationships, feeling good about yourself and life!

-Saturday is Saturn’s day and focuses on responsibilities (chores?!?) structure, systems and even solitude.

Notice there isn’t a Uranus or Neptune day?

Yet, with your personal planetary day via Cardology, you have a Uranus and Neptune day – but not a Sun or Moon day.

Can you honor both your personal planetary days and the astrological days?

We’ve had numerous conversations on this topic in our Empowering You zoom gatherings.

For 2025, I’m finding myself wanting to be more in tune with nature, and my own personal rhythms and cycles, so I revisited this topic.

Below is a simple chart you can use to know the basic planetary energies for each of the planets, on the day they were assigned through astrology:

The energy of the Planet and ways to work with it is in the middle column. I kept it short, but you can be creative with how you use the energy.
The last column is where you can put in your personal planet via Cardology for each day of the week.
Now you can utilize both and create things, experiences, activities or space to honor the natural energy of your days. (A pdf of the chart to download)

Astrology Days	Energy to Use	Your Cardology Day
Sunday – Sun	Sunday is for you, to help you feel energized, give you vitality and to shine a light on you, your inner child, and to use sunshine! Whatever planet is on your Sunday, use its energy to help revitalize you.
Monday – Moon	Focuses on your emotional needs and nurturing yourself. It’s a great day to check in on your emotional state, what you need to nurture yourself or connect with your intuition.
Tuesday – Mars	Focuses on action, activity, moving your body, creating and releasing heat and asks you about your courage and assertion. Mars can be about sports, competition and even sex!
Wednesday – Mercury	Focus is on communicating, talking, learning, reading, writing/sharing! Fast-paced and subject to sudden changes.
Thursday – Jupiter	Focuses on optimism, going big, taking a risk and doing things that take you to higher levels – of thinking, of living and of your faith. Jupiter also loves to travel!
Friday – Venus	Focuses on beauty, art, love, relationships, your material possessions (what you want to have) feeling good about yourself and life!
Saturday – Saturn	Focuses on responsibilities (chores?!?) structure, systems, routines and even solitude.
Uranus (there is no astrological Uranus day, but you have a Personal Uranus day in Cardology)	Uranus focuses on disruptions, getting out of status quo, shaking up your routine, being a part of a community, being authentically you, progressive and innovative and weird!
Neptune (there is no astrological Neptune day, but you have a Personal Neptune day in Cardology)	Neptune focuses on the spiritual world, dreams, imagination, escapism – to nourish yourself through Neptune, use entertainment that opens your imagination and your connection to the unseen world of Spirit.

If the energies are contradictory, establish your rules of what you prefer NOT to do on your personal planetary day(s) that conflicts with the day.
You might not be able to tell your boss that on Mondays, you can only daydream and take care of your emotional needs (If Mondays are your Neptune day), but you can establish a routine of taking a bubble bath on Monday evenings or taking the time to write in your dream journal and taking note of what your psyche is telling you about your emotional needs.

We all have our day to day stuff that is part of our job, our family or schedules we can’t control, but we can still use the energy of the day and our personal planets energy to create something to honor that and our natural rhythm.

Jan 07 2019

My Birth Card Says I Should Be Successful, How Come I’m Not?

Many Birth cards (and their life path) are deemed as very successful, very powerful, can achieve anything…

Yet, I’ve witnessed it over and over while doing readings. The person sitting across from me is one of those cards and when I tell them how fortunate their birth card is, they look at me with disdain. But, I’m NOT successful!

I experienced the same thing being a six of clubs. When I first read about my card and how successful it can be, I thought, what?!?! My life has been nothing but heartache and poverty!!

As I studied my Life Path cards, I began to see where and why I was not succeeding and what was getting in my way – then I worked at changing those issues!

There are many factors that create the life we are experiencing. We can be a Leo and hate being in the spotlight or be a Pisces and not like being near water even though those might be known as typical for those two signs.

As with Astrology and Numerology, there are two sides to every card – a low side and a high side.

We can be living the low side and missing out on all the positive gifts that card (and it’s path) has for us.

Here are 3 reasons why you might have a positive birth card, but are not yet experiencing that success!

When you first learn that you have a birth card, you only know about that one card. That card might be a powerful card (such as an 8, 10 or Court card), but the cards of the Life path (the 12 cards that are to the left of your birth card) tell the whole story. As I shared in my post about the 10 of diamonds (known as the Most Blessed card), the cards of the 10 of diamonds Life Path aren’t all easy cards. One has to utilize and work through the issues of those cards in it’s Life Path that aren’t easy in order to experience the success or power of that birth card.

2. Your Life Path might have a difficult number of years, then finish with the more successful, powerful cards. Each card in your path represents a time frame- a number of years- and speaks to the energy of those years. One might have a difficult childhood, then enter years of ease and success. For many, those years of hardship set up the rest of their lives because they never move past the pain, failures or hardships and believe that is all their life will be.

I’m reminded of the celebrity Bobby Bones. He is a 6 of spades/ 8 of diamonds. He had a very rough childhood of poverty, but never stopped dreaming of being a radio host and using that to escape the extreme poverty. The 6 of spades path has a Queen of hearts as their Mercury card that speaks to their early childhood of a heavy influence from a female (he was raised by his mom and grandmother) with possible addiction issues (his mom was an addict).

It can be a childhood of extreme addiction, fears/phobias and/or constant escapism into a fantasy world that one really never comes out of (on the low side). Bobby did escape, but many 6 of spades let those early issues rule their entire lives, even though the 6 of spades has a very successful life path as their middle years are spent with the cards of the Crown line!

3. Where does your birth card sit in the Solar Spread? You might have a powerful/successful birth card, but the combined energies of where it sits in the Solar spread speaks to how that card can be powerful OR get stuck. As with the 10 of diamonds, which sits at Jupiter and Jupiter (Jupiter is the most benevolent planet and is why it is called the Most Blessed card), an abundance of Jupiter can lead to gluttony, over extension, ignoring negative realities, pretense and being pompous.

The King of Spades – the most successful card in the deck – sits at Saturn and the Sun (or Crown line). Those planets have a combination of restrictions/responsibility (Saturn) and Identity/ego (Sun). It is either an energy of hard-working, responsible, disciplined with a strong sense of purpose OR an exaggerated feeling of failure, having to be responsible for everyone 24/7 and that life is nothing BUT hard work, struggles and barriers.

Each of us (and each card) has a duality – that low side we can be, or the high side we can be. We can discover where our strengths are and tap into that. We can see where our weaknesses can be so we can see if that is why we feel stuck or as if we aren’t the powerful, successful person we want to be.

In the same sense that a person born into wealth doesn’t guarantee happiness or success, a successful/powerful card isn’t a guarantee of an easy-peasy, powerful, abundant life. Each card has its gifts, potentials, and difficulties to overcome, but in the overcoming of those difficulties, a more powerful, stronger and expanded Self is created.

To me, that is empowerment.

To take what you are given and choose to not play the victim. Instead, grow, overcome and be victorious as the Divine being that you are!

Oct 31 2018

Ten of Diamonds – The Most Blessed Card

The Ten of Diamonds is called The Most Blessed Card…but just how blessed is blessed and what exactly does that mean? What is it like to BE the most blessed?

I think about this card a lot because it was my mom’s birth card. I also know several other 10 of diamonds. When I look at their lives, I don’t really see a life that is super blessed. My mom’s wasn’t a pleasant journey, for sure. She died when she was 45 and the years leading up to her death were spent alone, in a chair, paralyzed and unable to talk.

So, let’s dig in and take a look at this card, shall we?

The reason it is called The Most Blessed card is because it sits in the very center of the Solar Spread at Jupiter and Jupiter.

I call Jupiter Santa Claus because it is the benevolent, prosperous, happy, expansive and BIG planet. Jupiter teaches us that life is good, to have faith and is the lifter of spirits.

Ten cards are, at their core, all about success…and mean, “lots of…” Lots of love and creativity (hearts) lots of ideas and knowledge (clubs), lots of financial rewards (diamonds) and lots of work and wisdom (spades).

Tens also represent the Ace going from the self to the Divine. It’s a masculine energy.
Here is where being a 10 of diamonds can actually be a difficult path for some – the abundance of masculine energy.

The Life spread of the 10 of diamonds has:
Moon – 10♥
Mercury – 8♠
Venus – A♥
Mars – A♦
Jupiter – Q♦
Saturn – 5♥
Uranus – 3♣
Neptune – 3♠
Pluto – 9♥

There are two 10’s and two Aces in the Life Spread. Aces and Tens are masculine and this life path has a lot of masculine energy.

And how about Jupiter? A few facts: Not only is it the biggest planet, it reigns over four moons the size of Mercury way out there in it’s own domain, radiating a massive amount of energy. Jupiter isn’t a warring energy like Mars, it is radiating out in a big way, sending the energy of faith; faith that life is worth living and is good.

Let’s go back to Santa Claus and the metaphor of delivering gifts – leaving them in secret, to be discovered…and accepted. That’s Jupiter. Sending out gifts, leaving them on our doorstep – but, we have to open the door and receive them.
Masculine energy isn’t known for receiving- that is feminine.

Faith is also about receiving. The faith that Jupiter wants to give us isn’t the religious kind. It’s not about faith that God exists or living in blind faith the way most religions demand. It’s the natural faith in the existence of good, of happiness, of joy, of abundance. That as divine beings living a human experience, we, at our core, are meant to live with good, happiness, joy and abundance.

The diamonds suit doesn’t only represent money or finances, but the world (reality) we are building based on what we value. If we value loyalty, we build (create) a reality of loyalty.
The ten of diamonds is success at building lots of (what we value), but to do that, we have to believe in that success; to have faith that it is possible. We have to be open to receive the gifts, the good, the happiness, the joy and the abundance that the Universe wants to deliver to us.

So, it seems like a contradiction, right? To have a card that is so masculine need to be open to receiving (feminine).

That is the life path of the ten of diamonds person. To learn to be more open, to receiving, to seeing life as good and worthwhile. To use all that masculine energy to radiate out (like Jupiter) joy and expansiveness.

Is it that easy? NO.

Looking back at the cards in the spread of the ten of diamonds, we see a lot of uneven numbers, which indicates a not-so-easy life.
The only even numbered card is the 8 of spades. While that card is one of will-power and can indicate power in material accomplishment, the low-side is to be overly focused on material accomplishment and to use that power as abuse. Being in the Mercury position, it can indicate having a parent or childhood where someone was materialistic or made work the focus, or was abusive/controlling.
The eight is also a masculine energy and more akin to a warring energy.

A five as a Saturn card creates challenges because fives are an unstable, restless and sometimes chaotic energy.
They have two 3 cards – the cards of a lot of creative energy that can overwhelm and cause one to always seek variety or be stuck, unable to make a decision or stick to any one thing.
A 9 in pluto speaks to issues of loss and needing to transform with endings.
Sounds awful, right? How can a difficult spread be the path of the most blessed card?

It seems contradictory until we look at what the 10 of diamonds person came to do and BE (and teach all of us) about HOW we can achieve the blessings the Universe has for us.

If they are living the low side of their life spread, there are issues of power, restlessness, selfishness and issues with their love life.

I don’t know a lot about my mom, because she never shared her feelings. She was gregarious and everyone loved her (she was an Aquarius). She did have a lot of masculine energy, being into the outdoors, horses (she was a barrel racer) and breeding/raising/showing collies.
She wasn’t motherly, nurturing or a homemaker and wanted to be a veterinarian, but sadly was told as a woman she couldn’t do that.

As an Aquarius and with the 5 of hearts in Saturn, she needed personal freedom and that was taken away from her by my father.

The saving grace and ‘balancing’ energies for the 10 of diamonds is the three Queens in their life spread. They have the Queen of diamonds as their Jupiter card. This card shows where their blessings will come from. The Q of diamonds knows how to make money, but she uses it to be of service to her community. (Another feminine aspect)

The Karma Cards of the 10 of diamonds are Queens

The Karma cards of the 10 of diamonds are: First Karma card – Queen of Clubs. This card shows what they need to learn and achieve in this life, which is to trust and use their intuition. This means they have to be open to receiving those psychic messages.

Their second Karma card is the Queen of Spades. This is a gift from a past life and it indicated a life of self-mastery via inner wisdom and tapping into that feminine aspect.

This speaks to the 10 of diamonds person needing to balance all that masculine energy and being open to receive.

All of the life paths represented by each card have their low side, regardless of how easy or successful the life path is meant to be.
I know mine felt very unsuccessful until I learned to live the high (and beneficial ) aspects of being a 6♣.

What I love about Cardology is what it teaches us about life as divine beings living a human life.

While masculine energy is important and necessary to keep us moving forward and expanding (Jupiter wants us to reach out, seek and expand!) we can’t ignore the importance of the feminine – to being open to receiving, to going inward to master our reality, not in selfishness, but to tap into our heart/divine wisdom to create the successful life we desire.

The 10 of Diamonds life path beautifully represents how we need to balance the masculine and feminine. We need to assert and reach out, to expand and BE all we want to be. We also need to be open to receiving the bounty the Universe CAN and WANTS to supply us.

The 10 cards reflect the Universe ( each card does) and they reveal that the Universe is “Lots of…”, and chooses success. The 10 of diamonds represents the lots of joy and goodness that life really is comprised of, but when we act in a selfish, overly-independent, prideful, controlling way, forego our creativity and only focus on material gains and not our inner self-mastery, life can feel joyless, difficult and lonely.

I can’t speak to why my mom and my father chose to be together in this life. He was her Uranus and Neptune card and was a big part in her experiencing abuse, control/power issues and he stood in the way of others caring for/giving to her. I wish I could peek behind the curtain and understand why she lived such a short life that was unhappy, but knowing more about the 10 of diamonds life path helps me see that she was here to learn to receive, to experience how to balance the masculine and feminine, to nurture and be nurtured.

The Ten of Diamonds is most blessed because it represents all the potential, prosperity, and success that we as humans can achieve – but we have to understand that it isn’t gained by closing ourselves off or aggressively forcing it. A balance of masculine & feminine is needed as well as the faith that it is all possible!

Do you know any 10 of diamonds? What has their life been like?

When you have the 10 0f diamonds in your forecast (or spread) ask what is holding you back from your blessings – is it that you don’t believe it can happen or are you trying to force it all by yourself?