Jack of Diamonds

The Jack of Diamonds is the card of the merchant. These people are perceptive, clever and always able to arrange a good life for themselves using their mind and charm. These are very independent and creative personalities who act both instinctively and with the help of reason. Everything in life turns out well for them thanks to an innate ability to handle financial affairs. Those few among them who are attentive to their higher ideals become the Kings of their suit. Natural extrasensory abilities can lead Jacks of Diamonds to full spiritual awareness, but, as a rule, they are too concentrated on their reason, which often hinders them from using their greatest gift — intuition. Some Jacks of Diamonds become professional psychics, while others may fear their open channels, but in any case most of them sooner or later have to use these channels. Jacks of Diamonds have great power of persuasion. They work successfully where it is necessary to lead and guide people, and also cope well with professions in entertainment and healing. Many of them have artistic inclinations, and some even have special gifts in this area. They often want to do something good for the world. But still, being Jacks, they may devote their whole life only to entertainment and fun. Being a card of Uranus and Neptune, the Jack of Diamonds usually likes to keep for themselves the right of choice in work and in life in general. Freedom (Uranus) means a great deal to such people: often it is simply sacred to them (Neptune). They are often attracted to independent work or to an occupation that does not interfere with attending to their own affairs. Perhaps for this very reason many Jacks of Diamonds like the career of a salesperson or sales agent. In this field of activity they are unsurpassed. The famous expression about the salesman who "could sell ice to the Eskimos" should be applied precisely to the Jack of Diamonds. All Jacks can be frivolous and in some ways unreliable and usually are not embarrassed even when they cannot keep their promises. They love games, even in old age, returning to youth. A love of communication makes them the best workers in the sphere of trade of all the cards in the deck. Jacks of Diamonds need to find themselves a profession that will give an outlet to their creative abilities and recognition of their special talents.

Relationships of Jacks of Diamonds with other people

Idealised notions of personal freedom may in many cases even hold the Jack of Diamonds back from forming partnerships. Based on high ideals of personal freedom, the Jack of Diamonds can give weighty arguments in favour of their free way of life. But often the truth is that these people are simply afraid of the financial expenses that real obligations may entail. As already mentioned, freedom is a very special concept for the Jack of Diamonds, and, whether they agree with this or not, it is one of the reasons holding them back from entering a marriage union. All the cards of the Jack of Diamonds' Basic Life Spread (from the Mercury card to the Neptune card) are in the Neptune row. The Neptune card of the Jack of Diamonds is the Queen of Spades — one of the dreamiest love cards. Such an enormous saturation of love life with the energy of Neptune creates in the Jack of Diamonds extremely high ideals in love. The Jack of Diamonds can become a perfect lover or spouse. They can be very inventive in their romantic fantasies and are very upset if the partner is unable to use the magnificent potential possibilities the Jack of Diamonds notices in them. Jacks of Diamonds are strong enough to find a common language with other people, but their changeable nature and sense of independence often prevail in them over the ability to reach a compromise. Still, they can have a beautiful relationship with a partner if they decide that they really need it and want at last to settle down and establish themselves in life.

Compatibility of Jacks of Diamonds with other birth cards

Jack of Diamonds men dream of women of the Heart suit, and Club men find Jack of Diamonds women very attractive, though sometimes too demanding.

The United States of America — a Jack of Diamonds

It does not even occur to most people that their country may have a sun sign or a Birth Card. But if we look at a country precisely from this point of view, we can understand much about it as a single cultural and political organism. The Fourth of July is the card of the Jack of Diamonds, which is often called the "merchant's card". People with this Birth Card are usually endowed with a talent for brokerage and work very successfully in trade. On the other hand, some of them are irresponsible and cunning. But if we are talking about a whole country, how can one see the traits characteristic of the Jack of Diamonds? Let us first consider some features of the Jack of Diamonds itself. The Jack of Diamonds symbolises (in its highest manifestation) initiation into a system of higher values. When we find the Jack of Diamonds card in our Yearly Spread, it may mean that we are to a certain degree becoming aware of what is truly important to us in life. We may suddenly understand that people or things we considered necessary are in fact not so important to us at all. We may, for example, gain a clear awareness that money is not the most important thing and that it should take its proper place in our value system — below what is more valuable. In this respect people, or a whole country, whose Birth Card is the Jack of Diamonds exist in the present incarnation to carry out a certain transformation in their life. In the course of their life they may show themselves both at the very lowest and at the highest level. A Jack of Diamonds may at first be an inveterate thief, but then suddenly and sharply renounce material interests for the sake of spiritual faith and ideals. Other countries of the world often consider the United States a country of thieves, ready for anything for the sake of the almighty dollar. Any serious student of international relations will tell you that most (if not all) wars of the USA took place for financial reasons, however much this is denied in the press. Because the Jack of Diamonds is the Birth Card of the United States, this country always conducts financial affairs, sometimes even behind the scenes (as is characteristic of many people with this same Birth Card). At the basis of all relations of the USA with other countries (be it trade or wars) financial considerations always lie.