King of Spades

People with this Birth Card are masters of everything they have set out to do. Unless they prefer to act on the level of the Jacks, they always rise to the top in their professional field. It is interesting, however, that many Kings of Spades go to work in the entertainment industry without ever making full use of all the potential granted to them. King of Spades women for the most part show themselves like Queens of Spades. If they are careless, they may get mired in mediocrity, as often happens with the Queen of Spades. However, even if this does not happen, they will still not match the highest level accessible to a King of Spades who has not renounced his Birth Card. Being the strongest of the Kings, the King of Spades is able to cope with enormous responsibility, and some of the people with this Birth Card really do become great leaders. To achieve this, the King of Spades must readily accept all the responsibility connected with the role of leader. He must get rid of his inherent restlessness and apply himself closely to some one pursuit. Thanks to this he will be able to bring humanity much benefit. The King of Spades is the last card of the deck, and therefore the wisest and most powerful. People with this Birth Card love to learn and are ready to do everything necessary for success and recognition. They are able to manage large organisations, but by no means always prefer a career of this kind to other possible paths. These people are absolutely fixed. They are not subject to outside influences and possess incredible inner strength and determination. But in critical situations these valuable qualities turn into shortcomings, since they hinder adaptation to changes in life. Kings of Spades are indecisive in love. Sometimes they remain bachelors all their life. They are enterprising and ambitious, very rarely lazy, and do not give in to base instincts. And even if the King of Spades has not reached the heights of a career, he still remains wise, far-sighted and noble. With all this, however, he is often dissatisfied with life. This may show itself in two ways: both as a striving to improve the surrounding world, and as pessimism. If the King of Spades turns to spiritual life, he will easily be able to grasp the deepest secrets of the Universe. Kings of Spades are the masters of the physical and spiritual world. If they voluntarily accept the burden of responsibility and the crown of power granted to them by right of birth, they have every chance to serve humanity.

Relationships of the King of Spades with other people

Love life is the only area where the King of Spades faces serious problems. Firstly, he approaches love relationships too rationally, and secondly, he does not like changes, which instil in him a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety. This anxiety may even be reflected in his sex life. Moreover, the karmic scheme of the King of Spades presupposes that at a certain stage he will have to face betrayal in a partnership. One of the main life lessons for him is to learn to let his partner be themselves and free himself from overly strong emotional attachments. Considering that the King of Spades has an extremely strong will, one can understand why he rarely lets other people come close to him. The Seven of Hearts as the Pluto Card testifies that the purpose of the King of Spades' life is to overcome in himself the fear of loneliness and betrayal. From time to time he will have to face both, as a result of which either the King of Spades' negative attitude to love will worsen, or he will find in himself the strength to accept this challenge and be transformed.

Compatibility of the King of Spades with other birth cards

If a King of Spades man nevertheless decides to marry, he usually chooses as his wife a woman of the Club or Heart suit, to whom he feels a strong physical attraction. For King of Spades women relationships with Heart men, as well as with Club women, are connected with many problems. Diamond men in turn find relationships with King of Spades women too complicated, although much unites them.

The heavy crown of the King of Spades

Being the strongest card of the deck, the King of Spades, in theory, should achieve success in everything and easily rise to any heights. But this is not so. Most Kings of Spades do not live up to these expectations. Studying the lives of representatives of this card, we can discover certain patterns that let us understand how hard it really is to bear such enormous responsibility. Many Kings of Spades become merchants, performers, musicians, gamblers and so on. In essence, they prefer professions connected with the Jack of Spades — the card of the actor. This is the Don Juan type, a very versatile and charming person who does not wish to bind himself with serious obligations and devote his whole life to some one pursuit. He is playful and romantic. But having decided to play the role of the Jack, the King of Spades loses a fair share of his innate might. Florence Campbell in "Sacred Symbols of the Ancients" claims that the striving to play the role of one's Personality Card often substantially weakens a person. Since the King of Spades is initially stronger and luckier than the Jack of Spades, before us is a clear example of such weakening. The question remains: why does a person endowed with such extraordinary potential decide to cast it aside and turn to the image of the less powerful Jack? There may be several answers. Firstly, everything in its time. Some Kings of Spades will over the years come to correspond more fully to their Birth Card. Perhaps they are simply going through a kind of "incubation period" or process of growing up. Perhaps they need to find something that will make them put their potential to use. But one thing is clear for certain: as soon as the King of Spades accepts his crown, together with it he has to accept enormous responsibility. And many consider responsibility too heavy a burden and a limitation of freedom. The Planetary Ruling Card of all Kings of Spades is the Five of Clubs. As a Birth Card the Five of Clubs is known for its aversion to serious obligations both in work and in love life. And all Kings of Spades share the spirit of adventure and love of freedom inherent in Fives of Clubs. The concept of responsibility, from the point of view of all Fives, contradicts the idea of personal freedom, so responsibility must be avoided. This is partly another reason why Kings of Spades fear to accept their crown. If the King of Spades nevertheless makes this most important decision, he, as a rule, reaches the heights in his chosen field of activity. He is interested not so much in money as in the mastery he can show in work and in leading other people. For him the very process of work is important — unlike Diamonds, who are more focused on results. The King of Spades becomes a true master of his craft and rather often finds himself in a leading position. He is a superb teacher, and the weight of the crown he bears only emphasises his incomparable talents.