Cards Suits Symbols
- Each of us knows what playing cards are and many of us have played them.
- Whatever deck you play, no matter how ancient or modern it may be, the card suits remain the same.
- But why are there four suits and not five?
- Their playing cards were also paper rectangles.
- But the other suit had a different look – it was drawn in the form of red signs.
- In Germany, for example, established a heart, bells (bells), acorns, and leaves, in Italy – cups, coins, rods, and swords.
- Widespread cards with hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades first appeared in France.
- In Europe, swords became “spades,” cups became “hearts,” coins became “diamonds,” and clubs became “clubs.
- For example, in England and Germany, they are spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs, while in Italy they are spears, hearts, squares, and flowers.
- Neither spades, diamonds, clubs, or even hearts are used as typical logo symbols, as they are strongly connected to their initial meanings.
- Interestingly, there is another, occult interpretation of card suits, it is given as an example when for religious reasons are forbidden to play cards.
- In poker, such a ranking is used quite rarely, though this is not to say, that suits don’t mean anything.
- At the same time, most hands are based on poker card names, like Ace-Ace or King-Three.
- In this case, the seniority of suits in poker is the following: spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs.
- We already found out that the four suits are thought to denote the four estates on which the state was held at the time: the clergy, merchants, peasants, and the military.
- Mystics of the same years add in their writings that four is the magic number, there are four elements in the world, four seasons, four squares of the signs of the Zodiac, four periods, and so on.
- Let’s have a look at the mystical interpretation of the suits of the cards’ meaning.
- Their symbol – trefoil – means life.
- As opposed to diamonds, clubs are a symbol of masculinity.
- Hearts are the sign of the center of both life and peace.
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