Card 8 of 52 · Hearts · Eight
Eight of Hearts Playing Card Meaning
Hearts speak of love, feeling, family and home; the Eight brings movement, pressure, a journey. Season: spring.
Tarot counterpart: Eight of Cups
What the Eight of Hearts Means
The Eight of Hearts is the invitation. It brings a visit, a celebration, a gift or a journey taken for pleasure, and the company that comes with it. Eights are cards of movement, and this is movement towards people: being asked in, being wanted at the table. In some old systems it also stood for a young, affectionate woman. Drawn for a problem, it suggests the answer lies in company rather than solitude: go, accept, say yes to the door that opens.
Eight of Hearts in Love
An invitation that matters: a date, a meeting of families, a trip together. For singles, love comes through a social occasion, so go to the thing you were going to skip. For couples, pleasure shared is the medicine for whatever has gone flat.
Eight of Hearts in Work and Money
A meeting, a conference, a client dinner, an offer to join. Work moves forward through contact with people rather than effort at a desk. Accept the invitation and bring something to it.
Eight of Hearts as a Yes or No
Yes
The Eight of Hearts opens doors, so the answer is yes, usually with an invitation attached.
Eight of Hearts as a Birth Card
Birthdays with the Eight of Hearts as their playing-card birth card: 31 August, 29 September, 27 October, 25 November, 23 December.
Find any birthday's card on the cartomancy page, or your tarot birth card, a different calculation.
The Suit of Hearts
Hearts are the suit of feeling. They speak about love, friendship, family, the home and everything that is decided by the heart rather than the head. In a reading, a run of Hearts means the matter is emotional at root, and that the answer will come through people rather than through money or effort. Hearts are generally good news; even the harder ones (the Seven, the Five) describe a feeling going wrong rather than a disaster. Old cartomancers gave the suit the spring, and matched it with the Cups of the tarot.
The Eight in Every Suit
The Eight means movement, pressure, a journey; the suit decides where.
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What does the Eight of Hearts mean?
The Eight of Hearts is the invitation. It brings a visit, a celebration, a gift or a journey taken for pleasure, and the company that comes with it. Eights are cards of movement, and this is movement towards people: being asked in, being wanted at the table. In some old systems it also stood for a young, affectionate woman. Drawn for a problem, it suggests the answer lies in company rather than solitude: go, accept, say yes to the door that opens.
What does the Eight of Hearts mean in love?
An invitation that matters: a date, a meeting of families, a trip together. For singles, love comes through a social occasion, so go to the thing you were going to skip. For couples, pleasure shared is the medicine for whatever has gone flat.
Is the Eight of Hearts a yes or a no?
Yes. The Eight of Hearts opens doors, so the answer is yes, usually with an invitation attached.
Which tarot card is the Eight of Hearts?
The Eight of Cups. Hearts correspond to the tarot's Cups, and the Eight matches the Eight. The two cards share most of their meaning, though the tarot card carries a picture and a reversed reading that the playing card does not.
Whose birth card is the Eight of Hearts?
In cardology the Eight of Hearts is the birth card for 5 birthdays: 31 August, 29 September, 27 October, 25 November, 23 December. The rule is 55 minus twice the month minus the day, counted from the Ace of Hearts (1) to the King of Spades (52); the Eight of Hearts is number 8.
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