Card 51 of 52 · Spades · Queen
Queen of Spades Playing Card Meaning
Spades speak of difficulty, endings, hard truths and decisions; the Queen brings a woman, or the suit's quality grown mature. Season: winter.
Tarot counterpart: Queen of Swords
What the Queen of Spades Means
The Queen of Spades is the woman who stands alone, by loss or by choice. In the old descriptions she is a widow, a divorcee, a dark-haired woman of sharp intelligence and sharper tongue, sometimes called treacherous, more often simply formidable. She has been through something and it has made her clear-eyed. As a quality, she is independence and judgement, with a coldness that can cut. Drawn for a question, the Queen says a strong, solitary woman affects the matter, or that the answer requires her kind of clarity.
Queen of Spades in Love
A woman who does not need you, which can be the attraction or the problem. If you are asking about a woman, the Queen of Spades shows reserve, past hurt and high standards. For couples, she can mean a female relative or ex who is cold towards the relationship, or a partner protecting herself.
Queen of Spades in Work and Money
A formidable woman in authority: exacting, intelligent, not easily charmed. Bring your best work and do not try to manage her. The Queen of Spades favours law, analysis, research and any job where judgement counts more than warmth.
Queen of Spades as a Yes or No
Maybe
The Queen of Spades withholds. The answer is no unless the case is made with facts, not feeling.
Queen of Spades as a Birth Card
Birthdays with the Queen of Spades as their playing-card birth card: 2 January.
Find any birthday's card on the cartomancy page, or your tarot birth card, a different calculation.
The Suit of Spades
Spades are the suit of difficulty. They cover endings, losses, illness, conflict, warnings, and the clarity that comes when something is cut away. A reading full of Spades says the matter is serious and that the answer is unlikely to be the one you hoped for, though the Six and the Ace can mean relief and a clean break. Spades are honest rather than cruel: they name the problem. Old cartomancers gave the suit the winter, and matched it with the Swords of the tarot.
The Queen in Every Suit
The Queen means a woman, or the suit's quality grown mature; the suit decides where.
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What does the Queen of Spades mean?
The Queen of Spades is the woman who stands alone, by loss or by choice. In the old descriptions she is a widow, a divorcee, a dark-haired woman of sharp intelligence and sharper tongue, sometimes called treacherous, more often simply formidable. She has been through something and it has made her clear-eyed. As a quality, she is independence and judgement, with a coldness that can cut. Drawn for a question, the Queen says a strong, solitary woman affects the matter, or that the answer requires her kind of clarity.
What does the Queen of Spades mean in love?
A woman who does not need you, which can be the attraction or the problem. If you are asking about a woman, the Queen of Spades shows reserve, past hurt and high standards. For couples, she can mean a female relative or ex who is cold towards the relationship, or a partner protecting herself.
Is the Queen of Spades a yes or a no?
Maybe. The Queen of Spades withholds. The answer is no unless the case is made with facts, not feeling.
Which tarot card is the Queen of Spades?
The Queen of Swords. Spades correspond to the tarot's Swords, and the Queen matches the Queen. 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 Queen of Spades?
In cardology the Queen of Spades is the birth card for 1 birthday: 2 January. 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 Queen of Spades is number 51.
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