Card 45 of 52 · Spades · Six
Six of Spades Playing Card Meaning
Spades speak of difficulty, endings, hard truths and decisions; the Six brings harmony, flow, help along the way. Season: winter.
Tarot counterpart: Six of Swords
What the Six of Spades Means
The Six of Spades is the end of the worst of it. Six is the number of harmony, and even in the suit of difficulty it brings relief: a slow improvement, a long journey away from trouble, the first calm days after a storm. Old readers saw a long voyage in it and the ending of a bad period. It is the kindest Spade. Drawn for a question, the Six says things are getting better, more slowly than you want, and that moving on is the right direction.
Six of Spades in Love
A relationship recovering from a hard time, or a person leaving one behind. Distance may help: a journey, a change of scene, time to heal. The Six of Spades favours forgiveness and gradual rebuilding over dramatic reconciliation.
Six of Spades in Work and Money
A difficult patch ending. A transfer, a journey, a new start after a loss. Progress is slow but real. The Six of Spades asks you to keep moving in the direction of less trouble and not to look back too often.
Six of Spades as a Yes or No
Maybe
A slow yes. The Six of Spades says the answer improves with time and distance from the trouble.
Six of Spades as a Birth Card
Birthdays with the Six of Spades as their playing-card birth card: 8 January, 6 February, 4 March, 2 April.
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 Six in Every Suit
The Six means harmony, flow, help along the way; the suit decides where.
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What does the Six of Spades mean?
The Six of Spades is the end of the worst of it. Six is the number of harmony, and even in the suit of difficulty it brings relief: a slow improvement, a long journey away from trouble, the first calm days after a storm. Old readers saw a long voyage in it and the ending of a bad period. It is the kindest Spade. Drawn for a question, the Six says things are getting better, more slowly than you want, and that moving on is the right direction.
What does the Six of Spades mean in love?
A relationship recovering from a hard time, or a person leaving one behind. Distance may help: a journey, a change of scene, time to heal. The Six of Spades favours forgiveness and gradual rebuilding over dramatic reconciliation.
Is the Six of Spades a yes or a no?
Maybe. A slow yes. The Six of Spades says the answer improves with time and distance from the trouble.
Which tarot card is the Six of Spades?
The Six of Swords. Spades correspond to the tarot's Swords, and the Six matches the Six. 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 Six of Spades?
In cardology the Six of Spades is the birth card for 4 birthdays: 8 January, 6 February, 4 March, 2 April. 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 Six of Spades is number 45.
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