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Three of Hearts Playing Card Meaning
Hearts speak of love, feeling, family and home; the Three brings growth, and a third person in the picture. Season: spring.
Tarot counterpart: Three of Cups
What the Three of Hearts Means
The Three of Hearts brings a third heart into the picture. In the kindest readings that is a gathering, a celebration, a new baby or a friend who brings joy to a couple. In the sharper ones it is a rival, an old flame, or a feeling for someone outside the bond. Either way it asks for a decision about where your heart goes. Old cartomancers warned of imprudence here: acting on feeling before thinking it through.
Three of Hearts in Love
Three is a crowd or a party. Ask who the third person is: a family member with opinions, an ex who has not gone, a crush that is complicating a relationship. For singles it can mean two options at once. Choose with your eyes open.
Three of Hearts in Work and Money
Growth through other people, with the friction that brings. A new colleague changes the balance of a team, or a project needs a third hand. Celebrate what is done, but be careful about committing feelings to a workplace.
Three of Hearts as a Yes or No
Maybe
The Three of Hearts says the answer depends on a third person or a choice you have not yet made.
Three of Hearts as a Birth Card
Birthdays with the Three of Hearts as their playing-card birth card: 30 November, 28 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 Three in Every Suit
The Three means growth, and a third person in the picture; the suit decides where.
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What does the Three of Hearts mean?
The Three of Hearts brings a third heart into the picture. In the kindest readings that is a gathering, a celebration, a new baby or a friend who brings joy to a couple. In the sharper ones it is a rival, an old flame, or a feeling for someone outside the bond. Either way it asks for a decision about where your heart goes. Old cartomancers warned of imprudence here: acting on feeling before thinking it through.
What does the Three of Hearts mean in love?
Three is a crowd or a party. Ask who the third person is: a family member with opinions, an ex who has not gone, a crush that is complicating a relationship. For singles it can mean two options at once. Choose with your eyes open.
Is the Three of Hearts a yes or a no?
Maybe. The Three of Hearts says the answer depends on a third person or a choice you have not yet made.
Which tarot card is the Three of Hearts?
The Three of Cups. Hearts correspond to the tarot's Cups, and the Three matches the Three. 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 Three of Hearts?
In cardology the Three of Hearts is the birth card for 2 birthdays: 30 November, 28 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 Three of Hearts is number 3.
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