PCO: 3 of Diamonds - A wish? A luck charm? Or things that are still being created?

Traditionally, the 9♥ is the card known as "the wish card". But in the Playing Card Oracles, the 9♥ (Gilles de Rais) is a kinda creepy character, showing an excess of emotions - good and bad ones. So I was wondering... if I had to pick one card to be the "wish card" of the deck, which would it be? The first one that came to my mind was the 3♦ (The Necklace).

 
Curiously, this is one of the most confusing cards for me... I never know exactly what is it supposed to mean, but then I decided to think more about it... and it began to show in the readings. Forcing me to think about it even when I didn't want to. Oh well - cards can be demanding sometimes, in a 'decipher me or I will devour you' sort of way... In Ana Cortez's book she says:

"The 3 of Diamonds suggests an alignment of energies that creates something new, something vibrant and transformational. People possessing "The Necklace" have a calling, so to speak. They are messengers of light." (p. 39) 

That's the first thing that lead me to think that this could be the wish card of the deck. This alignment of energies, this calling... these are actually the sort of thing that help our desires to come true. To be ready at the right moment. This card is about the right moment knocking on your door - answer it now or miss it.

I don't really buy that notion of wish card that means your desires are coming true without you moving a finger. Nonsense. Even Cinderella had shed some tears to get her Fairy Godmother to show her face. And in real life, not always crying will do it... you have to keep working and stay alert until the right opportunity shows. The 3♦ is this opportunity.

But this card has a whole plethora of interesting meanings, that until now didn't make much sense to me. Ana Cortez also says that this three can be "a string of events"... facts that are connected. I always liked this meanings, but truth be told, I don't think I understood how it worked... until yesterday.

So, I turned the telly on and the film The Other Boleyn Girl was coming on. I had a couple of decks with me, because I like to shuffling them while watching television in order to "break" the stiff cards and make them more comfortable to handle. Also, I enjoy doing readings about the films and series I am watching, to practise.

As I shuffled my playing cards deck, I watched the Duke of Norfolk plot and scheme to get the king's attention by using the Boleyn girls. Their destiny was about to change, and so I did two readings, one for Mary and the other for Anne. Both had the 3♦ in the "head" position of the spread, the position that usually determines the general "feeling" of the reading.

Before you ask, yes, I did shuffle it well.

I barely had time to raise an eyebrow at this, when it hit me... this card had shown up because these girl's destinies were still being shaped. Both had received opportunities to change their lives forever, and all would depend on how they used them. This was the right moment that would connect their uneventful past with their dramatic futures, the one choice that made all the difference.

I kinda had a ta-da moment, because I could watch how this card really worked. The 3♦ is about opportunities, about the right moment, about the spark of inspiration that can change our lives. But it's also about the dots that connect mysteriously and unseen by us... only when we look back we see how everything ended up like a necklace, with many moments strung together.

Like Steve Jobs once said: "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.". 

The 3♦ is a card that tells us that dots are being connected right now, even though we can't see, even though it doesn't make sense to us for the time being.