PCO: Building card castles (or homes, or bridges, or....)

Last week, I was sitting at my usual spot in my favourite Café, doing an exercise from a cartomancy book, when a sudden question filled my mind: if I wanted to represent my workplace in reading, which card would I choose?

Traditionally, the Ace of Hearts stands for the home, and the Ace of Spades may stand for imposing buildings and institutions. But of course, since there is no one-true-method of reading playing cards, you do not have to adopt these meanings.

In the Playing Card Oracles method created by Ana Cortez, all cards number 6 have buildings on them. They usually have very metaphorical meanings, but I suppose that they could mean physical places too. Representing these places could be very useful to determine "where" the facts shown in the reading are happening (especially if it's a general reading, with no specific question). If a conflict shows up – is it at home, or at work? If one of these cards show up, they may provide a hint.

So, I came up with some ideas for each of the 6s. It's by no means a complete list, but maybe it may help others to come up with their own ideas!

 

Six of Diamonds - The Tower
This is one imposing building, and since the diamonds suit is related to money and creativity, I'd chose this cards to represent my your workplace, or the place in which you usually earn their money (even if it's not a formal company). As Ana Cortex says in her book, this also could represent a bank.

I suppose that it could also symbolise any actual towers or skyscrapers. Combined with the 6♥, I would also think of a hospital. With the 8♣ (The Scales), I could easily see a church (the building, not the community).


Six of Clubs - The Bridge
The Bridge brings to my mind roads and, of course, bridges. A place in which you don't "stay" you just pass through. So this is a card of journeys and travel as well.

Also, the Bridge makes me think of temporary positions/conditions. Any places at which you have no intention of staying for too long, like an airport, a hotel or even a temporary job.


Six of Hearts - The Castle
The Castle makes me think immediately of the home. The place in which you feel comfortable, in which you can be yourself, in which your heart is.

Ana says in her book that since the Hearts is the suit of healing, this card could represent a hospital. Like I stated above, I'd only see a hospital is it came with a more imposing card, like the 6♦, because hospitals are hardly comfortable places and this cards always gives me the feeling of a place of comfort and healing that goes beyond the physical. A place for the dolce far niente, or even plain sloth!

Because hearts is a suit of water, I could easily see this card a house near the sea or a river! If you consider the meaning of the reversed Ace of Spades as "distance", they together could symbolise homesickness, or leaving your comfort zone!


Six of Spades - The Ruins
This card may appear sad-looking for many people, or even "bad", but I don't see it this way. Even symbolically it means something from the past, or a past that remains in us (like memories). As physical places, this card could point to actual ruins, an old house or building, or simply a place from the past.

The house in which you lived as a child. The first school you attended. The church in which you got married many years ago. And none of these places need to actually look old or ruined – they just need to be the ones that bring you memories.