Numbers

When interpreting a card, you might consider what its number might signify. To generate possibilities, think about metaphors, cultural beliefs, and idioms associated with the number. Below are some key words and phrases to get you started.

Aces:

Beginnings, planting seeds, solo, solitude, independent, individualistic, loneliness, an ace in the hole, to ace a test

Twos:

Partnerships, divisions, choice, decision, indecision, polarities, balance, two peas in a pod, no two ways about it

Threes:

Synthesis, unfolding, growth, creativity, three’s a crowd, three strikes and you’re out

Fours:

Structure, stability, discipline, practical, completion, boxed in

Fives:

Challenges, change, adaptability, adventure, take five

Sixes:

Plateau, midpoint, it’s six of one and half dozen of the other

Sevens:

New direction, mastery, tests, lucky number, to be at sixes and  sevens, seven year itch

Eights:

Movement, reevaluation, inspiration, cause and effect, behind the eight ball

Nines:

Luck, capability, integration, patience, on cloud nine, stitch in time saves nine, the whole nine yards

Tens:

Completion, end of a cycle, regeneration, culmination, genius is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration