video chat room
3. Portal of feelings as a role; e.g., the role of clown
Five of Diamonds — the portal of matter. Examples:
1. Portal of matter as an object; e.g., a gate or door
2. Portal of matter as interaction; e.g., a cashier window
3. Portal of matter as a role; e.g., the role of Santa Claus
Five of Spades — the portal of ideas or will. Examples:
1. Portal of ideas as an object; e.g., radio broadcasting
2. Portal of ideas as interaction; e.g., soccer game broadcast
3. Portal of ideas as a role; e.g., leadership
Five of Clubs — the portal of circumstances (structure) or chance. Examples:
1. Portal of circumstances; e.g., a roulette
2. Portal of circumstances as interaction; e.g., a roulette bet
3. Portal of circumstances as a role; e.g., the occupation of croupier
Six of Hearts — exchange of emotions. Examples:
1. A fussy kid
2. Telling a joke
3. Your own laughter
Six of Diamonds — movement or rearrangement of objects
1. Carrying a bag
2. Helping someone carry something
3. Actively doing something manually
Six of Spades — exchange of ideas or will
1. Debate
2. Discussing something with someone
3. Actively promoting something
Six of Clubs — exchange of circumstances, chances, or structures
1. Businesslike discussion of details
2. Discussion of details with someone
3. Aggressive nitpicking
Seven of Hearts — the harmony of feelings and good spirits
1. A kind person
2. Friendship
3. Feeling fine
SevenofDiamonds — the harmony ofmatter and order at the level of objects
1. A clean and tidy house
2. Help with tidying up
3. Tidying yourself up
Seven of Spades — the harmony of ideas and will and calmness
1. Calm person
2. Calming someone down
3. Keeping your cool in some situation
Seven of Clubs — the harmony of chance, structures, and circumstances or luck
1. Someone’s luck
2. Help with putting something to rights or winning something
3. Winning something
Eight of Hearts — stable emotions or loyalty
1. Loyal person
2. Convincing someone
3. Believing in something
Eight of Diamonds — the stability of matter or financial stability
1. A respectable person
2. Acting respectably
3. Putting on airs
Eight of Spades — the stability of ideas and will and adherence to an idea
1. Insistent talk
2. Discussing something insistently
3. Standing pat
Eight of Clubs — the stability of chance, structures, and circumstances or trends
1. Something long-lasting and regular
2. Long-term agreements
3. Feeling like a bore, bitching away about things
Nine of Hearts — perfect and complete feelings
1. Reserve or politeness
2. Gentlemanly behavior
3. Acting like a gentleman
Nine of Diamonds — the perfection of matter, neatness and beauty
1. Neat person
2. Tidying up your hair or clothing
3. Paying your way
Nine of Spades — the perfection (completeness) of will or thought
1. Ambition or conviction
2. Harmonious like-mindedness
3. Saying something smart
Nineofclubs — the perfection ofcircumstances, craftsmanship or professionalism
1. Master
2. Help with crafting something
3. Tidying something up (say, your necktie), brushing a speck of dust off something
Ten of Hearts — moving on to the next level of feelings. Transformation or outcome of feelings
1. Heartache
2. Help with changing a relationship or feelings
3. Fundamentally changing your own attitude
Ten of Diamonds — moving on to the next level of matter, transformation or outcome of matter
1. Remaking something material
2. Help with remaking something
3. Fundamentally changing something in yourself physically
Ten of Spades — moving on to the next level of thought or Will, transformation or the outcome of thought
1. New idea or development
2. Help with making something up
3. Making something up
Ten of Clubs — moving on to the next level of circumstances, chances, and structures, transformation or outcome of circumstances
1. Entering into an agreement
2. Help with finding some new structure
3. Coming up with a new principle
Knave of Hearts — the herald of feelings, information, and joy
1. Mail carrier, newspapers
2. Receiving good news
3. Telling good news
Knave of Diamonds — the herald of matter
1. Pizza delivery guy
2. Help with passing something physical on
3. Bringing something somewhere
Knave of Spades — the herald of will
1. Bill to pay
2. Making a proposal
Knave of Clubs — the herald of circumstances
1. Weather forecast
2. Help with arranging something
3. Arranging something
Queen of Hearts — the personality of feelings
1. Any living creature capable of feeling (feeling oneself the center of perception)
2. Accepting a friendship
3. Feeling important
Queen of Spades — the personality of thought
1. Any thinking creature (remaining the Queen of Spades as long as they think)
2. Accepting an intellectual status
3. Understanding something important
Queen of Diamonds — the personality of matter
1. Any tangible object
2. Accepting a tangible (physical) status
3. Becoming, or at least coming across as, strong or rich
Queen of Clubs — the personality of circumstances or chance
1. Any happenstance
2. Getting lucky
3. Feeling lucky
King of Hearts — one who dominates feelings, the lawmaker of feelings
1. Show producer, playwright
2. Bringing feelings into submission
3. Curbing your emotions, controlling them stringently
King of Diamonds — one who dominates matter, the lawmaker of matter
1. Construction site foreman
2. Bringing matter into submission
3. Taming matter in oneself (say, by not eating for one day)
King of Spades — one who dominates thoughts, the lawmaker of thoughts
1. Military officer, magazine editor-in-chief
2. Bringing someone’s thoughts into submission
3. Taming one’s thoughts (say, by not smoking for one day)
King of Clubs — one who dominates circumstances, the lawmaker of circumstances
1. High official
2. Bringing circumstances into submission
3. Taming circumstances (say, by doing your room)
Ace of Hearts — the insurmountable power of feelings
1. Gifted poet or musician
2. Sharing great joy
3. Experiencing great joy or amazement
Ace of Diamonds — the great power of matter and wealth
1. Philanthropist
2. Giving someone something that’s important to them
3. Becoming a sponsor
Ace of Spades — the great power of thought
1. Powerful guru, maniac, or fanatic
2. Thinking something up together
3. Thinking up something great
Ace of Clubs — the great power of circumstances
1. Force majeure
2. Discussing something grand together
3. Acting as the power of circumstances for a while (say, by drawing numbers in a lottery)
Chapter 17. Flagcards, or more power to us
“Think you got the guts? Why don’t you grab a flag and wave it in front of a speeding train?”
“Yeaaaaaaaah, I’ve got the flag! I’ve got the flag!”
(from a conversation
