Core meaning
Sixes stand for responsibility, balance and cause and effect. They’re about fairness, keeping promises and reaping what you sow.
Spades is the suit of work, health and wisdom, and is often seen as the most spiritual suit. It’s usually linked with the element of Air and the tarot suit of Swords.
The Six of Spades brings responsibility to the suit of work and health. It carries a strong sense of purpose, and of cause and effect. Its lesson is taking action rather than waiting for life to happen to it.
Strengths and challenges
Strengths
- Responsible
- Purposeful
- Steady and dependable
- Patient
- Aware of consequences
Challenges and shadow side
- Waiting or inertia
- Complacency
- Feeling stuck by circumstances
- Resistance to change
- Carrying heavy burdens
Light and shadow
The same card can show up in different ways, depending on how someone is going.
In balance
Takes responsibility and acts on its sense of purpose.
Under stress or out of balance
Waits passively and feels stuck.
Personality in everyday life
Often reliable and steady, keeping commitments. They may feel a strong sense of purpose or direction in life.
Love and relationships
- Strengths
- Committed and responsible.
- Needs
- Stability and a shared purpose.
- Possible tensions
- Complacency or too much routine.
- Growth
- Actively nurturing the relationship rather than letting it coast.
Work, money and purpose
Suited to health, service, law, administration or purpose-driven work. Motivated by doing what they feel they’re here to do.
Life lessons and personal growth
Practical ways to work with this card’s challenges:
- Take one action you’ve been delaying
- Notice where you’re waiting
- Set clear goals
- Look after your health actively
Reflection questions
Prompts for journalling or thinking over. There are no right answers.
- What is my purpose?
- Where am I waiting?
- What am I responsible for?
- What one action would change things?
Birthdays with the Six of Spades
4 birthdays give this card:
How it’s worked out for 8 January: 55 − (2 × 1 + 8) = 45. Counting through the deck in order (Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades), card 45 is the Six of Spades.
Cardology associations
- Place in the deck
- Card 45 of 52
- Suit
- Spades
- Element usually linked with this suit
- Air
- Tarot card usually linked with it
- Six of Swords
- Number theme
- Responsibility and balance
The birth card is one part of Cardology
Your birth card is just one indicator in Cardology. The full system also looks at a planetary ruling card, which is a second card based on your star sign, and at Karma Cards, which are linked with lessons you’re working through and gifts you bring with you. It also uses spreads, where the whole deck is laid out in a traditional pattern. These give a set of life path cards that stay with you for life, and a new yearly spread each birthday, with a specific card for each 52-day period plus long-range and result cards. Cardology can also compare two people’s cards to describe how they connect.
These aren’t covered on this website. Here you’ll find your birth card, your planet year and the dates of your 52-day periods, but not the specific cards that fall in them. To explore the rest, look for a full Cardology reference, such as Robert Lee Camp’s books.
See your own Cardology year. Enter your birthday to find your card, your planet year and the seven 52-day periods of your year, with a printable PDF.
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