The fortuneteller’s trick

You don’t read ‘meanings.’ You read lines and their orientation – look at this vertical line up of courts here.

You read conditions, ‘yes, but.’ Look at the Queen of Spades’ pain. Yes, but she still has the King’s heart, covering all her bases, not just the core of it.

You read acknowledgments. Somebody cries, and yet it is not the first two lovers who do it in this line up. It’s ‘the other woman,’ the Queen of Diamonds here, who is in trouble. She can enchant, but there’s no heart in her enchantment. Just glitter bathed in tears.