If you are playing a game of cards in your dream, it indicate competition and rivalry in your life, signifies joy and positivity. Maybe you are trying to win in your life and play the game in your favor, also this dream about an imposing obstacle which is blocking your progress. You looking for an opportunity to improve your skills in daily life or to expand your opportunities, your anger is on the verge of erupting into violent expression.
Reading cards in your dream mean that you have an important decision to make or a desire to be more loving, a sign for your lack of confidence, self-defeating attitude and self-doubt. You find yourself in a situation where you need to understand what cards to play in order to handle a certain situation, sadly a warning for some of coming trouble.
It is also possible that dreaming about cards represents your fears and insecurities in life reflected, a harbinger for a emotional act. You concerned about a situation or a specific relationship and are looking for signs that help you understand it, an indication for overindulgence in your desires and passion.
However, it help you understand your own thoughts and feelings, and help you find answers to complex questions, a hint for your thrifty unwillingness to take risks.
Dreaming cards refer to competition and competition in indicate your life, signifies your real experiences of being neglected. It mean that you have an important decision to make or a desire to be more loving, a clue for emotional frustration. Dreaming about cards also reflect your fears and insecurities in life, symbolises degradation and unhappiness.
Having a dream about cards bring up various emotions and symbolize different aspects of your life, stands for feminine power or an overbearing mother figure in your life.
Dreaming about cards indicate that you are taking chances in life or trying to make a decision based on the cards you have been dealt with, an evidence for your emotional balance. It also mean that you need to take a risk or be more open to new possibilities, a symbol for freedom, risk and adventure.
For example: , stands for your fears about death.
Playing Cards: Playing cards reflect the aspects of yourself that are associated with luck, risk-taking, or competitiveness, you are a entering a new phase of life or a new phase of personal development. It also indicate that you're seeking guidance or direction from others, as card games are often played with others, a metaphor for fears of inadequacy. Tarot Cards: Tarot cards reflect your spiritual journey, and the cards that appear in your dream reveal aspects of your subconscious, points at relaxation. It an indication to seek guidance or clarity in your life, a portent for fulfillment.
Different cultures and religions have their interpretation of cards, and the dream reflect them, a premonition for some very deep pain or internal conflict within your soul. Here are a few examples: , a symbol for something is about to be completed in your life.
Christianity: The dream indicate that you are capable of manipulating others or trying to control your life, points at your ability to receive love. Islam: Dreams about cards represent gambling, which is forbidden in Islam, a warning for a void in your life that you have been unable to fill. Hinduism: Playing cards a reflection of Maya or illusion, which distract a person from spirituality, sadly an admonition for feelings of of control in making decisions.
Here are some examples: , a harbinger for your toward a relationship.
Western cultures: Dreaming of cards indicate that you are taking chances or risks in your life, hints defiance. It also mean you need to be more open to different opportunities, an indication for a healthy mental drive. Eastern cultures: The dream imply that you are wasting your time or not using your time productively, states your desire to help others or give back.
From a psychological perspective, dreaming of cards indicate that you are dealing with unpredictable or random situations in your life, indicates something in your own inner nature that is pure, vulnerable, helpless and uncorrupted. It also show a desire for control and stability, indicating that you need to find balance and stability, a message for a situation that requires swift decision.
To gain a deeper understanding of what your dream means, think back to the details of the dream, what is ahead of choices you make. What type of cards were you playing with? What was the atmosphere of the game? Reflecting on these details give you more insight into the meaning of your dream, a signal for your leadership, your courage, your enthusiasm.
If you're experiencing a lot of anxiety about your dream, it helpful to talk to a therapist, an evidence for a missing soul or a lack of compassion. They help you explore your thoughts and feelings and provide guidance as you navigate challenges in your life, a harbinger for anger, eruption of some strong emotions.
If you are playing a card game in your dream, it indicate your desire to take calculated risks and your willingness to trust your instincts, a sign for your relationships with those around you connect with the world. You also feel the need to be strategic and think ahead in your daily life, a clue for confusion about your own self-sense of individuality.
If the cards in your dream are tarot cards or playing cards with symbolic images on them, the meaning more related to the symbols and images on the cards themselves, denotes your feminine attitudes and feelings. The cards represent different aspects of yourself or situations in your life, means innocence, playfulness and mischievousness. The interpretation of the symbols and images on the cards will depend on the specific cards and your personal associations with them, you are too focused on small details.
In general, dreaming of cards indicate that you are seeking guidance or direction in your life, states your open-for knowledge. You looking for answers or trying to make a decision, a harbinger for a partnership. Alternatively, it indicate that you are considering different options or outcomes and weighing the pros and cons of each, suggests uncertainty about what is ahead.
A deck of cards: Is the deck complete with 52 cards? If not, you may have fragmentary information about a person or situation.
Playing cards: Consider if you’re gambling on something or someone, or taking an unnecessary risk. Alternatively, having your attention diverted from more legitimate, and worthwhile, endeavors.
Playing an ace: Successfully and confidently making your move, or having an alternative plan of action on which to fall back (e.g., having “an ace in the hole”). In terms of omens and signs, this is considered a very positive dream denoting victory (see One).
Potential mental instability, or lacking thorough information or tools with which to handle a situation (e.g., “not playing with a full deck”).
If the hand you see is filled with jokers, this reflects your own sense of humor. Is it a healthy one, or do you make jokes and laugh to cover up insecurity? Also if you’re the eternal prankster, this dream acts as a gentle warning that someone might get hurt as a result of ill-conceived shenanigans.
Tarot cards in dreams should be interpreted according to their layout and images.
For more information, consult a classical Tarot deck with interpretive guide like the Rider- Waite Tarot.
Business cards may have symbolic words and phrases upon them to consider.
The names and phone numbers can also have interpretive value. Consider each separately, and the card as a whole unit, when trying to understand this emblem.
Greeting cards in dreams reflect matters of communication, particularly those missives coming from other people. Look at the card’s message (see Writing) or its art for more meaning here.
In the case of playing cards, it implies that you do not take life seriously enough and are taking too many risks. It also may be a suggestion to look at life more as if it were a game and to be less serious.
It is important whether you have good or bad cards in your hand.
If you dream about a particular card, find out the meaning by checking out books about reading cards.
With postcards and maps, refer to the place or area pictured on them.
If you can’t make any connection with the picture, postcards and maps may be an expression of a desire for travel and vacation.
Tickets and business cards point to areas that are normally unavailable to you. In the case of tickets, the specific area depicted is most important: what you are admitted to is an indication of the direction you should take in your life. In the case of business cards and credit cards it is the person who carries them who is important.
A business card shows that you are, or want to be, successful.
Folklore: Quarrels loom on the horizon.
The face cards signify as follows:
King.
clubs: You will be helped by a friend.
diamonds: Danger from an older man who has a position of power.
hearts: True love.
spades: Opposition in your ambitions.
Queen.
clubs: You need to unsnarl your love life.
diamonds: Good news concerning property.
hearts: Happy romantic news.
spades: A niggling worry through a misplaced confidence.
Jack.
clubs: Deceit and trickery could cause you a loss.
diamonds: A pleasing gift or small inheritance.
hearts: Happiness through a new romance.
spades: You’ve got a rival and/or opposition in whatever concerns you most.
See also Ace and Numbers.
Each playing card has a distinct divinatory meaning of its own, usually based on numerology. Spades rule conflict, hearts pertain to matters of the heart, diamonds refer to money, and clubs rule difficulties - and the numerological meaning of each number combined with the nature of the suit gives a rough meaning of the card’s divinatory nature.
The face cards rule people whose personalities are based on the nature of the suit they represent.
If the dream is of a Tarot card, or a group of them, the meaning of the card has a strong bearing on the meaning of the dream. Consult our Tarot experts for details.
If you lose at cards you will encounter enemies.
If you win you will justify yourself in the eyes of the law, but will have trouble in so doing.
If a young woman dreams that her sweetheart is playing at cards, she will have cause to question his good intentions. In social games, seeing diamonds indicate wealth; clubs, that your partner in life will be exacting, and that you may have trouble in explaining your absence at times; hearts denote fidelity and cosy surroundings; spades signify that you will be a widow and encumbered with a large estate.
The cards that one deals, or is dealt, in a dream may have significance as to number or suit: hearts indicate emotion and relationship. Diamonds represent material wealth. Spades represent conflict, difficulties and obstacles. Clubs represent action, work and intelligence.
The king portrays human success and mastery.
The queen indicates emotional depth, sensitivity and understanding whereas the jack represents impetuosity, creativity or an adolescent energy.
If there is a card up your sleeve, then you are hiding something or keeping secrets.
If all your cards are on the table, then you are being honest about your intentions. Pay attention to what cards are being revealed.
See Ace, Club, Diamond, Heart, Numbers, Spade, Trump Card, Tarot Cards, Business Cards and Gamble.
If you yourself are playing cards in a dream, it is a sign that you will be in danger of making a mistake in some love affair, unless the cards that you hold are mostly hearts, which combination points decisively to a happy married life.
If you’re dealing the cards in your dream, bad news is around the corner.
See clubs, and you’ll have success in business.
See diamonds, and good financial news is in your future.
See hearts, and it bodes well for love.
See spades, and trouble is on the way.
The tarot – our inner truth – can be used as images in dream work.
To dream of giving or receiving a card such as a birthday card alerts us to the need for a specific kind of communication, perhaps celebrating our own or others’ good fortune and luck.
If it is gambling, you may face economical strain.
If you are a loser, you have made an enemy.
If diamonds predominate among the cards, the signification is wealth; spades, bad news; hearts, pleasantries and fidelity of a loved one; clubs, petty quarrels with friends.
To dream of playing cards is indicative that one needs to be open to the possibility of gambling or risk taking to gain wealth. Certain types of cards can have different meanings.
For example, Hearts represents love and relationships; Diamonds – material wealth; Spades – conflict; and Clubs – intelligence.
If a fortune teller is reading your cards, reflects own psychic attunement; or seeking your destiny from outer, not inner sources. Remember that you create from within.
Depending on the type of card being given or received, the general consensus is that the dreamer is in need of communicating with the other person(s) in the dream relative to the symbolism of the type of card.
2. Worry about gambling habits.
3. Concern over a business proposition.
2. Honesty (as in “putting all your cards on the table”);
3. Truth;
4. Gambling; Matt. 19:3; 22:17-18;
ace of: hopes that have kept you penniless wil be realized.
clubs: money wil buy you a partner who wil question your absences.
diamonds: wil attract a person who wil bring lucky changes.
hearts: holding onto clichés, your worldly goods wil be increased.
spades: “the devil made you do it” is an unacceptable answer.
bridge, making tricks in: travel plans must be reevaluated.
dealer, being a: you control the last card to adjust matters to your advantage.
dealing: are investing too much emotion in risky business with an unreliable person.
full house, a: fortune wil fol ow you, until she succeeds.
high-class lady dealing: have made mistakes in figures that wil be noticed.
Jack of Clubs: a rival wil create an obstacle to attainment of your goal.
Diamonds: some event wil light your way out of darkness.
Hearts: a fair-complexioned person is tempting you.
Spades: wil be in or witness an accident.
joker, being a: light company brings no good.
holding the: an energetic competition with double your effort.
playing the: indicates a suitable time to pursue courtship.
not: people wil take advantage of you.
King of Clubs: much needed assistance comes from man in superior position.
Diamonds: the head of the family is in a forgiving mood.
Hearts: the grand passion of your life wil be the danger of remaining king.
Spades: change of character and habits come through influence of a new person.
playing: are reckless with your al -consuming passion.
and losing: good business ventures fal away when competition supersedes growing.
and winning: troubles ahead from legal claims to your winnings.
Black Jack: experience of loss through robbery when focused on competing instead of creating.
others: wil have quarrels over the quality of your intentions.
Queen of Clubs: aid comes from a woman in differences with others.
Diamonds: find continuous facets of minor deceit of one kind or another.
Hearts: innovation wil restore your faith.
Spades: have arguments with a woman over her rise in power.
shuffling a deck of: wil test the one you love for faithfulness and lose his faith.
solitaire, playing: rest one part of your brain while your creative juices flow.