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ace of eyes, Ace of Pentacles, Ace of Diamonds, Coins, and the Solstice and New Years.
The ace of eyes in the Tiger Tarot and the Ace of Pentacles in other Tarot decks are equivalents with regard to their suit. In decks of playing cards the Ace of Diamonds correlates with the Ace of Pentacles.
The Ace of Diamonds may have a value of one, as would all the other aces. Thus it symbolizes the potentiality of the suit. The Diamond suit, in cartomancy which is the art of reading cards, relates to wealth, property, material goods. However in different games, it can have different values. In some games it is considered the highest ranking card in a suit. It depends on the game you want to play what the value of the ace can be. In poker it can be the high card in a straight flush or the low card in a wheel straight. A straight flush would be Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten. A wheel straight would be Ace, Two, Three, Four, Five.
Thus the ace can be a bit of a chameleon, with its value and its meaning in a game shifting depending on the context. Not only is it a manifestation of the potentiality of the suit as the starting card, it can also be interpreted as the culmination of all things that are part of the suit when it is seen at the end of a play within a game.
The Ace of Pentacles also represents the winter solstice. Synchronistically, it…
