Coins In The Spanish Tarot: The Material Suit

Coins are the suit of the material and the concrete in the Spanish tarot. Tied to the element Earth, these 10 cards speak of work, money, security and everything built to last.
When Coins dominate a spread, the question touches your material situation.

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Coins: the material suit

In the Spanish tarot, the 40 cards fall into 4 suits of 10. They carry the whole structure of the deck on their own: since it has no major arcana and no queens, nothing else takes the symbolism on.

A coin is a piece of currency: it is earned, counted, kept or lost. That is the whole relationship to the concrete that this suit carries — work, money, what gets built and what gets consolidated.

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The 10 cards of the material suit

From the Ace to the King, each card marks a stage in the theme of its suit — a beginning, an ordeal, a culmination. Here are the keywords of each one.

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What Coins reveal in a spread

When Coins come up in numbers, the question almost always touches on material life. The number cards, from the Ace to the 7, tell a progression:

• The Ace opens the suit on success and prosperity: the most favourable starting card of the four.
• The 2 marks a snag — a setback, a reversal, sometimes jealousy about what you own.
• The 3 and the 4 settle the fulfilled project, then the material comfort that follows.
• The 5 and the 6 untie the knot: a resolution, then difficulties that get overcome.
• The 7 closes the number cards on reward — the fruit of the work.

The court cards of Coins (Jack, Knight, King) stand for reliable, methodical people — an adviser, an employer, a relative who handles things — or for your own relationship to money and effort, at three degrees of maturity.

Want to know whether Coins will run your spread today, and what that would say about the stretch you are going through? Find out now.

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