The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- bank, payment: see Payment Card.
- playing cards and watching a card game: only the instinctual component of the human soul lowers itself to a card game in dreams; the dreamer should realize that the cards in his hand depict his fate that cannot be willfully changed.
- people playing cards together: they are deepening their mutual relations, even if usually this is only on the instinctual level.
- if we refuse to play cards with someone, we do not want to continue sharing our life with them (this image often shows the definitive culmination of a breakup).
- intrigued by a card game: shows how a player is desirous of the world and sensual experiences.
- unknown: unknown fate:
- jokers: the dreamer overly relies on good fortune that could ease his fate.
- seeing others' cards: the dreamer is able to view others' fates and guess the course of future events in their lives.
- winning: a dream victory demobilizes the powers in the dreamer; therefore an upcoming defeat can be expected in the same or similar game, or in the realm that this game represents in the unconscious.
- losing: a dream defeat mobilizes the powers in the dreamer; therefore an upcoming victory can be expected in the same or similar game, or in the realm that this game represents in the unconscious.
- tarot: they have a completely different meaning from ordinary playing cards since they relate to internal processes.
