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The King of Diamonds Birth Card
The King of Diamonds is the birth card for 7 birthdays a year, including January 14, February 12 and March 10. Diamonds is the suit of money and values, so your deepest lessons arrive through what you earn, spend and value, including what you believe you are worth. As a King, you lead, decide and take responsibility, and can find changing your mind harder than being right.
| Birth card | King of Diamonds |
|---|---|
| Birthdays | January 14, February 12, March 10, April 8, May 6, June 4, July 2 |
| Rank | King: leadership and responsibility |
| Suit | Diamonds: money and values |
| Keywords | leadership, mastery, authority, values, money |
| Mercury card | Six of Hearts |
| Saturn card | Eight of Clubs |
| Pluto card | Ten of Hearts |
| Karma cards | Three of Clubs and Seven of Spades |
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The King is about leadership and responsibility
Your life lesson is mastery of your suit’s domain. Kings carry its directive power: you are here to lead, to master, and to show what is possible when a person lives their energy fully.
You lead, decide and take responsibility, and can find changing your mind harder than being right.
Where it works
Making the decision and standing by it.
Leading from experience while others are guessing.
Knowing your strengths and using them.
Where it catches
Being too proud to change your mind in front of others.
Needing it done your way, every time.
Taking every decision yourself, so nobody near you learns to lead.
Diamonds puts the lesson in money and values
Diamonds is the suit of money and values, so your deepest lessons arrive through what you earn, spend and value, including what you believe you are worth.
You are here to master the material realm. Your growth comes through understanding worth: your own, the world’s, and the relationship between them. Money, work and self-worth will be the recurring classroom.
The strength of the suit: knowing what something is truly worth.
The thing to watch: measuring your worth by your bank balance.
The King of Diamonds in work and in love
At work you do best at the top of your field, with the authority to decide and people honest enough to disagree with you.
In love you are loyal and protective, and you need a partner you respect as an equal, or they start to feel like staff.
The King of Diamonds can go two ways
When it is lived well: You decide clearly, carry earned authority, and are respected for your competence.
When it isn’t: Isolation and inflexibility. Identified with authority, the King can treat vulnerability as weakness. Mastery without humility hardens, often without the King noticing.
The suit’s shadow: Scarcity thinking, and measuring your worth by your bank balance. A Diamonds card can become preoccupied with accumulating, or frozen by financial anxiety. The shadow is the belief that you are what you own.
What mastery looks like: When you master your suit, you create value and let it move. You understand that money works best in circulation, and you become someone who builds wealth, in every sense, and shares it wisely.
Your life spread runs from the Six of Hearts to the Four of Spades
Every birth card sits in a fixed place in the Grand Solar Spread, and the cards that follow it form its life spread: one card for each planetary period of life, plus the Moon card before it and the Pluto, Cosmic Reward and Cosmic Lesson cards after.
| Position | Card | What it governs |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | King of Hearts | the emotional pattern you were born carrying |
| Mercury | Six of Hearts | mind and learning, and the years to about 12 |
| Venus | Four of Clubs | love and values, and roughly ages 13 to 25 |
| Mars | Two of Diamonds | drive and conflict, and roughly ages 26 to 38 |
| Jupiter | Jack of Spades | growth and good fortune, and roughly ages 39 to 51 |
| Saturn | Eight of Clubs | discipline and the hard lesson, and roughly ages 52 to 64 |
| Uranus | Six of Diamonds | change and freedom, and roughly ages 65 to 77 |
| Neptune | Four of Spades | dreams and what lies beyond, and roughly ages 78 to 90 |
| Pluto | Ten of Hearts | the transformation you are here for |
| Cosmic Reward | Ten of Diamonds | what comes to you once the Pluto work is done |
| Cosmic Lesson | Eight of Spades | what you are here to master |
Your Mercury card is the Six of Hearts
The card in your Mercury position shapes how you think and learn, and it sets the tone of your childhood years. People with the King of Diamonds often recognise the Six of Hearts in how their mind works.
7 birthdays carry the King of Diamonds
In Cardology, each day of the year belongs to one card, counted from the King of Spades on January 1. The King of Diamonds falls on January 14, February 12, March 10, April 8, May 6, June 4 and July 2.
If someone important in your life was born on one of these dates, you share a birth card, and with it the same lessons in the same order.
Questions people ask
What does the King of Diamonds birth card mean?
Diamonds is the suit of money and values, so your deepest lessons arrive through what you earn, spend and value, including what you believe you are worth. As a King, you lead, decide and take responsibility, and can find changing your mind harder than being right.
Which birthdays have the King of Diamonds as their birth card?
January 14, February 12, March 10, April 8, May 6, June 4 and July 2.
What is the King of Diamonds like in love?
In love you are loyal and protective, and you need a partner you respect as an equal, or they start to feel like staff.
What is the Saturn card of the King of Diamonds?
The Eight of Clubs. It is the card of the hard lesson, and of roughly ages 52 to 64.