As a person, Sol is the educated mind of the reading — scholar, lawyer, writer, researcher — the one who knows, teaches, and documents, more at home among books than among people.
— The divinatory art of the 52-card deck —
The King of Clubs is the scholar-king of the deck — knowledgeable, logical, and living entirely in his head. In the Playing Card Oracles he is Sol, grand ruler of the Air Kingdom: a king grown pale among his books, whose appearance in a reading signals deep study, schooling, and the analytical mind — a thinker rather than a doer.
In long musty corridors lined ceiling to floor with volumes of science and philosophy, our Club King spends his days, absorbed in endless study. His skin has grown thin and white, transparent from lack of sunshine; his books surround him like a royal cocoon. The appearance of Sol within a reading indicates book knowledge, years of schooling, a "heady" kind of person. Sol can be a lawyer, a scholar, a writer.
Where the Queen of this suit symbolizes the intuitive, imaginative aspects of Clubs, the King is far more logical and linear. Leah and Sol represent the right and left hemispheres of the brain — and united in a reading they constitute the whole mind, indicating great mental capabilities: within one individual, or as two people who together form a synergy, something bigger than they are when separated.
Sol, perhaps more than any other card, is defined by what surrounds him. More Clubs add weight to his already towering intellect — ideas gaining precedence over life experience. Spades show his knowledge finding practical application. Diamonds and Hearts, the creative suits, help Sol think in innovative ways — and either provides a balance of color, a red counterpart for a black King.
As a person, Sol is the educated mind of the reading — scholar, lawyer, writer, researcher — the one who knows, teaches, and documents, more at home among books than among people.
As an energy, he favors study, analysis, and the written word: get it researched, get it in writing, think it through to the end. His is knowledge accumulated patiently, in the cocoon of the library.
Read him by his company, more than any other card: heavy Clubs risk ideas over experience; Spades put his knowledge to work; Diamonds or Hearts warm his analysis into innovation. And when Leah appears beside him, the two hemispheres unite — the whole mind, one of the strongest pairings in the deck.
Traditional cartomancy reads the King of Clubs as an honest, capable, dark-haired man — a reliable friend and sound adviser, steady in business and generous in counsel.
In the Playing Card Oracles, Kings carry the number thirteen — the number of cosmic majesty — and each rules only his own kingdom: strengths defined by the suit he belongs to, weaknesses by those he does not. Sol, grand ruler of the Air Kingdom, would be quickly overthrown in the realms of Diamonds, Hearts, or Spades.
Traditionally an honest, reliable, capable man. In the Playing Card Oracles he is Sol: the scholar-king of the Air Kingdom — knowledgeable, logical, analytical, a thinker rather than a doer, often a lawyer, scholar, or writer.
Sol is the King of Clubs, number thirteen of his suit — grand ruler of the Air Kingdom, grown pale among his ceiling-high shelves of science and philosophy. His appearance signals book knowledge, years of schooling, and a heady, analytical nature.
Sol and Leah represent the left and right hemispheres of the brain — the logical and the intuitive mind. United in a reading they constitute the whole mind, indicating great mental capability: either within one person, or as two people whose synergy is bigger than each alone.
The full grammar of the deck — geometries, timing, and the voices of all fifty-two — lives in The Playing Card Oracles: A Source Book for Divination.