Eight of Hearts—Upright. The primary signification of this card is first, a blonde young lady of great natural abilities, gentle manners, lively disposition and personal beauty, for whom we have synonyms:
Honest girl; virtuous girl; modesty; maidenly grace; bashfulness; timidity; retiring disposition; fear of scandal; apprehension; mildness; suavity of temper.
It moreover signifies success in expectations, in those enterprises whereupon the consultant has set his heart, with the secondary significations of:
Success; happy issue; fortunate termination; victory; cure; recovery; accomplishment; end of trouble; discontinuance, termination of pains, torment or labor.
Eight of Hearts—Reversed. When this card comes into the oracle in a reversed position, and is used as the representative of an individual, it designates an unmarried lady, of a light complexion, with chestnut-brown hair, of a natural good disposition, but spoiled by an assumption of superiority over her companions. From this signification, we have that of arrogance, and thence:
Noise; quarreling; dispute; disturbance; difference; contestations; litigation; bickerings; arguments.
But the most general signification of this card reversed is great joy, otherwise expressed in these synonyms:
Perfect content; felicity; happiness; rapture; enchantment; ecstasy; entire satisfaction; complete joy; inexpressible pleasure; heavenly inspiration; exhilaration; enthusiasm; the music of the spheres; celestial harmony.
Under other influences this card becomes modified to the signification of the means of satisfaction, such as:
Gayety; dancing; the opera; the theater; festival; public rejoicings; family reunions; poetry; romance; joyous visits; pleasant parties; excursions.