This has been building through the whole thread so I just need to say it.
The Three of Clubs has its own lineage predating Rider-Waite by centuries, and yet every single discussion about playing card meanings eventually gets funneled back into ‘well it corresponds to the Three of Wands.’ As if the playing card system can’t stand on its own.
Why does the modern cartomancy community keep doing this? Romani cartomancy traditions, Appalachian granny magic, hoodoo card reading - these systems all used a standard poker deck and developed completely independent meaning structures that have nothing to do with Golden Dawn correspondences.
Nothing.
In hoodoo specifically, the Three of Clubs gets read as three separate business dealings or three offers coming your way. Very literal, very predictive, not archetypal. That distinction matters more than people realize (or maybe they just don’t care, which is a whole other problem).
The original post does a decent job hof onoring both lineages, I’ll give it that. But I see this collapse happening constantly elsewhere and it drives me up the wall.
Anyway. /rant over