COMBINATIONS WITH THE CHILD



Please note that the examples below are meant to be just that: examples. They are not in any sense exhaustive. Furthermore,they are constructed of individual meanings I myself use. If you use different keywords than I do your own combined meanings will look quite different. Also, what I did not take into account in these examples is the order of the paired cards (which card is left and which right). Lastly, if you want to learn more about how to combine two cards' meanings >> here is an explanation of what works for me.


Child-Rider
To overwhelm or press a child, or inexperienced/weak person. To react with curiosity to news or change. Beginning of change. To start an attack. Birth of a child - or of something abstract (like an idea, or plan etc.) An intrusive child. An unexpected pregnancy. Approaching birth (also metaphorically speaking!). Inexperienced attacker. Playful attacks; feint attack. Obtrusive or overwhelming helplessness or weakness. Someone enters one's life who brings a child with them, or a lack of experience, or a lot of curiosity/playfulness.


Child-Clover
Untroubled childhood. An unburdened child; to allow someone to be not responsible, like a child. To treat someone like a child by not giving them any responsibilities. To feel (or actually be!) too young or inexperienced to take on responsibilities. Growing luck, new chance; chance to do something new. Curiosity makes it more likely one will be able to recognise opportunities when they present themselves. To be open to doing something new. A very playful approach. An opportunity which has to be handled delicately in order to play out.


Child-Ship
Abandonment issues. A very inexperienced explorer. Everything is a novelty because we've entered uncharted waters. Beginning of a journey. To initiate change; to take the first steps in a new direction. Absent child. Abandoned child. To take a child on a journey. Playful exploration; naive exploration (e.g. no awareness of the risks). Great joy of exploration. A small (short, or not very far) journey. A change that we make is still delicate - it mightn't take hold. Wanderlust which is going to grow. Someone is in need of guidance in regard to a venture they are embarking on. A young person is exploring something. Child leaves the nest.


Child-House
Child or children in the family. New family member. To start a family; a new home. Just start a new tradition! To grow into one's role within the family. To develop a habit. To be comfortable around children. Conflict between wanting things to be safe/familiar/predictable, and being curious about new ways of doing things. Tradition vs. innovation.


Child-Tree
A child grows (up). Steady development; stable growth. Something small grows. A young person's health. New health. Weak physique; fragile body. Small stature. Weak life energy. Weak sense of roots. A grounded child. A child's roots. To play in nature. Tree climbing. Inexperience in regard to health or physical activities. To think little of one's body, or of the natural world.


Child-Clouds
Secret about a child; a secret is kept from a child/young person. To not know whether it's a good time to have a child. To not know whether one can have children. Insecure child, unguided child. A confused young person, a lost young person. Inexperienced person without proper guidance. Beginning of confusion. Confusion because of inexperience. To initiate confusion. To play hide and seek (literally or figuratively speaking). Confusion about a game; boring game. To not understand one's own inner child. To misunderstand a young person. Inexperienced person misunderstands something. To belittle someone's hopelessness.


Child-Snake
First time to feel (sexual) desire; growing desire. Being naive (and maybe easy to deceive) in sexual matters, or in politics etc. Someone easy to trick/manipulate. Inexperience with power or sex; little knowledge. An affair is in its first stages. Taking someone's innocence; cradle robber. Paedophilia. Imbalance between someone inexperienced (and maybe naive) and someone very experienced and skilled (who is possibly but not necessarily manipulative).


Child-Coffin
End of a beginning; beginning of an ending. Loss of innocence. Small grief; or beginning of grief. To not let one's inner child live; suppression of playfulness; to repress one's natural curiosity. To give up the hope to conceive. To give up something for a child. To bury one's own dreams or suppress one's own needs for the sake of one's child(ren). Miscarriage. Young person who has died. Grief for a child, or for one's innocence. Inexperience with grief, or with losses, or death. To be unable to handle a loss by oneself.


Child-Bouquet
To be nice to or reconnect with a child, young person or childhood friend, maybe give them a present. (Birthday) party for a young person. Pretty child. To welcome a child. To be grateful for a child. To praise a young, inexperienced person. To take the first steps towards improving something. To take the first step towards another person. Naivety when we are just being flattered. Guileless friendliness. To meet friends for games.


Child-Scythe
Growing danger; growing urgency. Naivety might get you hurt; an injury caused by inexperience. Someone who had to grow up too soon. To break off contact with a child. Hurt child, injured child. Possibly a miscarriage; more fitting: an abortion. Playfulness/curiosity is very suddenly and painfully stopped.


Child-Whip
To reprimand a child or inexperienced person (possibly too harshly). To violate the innocent, to pollute or sully something which was clean, to be too rough with something that could easily break. To talk oneself into looking down or despising that which is pure and innocent. To attack the guileless; to blame/punish the innocent. Innocent vs. guilty. To hurt or punish an innocent person. Child abuse. To belittle abusive behaviour. Innocence vs. cynicism. Guilty child; child who is ashamed. Justice for one's inner child. Conflict about a child.


Child-Birds
Baby talk, childish talk. Young person learns to communicate. Noisy children. Beginning unrest. Worries about something which is beginning, or about a young or inexperienced person. Something new has been unsettling us. Wanting to try everything, and refusing to focus on any one thing, has made it impossible to become experienced at anything. First stages of chaos. Chaotic beginning. Worries about inexperience. Immature worries. A child necessitates multitasking.


Child-Child*)
Innocent, naive, or weak young person. Very small - tiny. The beginning of a development; to initiate a development. To make the first step towards a child. An inexperienced person in need of guidance. To belittle a child; to think little of one's inner child.


Child-Fox
Caution/distrust vs. naivete/gullibility . Defence of a child (or generally an inexperienced or weak person). Weak defence; weak sense of self. Development of identity. A streetwise, cunning, or maybe even dishonest, person vs. an inexperienced/naive person, being mean to a child. Custody battles where one partner tries to take the child away from the other. A self-involved child. Distrustful, defensive child. To defend (one's own?) innocence. To distrust someone's innocence / purity of motives. To be inexperienced in proper self-care.


Child-Bear
To look for guidance (from the Child's perspective) / to provide guidance(from the Bear's perspective). To look after (or protect) a child; to teach a child; to lead an inexperienced person. To treat someone as if they needed guidance/protection even though they don't. A young, naive, or vulnerable, person is overwhelmed by someone or something too overbearing or powerful. Parent/child relationship. Growing power; inexperience with leadership.


Child-Stars
Total credulity. Spiritual indoctrination; high suggestibility concerning spiritual ideas. To be so trusting and credulous that it's endangering our safety. The deep wish to have a child. Immature, childish hopes. Beginning hope, first stage of faith; a new wish etc. Little faith; delicate hope. To allow one's inner child to fulfil their wishes. First step towards the experience of transcendence, of finding a deeper connection with the world. First step towards unification.


Child-Stork
Pregnancy; birthing. The transforming experience of raising a child. A child is transforming (growing up?). The longing to have a child; parental instinct. Childish longings; or the longing to be a child again. To feel too inexperienced, or not ready, for a transformation or transition we will have to go through nonetheless. To have innocently stumbled into something which has turned out to be powerfully transformative. A child's nature; a childlike nature. What a child becomes. First stage of a long process. Beginning of a process, transition, or transformation. To belittle someone's longing or someone's transformation. Small transformation.


Child-Dog
Childhood friend, young friend, inexperienced employee. Someone is really in need of guidance here! Beginning of a friendship. A very, very suggestible young or inexperienced person who is easily taken advantage of, easily led, because they are so eager to please. To take the first step towards a friend. A delicate or weak friendship; little loyalty, or loyalty which is easily destroyed. Suggestibility leads to dependency. Definitely ask for permission! A child asks permission, or to ask permission of a child. A young or inexperienced person needs us! To support a weaker person.


Child-Tower
To be distant to a child. To be very detached from one's inner child or from one's childhood experiences. A young or inexperienced person who has a very cold, strict guide, or who hasn't received much emotional support. Lonely child, orphan. Inexperience with loneliness. In order to keep one's innocence (purity, peace of mind, integrity) boundaries have to be set. Weak authority. Delicate pride. The start of excellence. Child prodigy.


Child-Garden
Inexperience with media, the public, publishing, politics etc. Someone who believes everything society says. New social circles, new networks. To begin to gather experience with social networking. To present as innocent/naive/weak/delicate. Guileless acting in public - authentic public behaviour. Public game events.


Child-Mountain
Inexperience is hindering your progress. Small problems (or problems that will become bigger if you don't do something now). Growing silence. Little weight, or slow weight gain. Difficult child. No communication with a child. Playful approach to challenge. A problem so serious, a challenge so big, that it might break the inexperienced. To challenge child or student. Naive approach to difficulties.


Child-Crossroad
Decision concerning a child. Inexperience with decision making. To be inexperienced with having a lot of freedom. To be totally open-minded, possibly naively so. To be curious about / ready to try alternative options. Immature deliberations. To be unequipped (yet) to make a good choice. To minimize alternatives. To belittle the importance of a choice. Little choice.


Child-Mice
A child drains one's energies. All of one's resources go to one's child. Lack of playfulness, lack of curiosity. To slowly lose one's playfulness; to have become too serious. To take things which really belong to others without realising that this is wrong. Something is taken away from someone who is too innocent or inexperience to notice. Exploitation. Spoiled innocence. To take someone's innocence. A sick child. Beginning of a disease or of something (not physically!) unhealthy.


Child-Heart
Love for a child; a child's love; naive love. A new love. To be inexperienced in matters of romance. Inexperience with caring for others. To treat a child tenderly, with love and understanding. To love children. A child needs more love, comfort, or should be forgiven. To begin to soften up. To reconcile oneself with what happened in one's childhood. The beginning of love. To make the first step towards reconciliation. Love makes us vulnerable. Friendly feelings are fragile yet. A little love only. To think little of love (or more specifically of romance). A child at heart. Very sweet, innocent temper.


Child-Ring
Relationship with a child/inexperienced person. A developing connection; a new connection. A weak link; a connection which is easily broken. Promise to a child; a child promises something. To promise to stick with someone who is weak and needs support. To think little of commitment. To make a promise naively, without being aware of the consequences. Someone a child can depend on. To impart reliability to a child. To stereotype a child. To classify something as young, inexperienced, delicate etc.


Child-Book
(Young) student; lack of knowledge. Very little facts. To know things about child rearing; fact(s) about a child. Curious person; curiosity. Someone who wants to learn. New knowledge; to start an education. To be too easily convinced by an apparent truth.


Child-Letter
Tentative communication; to inch one's way forward with a certain topic of conversation. Inexperience with communication. To start a conversation; communication grows. An "innocent" (naive?) conversation - maybe one is unaware that picking up a certain topic might open a can of worms. To be curious about the other person's view. Documents concerning a child; communication with a child. To express one's childish side; or to express one's vulnerability. To let someone know that one is inexperienced (and in need of guidance?).


Child-Man (a)
Boy, (grand)son. Father of a child. A man who wants a child. Man who is: Childlike, infantile, delicate, cute, weak, sensitive, vulnerable, defenceless, non-threatening young (at heart), new, innovative, inquisitive, playful, inexperienced, in need of guidance, guileless, innocent, naive, gullible, immature. To belittle a man or men in general. Man takes the first step. To want the man to initiate. It's a baby boy!


Child-Woman (a)
Girl, (grand)daughter. Mother of a child. A woman who wants a child. Woman who is: Childlike, infantile, delicate, cute, weak, sensitive, vulnerable, defenceless, non-threatening young (at heart), new, innovative, inquisitive, playful, inexperienced, in need of guidance, guileless, innocent, naive, gullible, immature. To belittle a woman or women in general. Woman takes the first step. To want the woman to initiate. It's a baby girl!


Child-Man (b)
Boy, (grand)son. Father of a child. A man who wants a child. Man who is: Childlike, infantile, delicate, cute, weak, sensitive, vulnerable, defenceless, non-threatening young (at heart), new, innovative, inquisitive, playful, inexperienced, in need of guidance, guileless, innocent, naive, gullible, immature. To belittle a man or men in general. Man takes the first step. To want the man to initiate. It's a baby boy!


Child-Woman (b)
Girl, (grand)daughter. Mother of a child. A woman who wants a child. Woman who is: Childlike, infantile, delicate, cute, weak, sensitive, vulnerable, defenceless, non-threatening young (at heart), new, innovative, inquisitive, playful, inexperienced, in need of guidance, guileless, innocent, naive, gullible, immature. To belittle a woman or women in general. Woman takes the first step. To want the woman to initiate. It's a baby girl!


Child-(Sensual)Lily
Sexual inexperience. Growing sexual passion; puberty. An innocent person is being seduced. To be curious about sexuality. To be open and ready to experiment with sensual experiences. Intense curiosity. To be vulnerable to sensual input - to be unaware of or naive about the dangers of overindulgence for example. A playful approach to creativity. To be a beginner at a certain art form. To be in need for a guide in regard to sexuality/sensual issues/art.


Child-(Virtuous)Lily
A very innocent person; weak morality; virtuousness is easily broken. Growing virtue (in general, or specific virtues become stronger). To be inexperienced (and in need of guidance) in a morality relevant situation. Person whose own heart and mind are so pure that they are actually naive, gullible, and very vulnerable. A good child. Virtues needed for child-rearing or for handling inexperienced people who need guidance (e.g. patience, loving kindness, consistency etc.).


Child-Sun
Childlike joy or childish enjoyment. Happiness about a child. Happy young person. Everything looks bright and easy because of a lack of experience with reality. Beginning of happiness; to make the first steps towards happiness. To spend the day with a child / to give one day to entertain one's inner child. Naive optimism. Small joy. Weak light. The beginning of day - morning. The first steps towards awareness, towards seeing something as it is.


Child-Moon
Sad child, child with nightmares. A child needs rest. To put a child to sleep. The beginning of a journey into the deepest self. The inner child needs more attention. Childhood traumata. Very little sleep / shallow sleep. The beginning of night; beginning of darkness. Childish emotions; immature emotions. What the inner child needs/fears. To belittle emotions or someone's needs/fears. Emotional vulnerability/suggestibility. Infantile emotions. Initial intuition. Intuition still needs to mature.


Child-Key
To open oneself up to new experiences. Very strong curiosity and openness. Beginner's mind (in the Buddhist sense). High vulnerability because we are both very open and naive. To open up to the idea of starting a family. To understand a child (or an inexperienced person); or, a child or inexperienced person understands something. The solution lies in keeping open mind! Beginning of understanding. The first step is to open up. To allow one's inner child something. Naive openness; guileless trust. A very weak means; a means which can actually accomplish little. To use cuteness to get somewhere or something. The first step to liberation.


Child-Fish
Little profit. To behave in a way that minimizes one's profit. Inexperience with business, or financial affairs. To start a business. To put high value on having a child. To spend much money on a child. To feel the pressure to give a child lots of things. To be irresponsible with money or goods. To play around with money or business (for good or bad). Too many children. A job that's easily lost / profit which could very easily be lost. To gamble for money.


Child-Anchor
To be solid as a rock for a child or inexperienced person. If we are the one who is young or inexperienced the Anchor might represent someone who can be our rock. To cling to a child too much; a child is the focus of our life. To think little of a stable life full of routines. Weak hold. Fragile residence (soon we might have to move on again). Weak focus (short attention span). New routine; the beginning of taking up residence, of putting down roots. To restrain curiosity/playfulness.


Child-Cross
Child under pressure; child is a burden; beginning of responsibilities, inexperience with responsibilities. To be naive concerning the hardship something entails. Hardship which is (yet) small. Too weak for a burden. Someone who is easily indoctrinated. Great weakness. Inner child is weighed down by life's work. Playful approach to our duties; to play around when we should behave responsibly.


Child - Wild Card
A child who is transgender or intersex. Open questions regarding a child or having children. Our inexperience leads to there being many things that seem indeterminate to us, or which we don't know yet at all. Something hasn't started yet. To think little of something only because there is noclear label for it. There is something there which is very important - but it's fragile! A playful approach to things which we don't have an answer to yet. A (possibly genderqueer) person with the attributes of the Child (see the Child's keywords).


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