Seven of Hearts as a Birth Card

These are very sensitive people. They feel others deeply and often sacrifice themselves for those they love. Their love can be remarkably selfless.

The Seven of Hearts' path runs from anxiety to trust. At first love seems fragile, and the urge is to hold on to it. Later comes the understanding that real love doesn't need holding.

• Sensitivity. You understand people's feelings without words.
• Selflessness. You love without demanding anything in return.
• Compassion. You know how to support someone who is hurting.
• Spiritual depth. You look for meaning in love, not only pleasure.

Sensitivity makes you vulnerable. The person worries about being loved less, grows jealous and seeks reassurance, which wears both people out.

The other side of the same problem is boundless self-sacrifice, when your own needs vanish for someone else's sake. Unconditional love begins with not giving yourself up.

You love deeply and generously. For you a relationship isn't a deal but a path of two souls, and you are ready to put your whole heart into it.

Learn to trust. The less you hold your partner, the more firmly they stay beside you.

The Seven of Hearts opens up in work of service and support: psychology and psychotherapy, medicine, spiritual practice, social work, charity, the arts.

It needs to feel that the work helps people; otherwise it loses interest.

This card's days run through the whole of autumn and end on Christmas Eve, December 24. Sevens stand in the middle of a suit, at the turn from the earthly to the spiritual, and the Seven of Hearts is the moment when love stops being only personal.