In the Kalo (Hunian Tarot), the 2 of Pentacles is the card of balance. It means something in your life needs to be brought back into balance. Since it is it the suit of Pentacles it often refers to your finances.

The cool part about the Hunian Kalo is that there are three levels. The first level is the study of the Rider Waite Tarot deck with Hunian interpretations. After this level is completed, the next level involves a standard poker deck – regular playing cards. This level gets a bit tricky as each of the 52 cards has a peg word and visual meaning that must be memorized for a reading to make sense. At that point, any deck of cards can be used to have a conversation with your Aumakua.

The peg word for the 2 of diamonds (diamonds correspond with pentacles in the poker deck) is Dune. The visual description of this card is “Falling into the image of a sand dune. Maybe a slight feeling of dizziness, maybe my chair settles a little. A chair in hot sand….moving to keep it in balance.” Similar, but different from the 2 of Pentacles.

Lani and I used to argue about which deck was best. He said I was married to the Tarot cards and I was. He liked the poker deck and would do readings every day at his favorite restaurant (whichever was the favorite restaurant of that day). Everyone thought he was playing some kind of solitaire. The Tarot cards draw a different kind of attention from curious passers by.

It wasn’t until Lani introduced me to the third level, the Kumu level of the Hunian Tarot that I fell head over heals in love with the Poker Deck. The Kumu level is the most advanced level, not just because it’s the third one, but because after you become immersed in the study of them, the cards begin to become transparent and become pukas into the world of spirit. There is one card that can speed up time and another that will slow it down. They work! I’ve done it.