Numbers: the grammar of the minor cards

The numbered cards follow a simple grammar. If you know the suit and the number, you already know the outline of the card.

Number	Grammar	In this deck
Ace	the seed, a pure possibility	the White Coin: a single fungal spore landing on its host
Two	a fork: choice, balance, a pair	a desert shrub that both photosynthesizes and taps a neighbor
Three	a crowd: collaboration	grass and fungus sharing one body (Three of Pentacles)
Four	a pause: stability, or a stall	ergot’s sealed winter store (Four of Pentacles)
Five	conflict, loss	blister rust thinning the high pines
Six	passage, exchange	the halo of spores a fly leaves on the glass
Seven	options, illusions, taking stock	the cicada still singing after the fungus took its body
Eight	restriction, craft	fungi that grow on one exact segment of one beetle
Nine	a heavy load, almost there	the honey fungus, one organism, four square miles
Ten	completion, overflow	corn smut: ruin to one farmer, delicacy to another

Suit + number = a sentence. The Five of Cups is conflict in feeling: grief, disappointment. The Eight of Swords is restriction in thought: feeling trapped by your own ideas.