Ace of Swords and Ace of Pentacles

Clarity and material means, with no feeling and no fire in the pair at all. The tradition reads this as the coldest and most competent pair of Aces: you can see the situation accurately and you have something real to work with. What it does not tell you is whether you want it.

An unusual and slightly austere reading. Associated with arrangements that are clear-eyed and workable, and with decisions about a relationship made on their merits rather than in the heat of it.

The strongest Ace pairing for anything commercial. Read for openings where both the opportunity and the understanding of it are genuinely present.

Both cards are already agreed with each other, so the question the pair does not answer is the one worth asking: this is plainly a good opportunity, but is it yours.