Ace of Diamonds

Aristotle called the management of a household oikonomia — the root, eventually, of our word economy — and insisted it was a genuine philosophical discipline, not a lesser cousin to abstract thought. The Ace begins exactly there: a single point of focus, the first moment a feeling agrees to become a fact in the physical world. Jung's sensation function is nothing more or less than this — direct, unmediated contact with what's actually, concretely here. A coin only carries worth once a culture agrees to believe in it; the diamond only means something once it's been cut, valued, put to use. Raw material isn't wealth yet. What you do with it is where the value actually begins.