Ace of Wheat
Sic Vos Non Vobis
Thus you labor, not for yourselves. Wheat and bushel—abundance given freely.
Wheat and bushel together — the grain and its measure, abundance made accountable. Sic vos non vobis (thus you labor, not for yourselves) was Virgil’s rebuke to those who claim credit for others’ work.
But Paradin repurposed the phrase as praise: the wheat does not eat itself. Its purpose is gift, its fulfillment is another’s nourishment. The ace of wheat announces a suit concerned with cycles larger than individual appetite.
To hold this card is to ask: for whom do I grow?
Source: Paradin, Devises Héroïques, 1557, p. 210