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T is a very popular beli ef that cards wer e inve nted in orde r to amus e King Charl es VI of France at a time when that monarch was mentally un stabl e Th i s lege nd however like so many pretty stori es of the past h as no foundation in fact as cards w e re known long b e fore the mad monarch s days I t is tru e that a cour t miniature paint e r named Grin g on n eur did paint or origi nat e som e card s whi ch he i ntroduced to the King but card s were fir st us e d in the East in ve ry anci e nt days and it i s a curiou s fact that the other great world popular indoor gam e Ch es s al so originated in the Ea st and i s still played to day by m eans of a pack of card s I t al so se ems obvious that cards reach e d the We st in the same way and by the same rout e as Ch ess probably thr ough the gipsi es that strange unconque rable Ea st e rn rac e of wande rers who se actual origin still baffle s our researche s Naturally a rac e of people with no s e ttled home or nationality would find much di m cul ty in moving th e ir personal belongings from place to place and would appre cia t e any amusem e nt that could be reduced to the form of a pack of cards ,

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Ch ess was the gre at Ea stern gam e and is in many ways charact e ristic of a p e ople to whom Tim e was of no importance Cards may have b ee n a gam e originally but as known by the n sies they were only u sed for the purpo se s of Divination or Fortun e T e lling and right up to the pr esent day they still form the mo st popular an d wid espre ad m eans of t e sting the fortun e Known as Tarocchi or Tarots the Divination cards numbe re d s e ve nty eight and we re without numb ers—o r pips as we call them— which we re introduced in Europe for the sake of simplicity in the fourt ee nth century Such packs are still in u se in parts of the Contin e nt but the We st e rn pack has gradually tak e n its plac e bo t h for t he purpo se of Divination and for playing gam e s—i n fact ” it i s usual to sp e ak of a pack Of Playing cards a dis tinction that i s hardly n e ce ssary nowadays as it is not e a sy to obtain a pack of Tarot card s unle ss one knows where to go for the m The fact howe ve r that we still u se this distinctive name shows that at one time the two kinds we re in u se side by side I f w e compare a complet e Tarot pack of cards with t he mode rn Playing cards we shall fi nd many inter e sting points of re se mblance and at the sam e tim e di scover t he r e ason for the C hang e s mad e in the W e st e rn W orld There are twenty one Tarot cards that are u sed solely for purpos es of Divi nation and the d esigns of the se cards vary greatly and have probably neve r had any r eal sign ifi canc e In addition to the se th er e i s always a card known as the Fool — and as far as We know the card has always re mai n e d the sam e For p urpos e s of Divination it has no s e parate indication but s e rves to intensify the m ean ing of the card n e xt to it Thus it b e com es a v ery power ful and dominant card wh en o n e is fore t elling the Future as the indication supported by the FOO1 is certa in to be ,

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active and therefore must in fluence or ev e n suppre ss al l othe r indi cations As sociat e d with a good card the FOO1 is strong e nough to carry you through much e vil ; time s may prove troublous but you will pull cl ear b e fore long On the oth er hand if the FOO1 i s attached to a bad card any sign s of good fortune shown by the oth e r cards will not b e strong enough to sav e you from the thr e atened trouble though the y may modify it to som e e xtent I t is a curious fact that in certain card gam es w e still find this all powe rful J est e r who has the happy powe r of over trumping the Ac e of Trumps what eve r the suit may be Apart from thi s our mode rn p ack of Playing c ards has e ntirely abandon e d the twenty two sp e cial Divination cards of the Tarocchi though these cards were and still are use d for gam es as well as for Divination purpo ses in thos e countri e s wh ere the Tarot pack i s still in re gular u se I n addition to the se twe nty two card s the Tarot pack contains fifty six cards divide d into four suit s j ust as our mode rn packs are di vid e d But the superior W e st e rn mind has d estroye d all the original cl e ve r sign ificanc e o f the Tarot and has sub stitut e d the sens eless j angle of Diamond H eart Club and Spade— meaningless s e nse l ess non se nse I n the Tarot the four s u its are re presented by other e mbl e ms —we have t he Vas e which re prese nt s the Pri estly ca ste of the East ; the Sword which indi cat es t he Warrior ca st e ; the Pi e ce of Mon e y which cl early shows the M e rchant cast e ; and finally t he Baton or Club gives us the Yeoman or Till e r of the soil H ere th en we have four suit s of c ards each one re presenting a di stinct class of p e ople and in the quartett e are cove red all classes of the p e opl e — for in t he early ,

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Eastern days the Priestly caste were the rulers and chose the King or nominal ruler They we re quite cap able of removing him pe acefully if he did not follow their bidding So our four suit s give u s the Rulers the Figh ters t he M e rchants and the Farmers W e wil l now compare these fo ur anci e nt Tarot suits ,

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with o ur modern W estern nonsense — He a rts Clubs D iamonds and Spad es ! The Vase or Cup of the Tarocchi car ds has b e come the Heart of the mod e rn pack ; this is a n e a sy change as the bowl remains while the st e m has been thickened to complete the heart shape d e sign Although thi s suit original ly repres e nted Religion or the Priestly caste it was never considered what may be called a lucky ,

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suit in the mode rn se n se of the word Curiously e nough this has always been the suit we now call Clubs which originally re pr es e nt e d the Tille r of the Soil Obvi ously there i s a sound philo sophy in this arrang e m e nt fo r the mass of the p e ople we re indire ctly taught that good fortune w ould follow th eir own p erson al e xer tions and that th e y should not blindly r e ly upon the favour of the high god s Thi s s ui t has b een variously re prese nt e d in the past ; the B aton i s shown som e tim e s as a branch w ith sprout ing l e ave s ; it see m s probabl e that our mode rn Club i s d erive d from the lucky Tr e foil a very old and wide spread sup erstition I t m ay r e pre se nt the busin ess e n d of a with the short e n e d h an dl e turning downwards S pa d e Anyhow the Club or Tr efoil suit i s the lucky o n e for Divin ation purpo ses I t i s e asy to se e how the Pi ec e of Mon ey originall y a crud ely square d pi e c e of m e tal change d into the Di amond with i ts mode rn associ ation with wealth ; and it i s also quite cl ear that t he Spad e r e pr ese nt s t he handle and blade O f a Sword typical of the fighting ca st e I t i s import ant th at w e should cl early und erst and th ese Ch ang e s b e for e w e con sult t he card s as t o our futur e be caus e t he mod ern suit names are m erely non se n sical whe r ea s the origin al Ta rot suit s assist u s to follow the re ason e d m eanings give n to the vari ous cards H er e th e n in t he Ol d Tarot pack o f fifty—si x c ard s as al so in the modern Playing p ack of fi ft y— two cards we h ave four typical suits It i s di fficult to account for the al teration in numb e r unl e ss it w as don e out of r espe ct ” fo r t he Thirt e e n sup erstition that b e ing the fat e ful numb e r in all Divination Y e t the original fourt ee n car d s to the suit w as not alt ere d fo r Di v ination pur po ses but pure ly for gam es ! Thi s appears so contradictory .

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that one is al most forced to the b e lie f that there must be som e othe r explanation It is important that we shO u l d notice that the Tarot suits cont ai n e d t en numb e red cards as in the modern pack and al so four p rin cipal cards now known as Court cards which originally con si sted of King Que e n Knight and Jack four natural grade s of rank if we look upon ” the Jack as t he common pe opl e For some unknown reason the Knight was omitted but the ide a of the four Court cards Was actually retained and the simple One of the suit was promoted over the he ad of the King It seem s to me probable that t hi s was an attempt to retain the Fool which really forms part of the more important s e ction of the Tarot pack whi ch was n ot us e d as a full pack O f s e venty— eight cards but a sort of twin pack with a Maj or or Gre at Arcana of twenty— two cards and a Minor or Le sser Arcana of .

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Having re duced the pack to fi fty— the loss si x cards of the Fool was quickly re alised and the lowest card of e ach suit was th e n made into a sort of limit e d or local Fool with the power of the original Fool of trumping the King though only of his own suit Thi s superstitious introduction of what amo u nted to a fifth Court card e rs al caused the throwing out of the Knight and the univ ' adoption of our curious mode rn pack which consists of four Court c ard s and ten common ers yet only contains thi rte e n c ards Thi s C xplanation of the re duction of the pack to fi ft y two cards appe ars t o be confir m e d by the lat e r appe ar ance of the Piquet pack popular in France and on the Continent — her e the pack is reduced to thirty— two card s four Court cards and four commoners in each suit As t he One card had been promoted to the proud po si ,

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tion of Fool or Ac e it was natural— though absurdl y illogical— to continue the re duction from that en d of the pack Thus we hav e the ve ry ridiculous pack containin g S eve n Eight Nin e Ten and the four Court cards I f the Pique t pack had b ee n derive d from the original Tarot pack of fifty six cards it would undoubt e dly have containe d On e Two Three Four Jack Knight Queen and King I t is a ve ry curious fact that th ere should b e four suits in a pack of card s although as alre ady shown the s e balance nice ly with the four E stat e s : Prie st s or Rul e rs Warriors or Fighting Men M erchant s or Arti sans and the Till e rs of the Soil or common peopl e An early East ern form of the gam e of Ch ess was a four playe rs variation e ach alt ernate playe r partne ring hi s v i s cl v i s j ust the sam e as in mode rn Bridge or Whist The two partner s in t hi s form of Chess use d pi e ces of a similar colour—two using red pi e c e s the othe r pair using whi te or black ! The n from the East dating from about the sam e pe riod we hav e the four suits of the Tarocchi c ard s again two re d and two black All thi s point s Clearly t o a common E as t e rn origin for Chess and Card s and the prob ability se e m s t o be that card playing or Divination has b een derive d from Chess I t i s worth noting that the re is an Obscur e form of Chess in whi ch the pi e ces are al l o ff the board at first as are the cards in the han ds of a playe r ; th ey are pl ac e d on the board or table on e at a tim e as t he playe r s tur n com es round and the y are not active till th ey ar e thu s displaye d— j ust as in card game s I n the early ye ars o f the fift ee nth century the art of e ngraving wa s pe rfe ct e d and print e d colour e d cards came into u se in plac e of the old hand paint e d packs About the middl e of that century the pres e nt sui t ,

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symbols we re first use d on French cards of the reig n o f Charles VI I Thirty years lat e r we find many refer ” e n c e s to Chess and Cards showing the Close popul ar c onnection between the two games It is a curious and fascinating point in this study of the hi story of cards that the G erman invention of e m graving was directed to the production of packs of cards not books ! The printing of the Bible in I 45 5 followed shortly after the production of the first packs of engrave d c ards The earli est suit values apart from the original Tarot suits we re Hearts Leave s (Tre foil now Clubs ) Acorns ( Diamonds) and Bells ( Swords or Spades ) So popular we re the comparatively cheap engraved p acks of c ards that ev e ry artist turn e d his attention to them and for some years the suits were repre sented in s core s of ways b efore settling down to the mod e rn uni versal and somewhat sensele ss serie s of H e arts Diamonds Clubs and Spade s Thus there w e r e figur e s of m en and wom e n birds b e a sts fishes fl owers— some cards were square or O blong some c i rcular In all th es e early e n g raved packs as in the anci e nt Tarot e xamples every c ard was a full design— the simple pips of to day date from the b e ginning of the sixteenth c e ntury and are — t r robably h e r e sult of a numb r of indecent o at any e p — rat e ind elicate designs b e ing produc e d It i s important to rem e mb e r that the re was no actual Queen on the genuine ancient Tarocchi card s nor was th e re a Quee n in th e ir game of C he ss—in both cas e s this C hange was mad e in the d an di fi ed atmo sph e r e of W e stern E uropean Court circl es The original d esign was a Vizier o r Prime Minist e r— nat u rally in the Far East and e sp e c i ally i n tho se early days wom e n we re con spicuous by the ir modest absence from public vi e w But quite apart from that both Che ss and Cards are really fighting game s ,

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and were use d by warriors when not professionally engage d Thus we have the King his Vizi e r or Gen e ral hi s Knights or Warriors t he Jack or Knave thought by som e to r e pr e s e nt th e King s sons though more obviou sly the well to do p e opl e and t he commoners I t i s wort h noting that an Ol d East e rn form of Che ss was playe d on a board of ten squares e ach way thu s absolut e ly agre e ing with the t en common e r card s of our Tarot and Playing packs I t se e m s probabl e that a t en pi e ce gam e with superior pi e ce s or card s was the original sourc e of our modern Ch es s with i ts e ight common and eight sup erior pi e c es as well as of our modern Playing cards with the original ten common er card s but only three distinct supe rior cards toge th e r with the double po sition of the Ac e which r e pre sents On e in som e case s and the Fool in others I n t he following chapt ers we shall describe all the b est r ecognised methods use d for Divination by cards I t do e s not follo w that w e b e li eve in What is t e chn ically known as Cartomancy nor in the rigidity and c ertainty of our so call ed Fat e I n fact a rigid b eli e f in Fatalism so prevalent in the East at onc e d estroys all our pe rsonal r espon sibility for our actions and d estroys all inc e ntive all ambition all strivi ng for bett e r thi ngs I t is sol ely du e to thi s lack of striving that the Ea st has r e m ain e d almo st stationary in progress for so many c e nt u ri es while the l ess sup erstitiou s W e st has gone rapidl y ah ead The e asy doctrin e o f Fat ali sm has much to an swe r for Still our lives are full of r em arkabl e coincid enc es many of the m impo ssibl e of e xplan ation I t would b e absur d to di spute t he fact that we are al l gre atly and perma n e n tl y in flue nced by our surroundings and by e ach othe r The g e n e ral principl e of Heredity is well unde rstood but .

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no one kn ows how far reaching i ts remorseless grip may go It is impo ssible for any thinking r easonable person t o de ny that the Pres e nt — o r the Past— does and must — fl t h in uence e Future t o what ext e nt this may go is still a myst e ry The e ss e ntial fe ature behind Cartomancy is e xactly the same as in seve ral othe r forms of Divin ation— the person whos e future is to be read m u st in som e way in fluence matt e rs Som e Diviners use a Crystal that has be e n h e ld in the hands of the que stioner who thus per and so it is claimed cause s son ally a ffe cts the Crystal vi sions to appear therein Other Diviners ask for some p e rsonal article closely as sociat e d with the person whose future is in question Obviously this method is not quite so safe as it is practically impossible to use any article that is sol ely person al to one indi vidual A glove or handkerchi e f is often u sed but it seems perfe ctly Clear that eithe r of the se must carry many othe r in fluenc es besides tho se of the owner A lock of hair seems b est but eve n the n th e re may be the in fluence of one s hair dre sser o r on e s maid—e spe cially a lady s maid who would handle he r mistres s s locks eve ry day in the o r di n ary cour se of her duti e s To a gre at e xtent this que stion of mixed in fluences must al so a ffe ct the Crystal apart from the Clos e inti mat e touch o f the Divin e r if he or S he holds it in the hands For this re ason a black ve lve t pad is often used for the support of the Crystal after the questioner has handled it But it is obvious that this precaution cannot be fully effective as e ach qu estioner i n turn must han dl e the C rystal and thus a ff e ct it though to what e xt e nt is not known The most accurat e result I have e ve r com e across and it was startling in i ts exact truth was made -

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It wo ul d the refore be hopelessly ridiculous to expect the cards to repeat any one set of de tails concerning the q ue stioner s futur e indeed one cannot re asonably e xp ect the repetition of eve n one dominant point unless the questioner has suffici ent will power to kee p his or her thoughts steadily upon the one point If you u se the Cards or the Crystal to oblige a fri end who is idly curious you may de al in twenty different ways an d never get two that agree Wha t else can you expect It is therefore advisable to make sure that your sitter is re ally in earnest and then persuade him or her to con centrat e their thought s upon one principal dominant idea— let it be what it will Then you may reasonably expect to get good re sult s Let me give o n e earn e st word of warn ing— never offer to pretend t o foretell the Future that is impossibl e As far as we know the re is n o de fi nite fixed or rigid — u Future for any o n e of s all you can do is to point out how the subj e ct is dri fting how he or she is likely to be placed or affected wh e the r a ce rtain thing desirable or unpleasant is likely to come about — n e ve r that it wi ll come about Free will is the key note of al l Dame Nature s efforts and every one of u s is master of his own De stiny within the limitations of his own person al ity B ear that clearly in mind when you read the cards Never stat e that a thing wi ll happen but that it app ears probabl e in the present course of affairs For instance if an illn ess is in di cated it may in many cases b e avoide d altoge ther or greatly modifie d in its e ffe ct s if r ea sonable care and precaution are taken It is j ust the sam e with p e opl e and affairs — we n ee d not drift their way if we choose to S truggle aga in st them ’

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The Fut u re is in each person s own hands but the f all of the cards if co rrectly i nt erpret e d may serve as a warn ing against po ssible dangers that lie ahead of us or alternatively they may serve as a stimul us and cause us to put forth still great e r efforts to secure some desirable result Before describing the various methods of Card Divin a tion I S houl d li ke to po int out that it is not n e cessary to memorise the various me anings of the cards The simplest plan is to use a special pack and mark the m e anings and combinations on the face of each card I n t hi s way you avoid all te di ous re fe re nce s and quick ly l earn how to read from any particular fal l of the cards It is not conside red po ssible to work for your own information with any de gre e of accuracy but that need not pre vent your re gul ar practice with the cards Shuffle and cut as if you were a stranger to yourself ask any reasonable question that occur s to you and in that way ende avour to gathe r from the fall of the cards what answe r you wo ul d give a stranger u nder simil ar Circum stances Practic e will soon make you profici e nt and wil l open your e ye s to the wonderful combinations that are po ssibl e unde r Cart omancy B e gin with an ordi nary modern pack of Playing cards but go on to the full Tarocchi Divination You need not b e e xtravagant over the pur chas e of a g e nuine Tar o t pack but c an e asily cut twe nty six cards of the ordi nary size upon which you can writ e the n e c essary description s For the Tarot Divination cards you n ee d only numb e r yo ur blanks from one to twe nty one ; the n you n ee d a Fool and fin al ly the four Knight s one for each suit I n thi s way you can obt ai n a cheap and very interesting pack of Tarot Divination card s with whic h you can entertain and possibly help your friends ,

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Sho ul d you have any artistic powers or happe n to know any gift ed friend these extra cards can be orna m en ted a n d co l oured to yo u r own fancy provided you insert the necessary numbers In fact it woul d not be a di fficul t task to design and paint a full pack of Tarot cards for your own use— in which cas e a visit to the B ritish Museu m or the Guil dh all woul d give you some us eful ideas upon which t o base your de signs In the modern printed packs there is much needl ess monotony but in a g e nuine Tarot pack or in a mode rn h and pain ted pack no two cards would be ali ke For t he Hea rt suit you would introduce one Cup in an upper c orn er for the Ace and so on ; oth e rwi se you can l et u l our fancy rove how and where it will One suit co d y represent Flowers another Animal s a t hi rd a series of ' Women s C ostumes of various ages a fourth Bir ds— you can vary them to any extent though each s ui t shou ld S how a s i mil arity of thought for al l the cards ,

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HE pack consis ts of fi fty two cards— four suits of thirt ee n each Each suit consi st s of the Ace King Queen Jack Te n Nine Eight Seve n Six Five Four Thre e and Two —o r alternatively of K ing Que en Jack Ten Nine Eight Sev e n Six Five Four Thr ee Two -

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Each card take n by it self and in connection with that prec e ding and following it i e one two and thre e cards at a time will give s eve n po ssible com b i n a ti o n s Now 7 x 5 2 which adde d to the 364 pack or unit gives 3 65 the number of days in the year So the n it will be seen that the pack of fifty two cards corresponds at al l points with the natural divisions of time The Ace of each suit rules the first week of the cor responding Season and i s followed by the King Queen Jack Ten etc declining till the lowest card the Two is reached The v al u e or signification of the four suits is bri e fly a s f ollows ,

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and flaxen or re d hair They also de not e pe rsons gr ey or whit e h ead e d with age H e arts d enote fair p e opl e darke r than the Diamond type with blue or grey e ye s and brown hair Clubs denot e brown e ye d people with brown hair ; the ave rag e brun e tt e typ e Spade s de note very dark pe ople almo st black or rave n coloure d N B — A Club in the case of a widow or widowe r b e com e s a Spade A H e art in similar ca ses b ecomes a Diamond Boys and girls are d e noted by the Jacks of the Suits according to th eir colouring ; and the sex i s shown by the King or Qu ee n n e ar e st or touching them The Jacks in ge n e ra l d enot e attendants s e rvitors s ervants attaches followers et c thus .

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Take however a simple illustration as a guide to the g e n eral m e thod The King of Clubs falling between the Nine of Spades and Ace of Spades ( revers e d) wo ul d i n d i c ate that the consultant if a Club man is in imm e dia te danger of d eath or of ve ry s e ve re illn es s bringing him n e ar to de ath If howeve r an Ace of Diamonds and a Ten of H e arts were on either sid e of the King of Club s he would b e on the eve of marriage and in a very happy condition o f mind Sever al Co ur t cards coming together S how assemblies gathe rings of peopl e and f e stiviti es public functions e tc with the Ace of Spad es in a church theatre or othe r high buildi ng ; with the Ace of Hearts at the hous e of the con sultant and so on The Kin gs al l coming together S how business ; the Qu eens thu s plac e d S how talk and scandal ; the Jacks workm e n about the hous e agents and servant s dange r of trickery ; and if e vil cards add their testimony it may b e det e ctiv e s or bail iffs cre ditors and othe r unpl e asant vi sitors The Aces fal l ing together denote new surroundi ngs with succ ess or failure according to the card s that follow the m ; but the Aces always S how a change of life whe n falling toge th e r N B — I f the cons ul tant be marri e d the King or Quee n of the same sui t must always be taken as the husband or wife P OS I TI ON Much importance attaches to the position in which an y card falls in relation t o the sign ifi c ator Above the sign ific ator denotes succe ss achievement the wi sh gai n ed Below d e not es that which is past compl e t e d obtained the condition in which the consultant now is ,

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nsure the de tection by marking the cards at one end by a little dot Usually only thirty two cards are us e d for fortune telling— the Two s Thre es Fours Fives and Sixes b e ing thrown out In o n e m e thod that will b e d e tail e d thirty six cards are us e d— the four Twos are added The Tarot pack consists of se venty eight card s but in some of the de lineations only a part of these are us e d Ge nerally the meanings of the cards remain fairly con stant for all the methods Thus a good omened card is always such— but the particular or S pecific meaning of it is al tered somewhat by the method of using it For ” example the Ten of Spad e s by one method mean s lo sses ” and if re vers e d tears in anothe r grief and if reversed passing trouble The Seven of Spades may ” m e an hope and if reve rsed friendship or it may ” ” be resolve and if reversed di flI cu l ty in love a ffairs These me an ings or values of the cards S ho ul d be well studi ed and committ e d t o m e mory so that whe n any particul ar card appears a key t o its interpretation is at once presented t o the mind of the reader The word k ey is used advi se dl y becau se these terms or val ues are not to be take n as the ab solute determination of the cards but rather as a gui de to the spe cific values in relation In this conn e ction it is as w ell to not e the m e anings of combinations I t i s e asy to imagin e that He art s ge n er ally are as sociat e d with love and marriage Thi s suit is also clos e ly related to domestic matt ers and to the soci al ameniti es of life Diamonds are ge ne ral ly associated with fin ancial considerations and though as has al r e ady be e n suggested they are modifie d by other cards coming close to them they are usually emblems of a favourable char act e r Clubs are almost always good Succes sful enterpr ises

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cont e ntm e nt in hom e lif e and pro sp erity in worldly u n Spades are the u n d e rtak i n gs are in di cated by Clubs fortunat e suit I f conne ct e d with love it i s us ually of an unre ciprocat e d natur e Sicknes s los ses and d e aths and mon e tary embarrassment s are all indi cat e d by Spades I f the re is a run of a particular sui t it will b e see n that Clubs will b e an ome n of the bright est charact e r while a similar run of Spad e s will indicat e the worst po ssibl e phas es of fortune A run of Heart s will foret ell succ e sses i n love of Diamonds in mon ey Combination s of Court cards are important Amongst others the following may b e not e d : Whe n the Aces com e toge the r the y d e note n ew sur roundings How t hi s will affe ct the fut ure fortune depe nds upon the in flue nce of the cards that follow th e m S ephari al sugge st s that t he Ac es coming together por t e nd always a change of lif e Foli thinks they imply dang er and financial lo ss But thi s is l esse ned if the y are re ve rse d ; thre e Ac es t e mporary trouble I t should b e rem e mbe re d that the mod e rn Ac e whe n not u se d as the On e re pre sents the old Fool whi ch ha d the powe r of ups e tting or changi ng eve rythi ng B e ar this in mind whe n r e a di ng t he cards Kings coming together de not e busine ss or as anoth e r authority has it honour s pre ferm ent good appoin t ” m ent s If re ve rsed of l es s val ue but arriving e arli e r Thr e e King s are a good omen unl ess r e ve rsed Four Quee ns imply t al k and scandal or a social gathe ring S poilt if t he c ards b e r e ve rse d Thr e e Quee ns de not e friendly visit s but if reversed possible danger to the consultant Whe n the Jacks come toge the r workm e n or ag e nt s about the hous e or roi st e ring and noisy con v i v i ali t Thr ee be toke n annoyanc es from fri e nds If y reversed the evil is not so conside rable ,

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Fo ur T e n s and four Nines stand resp ective ly for good fortune and surpris es Thre e Ten s are ve ry bad but three Nine s good Four Eights a mixed omen of succ ess and failure Thre e Eights new family ti e s Four S e vens troubl e i s immin e nt ; thre e ill he alth lo ss of fri e nds Nin e O f Diamonds and the Eight of H e arts tog ethe r is r egard e d as a sure indication of a j ourney Ten of Club s followe d by an Ac e b etokens a large sum of mon ey A s e quenc e of Ac e King Queen and Jack of o n e colour fore t ell Marriage so al so do the Te n of H e arts and Ac e of Diamonds When the Nin e and K ing of Heart s app ear toge th e r they form a good combination for lovers B e fore proce e ding to lay out the cards in any of the m e thods d e tail e d in the following page s the card teller mu st take the pack in hand and proc ee d to shu ffle t he m This is for the purpose of getting rid of the in fluence of any other person who may have b ee n handling the cards r e c e ntly The pack is the n hande d to the con sul tant who is require d to shu ffl e it ve ry thoroughly The attitud e of mi nd in which this shuffl ing S hould be don e d e p ends upon the purpose for which it is e ff ected If the gen e ral fortune past pr es e nt and futur e is r e quired th e n l et the con sultant maintain a passive mind neither anxious nor int e nt but wishing only to know the truth and to acc e pt without cavil or protest anything the diviner may predict from the cards ” If howe ve r a d e finite wi sh is require d then l et the mind O f the con sultant b e int e nt upon i ts nature and the sourc e of i ts gratification Le t this m e ntal atti tude be st eadily maintained while the shuffle i s b eing made I n r egard to this proce ss O f shuffl ing the cards it will be Obs e rve d that it is of the most vital importance sinc e the order in which the cards are subseque ntly laid out .

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cannot be al tered when once the shuffle is completed Some of our readers may think that nothing re liable can be drawn from a proceeding which is so obv iously a matter of chance But let such for a moment conside r the propriety of using such a word as chance The cards having b ee n duly shuffled the con sultant must cut the pack into thre e parts at hazard turning the cards thu s cut face upward s I n almost every case it will be s ee n that the three cards thus displayed will corr espond to the nature of the consultant s thoughts the wi sh or what i s upp ermost in his mind or n eare st him in event I f a lady is consulting and she cuts the Ace of Diamonds Jack of Heart s and Te n of Heart s without doubt her present lover will make her a gift of a ring If she we re to cut her own sign ificato r ( say the Queen of Clubs ) toge ther with the Kin g of Clubs and the Eight of Hearts it S hows a lover in the shape of a dark man If instead of the Eight of Heart s the Eight of Spade s were cut she would if married be in danger of a quarrel with her husband and her thoughts of him woul d not b e kind If unmarrie d she would b e about to quarrel with a dark man denoted by the King of Clubs In thi s mann e r the various combinations will denote what is in the Wind as regards the consultant The cards are take n up by the Diviner in the original order the backs be ing uppermost They are then laid out accord ing to any of the following methods The cards mus t ” b e shuffle d and cut be fore e ach and e very lay the cut be in g duly noted by the Divin e r Two of the b est known exponent s of Card Di v ination were the famous French consultants Madame Len o rm an d and Mon sie ur E tteila as he was known professionally We shall begin with thes e prove d me thods as they are practised and recognised all over the world .

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unexpe cted gain Whatever you have at stake will yi e ld you a good r e sult Clubs —Y ou will be be n e fit e d and put in the way of securing a be tt e r condition than you now are in Y ou will succ e ed fairly well Diamonds — Expect unlooked for things If you ask about mon e y at stake you will ge t it In othe r respects your surroundings are uncertain Look at the cards touching thi s number If H e arts or Clubs good ; if D iamonds mone y ; if Spad es exp ect loss by fir e water or ot her unlooked for e ve nt Spad es — Ve ry bad risks Unfortunate speculations thefts losses and eve n bankruptcy .

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Clubs — Your own merits and the good o ffi c es of friends wil l s e cur e you a victory over your rivals Diamonds — T hr ough som e S pite and i nt rigue you may hope for a deci sion in your favour The om e ns are fickl e Spades — You cannot hope for success in t hi s di re ction Your rival s wil l s ec ure all the favou rs you ex pect .

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how spite envy and j e alousy Spades indicate failur e treache ry m alice and l ack of initiative Wh e n good cards surround the number unde r con sideration it gives an augury of the best res ul ts but if Spade s or Diamonds fall th ere on and are surrounde d by good c ards it pro mi ses obstacl es an d d elay Wh e n Spades fal l there on and are s u rroun de d by e vil cards such as Jacks Spades and Diamonds it port e nds failur e in that particul ar indicat e d by the number The foll owing n u mbers d ese rve spe ci al comment :

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N the illustration ( p 48) of an actual falling of the cards it wi ll be noticed first of al l that the Two of Hearts re present ing the consul tant is reversed—thi s fac t must be borne in mi nd whil e we interpret the c ards Of the eight sur roundi ng c ards three represent pe ople two of these being men ; House number Twenty one where the Two of H ear ts rests signifies Rival r y of al l sorts not only in love but in business It is good that a Heart shoul d fal l here but the reversed position at once sugge sts delay or int erferen c e whi ch is al so c onfirm ed elsewhere Let u s n ow consider the Suits of the eight c ards ; we find that we have three Hear ts including the Fool who has the power of ch anging everything u nexpect e dly AS this card fal ls in House Thirty one showing Good Fort u ne we again see that al l will come right but in some un expected fashi on The re are al so two Clubs whi ch S how the in fl uence of friends ; two Diamonds an d only one Spade Thi s is a ve ry fortunate s e ries as far as suits go 1 The Eight of Spades is not a very bad one and signifies il l he alth in all probability especially as the person al card is the only reversed card in the s e ries The combination of the Ace of Diamonds in House Twenty two ( Gifts ) with the Ten of Clubs on eith e r side of the personal card sugg e sts the unexpected receipt of !

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m oney W e m us t als o note the presence of the Queen of Clu l E an d the Seven of Hearts whi ch strongly sugges t favours thr ough a woman and in all pr obabili ty the Jack of Hearts in Ho use Eleven repr es ents a rival in the affections of the woman in ques tion ” This b ri ef sketch wi ll give an idea of how it is done but the D ivin er mus t culti v ate the power by shuffl in g and arrangi ng the cards time after t ime until he or she can rec ognise the combin ations with some eas e W e m us t not however overlook the other in dicatin g car ds—for ins tan c e the Two of Diam onds represe nts the confidant Of the en quirer and in the present c as e this card fal ls on House Eighteen— which signifi es Happiness In the dia gr a m it appears t o be a long way from the Two of Hearts but in re ali ty it is only two places away from the vi t al gr oup of nine c ards with the Qu een of Hearts be tween—this is a good card and si gni fies a generous or affectionate wom an thus inten sifyin g and confirmi ng the previous rea din g The Two of C lubs is too far a wa y to affec t your Divin a tion though it fal ls in the M arri a ge House and is next the Eight of D iamonds —a j ourney probably to the home of the wo m an who is so vitally co ncerned in thi s matter Madame Le n o rm an d s m ethod of Card D ivination is an excell ent one an d is much favoured It has the great m erit of sim plicity and the use of the four Twos as in di c ators avoids distur ban ce of the C ourt card val ues It is nece ssar y t o point out that the full nine cards ca n only be obt ai ned when the Two of Hearts falls in one of the ce ntre rows Obviously if it falls in the top row you can onl y use si x car ds In this c ase I mys elf as sume that the bo tto m row has b een transpl anted above the series F or instance if an d in this way I secure th e ful l ni ne cards the Two of Hearts had fall en in House F our in stead of .

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row ; it is in dicated as KH We ca n now co unt nine to the right reckonin g the key card as one Our thi rd card however finishe s the row so we have four routes open to us ( I ) to t u rn upwards and k e ep t o the outer cards in which case the ninth car d woul d be the Ace of Hearts which we kn ow to represent the home an d as no Spade card adj oins it al l should go well ( 2) We can turn down wards and k e ep to the outer cards in which case we reach the Seven of Hearts indi catin g a fal se fri end and touchin g this card are a fair woman a warning against speculation unpleasant rumours a success car d ( Ace of C lubs ) an il lness — the pres e nce of the Ace of Clubs j us t savin g us from a ve ry ugly series of dis asters ( 3) W e ca n turn upwar ds and contin ue al ong the second row in which c as e we reach the S ix of H ear t s a generous pe rson whi ch is surro unded by a brun ette woman a war ni ng of c ar e in chan gin g plans a note of success if care is taken a dark man a letter a fair man an d unexpected news othe r people are far t oo muc h mix e d up in the li fe and plans of the en quirer an d great care is necessary ( 4) We can turn downwards an d proceed al ong the fourt h row and thus rea ch the Six of Clubs business suc cess whi ch is surrounde d by unpleasant ru mours warni ng against spe c ul ation a late m arri age a warn in g ag ai n st c han ge of p lan s a bru n e tte wo m an u nexpec te d ne w s a fat ali ty an d a success c ard ( Ace O f Clubs ) —a most unpleas an t mix t u re j ust sa ved from di saster by the Ace of Clubs The key c ard itsel f the Ki ng of Hea rts is surroun ded by a dark man a fai r wo ma n a j ourney a pr udent m ar ri age a slight disappo i ntm en t temper trouble with friends the thoughts of someon e —so it seems reas onable to as sume that a marriage rather late in li fe probably with a woman as fair as or fairer than himself ( the Queens of Hearts Clubs and Diamonds are all am ong the c ar ds .

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togeth e r b earing in m ind that the card from the right is Suppose we take the Eight al ways the more powerful of Spades from the right and the Seve n of Clubs from the l e ft we find that a slight illness or accident will result in the receiving of a sm al l su m of money On the other hand if the Seven of Clubs comes from the right and the Eight of Spades from the left the meaning will b e quite different — that the rece ipt of a small su m of mon e y will result in a slight illness or accid ent I n this way all the cards but one are pai red o ff leaving t he Surpris e card alon e and the re ading of this c ard will affe ct eve ryt hi ng else There i s another way of working this arrangement whi ch is only slightly di ffer e nt The pack having been shuffl e d and cut into thr e e heaps the p e rformer takes up the centre heap and remove s the bottom card i e the card that is face uppermost Thi s i s placed on the table as the first card of the required row for d e termining the decre e s of Fate The last cut heap is then simil arly dealt with the bottom card being plac e d second in the row and the remainder placed on top of the centre heap as in the fir st method So ag ai n wi th the fir st cut heap originally on top of the pack The cards are now d e alt in threes as before but the highest of each three is cho sen quite irrespective of suit For instanc e should you turn up the Seve n of Hearts the Ac e of Clubs and the Jack of Hearts the Ace would b e chosen in this system whereas the Jack would have b e en selected unde r the original m e thod If three cards of equal val ue or three cards al l of the same suit should appear all three are adde d to the row the card face upp ermo st b e ing adde d fir st and so on Go on in this way till the re are only two cards left in your hand ignoring of course all those thro wn away as ,

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useless In the first method the rej ected cards are used in order to complete the necessary odd number for the D ivination but that is never done under the present system U nder the origin al plan it wi l l often happe n that the t hree car ds are al l of differ e nt suits and must therefore all be di scarded That is not the case by the pre s e nt simpler method as the highest card i s chosen ea ch t ime irrespectiv e of suit Also you be gi n wi th three car ds which makes a further difference Thus it happens that out of thirty two cards you are bound to have at l east twe lve cards in your row and if you have t urn e d up three of a suit or thr e e of a val ue at any time the numb e r wi ll be in c reas e d Retai n the las t two cards in your hand and coun t the cards face upwards in your mystic row t o see if you have an O dd number If so disca rd the two cards left ov e r and proceed as be fore t o give your Divination by picki ng up the outside card from e ach end I f howe ver the num ber of your row i s even see if the type card ( r e pres e nting the enqui rer ) is among them ; if not pick it from the di scards an d add it to the extreme right of yo ur row I f the type card is al ready there se e if the Wish card ( Nin e of Hearts ) is al so present ; if not you add it to the end at the ri ght If both of these are in the row before you look for the en quirer s Thought card i e the Jack of the same sui t as th e type card that repr e sent s the enquirer I f all three of the se cards are in the row the n add the higher of the two cards remai n ing in your hand — but if by any perve rse C hanc e they are both of the same value th e n the Fates are not propitious and the enquirer must come again on some other day as the row m u st consist of an odd number of cards .

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day of the month and upon an odd day of the week S u nday being the first day in this reckoning This can generally be decided by counting the letters in the full Chri stian and surna m es Thus the name T HOMA S A TKI N S contains twe lve letters and therefore an even n um bered day would b e more propitious for consulting the cards Assuming the row of twe lve cards has be en completed they are pair e d off as in a pre vious experiment by taking o ne card from either end of the row the right hand card bein g the active or controlling card of the pair In the former experiment we worked with an O dd number of cards and that method sho ul d be used on odd numbered d ays for the benefit of people with odd numb e red names When working with twelve cards under the present m ethod ther e is no centre card left of course ; but the face down heap of three cards takes its place an d is call ed I ts reading always refers to so m ethi ng the Surprise u nexp e cted by the en q uirer I t wi ll be se e n that these three methods are all b ui l t — n the same general pri n ciple a row of odd or even o number and the co m parison of the end cards of the row right with left together with a strong Surprise at the finish All three m ethods have the advantage of si m p licity .

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below those that have already made themselves apparent in the past When readi ng for the Grand Star some general indica tions may be gained from groups Thus if three or four Kings Queens Jacks or Aces are shown thes e will give a general idea that must be taken into consideration in rea di ng the pairs As an example of a Grand Star reading Foli gives the following : The consultant is represented by the King of Hearts a fair ope n handed good natured m an and the pairs come out as follows : Queen of D iamonds and King of Spades ( I 4 and 1 6 ) Jack of Hearts and Ace of D iamonds ( 2 1 and Nine of Clubs ( reve rsed ) and Qu een of C lubs ( 1 5 and I 7) Jack of Spades and Eight of D iamonds ( reversed ) 2 0 ( and I 8) Ace of Spades and Queen of Spades ( 6 and 10 ) Jack of D iamonds and King of Clubs ( 9 and 1 2) Queen of Hearts and Eight of Clubs ( 8 and I 3) N ine of D iamonds ( reversed) and Jack of Clubs ( 7 an d I I ) Ace of Hearts and Ten of Spades ( 4 and 2) the Ace N ine of Spades and Ten of Hearts ( 5 and of Clubs is 22 Here the consultant is connected with ( 1 4) the Queen of D iamonds a fair woman with a tendency to flirtation she is amusing herself with ( I 6 ) a very dark man probably a lawyer of ambitious and not too scru p ul ous character who doe s not wish well to the enquir er The n e xt p air shows the Jack of Hearts repres e ntin g Cupid or the thoughts of the one concerned linked with m i 1 i Ace of Diamonds a weddi g ri n g W hile th s n ( 9) portant item is occupying his thoughts he gives a small present the Nin e of Club s reve rsed to ( 1 7) Queen of Clubs a charming dark lady who is the real obj ect of his affections .

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The Jack of Spade s ( 20 ) figu rin g a legal agent or the wily lawyer s thoughts mak e s mischief and ( 1 8) Eight of Diamonds ( re versed ) causes the enquirer s love makin g to be u nsuccessfu l ( 6 ) Ace of Spades warns hi m agai nst fal se friends who will frustrat e his matrimoni al proj ects and in 1 0 we find o n e of th e m the Queen of Spades a widow with possible d esigns upon hi m herself The Jack of Diamonds ( reversed) ( 9) shows the mis chief maker trying to bre e d strife with the en qui rer s trusty fri e nd ( 1 2) K ing of Clubs and ( 8) Queen of Hearts a fair lovabl e woman poss e ssing ( 1 3) Eight of Clubs a dark person s affe ctions ( 7 ) Nin e of Diamonds ( reve rsed) tells of a love quar r e l owing to ( 1 1 ) Jack of Clubs (re vers e d) a harmless fli rt The enquirer will get ( 4) the Ace of Hearts a love l e tter but his happiness will be succeeded by ( 2) Ten of Spades a card of bad import (5 ) The Nine of Spades t ell s of grief or sicknes s possibly news of a d e ath But ( 3 ) Ten of Hearts count e racts the e vil and promises happin e ss to the e nqui re r who shall triumph ove r the ” ob stacles in hi s path and find ( 22) j oy in love in life I t will be s e e n here that cards of evil import are mad e of li ttle avail by their association with those of better omen and the general indication from the groups is here quite f ai r Another method known as the Simple Star—see dia — gram is with fifteen card s in all To tell the fortune in thi s method place the sign i fic at or fir st of all on the c e ntr e position marked C ( consultant ) Shuffle the cards as previously d irected and l e t the con sultant cut the pack into thre e The cards thus cut are to b e turned up and used as the basis for the drawing for the Star From the c e ntre portion of the pack take the first card thus expos e d and place it upon I From ,

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In an ordinary lay out if the King of Clubs represent ing the consultan t were t o appear between the Ace of D iamonds and a Ten of Hea rts the omen is partic u larly fortunate I t would indica te that the enquirer is on the eve of a very happy marriage On the contrary should the cards on eith e r side be the Nine of Spades and the -

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and watch if in the deal th e y come on or n e ar the i e the Ace of Hearts si gn i fi c at o r or the Hous e c ard I f the cards ou t are good c ar ds it is a lucky om e n ; if bad cards the re is no doubt that the misfort u ne cannot be avoided Having noted the cards expos e d by the cuts replace the heaps in the ori gi nal order before you cont i nue Place ,

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past det ai ls ; the card on the top of the sign ific ator the consolation In the example on page 7 7 the Queen of D iamonds ( marri ed) is suppo sed t o b e the i nqu ire r Crown i ng the Queen of Diamonds is Eight of Spades and on that the King of Diamonds thi s predi cts a quarr e l with her husband On her left the Seven of Diamonds and the Ten of Spades ; she has be e n troubled with the illness of her child At her feet the N in e of Diamonds and the Knave of Spades the physician has been c al led in On the right the Te n of H e art s and Ten of Clubs ; a cha nge into the count ry and recovery of her child On the Queen the Nin e of H e arts ; her troubles are of short dur atio n The above method is most u seful to as certain p articulars of any bus ines s or even of persons not present Always put the c ar d repr esenting the subj e ct on whi ch you want info rma tion in the centre and place the cards roun d it as al r ea dy illustrated If information is requi red conce rn i ng the hous e the Ace of Hearts mus t be taken fro m the pack and used as a sign ifi ca tor Business is r e presented by the Ace of Spades ; a j ourn e y by the Ten of Club s ; a chi ld or animal by the Seven of Dia monds l e t te rs or business papers by the Ace of C lubs ,

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Place the fir st car d to the left of the type c ar d :represen t ing the enquirer the second c ar d to the right the thi rd card goes above and the fo u rth bel ow thus form ing ,

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each of the four sides while the fifth tenth and fifteenth ca rds will have been placed upon the type card itself c overing it N ow take each set of three cards by itself and read their meaning according to the table being S pecially car e ful t o watch for r e versed cards as well as for pairs a n d tripl e ts Also carefully note if two or more of the t hree cards are of any o n e suit as that greatly affects the result The set of three cards on the left S hould be read first of all as they repres e nt the immediate pas t of the en q uir er ; th e n the set of three on the right whi ch govern the immediate future After these if it is wished you can read the three c ards of the upper set which show the more r e mote pas t an d which c onsequently are somewhat aff e cted by your reading of the left hand set B al ancing one set c ar efully against the othe r you should easily be able to decide if thi ngs are impro v i ng for your enquirer—o r if th ey are dri fting for the reverse N ow consider the bottom set of three cards whi ch refer t o the more r e mote future and after readi ng their meaning noting reve rse s pairs triplets and suit s as before s u must bal a nce these against right hand set and thu o t h e y determine which way the futur e will tend Suppo se for in stance that apart from the ir individual meanings there are two Spades in the right hand set and either one or no Spad e in the bottom se t then the enquir e r may certainly look forward cheerful ly to a less e ning of any di fficulties that may be facing him at the moment The c e ntral set of thr e e cove ring the type c ar d give your answer to any special wish or question of the en — r s e u i th y do not apply to the past or future and e r q therefore need not b e read as regards their i ndividual ,

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dealt the fir st six with numbers thirteen t o sixteen are those whi ch in dicate the past the next six with numbers twenty two to twenty fiv e in dicate the future ; and the last cards t o be de al t with those adj oin ing them Q r e present the present A further divi sion is sugges ted The three inner rows fi v e indicate and refer more numbers thirteen to twenty— particularly t o the inner life of the con sultant whil st the outer cards represent more specifically hi s material worldly or external affairs ,

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After this the cards should be read singly by the i r several m eanings from ri ght to left of the row When all these have be en thrown aside the centre heap represent ing the Present is similarly exa m ined and then the F ut u re Finally the S urprise is consulted to see what un e x pe cted event is go ing to in fluence the life and fortunes of the en q uirer ,

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This is a very simple method for determ ining a single qu estion or wish The t hirt y two c ar ds are well shu fli ed by the en q uirer—the Diviner then deal s o ff thirt een cards face upwards on to the table an d makes a c areful sea rch for the four Aces I f any are foun d pla c e them face up by themselves The remainder of the pack includi ng what are left of the thi rteen are then re shuffl ed as before and the D ivin e r again de al s out thirteen cards and searches for further Aces This can be done for a t hi rd time but that is al l The e ar lier the fo u r Aces appear the better it will be for the enquirer— i i in the first deal it is exception all y fo rtunate — if in the second it is cert ai nly very good luck as a rul e they ar e not compl eted ti l l the third attempt has been m ade Those that appe ar in each de al sho ul d be kept separate as it is very import ant t o notice the order in whi ch the suits appe ar Thi s w il l clearly S how the amount of effort needed be fore the wish or q uestion is satisfactorily ah if the Spade Ace appears first of swere d —for instance the en q uirer m us t b e prepared t o face trouble and al l di fficul ty even shoul d all four Aces appear in the co u rse of the first de al Thi s is a very useful m ethod t o kn ow as several q ues -

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tions can be de al t with in a ve ry short time and there is no need t o remember any list of meanings I t is as well to limit the questions to three however as the cards are never so reliable when overworked or tired Another S imple method for answering a single question is worked with the full pack of fifty two cards First remove the type card representin g the enquirer Kin g or Qu een as it happens to be Then have the fi fty one cards well shuffl ed and cut into three heaps of any size They shoul d be ou t towards the ri ght by the left hand— the enqui rer makes the fir st cut placing the uppe r portion of the pack on the right an d then cuts this latter heap int o two The Diviner ta kes the centre hea p ( origin al ly the middl e of the pa ck) face down in his h and adds to it the right hand heap ( originally the top of the pack) and fin al ly the left hand heap goes on top of al l Now make a circle of forty— two cards face down on the table— inside thi s m ake a triangle of the re mai nin g nine cards The en qui rer mus t now turn over any fifteen cards replacin g them face upwards in the original positions W hen thi s is done read them accordi n g to the number of each sui t expo sed ,

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The thirty two cards are to be shu ffl ed and cut once as usual with the left ha nd and the enqui re r sho ul d wish once d uring t hi s process Then the cards ar e de al t out one by one so as to for m seven heaps— six of these to form a semicircle— the cards for these being pla ced face downwards while the seventh heap is built in the centre and the cards are dealt face upwar ds ” i The seven packs represent yourself ( e the -

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enquirer) ; your home ; what you expect what you don t expect the S ur p rise what is s ure t o ” ” come true and your wish It will at once be noticed that some heaps will contai n five ca rds e ach others onl y four each The heaps sho ul d be arran ged fro m left to right — the first c ard dealt start in g the heap on the extreme l e ft and the se venth card go ing fac e upwards in the c e ntre Some Divin ers employ this m e thod but only use seven teen cards— the pack is shuffl ed and cut as before but only the fir st seventeen ca rds ar e dealt Thi s method is certainly simpler as the heap s only cont ai n two or t hr ee cards each ; it is also thought to be a great advantage as the exposed cards nat u r ally v ar y greatl y as regards the proportion from each suit If you use the f ull pack there m ust of necessity be eight of each s u it ; where as if only seventeen are deal t six or se ven or even eight of one sui t might appear on the ta ble and it is obvious that the preponderance of any suit would greatly a ffect the read ing Some D iviners obj ect to the se ven packs m ai ntaining tha t it is fal se art to have one hea p for what you don t ” ” expect and another for The six th the Surp rise heap is also rather feeble an d c er tai nl y looks as if it had o rigi nally been in cluded to m ake the num ber un even T his School of D ivi ners therefore deal o ff thirteen cards o nly from the full pack of thi rty two and buil d up only five heaps for yourself your home what you ” expect the Surpri se your wish an d ’

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The Diviner now takes the top card of e ach heap face downwards and places them so as to start a row of fifte e n c ards the top card of the left hand heap being fir st re moved The cards are th en re S huffl ed and cut as before the Divin er agai n removing the top car d fro m each heap and adding them to the row This is r e peat e d five times so that fifteen car ds face downwards are ranged on the tabl e from l eft to right The Divin er now turns over face upwards the extreme card at either end and reads the mean i ng which applies to the following day— S pecial importanc e attaches t o the s ui t colours whi ch will certainly S how whether that day will be a fo r t u nate one or not I n many c ases the i nn er meaning of the cards is never con sidered at all thi s method b e ing used on the Continent to determ in e simply an d solely which w ill b e the for t un ate and unfo rt u nate days in the we ek—Sunday count in g as the first day of cour se Rememb e r that the right hand c ard is the more impo r tant —for inst an c e a Spade on the right an d a Club on the left woul d indi cate that thi ngs woul d c e rtai nl y go wrong in the e ar ly part of the day but would rapi dl y improve after noon Whereas a Club on the right and a Spade on the left would indicate a prosperous morning followed by a calamitous afternoon and evening When using thi s s i m ple form of Divination no l ist of meanin gs has to be cons u lted which in many cases is a great advantage ; it is therefore an excellent companio n method to the one al ready descri bed for answering ques tions by the s ui t colours of the car ds turned up Fo urteen cards are turned up in this way two and two l e aving the centre card face downwards on the table The Diviner should now note on a slip of pap e r the point values of each pair of cards in case the en qui rer ,

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should be confronted on that day by an y business or other matter in which figures are concerned F or inst an ce if a Nine of Spades and a Seven of Hearts are the cards for the fo l lowing Tuesday ( the th ird day) then anythi ng in volvin g nine or any multiple of nine sho u ld be avoided and those t hi n gs involving seven should be followed up Suppose anyone c al ls and wishes to make an appoint first or twenty m ent fix the seventh fourteenth twenty— eighth day of the month Sho ul d the sev en th day ( i e the next Tuesday) fal l on the n inth e i ghteenth or twenty seventh of the month it would obviously be a bad day t o select In the same way if the fourteenth twen ty fir st or twenty eighth of the month was the ninth day follow in g that al so would prove a bad day With all these particulars to help him or her along your client should be able to avoid al l m ishaps and make the bes t use of the opportunities for good fortune that might come hi s or her way The fifteenth card is used to answer one q uestion whi ch in t hi s case must be a spoken one The suit of the card determines whether the answer is t o b e yes probably doubtful or no — and the pip val ue should be noted if it can be m ade to fit in any way as that par ticular number will have a fatefu l in fluence one way or an other over the matter in q ues tion Its in flue nce however only lasts for the week in question so if it is a Spade it is wise to war n your client t o delay and wait for a more propitious time be fore pro c e edin g with the matter in his mind .

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pack of thirty two cards must be well shuffl ed by the enquirer an d cut into three unequal heaps using the left han d That portion of the pack that was previ ously in the centre is now placed at the bottom the top section is placed above thi s ; and the origin al bottom section is placed on top The cards are now spread out fanwi se on the table face downwards taking care that every c ar d is visibl e and that none overlap and hide a neighbouri ng card The en quir er must now think of a question an d while doing so shoul d choose three cards and place them face do wnwards on the table He or she sho ul d now thi nk of the second question and whil e doin g so pick out seven cards placing them separately on the table al so face downwards While the t hi rd qu estion is being thought of thirteen cards must be chosen and the remainder of the pack dis carded The Divi ner now turns up the fir st heap of thr ee cards and d e term i nes from these the answer to the question in t hi s method the lower the val ue of the cards the less the opposition to the success of the enquirer the more fortunate the result of hi s enquiry The suit colours must also be con sidered as affecting the result but the greater importance rests upon the value of the card s i n t hi s case the Ace of co ur se is counted as the lowest and most fortunate card in the pack Simi larly the second heap of s e ve n cards and the third h e ap of t hi rt e en wi ll b e turne d up each in its turn and the answer con sidered This is not only a simple but a quick method of Divina tion but obviously it only applie s to answers to definite q uestions -

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Ha ve the pack of t hi rty two cards well shuffled and cut once only Pick out the type card representing the en q uirer an d hold the r est of the pack face do wnwards in yo ur hand The typ e card is placed in the centre of the table the top card from t he pack is turned over and plac e d above the type ca rd the se cond card being similarly placed bel ow The thi rd is now placed on the l eft and the four th car d on the ri ght The fifth card is placed upon the type ca rd covering it The Divin er now discards eight cards al together an d that be ing done adds another card to each of the five in the same order as before above be low left right an d upo n the type card D isc ard eight more ca rds and pla ce the fi n al five cards as before one by o n e upo n the hea ps Read e ach heap in turn be ginn in g with the one from above the type card sui t colour an d only lookin g out for pai rs and triplets an d whether the four high cards ( the Ace here be ing counted with the C our t cards as t hi s method is older than the one last d escribe d) or the four low cards pre domi nate—the latter being the personal e fforts of the eu r and the C ourt cards be i ng the help or interference u i r e q of othe r peo ple -

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T hi s m ethod is not so Ol d as so m e of the others but is ve ry pretty an d effective be sides bein g rel iable The pack of thi rty two car ds mus t be well shuffl ed and cut into thr ee with the left h and these being arranged as before explain ed taki n g the origin al centre section for the b ottom of the newly arr anged pack The prepared car ds ar e now held i n th e left ha n d an d the three top c ards are t u rned up I f they cont ai n two or three cards of th e .

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of Cour t or plain cards thus selected Should there b e an e qual num be r of cards belonging t o two or more suits ( obviously with thi rt een c ards there can not be an e qual number of Court or plain cards ) you give preference to that suit that has m ost cards on the right of the row these being more active and aggressive .

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The pack must be shu ffl ed and cut into three heaps and rebuilt as before e x plained The D iviner now holds the pack face upwards in his hand —thi s is different fro m most methods of D ivi nation where the cards are generally d ealt from the top of the pack Each card is looked at but un l ess it is a Spade it is placed on the table face upwards t o form a fresh pack AS soon as a Spade is reached that card is al so discarded but the next followin g card is placed face upwards on the table to start the necessary fateful row of cards Shoul d two or m ore Spades come together only the fir st one is discarded the other or others being added to the fateful row in front of you together with the next card followin g the last of that batch of Spades This is continued till the p ack is e xhausted when the di scarded heap is taken up and treated in the sam e fashi on .

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This co u nting is done to the l eft an d when you reach the extre m e card the one fir st put on the table you go back to the end card at the right and 5 0 continue yo u r coun t if necess ary B ut it often happen s that al l t hr ee do minant cards ar e reached before you come to the card on the extre m e left Of these three cards the one fin al ly neares t the right is the m ost powerful It cle ar ly d e pends upo n the position in the row of the typ e card itself whether the third seventh or thi rteenth is the import ant card It is generally agreed that by this m ethod only ne ar events can be pre dicted certain ly it does not cover m ore than a m onth A somewhat si m il ar m ethod is used in England with the full pack but instead of using the Spade suit as the guide for the cards to be picked out you go by the points of the car ds—the Ace i n this method counts as one The pack having been shuffled and cut into three heaps and rebuilt as before you deal the c ar ds fro m the top placing each one face upwards on the table as you do so While you do this you count al oud : one two thr ee four five six seven eight ni ne ten Jack Queen King one etc If any card irrespective of suit turn s up at the proper — count for inst an ce if the fifth card re al ly is a Five it is placed as one of the fateful row and the co un tin g continues as before When the pack is e xha ust e d the discarded car ds are turn e d over and deal t out again as before t urni ng each one up in the Spade suit method but you must be care ful after the second time to note at which c ard you ce as e calling as when you start the third de al you do not re start the counting at one but continue from where you left off In addition to the cards that turn up at their own proper c al ls you also add to the fat e ful row any cards ,

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that turn up three or more at a time whether at their proper call or not Thus t hr ee Tens three Fives woul d be adde d m erely because they follow each other in value but three Hear ts or three Spad e s would be ignored as in thi s method the deal ing takes no account of suits The Diviner now forms a rough cro ss from the c ards in the row placing the fir st card from the extreme left t o form the top of the cross the next card to form the bottom of the cross the third to form the right and the four th the l e ft win gs The next four cards are b ui lt above these in the s am e way— top bottom right left and so you build the c ro ss till al l the chos en cards are used up The top hea p is read fir st as the pre di ctions from those cards ar e supposed to come fir st then the botto m heap then the right and then the left —the l atter of course being very far into the future Y ou can allow roughl y a for tnight for each heap ,

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The pack of thirt y two cards must be well shuffl ed and cut into t hr ee and r e built The Diviner now turns up three cards at a time ii an Ace appears among th e m or the type card representing the en quirer or the Wish card ( N ine of Hearts ) those three cards must be taken out and placed face upwards on the table This con t i n u es t i ll the six cards ar e al l exposed i e the fo u r Ac es type card and the W ish card Those sets of three car ds not containi ng one or more of the six fateful car ds are to be discarded al together When the necessary cards are obtained t hey must be gathered together re S hu ffl ed and cut and de al t out once more in sets of three retaining those sets only that con -

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tain one or more of the six cards of Fate Thi s is repeated for a third time —i f the six cards are now gathe red together within a total of nine cards ( or fewer) the W ish wil l prove successful If in twelve the re sult is doub tful ; but if over twelve the reply i s in the negative If u nder nine then the f e wer the car ds the quicke r and more decisive the resul t The fo ll owi ng is the rec ord of an actual test an d wil l S how how it works The type card was the King of Clubs as a dark man was t he en qui rer The fir st t hree cards turned up w e re the King of D ia monds Ace of Spades and King of Clubs —th es e were r e t ai ned on the table as they include both an Ace an d the t yp e card Th e second set w e re the King of Spad es Queen of Spades an d Ten of Diamonds— thes e were di scard e d as useless The third se t were t he Ten of H e ar ts the Six of Diamonds and the King of H e arts and we re al so di scarded The fourth set were the S e ven of Spades the Eight of Spades an d the Ac e of Diamonds and w e re kept The fifth se t c ontained the Nine of Diamonds Eight of Club s and Ace of Clubs and of course were retai ned The sixth set were the Jack of Clubs Ten of Spad es and Ace of He art s an d were l eft on the tabl e ; while the seventh set complet e d the fir st d eal as it contain e d the Jack of Spad es Nine of Hearts and Five of Clubs The re mainder O f the pack therefore was added t o the discarde d heap and the fifteen cards face upwards on the table we re gathered toge ther well shuffle d and again de al t in sets of thre e with the following result : First came the Ace of Spades Nine of H eart s and Jack of Spade s ; the n the Ten of Spa des Ace of Hearts and N ine of Diamonds These were followed by the King of Diamonds Five of Clubs and Jack of Clubs and of course these thr e e cards were at once discarded to the satisfaction .

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of the enquirer Then ca me a set consist ing of the Seven of Spades Ace of Diamonds and Eight of C lubs whi ch were retained ; and fin al ly the Eight of Spades Ace of C lubs and the King of Clubs which were al so kept These twelve cards were now gathered and sh uffl ed for the third and fateful deal the result of w hi ch was as fol lows : The first set contained the Ace of Hearts Nine of Hearts and the King of C lubs—a very good start gi v ing u s t hr ee of the necessary cards at once The second set contained the N ine of Diamonds Jack of Spades and Eight of C lubs indi catin g some Obstacle or di fli cul ty to be faced as none of these cards were of an y use and clearly de layed the gratification of the enquirer s wish Then came the Ace of Club s Ace of Spades and Ten of Spades thus destroying all hope O f i m mediate success— but the final set commenced with the Ace of D i amonds thus enabl ing us t o get out at the tenth card Thi s is q uite good and shows success after some sm al l d elay or dl ii i culty— indeed it is al ways reckoned satisfactory if the six fateful car ds can be secured at the eleventh Six or seven wo ul d show st artling and unexpected good fortune eight or nine is extremely fortunate ten or eleven q uite satisfactory ; twelve or thi rteen are very doubtful whi le fourteen or fifteen may be looked upon as a di stinct negative There is another way of decidi ng a question by the Aces whi ch is a general favourite and is considered very reliable The pack be ing well shuffl ed i s ou t once only with the left hand Thirteen cards are then de al t from the top face upwards and if any Aces ar e among them they ( the Aces only) ar e r e tained The pack is now re shu ffl ed and cut and again thirteen cards are d eal t and any Aces are removed Thi s is repeated a third tim e an d if in .

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these three deals the four Aces have al l b een secured the enquirer may fe e l satisfie d that hi s wi sh will be granted Should the Aces be secured in the second deal o r in the first ( a very rare occurr e nce ) the resul t naturally will be very much more favourable But if in the thre e deal s only thr e e Aces are s e cu red the res ul t is doubtful wher e as if fewer than three turn up the wish will not b e gratified There i s still another method of working by the Aces it is rathe r more elaborate and a favourabl e res ul t is not so e asily obtain e d F irst of all pick out the fo ur Aces the type card to repre sent the enquirer the N ine of Spades to represent di sappointment and a seventh card to repre s e nt the question its elf— i f about mon e y this would be t he Ten of Diamonds ; if about busin ess then the Ten O f Clubs ; if about a woman then the Queen nearest to her in suit colour ; if about a man then the corr esponding King For any g e neral wish choose the Jack of the e nquirer s own suit to repre s e nt hi s thoughts These s e ve n cards are shu ffl e d but not cut and are then S pr e ad face downward s in a row on the tabl e The r e mainde r of the c ards are then well shuffl ed and ou t once and are turned up in a row on the tabl e seven at a time The obj ect is to find the Wish card represent e d by the Nin e of Heart s Should thi s card appear in the row of s e ve n count its po sition from the left and turn over the co rresponding c ard in the row of fat e ful cards lying fac e downwards on the table Sho ul d the Nine of Hearts not appear in the fi rst s e ven cards repeat the proce ss a s b e fore till you come to it I f the card thus reve rs e d is the Nin e of Spade s that s e ttle s t he enquiry at once by an e mphatic n e gative —i f not the whol e performance is repeated and a s e cond ca rd reversed in the fateful row of seven If the fata l ,

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N ine of Spad e s is once more avoided the process is re — the appearance of the Di sappoint t for a t hi rd time e a e d p ment card after the s e cond d eal is not of course so e mphatic as if it is rever sed at once but it is still a negative though with no att e ndant disaster or unple asantness I f it is discove red after the third de al there is still a chance of succ e ss if the enquirer is keen enough t o take the necessary trouble over the matter The methods given so far are all w ell known an d in un iversal use but in the present chapter we have given some very effective methods of Telling which at the same time are perfectly simple We wish to draw spe cial attention to the fact that four of these methods can be used at once by the student as no List of Me an ings has t o be learnt or stu di ed— these four methods are The F our Aces A W eek s Happe n i ngs Three Ques ” and Decision by Aces tions Answered ,

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ostly portend happin e ss and— no matter how numerous o r how accompani e d — are rar e ly or never of bad augury ” N ext come H e arts which u sually si gnify j oy li berality ” Diamonds on the contrary denote o r good temp e r ; — Spade s the d elay quarrels and annoyance ; and — orst suit of all grief sickness and loss of money w W e are of course speaki ng generally as in many cases t he position of cards e ntir e ly chang e s their si gn i fic ati o n t heir individual and r e lative meaning being oft e n wid e ly Thus for example the King of Hearts the d i ffe rent N ine of Hearts and the Nine of Clubs respectively signify —a liberal man j oy and success in love ; but change t h e ir position by placing the Kin g between the two Nine s then rich and happy a n d you wo ul d r e ad that a man w ould be ere long consign e d to a prison The individual meaning attached t o the thi rty two C ards employ e d i s as follows Ace of Clubs — S ign i fies j oy great wealth or good news R e ve rs e d the j oy will b e of bri e f duration King of Club s — A frank lib e ral affectionate upright fond of serving his friends Reversed a n d faithful man h e will meet with a disappointment Queen of Clubs — An affectionate woman but quick tempered rather amorous one that will yield her maid e n per son t o a g e nerous lover happy and loving will b e Reve rsed j ealous and malicious m arri e d Jack of Clubs — A clever young man g e nerous and R e ve rsed a harml e ss flirt and fl at terer s incere Ten of Club s —Gre at wealth succ ess or grandeur R eversed want of succ e ss in some small matt e r Nine of Club s — Unexp e ct e d gain or a l e gacy R e vers e d some tri fli ng pre sent you will displease yo ur m

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whi ch if return e d will be the caus e of great prosperity Reversed those of a fool and attendant unhappiness if reciprocated S e ven of Clubs —Promis e s a mo st brilliant fortune or un expectedl y recovered d e bt Reversed a far smalle r amount — s Ace of Heart A love l e tt e r or some pleasant news R e versed a fri e nd s vi sit King of Heart s — A fair compl e xion liberal man Re ve rs e d will m ee t with di sap pointment Que e n of H e art s —A mild amiable woman a grea t b e auty R e ve rs e d has be e n cro ss e d in love Jack of Heart s — A gay young bache lor who dream s only of pl e asur e fond of racing Re ve rsed a discont e nt e d military man Re Ten of Heart s — I ndicat e s happin e ss triumph ve rsed som e slight anxiety Nine of Hearts — Joy satisfaction succes s are your d e light Re ve rs e d a passing chagrin Eight of Heart s — A fair person s a ffe ctions Reversed indifference on their part Seve n of H e art s — Will b e happily married plea san t thought s tranquillity Reverse d e nnui we arin ess Ace of Diamond s — Shows a pe rson fond of rural sports also fond O f garde ning I t al so signifies a l e tter soon t o b e received ; a n d if the card be r e versed containin g bad news K ing of Diamond s — A fair man of a fiery t e mp e r g e n erally in the army— but both cunning and dange rous Reve rsed a thre at e ned dang e r caused by machination s on his part Queen of Diamonds —An ill bred scandal loving woman unst eady Revers e d she i s to b e gr e atly f e are d Jack of Diamonds — A t ale bearing s e rvant or u n .

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faithful friend Reve rs e d will be the cause of mischi e f and unhappin e ss Ten of Diamond s — I ndicates a husband and wife with great w e alth many Chil dr e n ; a j ourn e y or change of residenc e Rev e rse d it will not prove fortunat e Nine of Diamonds — Annoyance delay Re vers e d e ither a family or a love quarrel Eight of Diamonds — Love making Revers e d u n succe ssful Seve n o f Diamond s — Declares that you will sp e nd your happi est days in t he country and have u n i n ter r u p te d happiness Reve rsed implicat e d in a fooli sh scandal N B —I n order to know whether the Ace Ten Nine Eight and Seven of Diamond s ar e r e versed it is b e tter t o make a small pencil mark on e ach to S how which is the top of the card Ace of Spade s — Pleasure Reversed grief bad news King of Spade s — An e nvious man an enemy or a d ishonest lawye r who is to be feare d Rev ers e d impot e nt malice Que e n of Spad es — A loving wi dow Reversed a dan g e rons and malicious woman Re Jack of Spade s — A dark ill br e d youn g man ve rsed he is plotting som e mischief Ten of Spade s — A card of bad import Tears a prison Reversed bri e f a ffliction Nine of Spades —Tidings of a d e ath Revers e d it wi ll b e some n e ar relativ e Eight of Spad es — The mo st unlucky card in the pack Approaching illn e ss Re versed a marriage broken o ff or offer refu sed S e ven of Spades — S light annoyances loss of a friend R e versed a fooli sh in trigue .

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Two Tens —Change of trade or profession ; reversed denotes that the prospect is only a di stant one Four N in e s — A great surprise reversed a public dinner Three Nine s — Joy fortune he alth ; reversed wealth l ost by imprudence in marriage Two N ine s —A little gain ; reversed tri fli ng losses at c ar ds F our Eight s — A short j ourney reversed the return of a friend or relative Three Eight s — Thoughts of m ar riage ; reversed folly flirtation Two Eight s — A brief love dr eam reversed small pl e as ures and tri fling pains F our Sevens — Intrigues among servants or low people threats snares and disputes reversed that the ir malice wi ll be impotent t o harm and that the punishment will f all on themselves — s Three Seven Sickn ess pre m ature old age ; reversed slight and brief indi sposition Two Sevens — Levity ; reversed regret Any picture card between two others of e qua l value as two Tens two Aces e ta —denotes that the person represented by that card runs the risk of a prison I t requir es no gr eat effort to commit the se sign ific ati on s t o memory but it mus t b e rememb e red that th ey are but w hat the al phabe t is to the print e d book a little attention and practice however will soon enable the learner to form thes e mystic letters into word s and words into phr ases in other language to assemble these cards together and read the events past and t o come the i r pictured faces pretend to reveal There are several ways of doin g thi s but we will give them al l so as to a fford our readers an ample C hoice of m ethods of pryin g in to fut urity ,

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First take the pack of thi rty two sel e cted cards ( v iz the Ace King Queen Jack Ten Nine Eight and Seven of each suit ) ha v i ng b e fore fixed upon the one you intend t o represent yourself suppo sing always you are makin g the e ssay on your own b ehalf I f not it must r e pre sent the person for whom you are acting I n doing thi s it is n e c essary to rememb e r that the card chos e n should b e ccor di n g to the compl e xion of the choos e r— King or Que e n of Diamonds for a very fair person the same of Hearts fo r o n e rath e r darker Clubs for o n e dark e r still and Spad e s only for one very dark indeed The card chosen also lo ses its signi fication and simply b e com es the re pre s e ntative of a dark or fair man or wom an as the case may b e Having settl e d this point shuffle the cards and eithe r cut th e m or have the m cut for you ( accordi ng to wh e ther you are acting for yours e lf or another person ) taking care to use the left hand That don e turn them up by thr ee s and eve ry tim e you find in the se tripl e ts two of the same suit — such as two H e arts two Clubs e tc withdraw the highest card and place it on the table b e fore you If the triplet should chance to b e all of the same suit the highest card is still to be the only o n e withdrawn ; but sho ul d i t consist of thr ee of the same value but di fferent suits such the y are all to be appropriated We as three Kings e t c wi ll suppose that after ha v ing turned up the cards three by three you have b e en able to withdr aw si x leavin g twenty six which you shuffle and cut and again turn up by t hr ees acting pre cis e ly as you di d before until you have Obtained either t hi rteen fift e en or seve nt ee n cards Recollect that the numb e r mus t always b e un e ve n and that the card r e presenting the person for whom the essay is made must make one of it Even if the requisite thirteen -

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fifteen or seve nte e n have been obtained and this one has n o t made its appearance the O p eration mu st be r ec o m m en c e d Let us suppos e the person whose fortune is being r e ad to be a lady repres e nted by the Que en of H e arts and that fifteen cards have be e n obtained and laid out in t he form of a half circl e— i n the order they we re drawn viz the S ev e n of Clubs t he Ten of Diamonds the Seven of H e arts the Jack of Clubs the King of Diamond s the Nine of Diamond s the Ten of Hearts the Que e n of Spade s t he Eight of H e art s t h e Jack of Diamonds the Qu e en of Heart s the Nin e of Club s the S e v e n of Spad e s the Ace of Clubs and the Eight of Spade s Having considered your card s you will find among th e m two Queens two Jack s two Tens thre e Sev ens two E ig hts and two Nines you are therefore able t o announce The two Quee ns signify t he r e union O f friends the two Jacks that there is mi schi e f being made be twe en th e m Th ese two T e ns denote a C hange of profession which fro m one of them b eing between two Sev e ns I see w ill not be eff e cted without some di fficulty t he cause of w hich according t o th e s e three Seve ns will be ill ness H owe ver the s e two Nines promise some small gain ” resulting— so say these two Eights— from a love affair You now b e gin t o count seve n cards from right to l e ft beginning with the Queen of Hearts who repre s e nts the lady you are acting for The seventh being the King of Diamonds you may say ” You Often thi nk of a fair man in uniform The next seve nth card ( counting the King of Diamonds as o n e ) prove s t o b e the Ac e of Clubs you add You will rec e ive from hi m some very j oyful tidi ngs ” he b esides intends making you a pres e nt ” Count the Ace of Clubs as o n e and proce e d ing to the n e xt seventh card the Queen of Spades you re sum e ,

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Jack of D iamonds and N ine of D iamonds— al though this happy result wi ll be delayed for a time thr ough some fair young man not fam e d for hi s delicacy Eight of Hearts and Ten of Hearts —love j oy and triumph The Queen of Spades who remains alon e is the widow who is endeavour ing t o inj ure you an d who finds herself abandoned by all her friends N ow gather up the cards you have been using shu ffle and cut them with the l e ft hand and proceed t o make th e m into three packs by dealing one t o the left one in the middle and one t o the right a fourth is laid aside t o form ” a Surprise Then continue t o deal the cards t o each of the three packs in turn until the ir number is exhausted when it will b e found that the l eft hand and middl e packs contain each five cards whilst the one on the right hand consists of only four N ow ask the person consulting you to select one of the three packs \Ve will suppo se this t o be the middle one and that the cards comprising it are the Jack of Diamonds the King of Diamonds the Seven of Spades the Queen of Spades and the Sev e n of C lubs These by recollectin g our previous instructions regarding the individu al an d relative signi fication of the cards are e as ily interpreted as follows The Jack of Clubs— a fai r young man posse ssed of no delicacy of feeling who seeks t o inj ur e—the King of Diamonds — a fa ir m an in uniform— S e ven of Spad es— an d wil l succeed in causing hi m some annoyance — the Que e n of Spade s — at the instigation of a spiteful woman— Seve n of Club s— but by mean s of a small sum of money matters ” will be finally easily arranged N ext take up the left — hand pack whi ch is for the house —the former one having b e e n for the lady herself Supposin g it to consist of the Queen of H e arts the Jack ,

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of C lubs the Eight of Hearts the Nine of Diamonds and the Ac e of Clubs they would r e ad thus — ue e n of Hearts the lady who se fortune is b e ing Q told is or soon will be in a house — Jack of Clubs — wh e re she wil l m ee t with a d ark young man who — Eight of Hearts — will entreat her as si stanc e to forward his interests with a fair girl— Nine of Diamonds—he having met with d e lays and disappointment — Ace of Club s— but a lett e r will arrive announcing the po sse ssion of money which will ” r e move all di fficultie s ” The third pack i s for thos e who did not expe ct it and w ill be composed of four cards ; le t us say the Ten of H e art s Nin e of Clubs Eight of Spades and Ten of Diamonds sign ifying The Ten of Hearts —a n un expected piece of good fortun e and gr e at happiness —Nin e of Club s—c aused by an unlook e d for l egacy— Eight of Spades — which j oy may perhaps b e followe d by a slight sickn e ss—Ten of Spade s ” the res ul t of a fatigui ng j ourn ey There now remains on the table only the card intended ” for the Surpris e Thi s howe ve r must b e left u m touch e d the other cards gathere d up shuffled cut and again laid out in thre e pack s not forgetting at the first ” d e al to add a card to the Surprise After the di fferent packs have been duly examin ed and explain e d as befor e d escrib e d th e y must again b e gathe red up shuffl ed et c ind e ed t he whol e operation repeated after whi ch the thr ee cards forming the Surprise are examined ; and su p po sing them to be the S e ven of H e arts the Jack of Clubs and the Quee n of Spades are to be thu s int e rpret e d S eve n of H e arts — pl e asan t thought s and fri e ndly i n tentions — Jack of Clubs —o f a dark young man— Qu ee n of Spades—relative to a malicious dark woman or widow ” who will cause him much un happiness ,

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You now shu ffl e the pack of thirty two selected cards which as we b e fore stated consist of t he Ac e King Queen Jack Te n Nine Eight and Seven of e ach suit —e ither cut them yo urself or if acting for anoth e r p e rson let that pe rson cut them taking car e t o u se the left hand Then count seven cards beginning with the o n e lying on the top of the pack The first six are usel ess s o put them aside and retain only the seventh which is to be placed face uppermost on the table befor e you Repe at thi s thre e tim e s more th e n shuffl e and cut the card s you have thrown on one side togeth e r with tho se remaining in your hand and tell them out in sev e ns as b e fore until you have thus obtai ned twe lve cards I t is however indispensable that t he o n e representing the per son whose fortune is b e ing told should be among the numb e r therefore the whol e opera tion must be re commenc e d in case of it not having mad e its appearance Your twelve cards b e ing now spread out before you in the orde r in which they have come to hand you may begin t o explain the m as d escrib e d in the mann e r of de al ing t he cards in threes always bearing in m i nd both the ir in di vidual and relative signification Thus you first count the card s by seve ns b e ginning with the one r epre s e nting the person for whom you are acting going from right to left Th e n take the two card s at either e xtr e mity of the line or half circle and unit e them and aft e rward s ” form the thre e h e aps or packs and the Surpris e pre c i se l y as we hav e b e fore d e scribed Inde e d the only d iff e rence between t he two methods i s the manner in whi c h the cards are obtained -

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I n order t o rend e r our meaning perfectly clear we will Let us suppose the pack for the g ive another example person consulting is compos e d of the Jack of Hearts the Ace of Diamonds the Queen of Clubs and the Eight of S pades reversed B y the aid of the list of m e anin gs we have given it will be e asy to interpret them as follows The Jack of H earts is a gay young bachelor— the Ace of Diamonds —who has writt e n or will very soon write a lett e r— the Queen of Clubs— to a dark woman — Eight of — pades revers d to make proposals to her which will not e S ” be acc e pted On looking back t o the list of sign i ficatio n s it w il l be found to run thus Jack of Hearts— A gay young bachelor who thi nks only o f plea sure Ace of Diamond s — A letter soon to be received Que e n of Club s — An affectionate wom an but quick t emp e r e d and touchy Eight of Spade s — I f revers e d a marriage broken off or o ff e r refused I t will thus be se e n that each card forms as it were a hrase from an ass e mblage of which nothing but a littl e p practic e i s required to form complet e sent e nces Of this we will give a furt her example by in terpr e ting the sign i fi ” for the house for c ation o f the thre e other packs ” The t hos e who do not e xp e ct it and the Surprise ” fir st of these for the house we wi ll suppose to consist o f the Qu e en of Heart s the Jack of Spad e s reve rsed the A c e of Clubs and the N ine of Diamond s which reads t hus : The Queen of H e arts is a fair woman mild and amiable i n dispo sition who — Jack of Spades reversed— will be de c ei v e d by a dark ill bred young man — the Ace of Clubs b u t she will rece ive so m e good n e ws which will console ,

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her— Nine of Diamonds—although it is probable that the ” n ews may be d elaye d ” The pack for those who do not expect it consisting of the Queen of Diamonds the King of Spade s the Ace of Hearts revers e d and the Seve n of Spades would signify The Qu een of Diamonds is a mischi e f making woman — the King of Spade s — who is in leagu e with a dishon e st lawyer— Ac e of H e arts r e vers e d— the y will hold a consulta tion togeth er— Seve n of Spade s— but the harm they will ” do will soon be r epair e d ” Last com e s the Surprise formed by we will suppose the Jack of Clubs the Ten of Diamonds the Queen of Spade s and the N ine of Spades of which the i n terpre t ati o n is The Jack of Clubs is a clever enterprising young man Ten of Diamonds— about to undertake a j ourney— Queen of Spade s— for the purpos e of v i siting a widow— Nine of ” Spades — but one or both of the ir live s will be endangered .

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After having shuffl ed the thi rty two cards and cut or had th e m cut with the left hand withdr aw from the pack t he first e l e v e n and lay the m on one S ide The remaind e r twenty one in all— are to be S hu fli e d again and ou t That done lay the topmo st card on one side to form the S ur ” pris e and range the r e ma ining twenty before you in the order in which th e y com e to hand Then see whether the card re pre s e nting the pe rson consulting you is among them ; if not one must be withdrawn from the eleven useless ones and plac e d at the right e xtre mity of the row—where it repr es e nt s the missing card no matter what it may really be We will howeve r suppo se that the p erson wishing to make the essay is an o ffi cer in the ar m y and conse q uently -

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r e presented by the King of Diamonds and that the twenty cards range d before you are —the Queen of Diamond s the King of Clubs the Ten of H e arts the Ac e of Spades the Qu ee n of H e arts revers e d the S e ven of Spades the Jack of Diamonds the Te n of Clubs the King of Spad e s the Eight of D iam onds the King of H e arts the Nine of Club s the Jack of Spades rev ersed the S e ven of Hearts the Ten of Spades the King of Diamonds the Ace of Diamonds the S e ve n of Club s the N ine of Heart s the Ac e of Clubs Y ou now proceed t o examin e the cards as they lie and p e rceiving that al l the four Kin gs are there you can predict that gr eat r e wards await the person consulting you and that he will gain great dignity and honour The two Queens one of them reve rsed announce the r e u nion of two sorrowful fri e nd s the three Ac e s for e t ell good n ews the thre e Jacks one of them r e versed quarrels with some low person the thr e e T e ns improper conduct Y ou now explain the cards comm e ncin g with the fir st on the l e ft hand viz the Que e n of D iamonds : The Queen of D iamonds is a mischief making underbre d woman— the King of Clubs —e ndeavourin g to win the affections of a worthy and estimable m an — Ten of He arts — over who se scruples she will triumph Ace of Spades The affair wil l make some noise — Que e n of H e arts reve rsed —and greatly di stress a charm ing fair woman who loves him— S e ven of Spad es— but her grief wil l not be of long duration Jack of D iamonds—An unfaithful servant Ten of Clubs —will make away with a consid e rable sum of m oney— King of Spades — and will be brought to trial Eight of D iamonds— but saved from punishm e nt through — woman agency King of Hearts s A fair man of li beral a di sposition— Nin e of Clubs— will receive a large sum of m oney —Jack of Spad e s reversed— which will expose him to the mali ce of a d ar k youth of coarse manners Seven ,

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U I TE rec e ntly we came across a littl e known method of card —telling and as it is both simple and fas c i n a t i n g we obtain e d p e rmis sion t o publish it and explain t he working The full pack of card s is us e d and must b e thoroughly s hu fli e d by the e nquir e r — w e w e re intere sted in hearin g that this method can be us e d for indicating our own i m m ediate futur e though this is forbidden o r a t least dis c o ur age d in m ost oth e r systems of worki ng the cards -

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Aft e r the pack has b e en thoroughly mix e d the name o f the bottom card should b e noted on paper for r e fer e nce as this card act s the part of S ign ifi c ato r — in other word s it represents the e nquir e r Th e n the pack must be ou t o nce with the l e ft hand and the expo sed card should al so be not e d— this card represents the thoughts wish or most important matt e r in which the e nquirer i s int e re sted This can of cour se b e anythin g from a busin e ss d e al a l ove affair t o t he serious illness of a fri e nd or of ones elf The cut portion of the pack must now b e replac e d so that the original botto m card r e tai ns this position Then seven card s are de al t one by one fac e upwards so as to form a row on the table— thes e cards run fro m left t o right N ow lay out three other similar rows each one ,

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Now com es the part that ne e ds a l ittle c are and thought but when understood it i s really quite simple The rough s quare represents a lunar month beyond which the card s will not guide you and nothing can be do ne in the way of divination unle ss you can fix the position of the two cards expo sed when the pack w as cut — as a lready e xplain e d the fir st of these r e prese nts the Enquirer and the s e cond his or her Thoughts Glanc e car e fully over the expo sed cards and see if e ithe r or both of th es e p e rsonal cards have b ee n expo sed in the lunar squar e I f you are fortunate and both personal cards are shown on the tabl e you can at once mak e your d e ci sion in the way t o be e xplain e d later But if you find only o n e pe rsonal card expo sed you are allowed to continue the pre paration in the hop e that the second card will tur n up b e for e you read what the card s for e t ell You must note the row in which yo u find the one p er sonal card b e caus e that particular row must not b e touched nor any row above it So if t hi s p er sonal card fall s in the bottom row you can do no more and mu st r e ad the cards as th e y lie on the table I f however it is in the third row from the top thi s would leave the bottom r ow fre e to b e alt er e d if in the s e cond row you would have the two bottom rows at your dispo sal whil e if it fall s in the top row the n you can change the following twe nty—one cards What e ve r it may b e o n e two or three rows you take up the u n u sed portion of the pack and plac e extra cards upon the already expo sed cards on the table and go o n to the tw e nty e ight h card To make this cl e ar suppo se o n e p er sonal card i s shown in the t Op row of the original de al You now commence on the fir st card of the s e cond row ,

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di stribut e twe nty one cards thus cov e ring all the thr e e lower rows Thi s l e av e s only thr e e cards in hand so w hat e v e r happe ns you cannot go furth e r and would have t o r e ad the card s as th e y lie with only o n e personal card t o guid e you unl ess the s e cond has now been expo sed B ut in mo st case s when one pe rsonal card is e xpos e d in t he top row its companion will app e ar d uring thi s s e cond d elive ry of the cards Now suppo se t he one per son al card is shown in the s e cond row of the original lay—out You now start cove ring by placi n g a fr esh card from the unus e d portion of the pack o n to the fir st card of t he third row and continue to t he end of the squar e Thi s m eans t he addition of fourt ee n c ard s but still l e ave s only twe nty eight cards e xpos e d I t i s quite probable that the se cond pe rsonal card w ill now b e vi sibl e in which ca se your pr e paration i s complete a n d you read t he cards as w e shall e xpl a in But if by C hanc e the se cond per sonal card i s not then shown you are al lowed a third att e mpt But you must b e careful to rememb e r that you onl y hav e ten card s in hand now and you m u st cove r whole rows at a time or non e at all So in this case instead of starting with the fir st card of th e third row you l e ave that row intact an d p lace a fre sh card on the first place in the bottom row This again l e aves you wi th three cards in hand and you proceed to your divination as b e for e explain e d whether the s e cond person al card is expo se d or not I f the o n e e xpo se d p ersonal card is in the third row of t he original s quare you can of cour se only r e cove r the bottom row which you proce e d t o do Wh e n you have a dd e d se v e n cards se e if t h e second p e r sonal card i s now expos e d if it i s you stop and give your r e ading I f not o u d e al out s e v e n more c ards and again e xamin e th e m y O bviously you can do this three times when you have only -

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I n that case you can only ad v i se your client to go on hopin g and working to his e n d as nothing will come his way for the next four weeks You can offer t o consult the cards again for him or her but not under fourteen days If only one person al card is exposed in the lunar square you study the cards from that to the final card explaining that the decision will be delayed over the four we eks and that a fre sh cons u ltation of the cards in a fortnight s time wil l help to clear matt e rs up Meanwhi l e t he suits of the cards following the personal card will enable you t o encourage or discourage your enquirer I f n either of the pe rson al card s is shown you can give no decision either way— the cards must be consult e d again or the decision accepted as a negative or unfavourable one Apart from the qu e stion of suits you must also study the values of the card s The Court card s repre sent pe opl e the King and Qu een being mal e and fem al e friends the Jacks business acquain tan ces or strangers if the matt e r is purely personal Y o u must al so remember that the higher common e r cards Six Seven Eight Nine and Ten are mor e powerful for good or for evil than the lowe r card s Two Three Fo ur and Five The Ace is always very powe rful There is one other point for consid e ration and thi s applie s to cases wher e the re are a large numb e r of cards between the two pe rsonal cards or alt e rnatively when only one pe rson al card is expos e d Y ou are al lowed to cancel cards in couples under certa i n condi tions For instance a He ar t can cancel a corr esponding Spad e or a Diamond c an cel a Club but the Court cards and Aces are not to be touched You can pai r eith e r a Two Thr e e Four or Five with an y oth e r of the same seri e s or a Six S e ven Eight N e or Ten with any other of that particular s e ri e s subj e ct t o the rule as to Suit val ues ,

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Thus a Two of Heart s and a Five of Spades can be paire d and both cards are the n removed from the lunar square toge the r with any cards unde rn e ath th e m in case yo u have form e d the row more than once I n the same way from the high e r seri es you can pair a Ten of Diamonds with an Eight of Club s and so ou — any of the high e r Diamonds can b e pair e d with any of the higher Club s the H e arts with the Spad es — any of t he lowe r Diamonds wit h any of the lower Club s the H e arts with the Spades The importanc e of thi s pairing tog e th e r with the removal of all cards a ffe ct e d will b e found far gre at e r in actual practic e than it may app e ar on pap e r Suppo se for i n stanc e that you have both personal cards expos e d wit h nin e other card s b e twe e n th e m s e ve n of th ese b e ing Red cards and two Bl a ck I f by good fortun e you can pair the two Black cards with two Red card s you will have an unbrok e n s eri es of fiv e R ed cards Thi s i s not quit e so fortunat e as an ori gi n al s e que nc e of re Red card s but it shows that al l obstacles can b e ov e rcom e and that is t he important point I n the sam e way if the colours had b ee n reverse d you would be fac e d with a se ri e s of five Black cards— far mor e di fficult to ove rcome than the original series of s e ve n Black and two R e d cards Thi s Lunar Squar e system i s so fascinating and cl ever as well as b eing ve ry reliabl e that we strongly recomm e nd a car eful study o f its rul e s — it has the additional merit of b e ing known only to a few .

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c e ntral po sitions which indicate the imm e diate surround ings and o n e card on the top of the S ign ific ato r The orde r in which the th irty two cards are d e alt out aft e r b e ing shu ffle d and cut to thr e e packs is represented in the following diagram ,

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ignify the p e rson al condition of the con s ui fant — his h e alth m e nt al state what affe cts him for good or e vil as r e gard s hi s pers on 2 and 1 9 wi ll show by what m e ans he will gain or lose h is money matt e rs 3 and 20 show hi s letters and short j ourneys hi s neigh bours and r elative s .

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N ow observe that the Ace of Diamonds is well placed in the 1 st position the Ten of Diamonds in the ro th place t he Ace of Clubs in the 1 0 th place the Ten of C lubs in the 7 t h place the Ace of Hearts in the 7 th place the Ten of Hearts in the 4th place the Ace of Spades in the 4th place the Te n of Spades in the I st place All th e se are good po sitions and augur good fortune and an honourable career When Kings occupy the angles the destiny is set in high places Wh en Queens are there it shows the enquirer to be too much under the sway of women and liabl e t o scandal When Jacks it portend s a dishonourable fame The Ten s or Aces are good in the angl e s I f the wish card holds the I st or ro t h plac e the consultant will gain his great e st wish I f in the 7 th place it will come through marriage I f in the 4th by inheritanc e and n e arer the end of life The N ine of Spade s i s uniformly e vil unles s falling with the Ten of H e arts when it is in a measur e corrected Gre at good may be expected from that quarter wher e in the Ten of H e arts and the Ace of Clubs or D iamonds shall fall ; as if in the 7 th House from the wife in the r 1 th friends in the 3rd r elatives in the ro th bu sin e ss and so forth The Ace of Spad es and the Nin e of Diamonds S how acci d e nts when falling in the I st or ro th place The Ace of Spad e s and Nine of Spades S how heavy losses The Ace of Spades and Te n of Spades show gr e at grief and bereave m e nt and if it falls in the 4th or ro th place it shows the death of pare nts in the 7 th of the wife and so on ,

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the se The top card is now r e moved face do wnwards and plac e d by its elf on t he table The other fift e en are turned up and ranged in order fro m left to right in front of the divin e r The type card re p re s e nting the e nquire r m ust be among th e m — i f it is not th e re all the cards must b e gath ered up r e shu ffl e d and cut and the preliminary proc ess mu st be rep e ated Thi s goe s on till the type card appears among the fift e en in the row The r e ading i s giv e n in two ways— fi rst by noting any pairs tri pl e t s or quartette s among th e m giving the m eaning from the Table given for the English syst e m Th e y should then b e consult e d in pairs as b e fore by taking one card from e ach e n d of the row l e avi ng a fateful mast e r card for the fini sh Thi s card as in a form e r exp eri m e nt has more force than any of the seven pairs When thi s has b ee n done t he fifteen card s are gathe red tog e the r and w ell shu ffled and then d e alt so as t o form thr ee packs of five cards e ach The top card from each heap is th e n taken and adde d to the single face down card t o form the Surpri se Thus we ge t four packs of four cards each The e nquire r now choos e s o n e of the three h e aps — he must not touch t he Surpri se h e ap—and thi s i s r e ad as applying to him or her se lf Of the two re m ai ning heap s t he l e ft han d one affects t he home and the right hand one covers som e one e ls e clos e ly connect e d with the e nquirer Finally th ere is the Surpris e which repres ents somethin g unexp e ct e d at the mom e nt by the enquirer .

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colo u rs and the di v in e r goes thr ough the pack turning up thr e e card s at a time Should all thr e e b e of one suit they ar e plac e d face upward s on the tabl e forming the usual row from left t o right I f only two of a suit come togeth e r the higher card in face value i s add e d to the row and the other is r e j ected I f al l three cards are of di ff erent suits al l ar e r e j e cted \Vhen the pack has b ee n d e alt with in this manner the r e j e cted cards are re shu ffled cut and dealt for a second time in thre e s This is rep e at e d till fift ee n cards are in the row I t is howeve r absolut ely n e ces sary that the type card repr e s e nting the e nquirer should be in the row and if it appears among the fift e en all is w ell so far I f howeve r it is not in the row the proc e ss of d e aling in threes and adding t o the row mu st be re pe ated till the t ype card i s s e cure d— this shows difficulti e s and troubl e s and wo rries for the enquire r according to t he numb e r of cards adde d in thi s way Should th e re b e mor e than fifteen card s in the compl e t e d row retain only the n e ce ssary numb e r counting from the extreme right which in most cases would of course be the t ype card itself— unless it made its appearance as one of a se t of thr e e cards of a suit in which case ( all three having t o be add e d t o the row) o n e or two other cards might be on the right of the typ e card The row having thus been reduc e d to fifteen cards pair them off o n e from each end as in pre vious m e thods taking the last ( or c e ntre ) card as the dominant or Surpris e Now have the fifte e n card s shu ffl e d and cut and de al th e m one by one into five heaps of thr e e c ar ds The se S houl d b e r e ad s e parately the heap on the l e ft b e ing for the enqui r e r hims e lf the s e cond for the home the t hi rd for the expected the fourth for the unexpe ct e d and the fifth for a con solation Anoth e r I talian method is to sort the cards into suits face upwards on the table —e ach sui t forming a s e parate ,

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He now deals th e s e into three heaps face downwards a n d a sks the enquirer to choose one of those packs The se must b e expo sed on the table face upwards and one by o n e beginning by placing the top card on the extreme left T he y should now b e r e ad by their inner meanings a ccor di ng to the Table given and the nam e s of the cards six to seven as it may be should be noted down on paper The whole pack is now gathered up again with the exception o f the c ard placed aside for the Surprise and the whole process is repeat e d taking care as before that the enquirer s type card i s among the twe nty retained for dealing into the three necessary heaps— the top card of the twe nty one being a dded to the Surprise as with the first deal The whole thing is repeated for a third time so as to c over the immediate past the pre sent and the imme diate future You will aft e r e ach deal have made a note of the cards contained in each of the three chosen heaps and these however many their number S hould now be picked out and a rranged in three groups one of th e se containing the cards t hat only appeared once another those that appear e d twice an d finally those important and fatef ul cards ( if any) that appeared in all three of the chosen heaps Thes e should be looked through again for any pairs triplets or quadruplets an d their meaning read from the Table given And fin al ly the diviner should study the suit c olours in each of th e se groups which r e pr e sent r e spectively the small affairs the more important happenings and the But it does r eally serious events that fa c e the enquirer not often happen that the same card reappears in all three o f the C hosen packs Th e re is still the Surprise to read and that naturally governs something unexpected— i n this cas e al so pairs and triplets should be noted and al so the important suit c olours ,

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This is a very thorough m e thod of di vination by cards but it occasionally takes tim e as it i s quite u se l ess unle ss the enquir e r s t yp e card i s among the twenty cards left ove r for dealing into the thre e h e ap s I t n ee d not of cour se be in the cho se n h e ap and though it must of nec essity b e among the important twe nty aft e r each d e al it fre que ntly happ e n s that it makes no ap pearanc e at all in any of the thr e e cho sen h eaps I t is con side red very import ant that the divin e r should not see t he S u rprise cards b e fore they are finally expos e d on the tabl e but of course the type card might e asily find its way to this h eap When th e r e fore the divin e r sati sfies hi ms e lf that t he typ e card is not among the twe nty l e ft in his hand he should e xamine the el e ven card s ( or ten or nin e aft e r the se cond and third shu ffles r e sp e ctive ly) that have b e en di scard e d and make certain that it r e ally is still in play Should the Typ e card go to the Surp rise the attempt must b e give n up as hop el e ss —and as b e for e stat e d nin e days must e lap se before the cards are consult e d again for the sam e enquir e r I n a trial divination j ust complet e d the following cards appeare d in the thr e e select e d heaps ,

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there fore and the Spad e Queen s ee ms to dominate the po sition I f ther e had be e n more Clubs than Diamonds it would have greatly helped matters for the enquire r but Diamonds are only the third suit as regards good fortune and are obviously not strong enough t o fight successful ly again st the Spades There are thr ee Ac e s but o n e of them is of the fateful Spade suit though against this is the fact that the Club and Diamond Ac e s each appear e d t wic e over which gre atly strengthens the ir in fluence B ut the Ace of Spad es symbol of D e ath or Di saster is always an extrem ely sinister and powerful card and its powe r h e r e is enhanced by the trebly occurring Queen of the same suit I t looks as if gr e at good fortune ( the Ac e s ) would j ust b e lost through the in fluence of a dark woman This malevolent in fluence may not be in the enquire r s own life— the woman may control one of tho se with whom the e nquirer is working Again the thre e Nines are a good sign but th e y only app e ar once each thus clearly showing som e sm all gain in place of the much more powe rful good fort une that sho ul d have come from the Ac e s The two Seve ns e ach appearing twice and the two Eight s strongly confir m the rea di ng and show that good fortune was allowed to slip pass unh e eded ,

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This m e thod of di vination dat e s from the sevent e enth century and has be e n reprinted s e ve ral times of rece nt ye ars and much prai sed for i ts accuracy apart from its v e ry original character in t he buil di ng of the de sign I t i s an exc e ll e nt o n e and ve ry r e li able but car e mu st b e taken in building up the nec essary cards for the e xperime nt — in this case al so our di agram should be copied and used ,

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from the extre m e right remaining on t o p—al l cards thus covered are to be ign ored but they need not be removed It m akes no difference if you prefer to get rid of them at Should there o nce — i t is merely a matter of convenience be no other cards of its suit in the row the extreme ri ght card is left in its place Y ou now consider the second card from the right of the top row in the same way and thus reduce the row of seven c ards to one representative of each suit — bearing in mind that the card on the extreme left ( the Master C ard as it is called ) m ust never be covered It follows therefore that when this process is completed you c an not have more than five cards left in each row one of each suit and the Master Card and m ay indeed only have two cards should all be of one suit a very rare occurrence This process is as indi cated applied to each of the seven rows when you now reduce your figure to its fin al fateful shape by throwi ng away all cards be yond three coun ting from the M as ter C ard and retainin g the next two cards on the right In the very rare event of all cards ( excluding the Master Card ) bein g of one suit in a row you would obviously only have two in that particular row— this makes no di fference and must not be i nterfered with Y ou now have a mystic figure consist i ng of seven rows of three cards and from these you give your readi ng N ote first of all whether there are more red cards than black as the red aspect is considered favourable You must however bea r in mi nd that Clubs are the most fortun ate suit of all and should these form the bulk of the black cards they would be amply su fli ci en t to susta in the red favourable aspect even if there should be a slight black maj ority They are held to represent the I ntel l e ct and Judgment as the Hear ts govern the Affections and Passions—whil e the D iam onds represent Money and out ,

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ward Success and the Spades the Di fficulties and Troubles that face t he e nquire r Now read the cards in pairs taking the right hand and centre cards of the fir st row— remembering that in this m ethod the left is the mor e powerful card of the two Next read together the Master ca rd and centre card of the top row B e ar in mind that each row is quite di stinct and that no card is in fluenced by one above or below it but only by the card on the left You should particularly look out for all speci al cards such as the type card indicating the enqu ir e r ; the Jack of his or her s u it repres e nting the Thoughts any special King Queen or Jack ( representing young pe ople ) who may b e in the enqui rer s thoughts and i n whom he or she may b e interested Then there is the Wish card ( Nine of Heart s) the D isappointm e nt card ( Nine of Spades ) the Tragic card ( Ace of Spade s) Money card ( Ten of D iamonds ) and Business card ( Ten of Clubs ) N ot e the position of each of these cards and pay special attention to the significance of the cards that in fluence them They al l be come of much gre ater importance and power if they are in the Master column— i t is always howe ver favourable the general run of the u nfortunate ca rds may be if the Ace of Spades or Nine of Spades are Master ca rds It is indeed wi se after noting the suit importance of the whole mystic al figure to V iew i n addi ti on the suits of the Master cards by themselve s Shoul d they b e free from Spade s it would very greatly strengthen al l the favourable i n fl uences i n the general run of the car ds This m ethod of di vination is a very fascin ating one and is without an y doubt the most reliable for use for the di vi ner s o wn guidance It can be simplified for personal us e by studyi ng only ,

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FTE R testing the various fascinating methods of ” tell ing the cards with an ordi nary pack most pe ople will be anxious t o test the powers of the ancient Tarocchi cards as these were originally used sole ly for this purpose and not for gambling gam e s We have already e xplained the pecul iar arrangement of the pack which contains seventy eight cards and we have suggested that a pack co ul d easily be prep ared at home The pack is technical ly compos e d of two uneven sections—there were four suits containing fourt e en cards each and thi s portion of the pack was known as the Minor or L e sser Arcana I n addition th e re were twenty two other cards all single and without suits or sequence these were kn own as the Maj or or Great e r Arcana and have never been u sed for any other purpo se than divination The Maj or Arcana consists of twenty one numb e r e d cards and one unnumbered and for practical pur poses this s e ries of simple n u mbers would be su fli c i en t I f a pa ck can be pu rchas e d the cards wil l probably be found numbered in addition to havin g speci al designs upon them I t is a curious fact that the Hebrew alphabet contains twenty two letters and it i s claimed that th e r e is a con n e c ti o n between the two This may be the cas e but the presence of an unnumb e red card rai ses a di ffi cu lty— should !

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this come before number On e or aft e r number Twenty one I t should also b e noted that t he tw e nty one numb e red cards fall naturally into thre e groups of se ve n card s e ach and th e se hav e b ee n claim e d as r e pr e s e nting the moral m e ntal and mat e rial groups with t he unnumb e r e d card as the Deity But the Tarocchi card s are e xtr e m e ly old and had probably chang e d and e volve d many many tim e s b e fore we have any historic al r e f e rence to th e m I t s ee ms almost a c e rtainty that the re was no definite limit to th e numb e r of the earli est group s of articl es used for divination which would be actual articl e s coll e ct e d by the s e er and not emblem s as now u sed Ston es see ds bone s— anything that co ul d b e pre s e rve d would s e rve the purpose of the e arli est s e ers With this w e have littl e or nothing t o do our purpos e is t o d eal with the recogni sed se t of card embl e ms forming the Tarot The first numbered card is known as the Magician or Juggler and obvi ously the e arlie st m e aning would be c onc e rn e d with Magic and not Jugglery which is r e ally a human amuse m e nt whereas the Magician stood for all h e aling and cr e ative pow e r s such as illn e ss pain s e lf I t must b e c o n fi den c e will pow e r d e xt e rity and so on rememb e r e d with all the s e cards that a r e versal of the card top t o bott om al so aff e cts the meaning The s e cond Tarot card is known as the High Priestess and we k now that in many early forms of worship women did act as pri est s— no doubt the m en wer e oth e rwis e e m ploye d searching for food and raim ent for t he family Mal e pri e st s we re a much later d e velopm e nt This card r e present s s e cre t s myst e ry science knowl e dg e the u m reveal e d future For many p u rposes card number One is used t o repre sent the enquirer if a man while number Two is used if it is ,

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The Seventh is al s o sympathetic with the F irst and F ourth W e will now deal with the second group of seven cards U nfortunately numbers Eight and Eleven are often reversed ; one early accoun t gives Justic e for numbe r Eight and Courage for El e ven another shifting the m about I t is impossible nowadays t o decide which is correct though pe rsonally we prefer number Eleven for Justice Card number Eight then we will call Courage — i t signifies energy or action and generally is a succe ssful and fo rtunat e card Reversed it does not necessarily mean ill success but abuse of power The Ninth card is known as the Hermit and shows prudence and wisdom but if the other c ards are not good it may merely mean trickery and lying Reversed it shows secrecy fear or needless caution Card number Ten represents the Wheel of Fort une and it signifies D e st i ny I f this card tur ns up the decision will concern some near event and whichever way matters go the res u lt will be fin al and fat e ful I f reve rsed t his card shows an excessive result — abundance su pe rflui ty far m ore than is needful Wh e n consid e ring the Eleventh card we must recall w hat was said above — taking Courage for number Eight we giv e J u stice for number Eleven This does not mean Law in o ur mod e rn use of the word Justice but the triumph of right The diviner can only predict that right will succeed an d must leave it t o the consci e nce of the enquirer t o decide wh e ther his o wn cause is indicate d The Twelfth card is a most curious one and is kn o wn as the Hanged Man but for some unknown re as on he is r epresented as han gi ng by one foot though not apparently .

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i n an y way uncomfortable I t does not app e ar to b e a form of puni shm e nt for the card r e prese nts Wisdom Intuition S ac ri fi c e—when r e versed it stands for S elfi shn ess and Greed So we must assume that the so call e d Hangin g is int e nded to r e pre s e nt s e lf— sac ri fi ce The Thirt eenth card is r e pre se ntative of Death though its normal m eaning mer ely indi cat e s loss Re ve rsed how e ver i t is a most fat e ful sign The card it self is generally l e ngth ske leton much aft e r the o rnam e nt e d with a f u ll — s tyle of the well known r e pr es entation of Fath e r Time The la st ca rd of thi s second s e ri e s of s e ven is r e pre s e n t ati v e of Tempe ranc e which of cour se is m e ntal or physical and has no conn e ction with teetotalism It m e ans Care fuln e ss Economy Good Manage m ent and so o n — r e ver sed it is an important card and shows divided int e r ests I t will again b e se e n that there is much sympathy in e ach couple of third cards — thus Eight and El e ven ar e o ften rever sed ; whi le Nine and Twe lve both indi cate Prud e nce in affairs Ten and Thirt ee n ar e obviou sly C lo se ly conn e ct e d i n the form of D e stiny and Death both r e pr ese nting Finality The Fourt ee nth card Temperance o r Mod e ration also follows the idea of the Eighth and E l e venth The third and final se t of s e ve n cards are re ally mystical a n d to a gr e at ext e nt r e pres e nt t he force or in fl uence of thing s b eyo nd our own p ersonal control Thi s group open s w ith numb e r Fifte e n as the D e vil The Malignant Power i ts e lf i s g e nerally r e pre sent e d in conn e ction with a naked m an and a naked woman typical of Humanity and i n t e nd e d to indi cat e our inability to ge t away from the u nse e n i n flu e nc es surrounding us Thi s card shows som e p owe rful in flu e nce working in our live s in spit e of ourse lves or in so me c ase s our own physical inabi l ity to he lp ourselves .

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owing to serious oth e r word s as shown on the card our nake d or natural impot e nc e I t ne e d not n eces sari l y b e an evil in fl u e nce but it is one that we cannot resist The old supers tition of course was that every one of us had a good spirit behind our right shoulder and an evil one b ehind our left This superstition remains strong to day In its normal po sition thi s fateful card can be either good or evil but reversed it i s invariably a bad sign The Sixteenth card also shows the strong force of the occul t powers controlling our d e stinie s and it is invariably represented by a building struck and shattered by light ning Its significance is Misery Adve rsity Disgrace or even Ruin It cove rs some unforeseen or un e xpected calamity as indicated by the lightning When r e versed this card loses much of its malignity though with bad cards near it might S how imprisonment Following this shock we have the Star for our next card and as in so many other cases a nake d woman is shown This card number Sevent e en repres e nts Hope and when reversed the reading is unfort un ate— Loss Theft or Privation of some sort The Eighteenth card shows us the Full Moon looking down on an uncared for path that appare ntly leads nowhere It r e pre s e nts H i dden Dangers D e c e ption Error of Judg ment and so on Rever sed it make s the deception our — own the enquirer will come to troubl e or di fficul ty through his or her own deceit or falsehood I t is not a nic e card for the unfortunat e diviner and care should b e taken in the manner of our interpretation— in such cases it is better t o suggest and not to make any de fi nite ass e rtion The Nin e t e enth card is the Sun with which i s associated a naked C hild— g e n e rally a boy as girl s were not of much accoun t in the East The card is typical of Married Happiness o r at any rate of D omestic or Material content ,

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uggest that these could be written on the cards for guid telling the cards The meanings are given a nce when i n the following table :

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the normal position this card indicates that the telling r ef ers to the past I f reversed it indicates the futur e but it is the imme di ate futur e Five — Marriage or some important c er e mony Reve rsed it indicat e s an arrival some news or a surprise Four — Discontentment or displeas ure Reversed a new acquai ntanc e Thre e — Success a favourable ending to the en quirer ’s plan or wi sh Re versed the card indicat e s a quick r esult not n ecessarily succe ssful but soon in point of time only Two — Love affe ction Reversed the card shows Oppo sitiou to on e s affection or by the person loved On e — Company a pl e asant gath e ring— the sort of ” thi ng we know as a party Reve rsed we have a change of some sort not necessarily good or bad but a chan ge It will be seen that the Heart suit i s almost entirely fortunat e in its normal position whil e the re ve rsed po si tions on the whol e indicat e d e lay rather than lack of succe ss An e arly design for thi s suit was the Acorn which obviously r e pre sented succ essful agricultur e an e ssential feature of primitive lif e Th e n came the Cup also in its more mod ern fashion a S ign of material succ ess—o r at any rate the n e c essary social po sition to e nable you to enter tain The Western H eart is m e r ely a carel ess adaptation of t he old d esign of a Cup j ust as the Cup its elf w as a car e l ess or mistake n copy of the Acorn po ssibly done in some country wh e re the Oak tree was not promin e nt .

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dark w oman or alt e rnative ly gen e rosity R e vers e d the card shows a suspicious woman mistrust or evil thr e atening K n igh t — A kind fri e nd Al so carefulnes s e conomy R e ver sed it sugg ests troubl e through the care l e ssn ess of some such fri e nd not intentional harm but ri sk all the sam e Jac k — Order manag e ment Reversed waste or e ve n reckl e ssn es s Te n — The hou se or dwelling ; oft e n the famil y of the n u ir e r if he or she is marri e d Revers e d loss or specula q tion involvi n g risk N in e — Hon e sty or di scr etion Rev ersed deceit or treach e ry Eight — A dark girl B e auty or innocence Reve rsed tricke ry by a woman Seve n — Mon e y matters in gen e r al busin e ss or inherit anc e R e ve r sed the card indicat e s anxi ety or worry over mon e y matt e rs Reversed the card represents a longi ng S ix — Pre sents for what we cannot ge t F ive — Love or affe ction R e versed the card c al ls for gr e at di scretion on the part of the di viner as it may m e an unfortun ate but hone st love though it oft e n m e ans illi cit or immoral passion as in the case of a married woman Four — Pleasure or enj oyment of a somewhat materi al nat ure R e ve rs e d obstacl e s Thr e e — Dignity or po sition Reve rsed it often r ep re sents the chil dren of the enqui rer or the b e gin ning of some enterpri se intended t o improve t he position of the enquirer R e versed it sign ifies a T wo — V Vorr y or di ffi cul ties letter or message good bad or indi ff e rent .

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Kni gh t — D eparture removal or sep aration fro m some one I f reversed this will fo l low a q uar rel The separa tion or departure may of co urse prove to the en quirer s advantage even if the card is reversed Jac k — A frien dl y stran ger or good news Reversed bad news or worr y Ten — Con fi den c e or honesty of purpose Reversed treachery or deceit N in e — Intelligence observation good manage m ent Reversed the card indica tes obstacles or di fficulties c e rtainl y delay but not necessari ly with any bad result Eigh t — Peace or order Reversed q uarrels Se ve n — Success or some m easure of advan tage and profit If reversed the card shows hesitation and anxiety but not necessarily any loss S ix — The hope desire or wish of the enqui rer whatever it may be whether materi al or of the a ffections Reversed it shows treache ry or un fait hfulness if it concerns the affections Five — Money gain or inheritance Reversed it shows troubles or d ifli cul ties conn e cted with money such as legal cases but not necess ar ily a loss of m oney though al m ost certain ly it shows that there wil l be n o gain F our —C ompany society pleasure Reversed this card is supposed to ret ai n its normal meanin g which seems ill ogical an d unl ikely W e suggest that the reversal wo ul d i ndi ca te that the love of company was causing the en qui rer to neglect more import an t matters Thre e — Some b u sin ess enterprise or u ndertaking R e versed the c ard represents the wish or attempt for some the ful fil m ent seems su ch enterp rise or outlet where unlikel y ,

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Reversed it signifies a surprise or some un expec t e d or unusual occurrence Reversed it On e — The commencement of somethi ng shows cruelty or m i sfort une On the whole Diamonds is a fairly fortun ate suit but is far more mix e d and vague in its in fluence than is the case with Hearts Personal ly we pre fer the Club suit which suggests a rising above di fficulties that lie in the e nquir e r s path wh e r e as Diamonds can better be de scribed as a fai lure to use our powers or advantages to the utmost The ul timate result may be and often i s much the same i the e fort i d cated by Clubs speaks more for the t f n e y character of the subj ect — such a person is more likely t o succ e e d in the end The fourth suit Spade s is the unfortun ate one .

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Seve n — This card i s not a ffe ct e d by being reversed and shows hope and confide nc e good advice S ix — Travel a voyage or a mess e nger— someone who has travelled Re v ers e d it shows a surprise — Five This card also is not affected by reversal and m eans trouble lo sses sadn e ss mourning Four — Solitude Revers e d it indica tes that the soli tude is enforced in some cases necessary economy aft e r a loss Thre e — Separation or a quarrel I f r e versed the e m q u irer w ill be re sponsible for the troubl e I f r e versed it shows l yin g and Tw o — Friendship deceit One— Prosp erity Wh en r e vers e d this card generally S how s an unfortunate love affair ,

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W e will now give a few methods of reading from the f u ll Tarot pack but as it is an old system of divination th er e are only a limit e d number of the se u nlike those us e d with the m odern pack where we find at l east a score of well kn own syst e ms of tellin g In the first place the e nquirer must be quit e certain as to time t hi s must be made C le ar be fore the cards are touched He or she must al so decide whether a simple answer to a qu est ion is what he wants or whether he prefers a ge neral divination of the cour se of events Th e s e point s will control the see r s int e rpr e ta tion It must also b e rem e mbered that with the Tarot c ar ds the Ace is mer e ly the On e and that the four Court cards are far more powerful than the common e r cards and that the five higher commoner cards are corre spond ingly more powerful than the five lower ones although t he latter include the Ace A simpl e question can be answ ered by the general C harac ter of the cards after they have been expo sed by one or ,

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or physic al affairs of the enquir e r the m iddl e row governs his mental life his friendships and a ffections his hope s and s o o n ; while the top row represents the unseen in fluences at work on his or he r life Another method on somewhat similar lines is as follows The enquirer draws out one card t o represent hi mself and this is placed face upwards on the table Then he must thoroughly shuffl e the pack Now the seer goes through the pack and builds up the rows of seven cards worki ng from right to l e ft ; the fir st row being on top as in the previous method B ut the cards must n ot be de alt in sequ e nce — the first card placed on the table must be the top card of the pack after it has be e n shu ffl ed the second card will be the sev en th card from it in the pack in other words the original eighth card This is plac e d to the left of the top card and forms the second card in the top row of seven Th e n count out the next s e venth card and place this as the third of the row to the left of the second card Obviously this will be the fifteenth original card in the shu ffl ed pack Go on in this way taking out every seve nth card you come to and adding it t o the figure— the second row com m en c i n g as soon as you hav e displayed seven cards To avoid confusion it is wi se to plac e e ach card not r e quired at the bottom of the pack— thus you place the top card on the table the second at the bottom of the pack and count One the third b elow and count Two and so on You wi ll fin d that the ori ginal bottom card wil l form the fifth card of the centre row on the table The reading is given as in the first method A third method of tellin g the Tarot cards is known as the Great Figure of Fat e As it is rather compli cated till you have actually tested it we give a diagram t o S how how the cards should be used in order t o build up the figure prope rly ,

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triangle show the Pre s e nt while the left hand e leven cards o f e ach figure will indicate the Future The divination is mad e by combinations of three cards o f which the chosen card— repr e se nting the enquir e r and shown in t he c e ntre of t he Triangle in the diagram — is This card is combined with numb ers I and always one 3 4 the two bottom card s of the s e rie s showing the Past then with 2 and 3 5 and so o n with each couple for Past Present and Future Anoth e r simpl e method is for the e nquirer t o shu ffle the pack and then the se er arra n ges a row of sevent e e n cards in sequ e nce beginning with the t op card of the pack This makes the ninth card t he e xact c e ntr e either fro m the right or from the left The cards are read in thre e s as in the Gr eat Figure but in thi s ca se the centr e card repre sents the e nquirer and you pair from the ends Thus you read cards I 9 1 7 tog e ther for the immediate Pre s e nt or for some incid e nt in the Past which the e nquirer can name as a starting point — such as a rec e nt business arrang e m e nt a proposal of marriag e and so on Then you read cards 2 9 1 6 together for a few days further ah e ad num b e rs 3 9 1 5 for lat e r still and so on for the whol e row This method does not take long and is con sidered v e ry e ffe ctive for dealing when a simple straightforward divina tion is required such as in the case s indicated -

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