CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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downwards,
and asks the enquirer to choose one of those packs. These
must be exposed on the table, face upwards and one by
one, beginning by placing the top card on the extreme left.
He now
deals these into three heaps, face
They should now be
" read "
by
their inner meanings,
according to the Table given, and the names 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
of the card placed aside for the Surprise, and the whole
process is repeated, taking care as before that the enquirer's
type card
is
among
the twenty retained for dealing into the
three necessary heaps
—the top card of the twenty-one being
added to the Surprise as with the first deal.
The whole thing is repeated for a third time, so as to
cover the immediate past, the present, and the immediate
future.
You
will, after
each deal, have made a note of the
cards contained in each of the three chosen heaps, and these,
however many their number, should now be picked out and
arranged in three groups one of these containing the cards
that only appeared once, another those that appeared
twice, and finally those important and fateful cards (if an}')
;
all three of the chosen heaps.
These should be looked through again for any pairs,
triplets, or quadruplets and their meaning read from the
Table given. And finally the diviner should study the suit
that appeared in
colours in each of these groups, which represent respectively
the small affairs, the more important happenings and the
really serious events that face the enquirer.
not often happen that the same
But
it
does
card reappears in all three
of the chosen packs.
There is still the Surprise to read and that, naturally,
governs something unexpected in this case also pairs and
triplets should be noted, and also the important suit
—
colours.