CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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Seven.
—This
card
not affected by being reversed,
is
and shows hope and confidence, good
—Travel, a voyage,
has travelled. Reversed,
Five. —This card also
Six.
advice.
or a messenger
it
shows a
—someone
who
surprise.
is not affected by reversal, and
means trouble, losses, sadness, mourning.
Four.— Solitude. Reversed, it indicates that the solitude is enforced, in some cases necessary economy after
a
loss.
—Separation or a quarrel.
Two. — Friendship.
reversed,
One — Prosperity. When reversed,
Three.
If reversed,
the en-
quirer will be responsible for the trouble.
If
it
shows
lying
and
deceit.
shows an unfortunate love
We
will
now
this card
generally
affair.
give a few methods of reading from the full
Tarot pack, but as
it is
an old system
of di\Tination, there
number of these, unlike those used with
the modern pack, where we find at least a score of wellknown systems of telling. In the first place, the enquirer
must be quite certain as to time this must be made clear
before the cards are touched. He or she must also decide
whether a simple answer to a question is what he wants,
are only a limited
;
or whether he prefers a general di\dnation of the course
of events.
These points
will control the seer's interpreta-
must also be remembered that with the Tarot
cards the Ace is merely the One, and that the four Court
cards are far more powerful than the commoner cards,
and that the five higher commoner cards are correspondingly
more powerful than the five lower ones, although the latter
tion.
It
include the Ace.
A simple
question can be answered by the general charac-
ter of the cards, after
they have been exposed by one or