THE TAROT OR DIVINATION CARDS
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The enquirer must choose a card
to represent himself, and
placed in the centre of the table. The pack is now
shuffled and handed to the seer, who deals
the cards in
proper sequence according to the numbers in the following
diagram, the top card going at i, the next card at
this
is
2,
You
so on.
33
22
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•
will easily see that the figure
31
66 -65
30
.
•
29
•
64-63
•
•
62-
2S
61
•
•
27
•
;
60-59
and
forms a triangle
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I
58- 57- 56
44
n
10
9
8
7
6
S
4
Z
2
1
The Great Figure of Fate
within a three-sided square.
circles
give
is
and
It is
sometimes arranged
in various fantastic forms, but the
the simplest.
used, the reading
In every case, whatever the design
the same, so there
is
in
method we
is
no advantage in
using a complicated figure, unless you are
anxious to
mystify the enquirer.
The method of divination is based upon the idea that the
right-hand eleven cards of the square and also of the triangle
represent the Past
the uppermost row of square and
;