CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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ensure the detection by marking the cards at one end
by a
little
dot.
Usually only thirty-two cards are used for fortune
the Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, and Sixes being
telling
—
thrown
out.
In one method that will be detailed thirtythe four Twos are added. The Tarot
six cards are used
—
pack consists of seventy-eight cards, but
in
some
of the
delineations only a part of these are used.
Generally the meanings of the cards remain fairly conThus a good omened card is
stant for all the methods.
—but
the particular or specific meaning of
somewhat by the method of using it. For
it is altered
example, the Ten of Spades by one method means " losses,"
in another, " grief," and if
and if reversed, " tears "
" passing trouble." The Seven of Spades may
reversed,
mean " hope," and if reversed, " friendship " or it may
be " resolve," and if reversed, " difficulty in love affairs."
always such
;
;
These meanings, or values, of the cards should be well
studied and committed to memory, so that when any
particular card appears, a key to its interpretation is at
once presented to the mind of the reader. The word key
used advisedly, because these terms or values are not
to be taken as the absolute determination of the cards,
but rather as a guide to the specific values in relation.
In this connection it is as well to note the meanings
is
easy to imagine that Hearts generThis suit is
ally are associated with love and marriage.
also closely related to domestic matters, and to the social
amenities of life. Diamonds are generally associated with
of combinations.
It is
and though, as has already been
by other cards coming close
them, they are usually emblems of a favourable char-
financial considerations,
suggested, they are modified
to
acter.
Clubs are almost always good.
Successful enterprises,