CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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Four Tens and four Nines stand respectively for good
Three Tens are very bad, but
three Nines good. Four Eights, a mixed omen of success
and failure. Three Eights, new family ties. Four Sevens,
three, ill-health, loss of friends.
trouble is imminent
Nine of Diamonds and the Eight of Hearts together
fortune and surprises.
;
Ten of
by an Ace, betokens a large sum of money.
A sequence of Ace, King, Queen, and Jack of one colour
foretell Marriage, so also do the Ten of Hearts and Ace
of Diamonds. When the Nine and King of Hearts appear
is
regarded as a sure indication of a journey.
Clubs, followed
form a good combination for lovers.
Before proceeding to lay out the cards in any of the
together, they
methods detailed in the following pages, the card-teller
must take the pack in hand and proceed to shuffle them.
This
is
for the purpose of getting rid of the influence of
any other person who may have been handling the cards
recently.
The pack is then handed to the consultant,
who
is
required to shuffle
it
very thoroughly.
mind in which this shuffling should be
done depends upon the purpose for which it is effected.
If the general fortune, past, present, and future, is reThe
attitude of
quired, then let the consultant maintain a passive mind,
neither anxious nor intent, but wishing only to
truth,
the diviner
may
the
predict from the cards.
however, a definite " wish "
If,
know
to accept, without cavil or protest, anything
and
is
required,
then
let
be intent upon its nature
and the source of its gratification. Let this mental attitude be steadily maintained while the " shuffle " is being
the
mind
of the consultant
made.
In regard to this process of shuffling the cards, it will
it is of the most vital importance, since
be observed that
the order in which the cards are subsequently laid out