CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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exertions or efforts
friends
and
Clubs also are favourable, but signify
on our behalf Diamonds are
;
—
their efforts
neutral in fortune and signify delay, while Spades are
bad. In this case the proportion is five favourable cards
against
two neutral and only one bad
Again you
card.
will notice that there are
two Heart Court
cards, including the Ace or Fool, which dominates everything else and is very powerful ; one Club, two Diamonds,
but no Spade.
factory.
So in every way your reply can be
You must remember
satis-
that in addition to the
Yes or No, the fall of the cards may indicate partial
success only; a failure of our own efforts, but success
through our friends partial success, and so on, dependent
upon the fall of the suits and the proportion of Court
direct
;
cards included in the eight surrounding cards.