Platt Card Fortune Telling Divination | Page 89

SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE TELLINGS 85 tions can be dealt with in a very short time, and there no need to remember any It is as well list of meanings. is to limit the questions to three, however, as the cards are never so reliable when overworked, or tired. Another simple method for answering a single question is worked with the full pack of fifty-two cards. First remove the t5rpe card representing the enquirer, King or Queen as it happens to be. Then have the fifty-one cards well shuffled and cut into three heaps of any size. They should be cut towards the right by the left hand the enquirer makes the first cut, placing the upper portion of the pack on the right and then cuts this latter heap — into two. The Diviner takes the centre heap (originally the middle down in his hand, adds to it the righthand heap (originally the top of the pack), and finally of the pack) face the left-hand heap goes on top of of forty-two cards, face make all. Now make down, on the table a circle —inside this a triangle of the remaining nine cards. The enquirer must now turn over any fifteen cards, replacing them, face upwards, in the original positions. When this is done, read them according to the number of each suit exposed. The Seven Answers The thirty-two cards are to be shuffled and cut once, as usual with the left hand, and the enquirer should wish once during this process. Then the cards seven heaps are dealt out, one for these being placed face heap is by one, so as to form —six of these to form a semicircle—the cards built in the centre downwards, while the seventh and the cards are dealt face upwards. The seven packs represent " yourself " (i.e. the