SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE TELLINGS
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same suit, they
upwards on the table the others
should be placed face
same
face value or three cards of the
—
being discarded.
This
is
repeated
till
the pack
is
exhausted, the odd
two cards being discarded.
The discarded heap is now well shuffled and cut three
times as before this must always be done by the enquirer
—
and never by the Diviner, who merely deals or arranges
the cards and gives their meanings as they appeal to him.
Di\iners who are slightly clairvoyant make some marvellously accurate predictions without apparently studying
the accepted meanings of the cards.
The cards having been
shuffled the second time, leaving
the selected pairs and triplets face upwards on the table,
they are again gone through in sets of three as before in
order to increase the row of fateful cards on the table,
any odd cards at the end being discarded
This process
final fateful
row
is
as at
first.
repeated for a third time before the
of cards
is
consulted.
You can now
give
upon the prospects before the enquirer
of the prevaihng suits and by noting whether
by a study
Court cards or plain cards predominate, or you can go
further and pick up the cards, two at a time, taking one
from each end as in previous methods. This can always
a general opinion
be done when cards are arranged in a row, by whatever
process they have been selected always bearing in mind
that the right-hand card is more active and positive than
—
the left-hand one.
very quick, though perhaps rough and ready, method
of Divination is to let the enquirer choose thirteen cards
haphazard after the pack has been well shuffled and cut
A
As chosen, they are placed face upwards across
left to right, and the answer to the question
decided by the predominant suits and by the number
once.
the table from
is