CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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Should there be
an equal number of cards belonging to two or more suits
(obviously with thirteen cards there cannot be an equal
of Court or plain cards thus selected.
number
of Court or plain cards),
you give preference to
that suit that has most cards on the right of the row
these being
more active and
aggressive.
Divination by the Spade Suit
The pack must be shuffled and cut into three heaps
and rebuilt, as before explained.
The Diviner now holds the pack face upwards in his
hand this is different from most methods of Divination,
where the cards are generally dealt from the top of the
pack. Each card is looked at, but unless it is a Spade,
it is placed on the table, face upwards, to form a fresh
pack. As soon as a Spade is reached, that card is also
—
but the next following card is placed, face
upwards, on the table to start the necessary fateful row
Should two or more Spades come together,
of cards.
only the first one is discarded, the other or others being
discarded,
added
to the fateful
row
in front of you, together with
the next card following the last of that batch of Spades.
This is continued till the pack is exhausted, when the
discarded heap
is
taken up and treated in the same fashion
without being re-shuffled.
This process is repeated for a third time, and then the
type card must be looked for if it is not already in the
row, it must be found and added at the end. The Diviner
now counts the third, seventh, and thirteenth card from
—
the type card, in each case counting the type card as one.
These three cards are not removed from the row, but can
down a
below the level of the others, as
they form the dominant trio in this method.
be pulled
little