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23.10.2020

“Fortune Telling Using Playing Cards” by Jonathan Dee

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"Fortune Telling Using Playing Cards" by Jonathan Dee
"Will luck be a lady tonight? Or must we play the hand we're dealt? There is no need to use tarot cards to learn what the future holds: a regular deck of playing cards will do the trick - as long as you know how to read them. Fortune Telling Using Playing Cards teaches readers how to translate the four suits of the tarot into the more familiar hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs found in the common playing card deck. Readers will learn the meaning of the cards, their individual symbolism, keywords, astrological associations, and the significance of their numbers. There are even suggestions on how to do a quick reading when you're short...>>
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23.10.2020

“The Cartomancy Workbook: How to Tell Fortunes with Playing Cards” by Emily Peach

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"The Cartomancy Workbook: How to Tell Fortunes with Playing Cards" by Emily Peach
"The Cartomancy Workbook is a new, comprehensive, and user-friendly approach to the ancient art of telling fortunes with ordinary playing cards. It contains a carefully graded course of practical exercises designed to give the student a sound working knowledge of the traditional attributions and divisions of the Playing Card Deck and the meanings of the cards in the shortest possible time. Amongst the many topics covered are: getting to know the Deck; developing intuition; methods of interpreting the Court Cards; constructing Positional and Sequential Spreads, and advice on reading professionally."...>>
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23.10.2020

“Two Tracts on Cartomancy” by Austin Osman Spare

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"Two Tracts on Cartomancy" by Austin Osman Spare
"The first of the two brief articles written by Spare is merely the instructions initially included with the ‘Surrealist Forecasting Cards’; which describes the general purpose of the cards, and methods for using them. In the second essay, ‘Mind to Mind and How’, Spare offers a method for creating one’s own deck from a pack of ordinary playing cards. Though perhaps more interesting than the short treatises are the pictures that accompany the texts; self-portrait, photographs, and reproductions of Spare’s divination cards."...>>
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