CARD COMBINATIONS
This method of discovering certain facts about your future is as old as the hills, if not older. It depends on laying out the cards and noting how certain of them are arranged.
The first thing you do is to take an ordinary pack and remove from it all the twos, threes, fours, fives and sixes. This will leave you with thirty-two cards in hand. Next, you shuffle very thoroughly and cut with the left hand. That done, you set out the thirty-two cards in four rows, each of eight cards. Be careful to commence each row at the right and then work to the left. Of course, you must put them out in exactly the same order as they come off the pack.
The "lay-out" being completed, you carefully look at the cards. You look, first, to see if by any chance there are four aces touching anywhere. If so, the scrutiny ceases and you find out, from the list given below, what the meaning is of four aces touching. But if there are not four such aces, then you search for four kings and, failing them, four queens, and so on, down to four sevens. If all these fail, you look for three cards of a kind starting as before with aces and working down to sevens. Should there be no groups of threes, then you look for groups of two. Of course, after that there is no point in continuing the scrutiny if there are no twos.
Be careful to understand that the cards forming a group need not all occur in the same horizontal line. As long as one card touches another of the same value, whether at the top, bottom, sides or even at the corners, it will count. Note also that the only reading that may be taken from a "lay-out" is the highest reading. Thus, if there are four aces and three queens, you are not permitted to take the reading of the queens, if you prefer it, to that of the aces. The reading of the aces alone counts.
These are the readings:—
Fours
FOUR ACES.—Dangers may attack you while you are least expecting them.
FOUR KINGS.—You are likely to rise in the world and be endowed with fame.
FOUR QUEENS.—You will be led into quarrels, not of your own seeking.
FOUR JACKS.—Treachery is afoot and you will be the victim, unless you play your cards remarkably well.
FOUR TENS.—You will succeed at what you have most set your heart.
FOUR NINES.—People will endeavor to cheat you. Keep your eyes open and thwart the wrong-doers.
FOUR EIGHTS.—You are likely to form some great desire, and that desire will be attained, if you are true to yourself.
FOUR SEVENS.—There is a very happy home marked out for you, if you wish it.
Threes
THREE ACES.—Good news is coming.
THREE KINGS.—Some great desire that you have is about to be realized. It is nothing to do with work or business, but pleasure.
THREE QUEENS.—You will be happy in one particular friendship that you are about to make.
THREE JACKS.—Certain disputes are trying to find their way into your existence. Be guarded.
THREE TENS.—Wait patiently and a very happy time will not be long in coming.
THREE NINES.—Your wishes may not come true as soon as you would like. But wait.
THREE EIGHTS.—Marriage is imminent for those of single blessedness who have set their hearts on it.
THREE SEVENS.—First, there is a cloud and behind it is bright sunshine. This applies to you.
Twos
TWO ACES.—You are about to start on some new enterprise and make a success of it.
TWO KINGS.—You are shortly meeting a stranger who will mean a good deal to you.
TWO QUEENS.—Doubt is to cloud your mind. You will seek advice from a certain quarter. Take the advice and do not lose sight of the giver.
TWO JACKS.—Your faith is to be sorely tried. See that you do not injure your reputation.
TWO TENS.—There is every sign of good fortune in the future.
TWO NINES.—There is a great surprise in store for you.
TWO EIGHTS.—Be judicious in your dealings with the opposite sex.
TWO SEVENS.—The unengaged are soon to be engaged.
Other Combination of Cards
Should the cards offer none of the above arrangements, the following may be found, but they are meaningless unless all the foregoing have failed.
KING OF CLUBS AND TEN OF HEARTS.—Love is coming.
KING OF DIAMONDS AND TEN OF SPADES.—Beware of lovers' quarrels.
KING AND QUEEN OF SAME SUIT.—A proposal or its equivalent.
QUEEN OF SPADES AND ANY JACK.—Take care of the wiles of a woman well known to you.
TEN OF HEARTS AND NINE OF CLUBS.—A journey is awaiting you.
TEN OF HEARTS AND ACE OF SPADES.—A birth.
NINE OF HEARTS AND ACE OF CLUBS.—Your wishes will be fulfilled.
SEVEN OF HEARTS AND SEVEN OF CLUBS.—Your troubles are about to end.