11 11 11
It will be seen that seventy-eight cards divide equally in the first deal.
In the second deal, however, only fifty-one cards are used, so that there is one over. This card is shuffled with the third deal.
Two cards are now over, and these are placed as discards, until the central pack of the last deal of eleven is put on the right, when they are shuffled with the remaining twenty-two discards. The cards will now be as follows:—
26 17 11
Discards = twenty-four, making in all seventy-eight. They are next placed beneath each other in sequence, thus:—
| A. | 26, | emblematic | of the | supernatural, spiritual. |
| B. | 17, | „ | „ | thoughts and calling of the individual. |
| C. | 11, | „ | „ | physical and material. |
The tarocs of pack A, B, and C are now lifted separately, and placed on the table from left to right in rows. Each taroc has its meaning, and from its relation to its fellows the manipulator is able to present a brief sketch of character, inclination, and futurity.
Another simple method is to shuffle all the cards and request the inquirer to cut. The manipulator then proceeds to draw the first seventeen tarocs, uncovering only the eighteenth and last card of the pack. These two cards create what degree of sympathy is shared between himself and his client, the keynote being given by the symbolic meaning attached to the card. The seventeen cards are now revealed from left to right, their interpretation being given separately. In order to reach a proper signification, they are then compared as follows:—
The first with the seventeenth.
The second with the sixteenth.
The third with the fifteenth,