Of Summarizing in the Parallelogram its Aspect and of the Fortune or Experience of the Querist that it will Report.
With your Parallelogram thus built, observe it as an Whole; and remark if it hath an Agreeable or Unpleasing Aspect—one Auspicious or Unkind, according as it contains rather the red or the black Suits. For a Red Aspect is kindly. A Black Aspect contains many less favorable cards, especially if they be Spades.
Of Hearts as a Portent.
And, for another Matter, and a wider Notice as to the Suits of Cards:—it has long been assured by those best knowing Card Intelligences that the Suit of Hearts is the Suit of the Affections, Passions, Fancies and Feelings.
Of Diamonds.
And the Suit of Diamonds ever refers to Condition in Life, Society, Wealth, Position and the Fine Arts; and contains many Comfortable Cards.
Of Clubs.
In the Clubs lies the Judgment, the Intellect, the Will, and the Affairs of a Man's Brains, and what he doeth of his own Mastery and Genius.
Of the ominous Spades suit.
The Spades is ever the suit of doubtful or worse Prognosticks; of the Events that arbitrarily fall to Man's Lot, those things which hardly can any Prescience or Plans or Conditions of our own making amend. Thence is it that in especiall comes a serious, nay even a gloomy appearance to the Parallelogram. Your first Glance at it, therefore, gives you a Generall Character in it, to state first to the Querist before its details.