{"collection":"Tarot","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tarot/ftc/ftc06.htm","path":"tarot/ftc/ftc06.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/ftc/ftc06.htm","text":"Fortune Telling by Cards, by P.R.S. Foli, [1915]\nCombinations of court cards\u2014Combinations of plain cards\u2014Various cards read together\u2014General meaning of the several suits\u2014Some lesser points to notice.\nFour Aces.\u2014When these fall together they imply danger, financial loss, separation from friends, love troubles, and, under some conditions, imprisonment. The evil is mitigated in proportion to the number of them that are reversed.\nThree Aces.\u2014Passing troubles, relieved by good news, faithlessness of a lover and consequent sorrow. If reversed, they mean foolish excess.\nTwo Aces.\u2014These portend union; if hearts and clubs it will be for good, if diamonds and spades, for evil, probably the outcome of jealousy. If one or both be reversed, the object of the union will fail.\nFour Kings.\u2014Honours, preferment, good appointments. Reversed, the good things will be of less value, but will arrive earlier.\nThree Kings.\u2014Serious matters will be taken in hand with the best result, unless any of the three cards be reversed, when it will be doubtful.\nTwo Kings.\u2014Co-operation in business, upright conduct and prudent enterprises to be crowned with success. Each one reversed represents an obstacle. All three reversed spell utter failure.\nFour Queens.\u2014A social gathering which may be spoilt by one or more being reversed.\nThree Queens.\u2014Friendly visits. Reversed, scandal, gossip, and possibly bodily danger to the inquirer.\nTwo Queens.\u2014Petty confidences interchanged, secrets betrayed, a meeting between friends. When both are reversed there will be suffering for the inquirer resulting from his own acts. Only one reversed means rivalry.\nFour Knaves.\u2014Roistering and noisy conviviality. Any of them reversed lessens the evil.\nThree Knaves.\u2014Worries and vexations from acquaintances, slander calling the inquirer's honour in question. Reversed, it foretells a passage at arms with a social inferior.\nTwo Knaves.\u2014Loss of goods, malicious schemes. If both are reversed the trouble is imminent; if one only, it is near.\nFour Tens.\u2014Good fortune, wealth, success in whatever enterprise is in hand. The more there are reversed, the greater number of obstacles in the way.\nThree Tens.\u2014Ruin brought about by litigation. When reversed the evil is decreased.\nTwo Tens.\u2014Unexpected luck, which may be connected with a change of occupation. If one be reversed it will come soon, within a few weeks possibly; if both are reversed, it is a long way off.\nFour Nines.\u2014Accomplishment of unexpected events. The number that are reversed stand for the time to elapse before the fulfilment of the surprise.\nThree Nines.\u2014Health, wealth, and happiness. Reversed, discussions and temporary financial difficulties caused by imprudence.\nTwo Nines.\u2014Prosperity and contentment, possibly accompanied by business matter, testamentary documents, and possibly a change of residence. Reversed, small worries.\nFour Eights.\u2014Mingled success and failure attending a journey or the taking up of a new position. Reversed, undisturbed stability.\nThree Eights.\u2014Thoughts of love and marriage, new\nfamily ties, honourable intentions. Reversed, flirtation, dissipation and foolishness.\nTwo Eights.\u2014Frivolous pleasures, passing love fancies, an unlooked-for development. Reversed, paying the price of folly.\nFour Sevens.\u2014Schemes and snares, intrigue prompted by evil passions, contention and opposition. Reversed, small scores off impotent enemies.\nThree Sevens.\u2014Sadness from loss of friends, ill-health, remorse. Reversed, slight ailments or unpleasant reaction after great pleasure.\nTwo Sevens.\u2014Mutual love, an unexpected event Reversed, faithlessness, deceit or regret.\nThe ten of diamonds next to the seven of spades means certain delay.\nThe ten of diamonds with the eight of clubs tells of a journey undertaken in the cause of love.\nThe nine of diamonds with the eight of hearts foretells for certain a journey.\nThe eight of diamonds with the eight of hearts means considerable undertakings; with the eight of spades there will be sickness; and with the eight of clubs there is deep and lasting love.\nThe seven of diamonds with the queen of diamonds tells of a very serious quarrel; with the queen of clubs we may look for uncertainty; with the queen of hearts there will be good news.\nThe ten of clubs followed by an ace means a large sum of money; should these two cards be followed by an eight and a king, an offer of marriage is to be expected.\nWhen the nine, ace, and ten of diamonds fall together we may look for important news from a distance; and if a court card comes out after them a journey will become necessary.\nThe eight and seven of diamonds in conjunction imply the existence of gossip and chatter to be traced to the inquirer.\nWhen the king, queen, knave, and ace of one colour appear\nin sequence it is a sign of marriage; should the queen of spades and the knave of hearts be near, it shows there are obstacles in the way; the proximity of the eight of spades bodes ill to the couple in question, but their happiness will be assured by the presence of the eight of hearts and the eight of clubs.\nThe ace of diamonds and the ten of hearts also foretell wedding bells.\nThe seven of spades, with either a court card or the two of its own suit, betrays the existence of a false friend.\nThe eight and five of spades coming together tell of jealousy that will find vent in malicious conduct.\nA number of small spades in sequence are significant of financial loss, possibly amounting to ruin.\nThe king of hearts and the nine of hearts form a lucky combination for lovers.\nThe nine of clubs joined to the nine of hearts is indicative of affairs connected with a will likely to benefit the inquirer.\nThe queen of spades is the sign of widowhood, but if accompanied by the knave of her own suit she is symbolical of a woman who is hostile and dangerous to the inquirer.\nHearts, as might well be supposed, are specially connected with the work of Cupid and Hymen. The suit has also close reference to affairs of the home and to both the domestic and social sides of life.\nDiamonds are mainly representative of financial matters. small and great, with a generally favourable signification.\nClubs are the happiest omens of all. They stand for worldly prosperity, a happy home life with intelligent pleasures and successful undertakings.\nSpades, on the other hand, forebode evil. They speak of sickness, death, monetary losses and anxieties, separation from friends and dear ones, to say nothing of the minor worries of life. They are also representative of love, unaccompanied by reverence or respect, and appealing exclusively to the senses.\nWhen a number of court cards fall together it is a sign of hospitality, festive social intercourse, and gaiety of all kinds. Married people who seek to read the cards must represent their own life partner by the king or queen of the suit they have chosen for themselves, regardless of anything else. For example, a very dark man, the king of spades, must consider his wife represented by the queen of spades, even though she may be as fair as a lily and not yet a widow.\nBachelors and spinsters may choose cards to personate their lovers and friends according to their colouring. Two red tens coming together foretell a wedding, and two red eights promise new garments to the inquirer.\nA court card placed between two cards of the same grade\u2014for instance, two nines, two sevens, &c., shows that the one represented by that card is threatened by the clutches of the law, and may be lodged at His Majesty's expense.\nIt is considered a good augury of success when, in dealing the cards out, those of lesser value than the knave are in the majority, especially if they are clubs.\nShould a military man consult the cards he must always be represented by the king of diamonds.\nIt is always essential to cut cards with the left hand, there being a long-established idea that it is more intimately connected with the heart than the right. A round table is generally preferred by those who are in the habit of practising cartomancy. It is a matter of opinion as to whether the cards speak with the same clearness and accuracy when consulted by the inquirer without an intermediary. The services of an adept are generally supposed to be of great advantage, even when people have mastered the rudiments of cartomancy themselves.\nPatience, the power of putting two and two together, a quick intuitive perception, and a touch of mysticism in the character, are all useful factors in the pursuit of this pastime.","title":"Fortune Telling by Cards: Chapter IV. The Signification o...","type":"page"}