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HOROSCOPE ( Reading the CARDS ) |
Reading the CARDS
| If there be a local Gypsy-woman perhaps known to your
servants, it might provide a pleasurable diversion for your guests if
she Read the Cards after a dinner party. Although our more Liberal
clergy, who work so devotedly (and with so little reward or thanks)
amongst the poor, tell us that the Gypsy-folk (or as they prefer, the
Romanies) are not the 'Thieves and Rogues we have been led to believe,
nevertheless the servants should be warned to watch her at all times, if
she eat with them before being brought upstairs.
You should agree beforehand whether she be paid all at` once (in which case a shilling will be sufficient payment for an hour or two's entertainment), or whether each "Client" should "cross her palm with silver" separately and individually. Your dinner-guests must also be told which arrangement has been agreed, to avoid embarrassment.
However, the skill of READING THE CARDS is not a difficult one for the hostess herself to master, though at first sight there seem a lot to learn.
There are at least as many ways of READING THE CARDS as there are Cards in the Pack. Some are very complicated and take a long time to perform, both in their layout and in their interpretation. As we imagine that you would wish to have some several Readings during the course of the evening (though all authorities agree that you should never perform a Reading for the same person more than once in twenty-four hours), we will only give two of the simplest methods here. |
The Meanings of The Cards
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"DARK" and "FAIR" can refer not only to the colour of hair, but also to the eyes, the complexion generally, and sometimes to the nature If a card is reversed, it generally has a "negative" or unpleasant meaning, usually the reverse of the "positive" meaning given here. HEARTS concern emotions and matters of the heart Ace: Happiness
in the home |
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S : concern power, ability, business matters Ace: Success in business,
prosperity |
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Ace: An important letter
document
message or (marriage) proposal |
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misfortune troubles, disagreements, deep loss Ace: Pleasure in love, but legal problems (Reversed: sorrow, death) |
