A Beginner's Guide to Reading Tarot Cards - A Helpful Guide for Anybody with an Interest in Reading Cards

Anon

• Publisher: Wyrd Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473353619
• Print ISBN:
  9781446524671
  9781528772563

This beginner's guide to tarot cards includes a history of the practice, a short summary of the methods used by the greatest diviners, and an introduction to reading the cards.

A short volume with a wealth of information, this pocket guide is essential for beginners in tarot card reading. Written anonymously and first published in 1929, this book gives valuable insight into the occult and provides classic historical methods in divinity that will assist the contemporary reader.

This beginner's guide features chapters including:

- A Brief History of the Pack of Cards

- Methods of Great Diviners

- Madame Lenormand's Nines

- A Test Telling of the Cards

- Some English Methods of Telling

- Some Artistic Stars

- Some Simple, But Effective Tellings

METHODS OF
GREAT DIVINERS

MADAME LENORMAND

THE pack consists of fifty-two cards—four suits of thirteen each. Each suit consists of the Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, and Two—or alternatively of King, Queen, Jack, Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One.

It has been observed that this fourfold division of the pack corresponds to similar divisions of Time, which are thus set out:—

1. Diamonds	2. Clubs	3. Hearts	4. Spades
1. Youth	2. Manhood	3. Maturity	4. Age
1. Spring	2. Summer	3. Autumn	4. Winter
1. Mornings	2. Noon	3. Evening	4. Night

The fifty-two cards correspond to the fifty-two weeks in the year, i.e. the four Suits to the four Seasons of thirteen weeks, such as shown above. Of these, Spring includes March, April, and May; Summer includes June, July, and August; Autumn includes September, October, and November; and Winter completes the circle of the year with the months of December, January, and February.

This only applies to the modern pack, as the real Tarocchi packs contain fourteen cards to each suit.

Each card, taken by itself, and in connection with that preceding and following it, i.e. one, two, and three cards at a time, will give seven possible combinations. Now, 7 × 52 = 364, which, added to the pack or unit, gives 365, the number of days in the year. So, then, it will be seen that the pack of fifty-two cards corresponds at all points with the natural divisions of time.

The Ace of each suit rules the first week of the corresponding Season, and is followed by the King, Queen, Jack, Ten, etc., declining till the lowest card, the Two, is reached.

The value or signification of the four suits is briefly as follows:—

Diamonds denote Life in general, and for this reason are largely dominated by the accompanying cards.

Clubs denote Power, whether arising from affluence, fame, position, or inherent capacity.

Hearts denote Love and its inflexions, such as friendship, sympathy, attachment, together with peace, tranquillity, and the concomitants of love.

Spades denote Loss, privation of any sort, things in their ultimate i...

Table of contents

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PACK OF CARDS
• METHODS OF GREAT DIVINERS
• A TEST TELLING OF THE CARDS
• SOME ENGLISH METHODS OF TELLING
• SOME ARTISTIC STARS
• SOME SIMPLE, BUT EFFECTIVE TELLINGS