Playing-Card Cartomancy
Reading ordinary playing cards through suit/element and rank/number cycles; the popular cartomancy of the 18th and 19th centuries and still widespread.
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- Tools
- Playing Cards
Nature and meaning
- Category
- Cartomancy
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- Summary
Reading ordinary playing cards through suit/element and rank/number cycles; the popular cartomancy of the 18th and 19th centuries and still widespread.
- Method
- Assign meanings to suits and ranks before the reading; keep the system consistent.
- Best for
- SuitsRanks52 cardsCartomancy
- Keywords
- SuitsRanks52 cardsCartomancy
- Origin
- Early modern european
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