♥ Melancholic, sentimental, poetical, talented.
As, however, the human character is never without more than one of the above named characteristics, the first card signifies the most prominent one, and the cards which lie on the right side and below it are reckoned with it, by which the meaning of the first card is either modified or corroborated.
If the person in question is a lady, and she has, for example, drawn a club, the queen of clubs is herself, the knave of clubs is her intended, the king her father, or uncle, as the case may be. The picture cards of the other black suit are her friends and relations. It is the same if she has drawn hearts or diamonds, only that in this case the picture cards of the other red suit signify her friends and relations. If the person inquiring is a gentleman, it is the same, except that he is the knave of the suit which he has drawn, and his intended the queen.
From this first card, also, you form a judgment of one’s whole future course in life. If its signification is joyful, the person’s life will be a happy one. If, for example, it is the ace of hearts, it indicates that the person will never be without a home, a dear and pleasant home to him; if it is the ace of clubs, he will pass through life enjoying honor and fame; if it is the ten of hearts with a female figure on either side, it signifies two wives; if with a male figure on either side, and the person inquiring is a female, two husbands.
[Illustration: EXAMPLE OF FORTUNE-TELLING WITH AN EUCHRE PACK OF CARDS.]
Thus much as to general rules. We will now instruct the reader how to explain the cards in detail. We will suppose that it is a lady who inquires of the cards, and endeavor, by means of an example, to give an accurate explanation of the method to be pursued. Spread out the cards before you, and observe carefully the different cards while you read the fortune I shall predict from them. (_See Engraving, page 96._)
ACE OF HEARTS.—The young lady’s character, it seems, is sentimental, melancholic, poetical, which three qualities are found more or less together. If the next card were a heart, it would indicate a temperament inclined to love. As, however, the adjacent cards are clubs and spades, of which two indeed are clubs, we conclude that the lady often displays a cheerful, sanguine disposition, yet can, at times, be very passionate. The main feature of her character, however, is the melancholic.