Lee
I found something yesterday which I thought was really interesting.
At this site:
http://www.vitalinfocenter.com/fortune_teller/tutorial.html
the author is selling her ebook about playing-card reading, "Mara's Unique Fortune Teller." The ebook costs $14.95, and then you download it to your computer. I took a chance and ordered and downloaded it, and I'm glad I did.
The text on the site promoting the ebook is rather cheesy, but the book itself is more serious. Her approach is unlike anything I've ever seen, and totally unlike Tarot. First of all, she removes the 2's, 3's and 4's, leaving you with a 40-card deck. Next, only the suit of Spades have specific meanings. This is kind of hard to describe, and I hope this makes sense. The reader picks a court card as a significator. The suit of the significator then becomes the Questioner's Suit. The other two suits then become External Suits. There's one set of meanings for the Questioner's Suit, whichever suit that is, and then another set of meanings for the External Suits.
So, for example, let's say the Questioner's Suit is Hearts. Now, let's say you draw the 2 of Hearts and the 2 of Clubs. The 2 in the Questioner's Suit is money, the 2 in the External Suit is other people's money (these aren't the real meanings, I'm just making them up for example purposes). So the 2 of Hearts would be the questioner's money, and the 2 of Clubs would be other people's money. If the Questioner's Suit were Diamonds, then both the 2 of Hearts and the 2 of Clubs would be other people's money.
The meanings of the cards are generally the same across the numbers. The Questioner's Suit meanings are general concepts related to the questioner; the External Suit meanings are the same concepts but are either related to an external person or to the positive side of the concepts; the Spades are the same concepts but the negative side of the concepts. So, although you have 40 cards, there are only 30 meanings, and they're really 3 sets of variations on the same 10 concepts, so the system is very easy to learn.
The bulk of the ebook is taken up with Mara's elaborate reading process, which involves four different stages/layouts. I haven't read them in depth yet.
The ebook is not large, it's basically 13 short chapters (including a chapter on divination with beans). I felt it was well worth the $14.95 because of the completely original (at least to me) approach. The reading process is carefully explained and there are several reading examples. I'm looking forward to playing around with this. I was really in the mood for something different, and this is definitely different. The card meanings have nothing to do with R-W-S.
Warning: the site which contains the link above also contains some rather, um, spicy material. I'm not sure how card reading fits in with the rest of the site, but, whatever.
-- Lee
At this site:
http://www.vitalinfocenter.com/fortune_teller/tutorial.html
the author is selling her ebook about playing-card reading, "Mara's Unique Fortune Teller." The ebook costs $14.95, and then you download it to your computer. I took a chance and ordered and downloaded it, and I'm glad I did.
The text on the site promoting the ebook is rather cheesy, but the book itself is more serious. Her approach is unlike anything I've ever seen, and totally unlike Tarot. First of all, she removes the 2's, 3's and 4's, leaving you with a 40-card deck. Next, only the suit of Spades have specific meanings. This is kind of hard to describe, and I hope this makes sense. The reader picks a court card as a significator. The suit of the significator then becomes the Questioner's Suit. The other two suits then become External Suits. There's one set of meanings for the Questioner's Suit, whichever suit that is, and then another set of meanings for the External Suits.
So, for example, let's say the Questioner's Suit is Hearts. Now, let's say you draw the 2 of Hearts and the 2 of Clubs. The 2 in the Questioner's Suit is money, the 2 in the External Suit is other people's money (these aren't the real meanings, I'm just making them up for example purposes). So the 2 of Hearts would be the questioner's money, and the 2 of Clubs would be other people's money. If the Questioner's Suit were Diamonds, then both the 2 of Hearts and the 2 of Clubs would be other people's money.
The meanings of the cards are generally the same across the numbers. The Questioner's Suit meanings are general concepts related to the questioner; the External Suit meanings are the same concepts but are either related to an external person or to the positive side of the concepts; the Spades are the same concepts but the negative side of the concepts. So, although you have 40 cards, there are only 30 meanings, and they're really 3 sets of variations on the same 10 concepts, so the system is very easy to learn.
The bulk of the ebook is taken up with Mara's elaborate reading process, which involves four different stages/layouts. I haven't read them in depth yet.
The ebook is not large, it's basically 13 short chapters (including a chapter on divination with beans). I felt it was well worth the $14.95 because of the completely original (at least to me) approach. The reading process is carefully explained and there are several reading examples. I'm looking forward to playing around with this. I was really in the mood for something different, and this is definitely different. The card meanings have nothing to do with R-W-S.
Warning: the site which contains the link above also contains some rather, um, spicy material. I'm not sure how card reading fits in with the rest of the site, but, whatever.
-- Lee