Playing Card Divination?

Question

First off, I would like to make sure everyone understands what I mean by "playing card". I don't speak of tarot cards. I am talking about regular old playing cards and their use as a fortune teller.

There seems to be very little documentation on the subject aside from the few short card "meanings" I can pick up on the net. Does anyone know a decent source for this form of fortune telling?

No, I am not looking to use the art practically as I don't believe in magick, but I am rather intrigued by the subject.

Answer 1

i have a book on it ill find it and let u no

Answer 2

I'm guessing that you know that spades is swords, pentacles is diamonds, hearts is cups and clubs is wands.  Get a good tarot card book which has intricate, involved meanings given for the suit cards and simply use the indicated meaning.  For example Eden Gray's book on tarot cards might give 10 of swords as slander or attack, well that would be the meaning to assign to 10 of spades.  Likewise for the court cards.  They say the number of the card also relates to numerology if you're interested, like 10 is completion, 1 is beginning something,etc.

Answer 3

Hello

It is called Cartomancy & there is not a lot out there.

If you use them as a tool then you will be able to use them as a stepping stone to your psychic ability otherwise you just have those simply references that you have found.

Sadhara

Answer 4

Playing cards were actually the original Tarot deck, with an extra card (the page, as the knight was the jack.) The Major Arcana were added later, and were not originally the 22 we know today (they basically varied from place to place on meaning, depiction, and how many there were). It wasn't until the early 1500's that the Major Arcana were finalized into what we now recognize.

Is it possible to use a normal deck? Certainly, and many hold that the Egyptians may have done this initially. Others say that Tarot reading did not come until long after playing cards were around, and that both decks originated in Italy as opposed to Egypt. We may never know for sure.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Playing Card Divination.,, Sure. Why not?

The modern playing card deck is a descendant of the the Tarot.

They have the same number of suits... however the playing cards won't have the major arcaria cards.. Death, The Emperor, The Fool,, etc.

So you couldn't use the traditonal Tarot method.  

Answer 6

There are many different methods of fortune telling with playing cards. Try a Google search.

All the available evidence suggests that standard playing cards are in fact at least a century older than the Tarot, and that Tarot fortune-telling comes from ordinary cartomancy - not the other way around.