This method of discovering certain facts about your future is as old as
the hills, if not older. It depends on laying out the cards and noting
how certain of them are arranged.
The first thing you do is to take an ordinary pack and remove from it
all the twos, threes, fours, fives and sixes. This will leave you with
thirty-two cards in hand. Next, you shuffle very thoroughly and cut
with the left hand. That done, you set out the thirty-two cards in four
rows, each of eight cards. Be careful to commence each row at the right
and then work to the left. Of course, you must put them out in exactly
the same order as they come off the pack.
The "lay-out" being completed, you carefully look at the cards. You
look, first, to see if by any chance there are four aces touching
anywhere. If so, the scrutiny ceases and you find out, from the list
given below, what the meaning is of four aces touching. But if there
are not four such aces, then you search for four kings and, failing
them, four queens, and so on, down to four sevens. If all these fail,
you look for three cards of a kind starting as before with aces and
working down to sevens. Should there be no groups of threes, then you
look for groups of two. Of course, after that there is no point in
continuing the scrutiny if there are no twos.
Be careful to understand that the cards forming a group need not all
occur in the same horizontal line. As long as one card touches another
of the same value, whether at the top, bottom, sides or even at the
corners, it will count. Note also that the only reading that may be
taken from a "lay-out" is the highest reading. Thus, if there are four
aces and three queens, you are not permitted to take the reading of the
queens, if you prefer it, to that of the aces. The reading of the aces
alone counts.