Shuffle the 32-card pack thoroughly and cut it twice with the left
hand, placing the first cut face downward at the right hand and the
second on the left.
Now take off the top card of the middle package and place it aside,
and repeat the shuffling and cutting of the balance in a precisely
similar manner, and again remove the top card of the middle package.
Repeat shuffling, cutting and discarding until you have in this way
taken out five cards. This done, examine if the Consultant be among
the number of cards taken from the pack. If it be, shuffle the five
cards well, and then deal them in a row, turning their faces up from
right to left in this manner:
5, 4, 3, 2, 1
and proceed to read them from the same direction.
If the Consultant be not found among the five cards drawn as above,
take it from the pack and substitute it for one taken by chance from
the five cards after shuffling them thoroughly, faces down, so that
the card to be discarded shall not be recognized. After placing the
Consultant among the other four cards, shuffle well and deal as
directed, and you have your oracle of five cards for consultation and
explanation, and among which the Consultant will appear in its proper
position.
As an example, let us say that the five cards obtained are, from right
to left, as follows: Ten of hearts, ten of clubs, Consultant, eight of
clubs reversed and ten of diamonds.
The Consultant having behind him the eight of clubs near to the ten of
diamonds, these two cards announce to him his residence at a distance
in a foreign city, and the two tens which are found placed behind him
notifies that he is about to quit his house (ten of clubs) and the
city (ten of hearts) where he now lives.