A Thing of Great Mystery and Fair Harmony--as Jacobus of
Utrecht calleth the _Soul_.
And the Square itself, the Parent of the Parallelogram, is of great
Harmony as a Mystery. Indeed all other Methods of reading
fortune in Cards are incomparable to it.
_Of Summarizing in the Parallelogram its Aspect and of the
Fortune or Experience of the Querist that it will Report_.
With your Parallelogram thus built, observe it as an Whole; and
remark if it hath an Agreeable or Unpleasing _Aspect_--one
Auspicious or Unkind, according as it contains rather the red or
the black Suits. For a Red Aspect is kindly. A Black Aspect
contains many less favorable cards, especially if they be _Spades_.
Of _Hearts_ as a Portent.
And, for another Matter, and a wider Notice as to the Suits of
Cards:--it has long been assured by those best knowing Card
Intelligences that the Suit of _Hearts_ is the Suit of the Affections,
Passions, Fancies and Feelings.
Of _Diamonds_.
And the Suit of _Diamonds_ ever refers to Condition in Life,
Society, Wealth, Position and the Fine Arts; and contains many
Comfortable Cards.
Of _Clubs_.
In the _Clubs_ lies the Judgment, the Intellect, the Will, and the
Affairs of a Man's Brains, and what he doeth of his own Mastery
and Genius.
Of the ominous _Spades_ suit.
The _Spades_ is ever the suit of doubtful or worse Prognosticks;
of the Events that arbitrarily fall to Man's Lot, those things which
hardly can any Prescience or Plans or Conditions of our own
making amend.
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