Thence is it that in especiall comes a serious, nay
even a gloomy appearance to the _Parallelogram_. Your first
Glance at it, therefore, gives you a Generall Character in it, to
state first to the Querist before its details.
Of a particular _Uncertainty_ in a Prognostick.
But particularly note that Matters to be read in its Cards may often
refer not to the Future, or to the Present, but to the Past. Especially
is this the truth with the Old or Elderly or with those Wed. Such
must expect to be told of Experiences that lie behind them, rather
than before them, of Good or Evil; for Fate oft allows sparingly of
Incident to those of middle years, or later; and therewith she is
often pleased to make her Oracle speak coldly to a Querist, of
Ancient Circumstances.
The Shot seldom goeth twice into the same hole; and a Dead
Trouble or Joy rarely Reviveth. And a Blessed Thing that 'tis so!
Hence, whether a Significancy in a Card speak of what is come or
is yet to come, at best is none too certain; only it is true that the
greater or harder Experiences of Mortall Lives seldom be
duplicated. With the Young or Unwedded, the Significancies are
of the Future, with far more determination.
_Of the Reading of the Parallelogram, according to the Tavola;
and of the Wish-Cards_.
Note now your Card in the Right-Hand column, and also the Card
next it, of course to the Leftward; which Leftward Card is spoken
of as _Influencing _the other.
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