Having read the Parallelogram from beginning to end, slowly and honestly, lay forth those three _Wish Cards_, early chosen by your Querist, but not dealt in the Square.
If they contain more _Red_ than _Black_ Cards, this shall come: the Querist may wish a _Wish_ for his own Profit or Pleasure, even in removal of an Evil that hath been read to him in the _Parallelogram_. If there be Black rather than Red cards in the Three, he must wish a like wish for _Another_. And in either case, if the cards deciding his Privilege be of high degree, such as _Court Cards_, Aces or above the Eight, his Wish is likely to be granted, or at least it is not in vain in some sort. But if the Cards be low in Values he has desired to Fruitlessness.
Let it be minded that by the Phrase an _high_ or a _low_ Card in a Suit is ever meant, respectively, the cards above or below the _Eight_; the Aces being reckoned as the highest in a Suit. And indeed Cards must ever be read with a Considering of their Degree, and of the Six in Court Cards. Where there be no speciall Significancies given to the Degrees, the Judgement must I shift as best it can.
It is well not to oblige, of any one evening, or on a set and single occasion, more than a Querist or so--maybe, oblige at most three Querists--by making Squares of Sevens and Reducing the same and Reading what may lie therein. Too much of any good thing makes it over-common, blunts the Appetite and dulls the Apprehensiveness of the Reader. With fatigue, too, may come Carelessness and, on good occasion, even Lying: and, besides, let us respect the Supernaturall.
THE _TAVOLA_ OF SIGNIFICANICIES AND INFLUENCES, PROPER TO THE TRUE _READING_ OF THE PARALLELOGRAM; ADJUSTED IN A SYSTEM OF ALTERNATIVES
In transcribing this "Tavola," the Editor has somewhat modernized the spelling and capitalizing, for the convenience of the reader. With reluctance, but of necessity, he has also amended--or emended--the phrasing, where it is in the original hardly consonant with modern taste.
As a _Master-Card_, a special Emotional Experience. Influenced by a _King_ of like Suit, there is figured an Intimate Friend, or one in whom the Querist is much bound. By a _Queen_ of like Suit--an Emotion for a Woman of beauty and charm. By a Knave of like Suit, an Attachment to a Man younger than the Querist. Influenced by any _high heart_ other than those above, an Amorous or Affectionate Temper of mind or body. By a _low heart_, an impressionable, kindly Nature. These are Five Special Interpretings. The more general are: influenced by a Diamond, Good Fortune in something, measured by the degree of the Influencing Card. By a Club, a Talent or Gift to be made much of. By a Spade, an Error, or Disappointment, in the degree of the influencing card.