Telling fortunes by cards : $b a symposium of the several ancient and modern methods as practiced by Arab seers and sibyls and the Romany Gypsies — John Shaqi
Telling fortunes by cards : $b a symposium of the several ancient and modern methods as practiced by Arab seers and sibyls and the Romany GypsiesAli, Mohammed
Religion
Telling fortunes by cards : $b a symposium of the several ancient and modern methods as practiced by Arab seers and sibyls and the Romany Gypsies
Ali, Mohammed
Card games; Fortune-telling; Fortune-telling by cards
A virgin; chaste; modest; virtuous; genteel; becoming; decent;
decorous; suitable; befitting; civil; kind; courteous; polished;
polite; well bred; accomplished; condescending; meek; hospitable; good
manners.
EIGHT OF CLUBS--_Reversed._ As an individual's representative, this
card, when reversed, denotes a middling dark complexioned unmarried
woman, with dark chestnut hair, and eyes nearly approaching black in
color. She will be vain of her personal charms, and make little
account of the world's opinion should her own desires be gratified.
The primary signification of this card is _removal_ or _departure_,
and can be appropriately expressed in the following synonyms:
Moving; to move; change of residence; at a distance; remote; absence;
separation; dispersion; going aside; out of the way; ramble;
excursion; digression; flight; to discard; disdain; repugnance;
aversion; incompatibility; opposition; division; rupture, and
antipathy.
This card, reversed, has moreover the signification of _indecorum_,
which can be used in these different senses:
Inhospitable; ill bred; discourteous; bad manners; immodest; unchaste;
insincere; boorish; brazen faced; slovenly; a virago; a tartar; a
wanton.
SEVEN OF CLUBS--_Upright._ The principal primary signification of this
card is a _trifle in money_, but which, however, has been amplified to
designate _economy_, or the art of spending very little money to the
best advantage. Consequently from this source we have the following
synonyms:
Good behavior; wise administration of affairs; foresight; discretion;
order; regularity; household virtues; good management; wisdom;
happiness; prosperity.
This card likewise signifies _company_ or _sociability_, in which
connection it can be taken to denote:
Association; an assembly; a gathering; family party; friendly
intercourse; pleasant relations; harmless pastimes; domestic
recreations; balls; concerts; theater.
Still, its most important signification is a _child_. From this
physical object the secondary meanings of this card are extended to
designate the characteristics of childhood applied to after life.
Hence the synonyms of this signification are:
Infancy; childhood; puerility; frivolity; weakness; dependency;
abasement; humiliation; depression; humble; abject; minute; small;
diminutive; helpless.
SEVEN OF CLUBS--_Reversed._ As a general thing this card reversed has
the signification of _embarrassment_ or _impediment_, and, taken in
this light, its meanings, as applied to the exigencies of a correct
interpretation of the consultation, will be found in some one of these
synonyms:
Hindrance; entanglement; clog; fuss; intricacy; confusion; exigency;
disorder; distress; to make work; to come to a stand; to perplex; to
puzzle; to obstruct; to delay; to block up; to choke up; to stop up;
to stifle; hurry; bustle; in a fix; in perplexity; at a loss.
It must be borne in mind that this card, when signifying a child, may
come out either upright or reversed.
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