How Cartomancy Readings Work When performing a reading , some readers use the whole 52 card deck, while others use only 32 cards, removing all the 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 6’s. Cartomancy readings happen in odd number spreads: 1, 3, 9, or even 21 cards. The number of cards pulled for your reading depends on what you’re looking for.
Cartomancy is done using various layouts or spreads . By using various spreads, one can give a detailed reading. Each of the cards has a meaning, and when you lay them out in a certain way the interpretations deepen.
What is cartomancy reading?
In a cartomancy card reading, a psychic uses a specific deck of cards to answer your questions and/or to transmit insights about your past, present, or future. In terms of what you should ask, anything goes, but cartomancy can be particularly helpful when it comes to matters of the heart.
We will use the three-card spread as an example because it’s a simple spread to get cartomancers accustomed to cartomancy. Shuffle the deck and place three cards face up going from left to right. The card on the left represents the past, the card in the center represents the present, and the card on the right represents the future.
In terms of what you should ask, anything goes, but cartomancy can be particularly helpful when it comes to matters of the heart. You could say cartomancy is like fortune-telling and playing cards at the same time.
What is the origin of cartomancy?
The word “cartomancy” means fortune-telling done with a standard deck of playing cards. This form of divination was spread across 14th century Europe by the gypsies and can be traced back through the Middle East. The original cards may have been developed in tenth century China,.
What is a cartomancy card reading?
It was spread all over Europe by gypsies yet it also has roots in the Middle East. In a cartomancy card reading, a psychic uses a specific deck of cards to answer your questions and/or to transmit insights about your past, present, or future.
As previously mentioned there are four suits, hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs, and each suit represents a particular domain. Cartomancy spreads are different ways to display cards drawn from a deck, to divine the future.
Another popular inquiry is “How many cards are in a cartomancy reading?”.
Cartomancy readings happen in odd number spreads: 1, 3, 9, or even 21 cards. The number of cards pulled for your reading depends on what you’re looking for.
Number cards are life events in your near future. Here is a list of what each card in a standard 52-card deck means in a cartomancy reading. A well recognized symbol of our feelings, the heart’s suit relates to things that are very close to you.