Category:Cartomancy

Cartomancy, also known as Card Reading, embraces a broad range of fortune telling methods in which meanings are given to various game-cards, trade cards, or postcards are assembled in a pack or deck, and then sortilege is applied to select cards and produce a reading for the client. The number of cards in the pack may range from 6 to 78 or more. The sortilege may result in the selection of one card; a set number of cards being arranged in a chosen pattern, which is called a layout or spread; or all of the cards in the pack being laid on the table or floor, which is called a grand tableau.

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