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70 CUT SHOWING TURNED CARDS.



The 9 c, 10 h and 10 c being the drawn cards. The pair of tens with an ace between constitute a pair of "mystic bars," as they are called. They are quite often seen in spreads and have occult meanings in accordance with the characteristics of the cards forming the bars. The cards thus turned in the spread are called "significators," as they are significant of many things. In the first place they are double in power to what they would be if not drawn cards. Secondly, they affect the combinations connected with them in immediate contact.

GENERAL LINES OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT.

Independent of the individual definitions of the cards, the reader should look particularly after the lines of light and dark as they have a particular signification apart from the suits or spot values. The dark cards indicate the darkness in one's life. The red cards (originally white, in ancient times) indicate the light or happy portions. In some lives you will trace these lines of red diagonally across from Mercury in the past, up to Neptune in the future. When this is the case, it indicates that C did, for many years, find his happiness under the planets of love and passion. Later, military and pecuniary feelings swayed him, or perhaps athletic exercises, boating, fishing, etc., as Mars rules matters appertaining to power and strength in the physical.

Later, he has his pleasure in spiritual unfoldment and soul culture.