What is cartomancy?
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Cartomancy is not tarot, although people often confuse it with tarot. Cartomancy uses a deck of playing cards and uses it to predict your future.
You can call cartomancy a process for fortune-telling that can help you identify things that can happen soon, like whether you should go for a new business venture, whether an opportunity will bring unexpected money, or whether you have money coming.
With cartomancy, one can identify the best business opportunities also. If you want to know more about the basic features of cartomancy and the card’s meaning, then continue reading.
Also, as an added bonus and for your better understanding, I have also included a video link. Not only will it clear your concepts, but also teach you how to read the card at home.
Origin of Cartomancy
The origin of fortune-telling with the help of cartomancy card meanings comes from 14th-century Europe. Marie Anne Lenormand was one of the first practitioners of this technique. She ran away from her convent when she was fourteen in 1786 and used a standard deck of playing cards and divination to predict the future.
She made cartomancy famous throughout Europe. Unlike tarot readers, a cartomancer will use a regular deck of playing cards and its standard symbols to predict your future. But unlike tarot, cartomancy is direct. It does speak of anything vague. It will respond to your inquiries in a straightforward and concise manner.
Some of the representations of cartomancy playing cards are as follows.
Queen of Spades
A Queen of Spades is a dark-haired woman or a widow playing cards. In cartomancy, it represents intelligence. In playing cards, the queen of spades is a higher-value card in the particular art of divination. It means a confident woman who can make a strong business partner.
It also represents a future in which woman is practical, logical, and intellectual. If the woman is a close friend, then you will find these qualities in her.
Queen of Diamonds in Cartomancy
There is a fundamental difference between tarot and cartomancy regarding the queen of diamonds. The queen means luxury, opulence, financial security, and even materialistic values in tarot cards. But to cartomancers, the Queen of Diamonds means something else entirely.
Unlike tarot card readers, a cartomancer will read it as someone careful about finances. She can be a wealthy partner, and it can mean financial stability. It can also represent new business opportunities. A Queen of Diamonds in a playing card deck to a cartomancer will represent an outgoing, flirtatious, fair-haired woman.
Queen of Clubs
A Queen of Clubs is a brunette woman who is warm, loving, and caring. If one draws such a card, then one reading can be a successful marriage or a successful new relationship, which is especially true for your person. In the case of new relationships, this card in a standards deck represents good fortune.
In the case of a second marriage, it can prove to be more successful than your previous one. If you desperately need good luck and good fortune shortly and are looking for a romantic partner, then such a card can prove to be an end to your relationship troubles.
King of Spades in Cartomancy
The King of Spades is a dark-haired man who is often ambitious and controlling, as people represent. He is a widower with little remorse. A cartomancer will tell you that he is an accomplished older man who wishes to meet his business interests. The reading provided by using the deck of cards indicates what the future holds.
They use a standard deck, and the cards they draw will indicate the relationship status, relationship troubles, good news, and bad news that you might get. The King of Spades is usually the harbinger of unwelcome news, and you should be careful of the people around you.
King of Diamonds
The King of Diamonds is a blonde man who is self-important, arrogant, and can even prove to be deceitful. He will not deter you from giving you bad advice if it means exacting revenge. If you are thinking in lines of commerce, then they can make dangerous business partners as you won’t know how they will react if their pride is hurt.
If you have a new love interest in your life and your cartomancer and your reading indicate towards him, you should be careful. Such individuals can be attractive, but they can become dangerous and authoritative in the future. It would be ideal if you were also cautious with your money when dealing with such people.
King of Clubs
King of Clubs is a dark-haired man who is loyal and an excellent businessman. Entering into a business partnership with him can prove to be an eventual success. He has an in-depth understanding of the financial world and can prove to be a good friend. He always has money coming with his business ventures.
You can almost call him a good fortune jack. You can turn to him for financial help and legal issues. He is thought to be a favorable omen and can assist you if needed. He is wise with financial investments and can help you get unexpected money from sources you never thought could be cultivated.
Ace of Diamonds
The purpose of the Ace of Diamonds reading is to provide you with insight into your life. When this card is drawn from the deck, your divination expert will give you a task to expect news from an unexpected source.
This single card is representative of good luck, broken promises, new friends, or even bad luck. Therefore, an expert should read this one card. In addition, it has to be compared to others in the three-card spread that you have drawn from the deck.
The three cards you have drawn can have card face like three of clubs, which means moving forward, a ten of hearts which can mean a gift, and nine of spades which can mean bad luck.
Thus, your cartomancer and divination expert will compare all the cards you have drawn from the deck before providing a conclusive reading. This makes it essential to get in touch with an expert instead of doing it by yourself, especially if you are a young person trying to understand your future.
Some tips on cartomancy
As mentioned earlier, cartomancy and tarot are essentially different. While tarot uses cards like High Priestess, The Emperor, The Empress, The Devil, The Star, and many more stars, cartomancy uses playing cards. But playing cards have definitive meanings.
So, for example, broken promises and illness are represented by the four of spades, dark-haired youth with an unpleasant demeanor is represented by Jack of Spades, and the Queen of Clubs represents a confident woman king.
When you draw a deck, unlike a tarot deck, with different suits, say four suits, it can represent challenging tasks in the future. For example, you have more spades in the four suits; it can mean difficulties, like domestic arguments, financial problems, or problems brought forth by an unreliable person in the near future.
But if it is a suit with more clubs, it can mean a bright future even with a chance of a gift and freedom from financial problems. Then the comparison will come if the deck has a dark-haired young person or a fair-haired man to give you an idea if you need to be careful about someone.
Thus, the entire deck is designed to provide you with clear divination. The reading is given using a playing card from a normal deck of cards.
Watch this video to learn more about Cartomancy.
Q: What does the queen of spades mean in cartomancy?
A: The Queen of spades is a very special card to have in cartomancy. It signifies many qualities like intelligence and confidence. Whenever this card is drawn, the person is very lucky to have such a woman in his life. And I would recommend holding on to her. Whether it is a business partner, friend, or even a romantic partner.
Q: What is the meaning of playing cards?
A: Playing cards is a deck of 52 cards with 4 groups. These groups are named clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. All 4 groups have thirteen cards, each consisting of a king, a queen, a joker, an ace, and 1-10 numbered cards.
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