Developing a Personal System for Reading with Playing Cards

hunter

Thanks for sharing this. I'm still plugging away with my playing card studies, but...I'm not feeling so well lately and it's hard work designing a system. Rewarding, but work.

I don't think READING playing cards are so much harder than tarot, it's just the reinventing the wheel aspect of it that is hard, because none of the the already prepared systems seems good enough to me.

Very tired tonight :-(
 

cardlady22

more pip play

OK, this afternoon I find myself considering elements and the 8 pips, Two through Nine. At first, I marked them down in a linear order, but with the zodiac reversed.

water ~ 2, 6
air ~ 3, 7
earth ~ 4, 8
fire ~ 5, 9

Using planets, it works out to be

water ~ Moon, Venus
air ~ Jupiter, Neptune
earth ~ Earth, Saturn
fire ~ Mercury, Mars

That leaves the Sun and Uranus for our Ace and 10. Does that work?
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Another way to play sets up the 13 "numbers" around the zodiac chart like Sign Rulers.

King = Earth

Ace = Leo/Sun . . . . . . . . . . Queen = Cancer/Moon
Two = Virgo/Mer . . . . . . . . . Jack = Gemini/?
Three = Libra/Ven . . . . . . . . Ten = Taurus/?
Four = Scorpio/Mar . . . . . . . Nine = Aries/Pluto?
Five = Sagittarius/Jup . . . . . Eight = Pisces/Neptune
Six = Capricorn/Sat . . . . . . . Seven = Aquarius/Uranus
 

cardlady22

decks where pip cards get removed

Here's another area that tumbles around my brain:
I've never found an explanation (in English texts) for why certain cards get removed to make the smaller fortune telling decks. So, it makes me wonder how to evaluate what is getting discarded.

2,3,4 of each suit
or
8,9,10 of each suit

2,3,4,5 of each suit ~ 36 card Lenormand-style

2,3,4,5,6 of each suit ~ 32 card Romany-style

How would this affect the way you associate planets to pips?