The world is a mysterious place with wants and needs to know what will happen. There is a lust to find new knowledge, to change the future, and to bend the telling’s to the will of the questioner. The people who reveal are considered to be fortune tellers, Gypsies found in old history. There is a way for others to continue and ways for others to believe. One of the most known fortune telling is called Cartomancy; the telling with cards.

In order to fully grasp the concept of this craft, a brief introduction to the cards will be described to remind people of the secrets and reading of the cards, furthermore, a small story with a view of Cartomancy from an outsider reader will be included as well, and lastly, the true history of fortune will be briefly explained to tie the realms together.

Each card has a different background in accordance to the keys of the cards. In a various way, the cards tell a story relating to the person getting their fortune read called a questioner. Each tarot card has their own meaning, as the 22 different cards are used in divination to tell a story. Each one of the cards is numbered except for the considered odd card:

The Fool:

The Fool was given the meaning of new beginning, optimism or trust in life.

1 Magician:

The Magician was given the meaning of creating action.

2 High Priestess:

The High Priestess was given the meaning of doing nothing and relying on your instincts.

3 Empress:

The Empress was given the meaning of fertility, abundance also life being a blooming flower.

4 Emperor:

The Emperor was given the meaning of stability and power.

5 Pope:

The Pope was given the meaning of intuition, ruling of society and tradition.

6 Lovers:

The Lovers represents the meaning of love and uniting.

7 Chariot:

The Chariot means the movement and progress.

8 Strength:

Strength was a representation of courage and subtle power.

9 Hermit:

The Hermit means meditation and solitude.

10 Wheel of Fortune:

The wheel of fortune means cycle and change with their own ups and downs.

11 Justice:

Justice means fairness and equality.

12 Hanged Man:

The hanged man represents surrendering and a new perspective.

13 Death:

Death was a meaning of the end of some kind of meaning and a change.

14 Temperance:

Temperance was balance and moderation.

15 Devil:

The devil was a means of destruction and addiction.

16 Tower:

The tower was an image of collapsing structures or a release from confinement.

17 Star:

The star represents hope and good fortune with hits of calmness.

18 Moon:

The moon was a master of mystery and dreams.

19 Sun:

The sun was about happiness and success.

20 Judgment:

Judgement was about rebirth and a new phase in life.

21 World:

The world was about having completion and celebrating the meaning of life from attaining the items of a desire of the questioner.

In a sense, there needs to be a view in the works and the outsiders look to the chaos, which happens inside.

The world has their own need for life as a teller travels throughout the lands. They fall into a solid rhythm, day by day to travel among the centrepieces of attraction. They are the clairvoyants and a use of quick and simple cartomancy is used to tell the stories of life.

“What will you believe today? Among the future or to relish in the past,” a gypsy whips out the deck of cards and hands the deck to the questioner. A motion to shuffle the deck was swept away.

“I have no need for the past as I want to know the future.” The questioner replies as they pick up the deck and shuffle. The gypsy watches carefully, narrowing her eyes, and continues to ask questions. Their questions reveal nothing of the questioner, yet the gypsy seems satisfied in a mysterious way.

“Do you trust me?”

“Not at all.”

“Will you believe in the cards?”

“Only if it is really true.”

“Then we shall see as you are wary of what the future will reveal.”

Silence fills the air and the deck is placed on the table. The gypsy waves her arms and the people to the sides drop the velvet fabric. Curtains quickly fall over as the other tellers come to take the people to the other open, velvet curtains and one by one they disappear into the dark. People surrounding the area whisper in wonder and wait for the results. Waiting to see if the Gypsies are true to their word or they are being played for.

Many minutes pass with anticipation and the curtains slowly open.The questioner leave. They leave with vivid confusion as the tellings are stories of the questioner life and future. They are wondering if the future could be changed yet, of all knowledge, the tellers know. They will only be true if they really trusted the telling, and the coincidences, fate to which many may hold onto.

As humans may know it, fortune telling has been around for a very long time as with evidence, fortune telling started in about 400 BC. Fortune tellers come from many different backgrounds and practices as the emotions run through to tell the future if the questioner believes the teller. In the most sense, the beginning of tarot card readings is mostly down to theories from centuries and centuries into the past. They draw back toward Egypt, China and Italy with the phases and detailing of each card. The tarot cards were closely regarded with witchery as people considered as witches were using the card to create magic circles to ask for the devil’s assistance. Many of the famous tellers told the future of their time and their future is our present. A woman named Ursula Soonthtel was named famous for predicting the Great Fire of London and for people to travel without horses and for an to fly in the sky. She made a living on fortune telling and was one of the people who believed. It is a tradition to know and is passed on to generation and generation. A woman named Sarah Petulengro, who is a clairvoyant gypsy, a fortune teller by tradition and family. She has her family and she believes, “Everyone has clairvoyancy in them, it’s just realizing you’ve got it and understanding it.”

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