DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT
Satana! operatio"
Development of the Question
1. Shuffle, invoke suitably, and let Querent cut as before.
2. Deal cards into twelve stacks, for the twelve astrological
houses of heaven.
3. Make up your mind in which stack you ought to find
the Significator,
e.g. in the
seventh house if the question
concerns marriage, and so on.
4. Examine this chosen stack.
If the Significator is not
there, try some cognate house,
On a second failure, abandon
the divination.
5. Read the stack, counting and pairing as before.
Tlzz'm' Operation
Further Development of the Question
I. Shuffle, etc, as before.
2, Deal cards into twelve stacks for the twelve signs of the
Zodiac
3. Divine the proper stack and proceed as before
Fourth Operation
Penultimate Aspects of the Question
I. Shuffle, etc, as before.
2. Find the Significator: set him upon the table; let the
thirty—six cards following form a ring round him.
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