The Playing (Destiny) Card System and The Calendar

The Playing Card Divination System, also called or known as the Destiny Card System, is both beautifully simple and exquisitely complex, tying together numerology, symbology and astrology.  This article discusses one the most important aspects of the System:  its relationship to the calendar.  Worthy of consideration are all of the following correspondences involving the playing cards:

• There are 4 suits in a deck of playing cards, as there are 4 seasons.
• There are 13 cards in each suit, as there are 13 weeks in each season and 13 revolutions of the Moon around the Earth during a lunar year.
• There are a total of 52 cards, as there are a total of 52 weeks in each year.
• There are a total of 12 court cards, whose average value is 12, and as there are a total of 12 months in the year, 12 hours in the AM, and 12 hours in the PM.
• The average value of each card is 7, as there are 7 days in the week, 7 planets, 7 colors in a rainbow.

As can be seen from the foregoing, the Playing (Destiny) Card System has a close relationship to the calendar.  Some scholars have advanced the theory that the cards were originally a time keeping tool ~ i.e., an early calendar.   The annual calendar is, indeed, represented by the Playing (Destiny) Cards as follows:

• 52 (cards) x 7 (average value of each card) = 364 + 1 (Joker) = 365 (Days in a Year)
• 4 (suits) x 13 (cards in each suit) x 7 (average value of each card) = 364 + 1 (Joker) = 365 (Days in a Year)
• 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 (value of individual cards in each suit) x 4 (suits) = 364 + 1 (Joker) = 365 (Days in a Year)
• 365 + 1 (the second Joker in the deck) = 366 (Days in a Leap Year)

As noted above, the Playing (Destiny) Card system is both simple and complex.  As it is my favorite divination tool and forms the basis of many of the readings I perform for my clients, I will be discussing each aspect of the system in depth in this blog.

In Love & Light,
Angelika
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