articularly note that Matters to be read in its Cards may often
refer not to the Future, or to the Present, but to the Past. Especially
is this the truth with the Old or Elderly or with those Wed. Such
must expect to be told of Experiences that lie behind them, rather
than before them, of Good or Evil; for Fate oft allows sparingly of
Incident to those of middle years, or later; and therewith she is
often pleased to make her Oracle speak coldly to a Querist, of
Ancient Circumstances.

The Shot seldom goeth twice into the same hole; and a Dead
Trouble or Joy rarely Reviveth. And a Blessed Thing that 'tis so!

Hence, whether a Significancy in a Card speak of what is come or
is yet to come, at best is none too certain; only it is true that the
greater or harder Experiences of Mortall Lives seldom be
duplicated. With the Young or Unwedded, the Significancies are
of the Future, with far more determination.

_Of the Reading of the Parallelogram, according to the Tavola;
and of the Wish-Cards_.

Note now your Card in the Right-Hand column, and also the Card
next it, of course to the Leftward; which Leftward Card is spoken
of as _Influencing _the other.

Of the Influences, In which the Philosophick will find a likeness to
Human Circumstances.

The Significancy of it, for good or evil, is given in the _Tavola_
that follows in this Book, by its proper Suit and Degree: and this
you will tell to your Querist. Next note the card, which was just
now an Influencing Card, but which, now in its turn, is to be
considered according to the _Influence_ cast _on_ it by the
Master-Card, beyond it, leftward. Declare this Significancy. Last,
declare what may be the Significancy of the Master-Card, as such
and alone. And so proceed, as to each card in the _Parallelogram_,
ever naming _last_ the Significance of the Master-Card, until your
_Parallelogram_ is all interpreted to the Querist. And note that the
Master-Card even as an _Influence_ is not more potent than
another, (as far as is known), and that its Dignity and Potency arise
only in its being uninfluenced; and, so speaking, from its
Significance with a certain Individuality not belonging to its
two Fellows. Nor are there; any Influences cast _Upward_ or
_Downward_ by the Cards, out of the Row in which each lieth.

Having read the Parallelogram from beginning to end, slowly and
honestly, lay forth those three _Wish Cards_, early chosen by your
Querist, but not dealt in the S