Using playing cards for divination is most likely as old as playing cards, and they can be used to replace tarot cards. Although a divination tradition thought to have started in the Schleswig Holstein region of Germany, which is near the Danish boarder has grown around playing cards.
The normal tarot card spreads can be used , but the Schleswig Holstein tradition removes the cards numbered between two and six, so that thirty two cards remain. The cards are shuffled by the questioner, and cut with the left hand . If the cards are cut by the reader then the right hand is used. Twenty one cards are dealt in an arc, face up. look for the questioners card, they are identified by the presence of a King for a mature male, a Queen for a female, and a Jack for a young male or single female. The cards for the present situation are at either side of the questioners card. Then counting to the seventh card from the starting card, this card and the ones to either side of it represent the situation over the coming three months. The two end cards are brought together under the arc for an insight into the following six months. Continue to do this until only three cards remain. These three are the final word so to say.
If when the cards are laid out the questioners card is not present, the cards should be reshuffled and laid out again. After this has been done three times with the questioners card not appearing in the spread the reading should be discontinued.
For a basic reading the questioner roughly divides the deck into three, they choice one pile with here left hand. These cards are laid out in an overlapping row, and read from left to right. They give a forecast for the next four or five days.
