The cartomancy is before all the art of the divination by the charts to be played. Less old than astrology, the origin of this divinatory art, derived from the play of Tarot, goes up with civilizations of antiquity.  
 
With the charts, a current is created between these last, the speakers and the environment.  
 
With this phenomenon, the personal concentration and vibrations will quite naturally push us to choose certain charts rather than others.  
 
It is in the middle of the XXème century that this science will be truly validated and accepted thanks to famous work of fortune-tellers like Gerald Encausse, Oswald Wirth and Paul Marteau.  
 
Create starting from the play of tarot, which counts 78 charts, our current card decks generally decline themselves in 2 forms:  
 
- plays with 56 charts known as "minor" play obtained after having drawn aside the 22 charts known as "major". This play quickly passed to 52 charts with the abandonment of the charts representing the riders.  
 
- a set of 32 charts, when one eliminates the charts with minor numeral value (6, 5,4,3,2) and that one preserves only the charts representing: Have, King, injury, servant, ten, nine, eight and seven.  
 
The use of one or the other of the plays will depend then on the fortune-teller and the nuances and precise details which it will wish to bring to his prediction.  
 
INTERPRETATION OF THE CHARTS  
 
For interpretation, the color (square, heart, clover and spade) has a very particular importance. Each color represents one  
field different from the life and a period different from the year, and is associated a whole of astrological signs.  
 
Squares:  
The squares are rather related on the activity, the material life, the projects, the professional life and the leisures. The corresponding season is spring and the corresponding astrological signs are the signs of air (Aquarius, Gemini and balance).  
 
Hearts:  
The hearts are related on the feelings, the love, the friendship, the family, the world of the emotions, passions and the romanticism. The corresponding season is the autumn and the astrological signs are the water signs (fish, cancer and scorpion).  
 
The clover:  
The clover refers to the material richnesses, the inheritance, the social status, the property and the investments and businesses of money.  
The corresponding season is the summer and the astrological signs are the signs of fire (ram, lion and Sagittarius.  
 
Spades:  
The spades are related on the intellectual concerns, the fights in general and the confrontations of any kinds to the major changes, the disease, the ruptures, the sufferings, the danger and death. The corresponding season is the winter and the corresponding signs are the ground signs (virgin, bull and Capricorn).  
 
 
Here significance of the charts:  
 
The ace: it is energy, the power, the departure, the birth of a new stage or the failure and disappointment in reversed position.  
 
Both: that can be the meeting, the synthesis, the harmony or in reversed position, the opposition and the incompatibility.  
 
Three: stability, growth, creativity, success or in reversed position: broken engagement, despair, lack of energy and pessimism.  
 
Four: decisions important to take on basic problems concerning the businesses, the inheritance or the family. In reversed position: indecision, lack of confidence, errors and regrets.  
 
Five: hope, new beneficial orientation, departure or taken again news. In reversed position: financial losses, missed opportunities, disappointments.  
 
Six: success and reward, but with beaucoups of efforts, even of sacrifices. In reversed position: disappointment, exhaustion, imbalance and frustration.  
 
Seven: developments of projects, progression, benefit material. In reversed position, lack of motivation and pessimism, disappointment in love and material losses.  
 
The eight: It is the stop or the deceleration of an activity. It is the dead end, the anguish and the doubt. Indecision, opposition, contrariety and bad luck.  
 
Nine: prosperity and promotion, success and happiness in all the fields. In reversed position; insecurity, misunderstanding and doubt.  
 
Ten: achievement of a process with many changes in prospect. In reversed position: loss of motivation, tension and bitterness.  
 
The servant: taste to undertake, ambition but lack of maturity, surface and entêté with limited possibilities.  
 
The Injury: effectiveness, intelligence and marurity, will and determination. Reversed, mistaken ill will and, insensitivity.  
 
The King: power, capacity and authority, generosity. Reversed: without scruple, which been obstinated and opposed to any evolution.  
 
The joker: equivalent of insane with the tarot. It represents what is hidden. Often carrying an important message, the presence of the joker will show the not exploited potentialities, to make foresee unexpected opportunities.  
Reversed, it is unconcern, the bad choice and instability on the general level.  
 
 
Explanations on the reversed position: impossible to determine for certain charts which are identical; the fortune-teller marks then by a small point what will be the top of the chart.  
 
To beat the charts, one can hold them between his hands, but one will be able also them to pose, face hidden on a table, and to mix them in concentric circles. They will thus be able, at the moment of pulling, to find itself at the place  
position "upright" or in "reversed" position.  
 
Identical associations of charts  
 
Have: union, marriage, reconciliation, balance, hamonie, success, happiness  
 
King: good direction, stability, chance, solid friendship, success result.  
 
Injuries: friendship, risk of slandering, commérages, disagreement, lie, scandal.  
 
Servants: arguments, discussions, family disagreement, imbalance, separation, discord.  
 
Ten: evolution, change, debts, litigations, chance, commercial success.  
 
Last nines: professional changes, profits, hope, achieved objective, success, good surprise.  
 
eight: dispute, disagreement in the couple, concern, distresses, anxiety, dead end.  
 
Seven: love, romanticism, birth, beginning of a project, balance, on the good way.  
 
 
 
10 and 9 of clover: money re-entry, motivation, tension and bitterness.  
10 and 6 of clover: possible loan of money,  
10 and 9 of square: travel, cruising on water  
8 and 9 of spades: problems of health.  
2 of square and 3 of heart: union, marriage; two 2 some is the color: rupture.  
3 and 6 of square: report/ratio being studied, examinations or contest.  
2 of square and 5 of clover: professional or associative regrouping.  
6 and 10 of clover: money re-entry, acceptance of a loan.  
 
Some important associations:  
 
Have square in a pulling with several spades: problems in the realization of your projects.  
Have clover with several squares: promotion and enrichment to come.  
Have square with several hearts: your projects will be delayed because of problems sentimental or in love.  
Have heart parmis several spades: appearance of serious problems in a relation in love.  
Have clover parmis several spades: tangible property or loss of money.  
Have heart among several squares: connection sentimental or in love within the framework with work.  
Injury of spade enters a king and another injury: a woman will test imiscer in the life of a couple.  
A servant close to a king or an injury: in a pulling, if it is a knave of diamonds: commérages. If it is a knave of spades: ill omen. If it is a knave of clubs, the situation develops in the good direction. If it is a knave of hearts, a history in love is in sight.