Eighteen Century Card Divination: Hooper’s Deck

Reading With These Cards

So what kind of readings can you do with this deck? One spread I didn’t discuss with you about the Lenormand deck was called ‘The Grand Tableau’ which uses all 36 cards in the Lenormand deck for a reading. You lay them out in four rows of nine cards each, and start reading them left to right until you get to the bottom. In that reading, the cards in immediate proximity will affect their interpretation. This deck looks like you could employ The Grand Tableau layout, if you so chose. The obvious drawback with The Grand Tableau is it can be a rather large and unwieldy spread and give you more information than you really need. Then again, some subjects really do call for a deep dive.

The simple three-card spread is frustratingly-brief with this deck. I liked using Mimir’s Head (which I discussed in a previous entry) with this deck. A sample reading using this spread appears below:

One current hot topic being discussed among the card-readers and psychics on YouTube is, did Donald Trump agree to give Alaska back to Russia? Some of them are sensing such an agreement was made. I submitted this question to the Eighteenth Century cards, and the result was as you see above. The two appearance cards, Courage and the Gentleman reversed on the left-hand side of the picture, suggest reacting with courage to a bad man. The two reality cards, the Garden reversed and Friendship reversed appear to confirm that yes, such a commitment was made. The two advice cards, Fidelity reversed and Equipage reversed seem to be saying: ‘Refuse to honor the deal. Also, identify any rich U.S. citizens who may have enabled such an atrocious ‘deal’ to take place and make sure they are sufficiently-penalized for it.’ The final-outcome card is Crimes reversed, which means the crime will be exposed and the criminal(s) punished.

Another thing I like doing with this deck is what I call the ‘21’ layout; after shuffling and cutting the deck into three piles, I pick up the middle pile and lay out the cards in three rows of seven cards each, then read them, left to right, as sentences. An example is below:

The question was, give me a general overview of U.S. society/politics right now, and what’s coming in the near-future. Starting from the top left, I interpret this as follows: A criminal consortium may have been getting away with their crimes, but their time is rapidly running out, and the death of their plans, hopes and ambitions is coming. Some important people have been busy deceiving many innocent people; they are dishonorable, heartless people, but justice will catch up with them. Imprudent decisions are soon going to turn the economy on its head, much to the disappointment and consternation of many. Someone is about to get schooled and find out what happens when they don’t learn their lesson. A tragi-comic resolution is coming, as certain churches or church leaders are exposed, in both hilarious and sad ways, as the uncharitable, ungenerous people they are. They are too proud to involve themselves with actually helping the poor, and aren’t as good a people on the inside as they try to appear to be on the outside. They are in fact, quite greedy.

So I hope you can see the potentials of this deck. Play with it and have fun with it, and discover new purposes for it. Happy divining!

Exercises:

1. Think of a question, then use the Mimir’s Head layout. Did it appear to give you an accurate view of the situation as you know it? Can you picture following the course of action suggested?
2. Try the Celtic Cross layout (see the divination lesson on the Tarot for this spread), your choice of subject. Assuming you are already familiar the Tarot cards, compare and contrast this with using the Tarot deck for the same layout. How does Hooper’s deck differ from the Tarot deck in the Celtic Cross layout?  
3. Try the 21-card layout demonstrated above. Try it for both a personal question and a general community or national-issue question. What were the results both times? Was it more helpful for one or the other?
4. Use this deck, employing any card lay-out of your choice. What are the strong and weak points of this deck, now that you’ve used it for three different kinds of readings? Would you recommend it to anybody? Are there better decks out there for answering questions of a civic or group nature?

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