Telling fortunes with playing cards

[natane]

I have a character who's doing a seven-card spread... he ends up with these seven cards. I just wanted to check with the community and see if this sounded reasonable (it does to me from what I've researched) and if there are any combinations here than also mean something, or if there are any hidden meanings I've missed.

Comments

[dorianegray]

Fortune-telling by any means is mostly about the skill of the fortune-teller in reading their client and making things sound good (and/or interesting).

Therefore, you can probably get away with anything you like in your story, so long as you describe it convincingly (i.e., be the fortune-teller to the reader). Have fun!

[natane]

thanks!

[mimerki]

As a tarot reader who sometimes plays with regular cards, I wouldn't find this at all weird and it doesn't sound wrong to me. They aren't all exactly how I would interpret them (all those hearts say to me that this is about love or relationships, even if the characters don't know it yet; I would say the Jack of Clubs is well-intentioned but not necessarily "reliable" in the sense of showing up for work on time, but he may be "reliable" in the sense that if someone needs him he'll drop everything to come help) but I'm not the one reading the fortune.

[natane]

thanks, you're awesome!
it was definitely intended to be the prelude to a relationship, actually, and that is EXACTLY the sort of person that the jack of clubs is supposed to represent.

thanks so much!

[nokomarie]

Just to toss in my two cents I have The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy (printed 1973) in my hand. Let's see what it says

[natane]

thanks! sounds like an interesting book.