This excellent beginner's guidebook instructs the aspiring fortune teller in the art of Cartomancy - telling fortunes with playing cards. Those knowledgeable about fortune telling confirm that ordinary playing cards can satisfy the requirements for concise accuracy which underpins all good fortune telling. While it is tempting to choose instead Tarot, with its rich and varied imagery, there needn't be the complexity when a simpler, more accessible and less arcane means of fortune telling accomplishes the task of predicting the future excellently. The chapters of this guide detail the myriad methodologies afforded by the 52 cards of a pack allow for intense and accurate predictions. Different foci and methodologies are examined, different circumstances isolated and read upon, and different alignments and arrangement of cards. All this benefits those eager to discover their future. The power to predict comes not from the sorts of cards we use, but the will and connection of the fortune teller.