Counting By Sevens: Looking Again At A 19th Century Method For Reading 32 Cards

A traditional Counting method that works well with the reduced Bohemian deck

I am resending a post on this method today even though we covered it fairly recently, as I’ll be using it for my news reading tomorrow. It’s an interesting traditional way of reading the cards originally recounted by English 19th century writer Louisa Lawford, who was writing from France about the card-reading methods she was seeing. With this method, you will end up extracting 12 cards precisely, and the SAME cards then being read in multiple different ways. It requires 32 cards exactly (I’ll tell you which ones to remove) and is thus ideally suited to the Bohemian deck.

If you missed it, subscribers can find out more about the background to the Bohemian deck in this quick intro:

And get a reminder of the card meanings here:

The counting method here mainly involves counting in sevens to draw the cards, and then several layouts using the same cards which give you more and information as you go along. So there are a LOT of reshuffles of just a few cards with this way of reading , but it’s actually surprisingly effective.

Purpose Of Method

This method is more of a general reading for a particular significator than question-focused. It looks specifically at a significator within themselves, their home life, and what is unexpected for them, as well as a surprise, so it’s really a “What’s coming up for this person?” type reading.

Read on to find out more…