The Karmic Calendar

The Pips, the Suits, and the sum total of all 52 Cards are used to create the Karmic Calendar.
Some examples:

4 SEASONS = 4 suits
12 MONTHS = 12 Crown Cards
13 NEW MOONS per year = 13 Cards per suit
52 WEEKS = 52 Cards
5+2= 7 DAYS IN THE WEEK
and again - 7 x 52= 364 DAYS OF THE YEAR
The crazy Joker, given a value of 1 1/4, takes up the remnant of days (making our LEAP YEAR).

If you add up all the PIPS (Ace equals 1) in a deck of Cards, giving the Jack a value of 11, the Queen a value of 12, the King a value of 13, and the lone fool Joker a value of 1.25, add them all up, you get 365.25 days of the year. That's the leap year included!

Coincidence? Maybe.

The 7 major planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) are used for personal insight, and charting the Cards for predictions; dividing the year up into 7 x 52-day cycles of time, each planet getting 52 days of "influence".

Each Karmic Calendar - also called a Yearly Spread or a "Plate" - is formulated by taking a deck of Cards in it's perfect order (of Ace of Spades through to King of Spades, then Ace of Diamonds through to King of Diamonds, Ace of Club through to King, Ace of Heart through to King) and quadrating the deck (creating the Four Seasons) before laying them out, 7X7 from right to left - the last three Cards placed across the top Crown Line; - the Joker sitting off to the side (holding court! ;-)

Each time you repeat this process of quadration, you end up with the next calendar year. For instance, if you quadrate the deck 40 times, the resulting spread of Cards would be the Karmic Calendar for a person's 40th year of life.

Each DAY of our calendar year has been given a value which is symbolized by a specific Card. For example, someone born on July 10 is considered a 5 of Diamonds.
To make a prediction for that person when they're 40 years old, we find their birthcard - the 5 of Diamonds - on the 40th spread of Cards and interpret accordingly.

When it comes to predicting detailed, measurable events in a persons life that will occur within a 52 day time span, the accuracy of Playing Cards are second to none!

Recorded history shows that the 52-Card deck predates the Tarot (see also evidence). In 1893, Olney H. Richmond published a book titled "The Mystic Test Book". An occult classic, this was the first book to reveal the meaning of Cards in relation to the celestial bodies, with rules and processes for reading and delineation. This book is in print today. Two other authoritative books on the subject have emerged since then - "Sacred Symbols of the Ancients" by Florence Campbell & Edith Randall, and "What's Your Card?" by Arne Lein. More recently, there is a collection of books written by Iain McLaren-Owens, recreating some of the prior works with a new twist of his own.

In Arne Lein's book, "What's Your Card?", Arne combines astrology, numerology and metaphysics with the 52 Cards, identifies it as a total subject, and names it METASYMBOLOGY.