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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.
The quotient shows the number of the house, and the remainder the place in the house of the ruling hour card.
Note.—As a usual thing, the card next above rules the next hour, and so on—a fact which may be helpful to students.
THE HOUR CARDS IN THE LAYOUTS.
In the fifty-two layouts, or spreads, given in this book, several of our Mystics have made the discovery that after
NORMAL RULERS OF THE HOURS.
any given card, taking it all through the fifty-two normal spreads, comes an hour ruler just twenty-four times. For instance, the ace of spades rules twenty-four times to the right of the eight of hearts, the jack of diamonds twenty-four times at the right—counting downward when at the end
