Bluffer's Guide to Astrology & Fortune Telling: Bluff Your Way in Astrology & Fortune Telling

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"People consult astrology, cards, etc. because they are worried about the future. They want to be reassured. They don't want to worry more. Even if you really think they will go bankrupt or that their romance is doomed, don't tell them that. The trick is to tell people what they want to hear, without seeming to do so." Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.
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Overview

"People consult astrology, cards, etc. because they are worried about the future. They want to be reassured. They don't want to worry more. Even if you really think they will go bankrupt or that their romance is doomed, don't tell them that. The trick is to tell people what they want to hear, without seeming to do so." Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781903096208
  • Publisher: Oval Books
  • Publication date: 10/1/2000
  • Series: Bluffer's Guides
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 92
  • Product dimensions: 4.42 (w) x 7.18 (h) x 0.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Alexander C. Rae is going to be a world famous author and will win the Booker Prize, though he is going to be pipped at the post for a Nobel Prize for Literature. He will live to the ripe old age of 98 when it looks likely he will die in an unfortunate sky-diving accident.

His Ascendant is in conjunction with the Sun in Gemini in his natal chart which makes him a brilliant writer and in Chinese Astrology he is a Metal Tiger which makes him forceful, creative, warm and cuddly. He is married to a Dragon and has two children, a Monkey and a Rat. He also has two dogs and a cat, one born in the Year of the Llama and the other two born in the Year of the Gerbil.

He has a long psychic palm and long, tapering, artistic fingers, a mole on his right cheek which proves he will be successful, and his bumps need to be felt to be believed.
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The Bluffer's Guide to Astrology & Fortune Telling

By Rae, Alexander C.

Oval Books

Copyright © 2000 Rae, Alexander C.
All right reserved.
ISBN: 1903096200
Soothsaying
Bluffing is so important in the telling of fortunes that soothsayers have invented their own special word for it. They call it 'interpretation.'

Obfuscatory objectification
'Predictive sciences', 'prognosticative powers' or even 'oracular sensitivity' are all terms which mean fortune telling, and somehow sound better. Use them regularly. As a general rule use the most significant description (i.e. the longest words). Don't 'read tea leaves' - use 'tasseographic augury'.

Phrenology
In phrenology the areas of interest are duplicated on both sides of the skull so if you find a bump on one side of the head and not on the other you can make great play of it. Bumps usually denote a positive ability or skill. However you don't need to stick to this if you feel like finding a spurious bump that makes the person 'inclined to say silly things' or gives them a desire to cheat at Trivial Pursuits.

Skin blemishes
Molescopy is divination by means of moles. Although it is not really a serious method of augury, it can be used to create an instant impression. For instance, you can tell a complete stranger that because he has a mole on his right temple he is exceptionally able but should guard against illness in later life. Don't try it with someone who has a mole in the middle of their forehead. This is supposed to show a vicious nature and a bad temper. It could just be true.

Tarot
You can always keep people off-balance by insisting that all the things they believed about the Tarot are false. The best one is to say that 13 (Death) is not an unlucky card. Say it means the end of an outmoded phase of their life and an exciting new start. But be sure not to take a post dated cheque for the reading.


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Table of Contents

Introduction 5
Interpretation 6
The Golden Rules 6
Astrology 10
The Theory 11
Popular Astrology 11
Having Fun with Astrology 16
The Signs 19
The Elements 21
Predictions 22
Chinese Astrology 24
The Tarot 26
Picking the Pack 27
Reading the Cards 28
The Major or Grand Arcana 28
The Minor Arcana 32
Face Cards 33
Numbers 34
Layouts 36
Having Fun with the Tarot 37
I Ching 38
Casting the Hexagram 39
The Yarrow Stalk Method 39
The Coin Method 40
Interpretation 41
Jung and I Ching 42
Palmistry 43
Technical Terms 44
The Technique 45
The Mounts 47
The Lines 48
Runes 50
Oneiromancy 51
Interpretation 53
Phrenology 55
Interpretation 56
Metoposcopy 58
Molescopy 60
General Rules 61
Geomancy 62
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