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 THE FALL

Greetings all, I hope you are keeping well. With

my birthday coming up (25th of October), I
thought it might be nice to share something
with all of you.

If you use playing cards for anything at all in

your mentalism routines (I use them for
readings and cartomancy routines), The Fall is a
secret weapon you can add to your deck that
will allow you to reveal your spectator’s star sign
with perfect accuracy. This method is surefire
and doesn’t use anagrams.

You can also use The Fall with tarot, more on

this later.
 THE STORY

There is an old observation that many

magicians and mentalists have used as a
presentational point in some of their routines. I
will be honest, I can’t remember ever seeing a
good use for this particular observation, but it
goes as follows:

A deck of playing cards has two colours,

representing night and day. The four suits
represent the four seasons. Twelve court cards
represent the twelve months. Thirteen values
represent the thirteen lunar cycles in a year. The
fifty two cards represent fifty two weeks in a
year, and if you add up all the values in the
deck, aces being one, jacks eleven, and so on,
you get 364. Add the joker and that gives you
365, the amount of days in a year.

***Note: When I tell the above script, I don’t

bother mentioning the bit about the joker. It
doesn’t make sense; we can’t add the joker as it
has no numerical value, and as there aren’t 364
cards, adding another card doesn’t count either.
What I mean is, we reach 364 by adding up the
values of each card. We need 1 more to reach
365, but the joker, as far as I know, does not
have a numerical value of 1, therefore we cannot
add it to the total to reach 365. If we had 364
physical cards in a deck, then of course adding
the joker would count. Because of this, in
performance I simply say
“…and if you add up all the values in the deck,
aces being one, jacks eleven, and so on, you get
365.”
It just rounds the script off in a much nicer
fashion. If ever questioned (I never will be) only
then will I mention the joker. End of note***

The story/observation is great, and people really

do love to hear it. It allows them to see playing
cards with a totally different perspective.

Lately, I am noticing more and more people

suffering from what I like to call face value
syndrome. I define it as, the inability or
unwillingness to analyse or engage with
anything beyond immediate familiarity or
understanding.

Some people see playing cards and only think

of magic. By providing them with an interesting
narrative such as the one above (one in which
they do not have to take your word for but can
also see for themselves) as well as reminding
them that playing cards predate tarot, and
maybe mentioning the origin of cards being in
divination and not gameplay, as well as all of
the above outweighing and predating their use
for magic, suddenly, playing cards are reborn in
the eyes of your spectators and become far
more interesting.

Introduce any divination tool and suddenly

people care more about enchantment than
entertainment.
 THE SEASONS

The above script mentions the four suits

representing the four seasons. This got me to
thinking, if I did assign a season to each suit,
then the following routine would be possible
(with a marked deck).

After the above script, I would then say, “clubs

represents spring, hearts represents summer,
spades is autumn and diamonds is winter.
Think about the season you were born in and
which suit it falls under. We will now call this
your suit. Take the deck and give it a shuffle.
Now spread through the cards like a poker
hand, so that you can see the faces of them all,
and choose any card from your suit and place it
face down on the table.”

A single glance at the marking on the back of

the card would tell me the suit, giving me the
season they were born in, but also a value.
Using a simple numerology system I would now
be able to provide a brief reading, reveal their
star sign and finally reveal the chosen card.
Perfect!
As you may know already, knowing the season a
person was born in cuts their astrological sign
down from one of twelve to one of three
possibilities.

The problem I had was that a lot of people

don’t actually know what season they were
born in. I had the safety net of the reading and
the card reveal, so I really did persist with this
routine. A lot of times it worked perfectly, but I’d
say roughly the same amount of times I
couldn’t hit with the star sign, due to people
generally not knowing what time of year they
were born in.

You’d be surprised at how many people there

are out there convinced they were born in the
summer when really, they were born in spring. I
understand that it can be genuinely confusing
if you were born on maybe the first or last day
of a season, but I’d have thought that, because
it’s their birthday, people would know what
season such a celebratory day for them lands in.
But no, not always.
I solved this problem by simply writing the start
and end dates of each season on the 4 aces.

On the ace of clubs, under the main club pip,

I wrote:
Spring
March 21 - June 20

On the ace of hearts, under the main heart pip,

I wrote:
Summer
June 21 - Sept 22

On the ace of spades, under the main spade

pip, I wrote:
Autumn
Sept 23 - Dec 21

On the ace of diamonds, under the main

diamond pip, I wrote:
Winter
Dec 22 - March 20
In some cases, the exact dates fluctuate
between a day or so, but that doesn’t matter. All
I need is for my spectator to select the correct
suit that will allow me access to the correct set
of signs.

Whatever their birthday, whatever their birth

month, as long as they select the suit confined
by these dates, in which their birthday falls into,
I will be spot on in guessing their sign. Any
deviation from these dates could potentially
land me on the wrong set of signs to choose
from.

After the playing cards/calendar script, I hand

the four aces to my spectator and say,
“According to the calendar these are the start
and end dates of each season, along with the
suit that represents it. I’ve written them on for
convenience.”

I then point at the ace of spades and say, “My

birthday falls between these dates, meaning I
was born in autumn and my suit is spades.
Have a look at whichever one your birthday
lands on or in and that’ll be your suit.”
The rest from here is easy. It makes sense to
have these dates written on the aces, as they
are the figureheads for each suit, which
represent the seasons, apparently. There’s
plenty of blank space on the aces to write the
seasons and dates, and remember, accurate
readings require accurate dates. Nobody
struggles with their birth day or month, but
they do with the seasons. As somebody who
works with divination tools involving numbers,
dates, calendars or whatever else, you should be
set up to help people in providing correct
information. Birthdays aren’t approximate,
seasons shouldn’t be either.

You could then have your spectator remove a

card from the deck from within their suit, then
peek and reveal it during a reading, or simply
have them take the ace that represents their
season and place it face down on the table. If
you aren’t using marked cards it is very easy to
mark the backs of just four cards using a pencil
or a small knife. Once you know which ace or
suit they’ve chosen, you’re well on your way to
revealing their star sign.
 MEMORY

The suits are in CHaSeD order, as are the

seasons.

Clubs = Spring
Hearts = Summer
Spades = Autumn
Diamonds = Winter

Remember:
Spring comes from ‘spring of the leaf’. It is the
time of year when the leaves on the trees start
to grow back. The club looks like a full tree.

Everybody loves summer. A heart represents

this perfectly. Think ‘summer of love’.

Autumn, or ‘fall of the leaf’ is obviously when

the leaves fall off the trees. The spade looks like
a falling leaf.

Winter. Think ice. The diamond could be like

the ice crystals we associate with cartoon caves
or castles, like in the film Frozen, or you could
think of ice as the hip hop slang term for
diamonds.
When it comes to remembering the star signs,
this will take you five minutes.

There are only three signs per season. This is

EASY!

Here’s how I do it. I imagine standing in a cube

shaped room with four windows instead of
walls. Immediately in front of me is the Spring
window. I look through it and see green grass,
lush trees, a ram, a bull and two naked people
holding hands. I am looking at Aries, Taurus and
Gemini enjoying spring.

The window to my right is the Summer window.

When I turn and look out of it, I see a rocky
seashore, a beach. I see a young girl sitting on
the rocks looking at a crab in a small rock pool.
The blazing sun behind her is the famous Lion
King sunrise. I am looking at Cancer, Leo and
Virgo (Virgin).

The window behind me is the Autumn window.

When I turn to look out of it I see a huge set of
weighing scales like a tree. In the scale on the
left sits a scorpion, in the other sits a centaur
(half man half horse) with a bow and arrow
trying to shoot the scorpion. It’s windy. Orange
and red leaves rain down around the scene as
the scales keep tipping and the centaur
struggles to aim his arrow at the scorpion. I am
looking at Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius.

The window on my right is the Winter window. I

look out of it and see a snowy, medieval village
at night. A woman is giving water to a goat and
behind them is a tavern. The wooden sign
outside the tavern has two fish painted on it
(the pisces image). Here I am looking at
Capricorn, Aquarius (water bearer) and Pisces.

—————————————————————

These images work for me, feel free to use them

or create your own. They’re so vivid and so
surreal that once you’ve spent a few minutes
picturing them, you’ll never forget them.

Picture the Mona Lisa in your mind now. The

image you have conjured, even if not exact in its
details, is probably an accurate enough
representation to be recognisable as the Mona
Lisa. That’s what these images will become like
with less than an hour of effort.
So as soon as I’ve read the marking on the back
of the ace placed down by my spectator, I
immediately turn to the corresponding window
in my imagination and right in front of me will
be three star signs, one of which belongs to my
spectator.

With a little bit of practice, this becomes rapid.

I see hearts, I know they’re either Cancer, Virgo

or Leo. I see clubs, I know they’re Aries, Taurus
or Gemini. It’s instantaneous.
 THE DETECTOR

Once you know which set of signs you’re

working with, there are many different ways of
narrowing it down to one. In this PDF I will
share the simplest.

In this example, let’s say my spectator put down

Spades for their season. I now know they are
either Libra, Scorpio or Sagittarius.

I simply throw one out. If and when that hits, it’s

perfect. “Your star sign, you’re not a Scorpio are
you?”

If they say yes, great!

If they say no, “I didn’t think so, just think of the

first letter of your sign… This is an L… Oh no it’s
an S, you’re a Sagittarius!”

Of course if they start to react to the L, I

continue with Libra. If the L has no reaction, I
just move onto the final sign. You can do this
with all four sets of signs.
 IMPORTANT

Don’t just use this as a star sign reveal. Use it

within a reading.
Use a marked deck for easiest results.
Remember, this is not about star signs. Your
spectator believes this has something to do
with the season they were born in. Think of
each suit as a book; the book of spring, the
book of summer, the book of autumn and the
book of winter. Each book has thirteen pages.
The book is determined by the season they
were born in, and they are free to then choose
the page. What does this page have to say
about them? What message awaits? The fact
that you knew their star sign should not be the
end result.
Don’t want to write on the aces? Write on the
back of the card box. Don’t forget to include the
suits if you are not writing on the aces.
In my tarot decks I carry the 22 major arcana
along with the 4 aces of the minor arcana.
When using tarot I don’t use the playing card/
calendar script, I simply explain that the four
aces represent the seasons and of course,
written on them is the dates. This allows for a
very clean star sign reveal during a tarot
reading.
Once your spectator knows their season/suit,
they do not need to choose from the aces.
Simply have them go through the deck and
remove any card from their suit and place it
face down on the table. Look at the marking
and the suit will tell you which set of signs to
use, and the value of the card should inspire
content for a reading, depending on which
method you are using. Many of which can be
found at www.e-mentalism.com

Thank you for reading and seasons greetings, I

hope you enjoy The Fall.

Lewis Le Val.
October 2020.