The way the Fate Card system works is quite magical in many ways. First, instead of months, the year is divided into seven planetary periods, each of 52 days. They start on your birthday each year. On your birthday each year you begin Mercury’s period, which lasts 52 days. The complete sequence is as follows:

Mercury: starts on your birthday, lasts 52 days Venus: lasts 52 days Mars: lasts 52 days Jupiter: lasts 52 days Saturn: lasts 52 days Uranus: lasts 52 days Neptune: starts 52 days before your next birthday

The dates each of these periods begins can be calculated simply by adding 52 days to your birthday, and so on. For example, for someone born on December 5, the dates would be

Mercury – December 5 Venus – January 27 Mars – March 20 Jupiter – May 11 Saturn – July 2 Uranus – August 23 Neptune – October 14

These begin and end on the same dates, except in leap years for a reduced number of birthday periods.

Two cards are usually found in each of these periods (Neptune often only has one). These cards are not selected by you. They are calculated from the day of your birth. Therefore, these charts and the others in your ‘annual spread’, as we call it, are all fixed from the moment of your birth. The two cards of each period, which we call the planetary period cards, govern these 52-day periods and tell you what will happen and often with whom it will happen. For example, someone who has a 4 of Hearts and a Jack of Diamonds in their Venus period could marry (4 of Hearts) a young Diamond (Jack of Diamonds). And often the charts that appear in our planetary periods are the same Birth Charts of the people we meet, which assures us that they will be the ones we will be interacting with at the time. Sometimes it’s amazing how mysteriously this can work. I remember when I took my first card class I realized I had an Ace of Hearts with a 2 of Clubs on Venus, right then and there. Well, Catherine Oxenberg, a famous actress whose birth card is a 2 of clubs, was another student in that class. And the Ace of Hearts represented my strong attraction to her. I was stunned when I found that out, and a little embarrassed, thinking that she would know my secret.

These planetary period cards are important in understanding what happens during these 52 day time spans and are helpful in making future predictions. But there are five other cards in the annual spread that are actually much more powerful than these. We call them the One Year Influence Cards.

One Year Influence Cards

These five cards are the most powerful of all. Actually, the people in the special family of seven that we discussed in our last lesson only have three of these. But in any case, these are the cards to look for first when making some kind of determination about what a year has in store for us. The five cards are: The Range Card The Pluto Card The Result Card The Environment Card The Displacement Card

The last two are the ones without the special ‘family of seven’. It’s a bit tricky to explain why at this point. Just accept their fixed natures for now. We’ll talk a bit about each of these cards now.

The long range card is the most important of all. I call the main card for the year. Basically, it targets something, or in some cases someone, that will be the most important holder of your attention during a given year. I can often scan someone’s long range charts and see how her future will unfold over a period of years. It’s quite fascinating. But every time I do a card reading on my weekly radio show, the first place I look is the caller’s long-range card. Usually he will tell me everything I need to know. It is so important. In addition, you have another long-range Card found in your annual Planetary Governance Card spread, which does not appear in these free apps. When you want the full picture of the year, you’ll want to know both. I remember when I appeared on the Marilu Henner show several years ago. She was studying her spreadsheets and looking for cards that would represent the birth of her newborn child. There were no work cards present. However, her birth chart was her long range chart! When I pointed this out to her, her skepticism turned to surprise and amazement.

The Pluto Chart and the Results Chart are related. As you start each year, both, when their meanings are combined, tell you what are the challenges you will face this year. Sometimes these are cards from people you know or will meet. They usually represent something you want that you don’t have at the beginning of the year. When this happens, they are a major target. Other times these cards represent changes that you have been ignoring, but are necessary. We used to call them the challenge cards. The good thing is that every year you are guaranteed to make these changes and the reward is your Scorecard, which is always interpreted in a positive light. Sometimes it represents a quality that you will possess, and in some cases, a person. I remember predicting the birth of my second son Michael because that year I had the King of Hearts, called the father card, as my Results Card. That’s how easy and amazing this system is.

The Environment Card is always a blessing card that gives us gifts for the current year. It can also be a person, or it could be a money card, a move card, or a love card. Whatever it is each year, it will be something that is helping you. Wouldn’t you like to know which one is yours?

The Scroll Card is equally important. It’s a ‘locational’ card, although that’s a bit hard to explain in an introductory article like this. What he usually does is point out the main years of success, fame, recognition, reward or, in some rare cases, caution. Some of the most important cycles of our life are heralded by our Scroll Card.

Your Birth Card has an annual distribution, just like your Planetary Government Card. So for most people this means you have two spreads to look at each year. With so many destiny cards, you have ample information about all the months of the year and the year in general. This all probably sounds a bit complicated. However, I guarantee that you can learn this in an hour or less. Imagine investing an hour of your time to learn a tool that you can use for the rest of your life. I have trading clients who spend thousands of dollars to have me examine their annual spreads to help them make trading decisions.