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What is the Spirit & Nature Time System?
The Spirit & Nature Time System is a system of using playing cards and astrology to understand people’s unique personalities, innate strengths and weaknesses, spiritual path, predict events and so much more. It is based on a publication from the 1800’s by Olney H. Richmond titled The Mystic Test Book.
This is a system that anyone can use if they choose to study it in detail. You do not need to be a highly-developed psychic or have extraordinary clairvoyant skills to be able to foresee events and learn more about people, places, things and yourself using this system. Many people have created their own methods for this system, however Astrologer Ernst Wilhelm’s Cards of Truth Method has been the only method I found consistently reliable and the method I have studied for years now.
To begin to explain this system and the methods used to study it, we will start by exploring a regular deck of playing cards.
Playing Cards Are A Calendar
When you take a closer look at a regular deck of playing cards you can begin to see several similarities between them and our current calendar system.
- 52 Weeks in a Year – 52 Cards
- 7 Days of a week – 52 Cards (5 + 2 = 7)
- 12 Months in a Year – 12 Court Cards
- 91 Days in a Season = 91 Pips in a Suit
- 365.25 Days in a Year – 365.25 Pips including the Joker
If you look a little closer you will see more proof of the calendar system within a deck of cards.
- 4 Seasons – 4 Suits
- Day & Night – Red & Black
- 12 Zodiac Signs – 12 Crown Cards
- 13 Lunar Cycles – 13 Cards in a Suit
The Origin of Playing Cards
To truly understand the origin of this type of science you might want to begin by knowing where playing cards came from. I did. However, that is as much of a mystery as how the system works. Many accounts to explain their origin just further support the idea that their original intent was tied to nature and not solely for playing games.
Despite many scholars contrarily claiming to know the origins of playing cards, we just don’t know. However, we have clear evidence that shows they have been around for at least 1,000 years. We have also found them, or some variant, in almost every culture. And although the symbols on the cards have varied slightly by culture, the cards have largely remained unchanged. I also find it very interesting that despite different cultures adapting different symbols at times, the symbols still all share a similar meaning.
The sheer ability for the playing cards to cross all cultures the way they have is something mystical to me. I grew up in a bilingual environment and have always found it interesting how a deck of playing cards can bring people together who don’t speak the same language by simply sharing an understanding of some basic rules. Once I learned that each of the cards is related to specific birth dates; astrology; our spirituality; personalities; life paths and future telling – I had to know more.
Spirit & Nature Time System Card Reading Reports & Tools
by valentineZcards
-
$3.33 -
$119.97 -
$9.99 / month and a $199.99 sign-up fee -
$119.97 -
$9.97 -
$144.97
Is it Cartomancy?
It can be commonly misunderstood as cartomancy. However, it is not the same as cartomancy. Cartomancy is fortune-telling and divination using playing cards. Studying this system will also teach you how to cast cards as a cartomancer; however, the Spirit & Nature Time System can do much, much more for you once you apply the knowledge and techniques Ernst Wilhelm has developed in his method he calls Cards of Truth.
The Spirit & Nature Time System is more scientific in the sense of using sequences, methods and astrology to align with nature. For me, the Spirit & Nature Time System is much more akin to how we study and predict the weather than cartomancy and the methods that cartomancers use to foretell events.
Then What Is It?
There are many names associated with using playing cards to predict events and study human relations. When Ernst Wilhelm was first introduced to this type of card reading, the reader called it Egyptian Astrology. Wilhelm is the one who gave the system the name Spirit & Nature Time System. However, most people refer to it by the method used to study the system. Cards of Truth is the method Ernst developed and what he named his instructional website and the software he developed for the Spirit & Nature Time System.
I first discovered the cards through Robert Lee Camp who has popularized (and probably trademarked) the term Cards of Destiny. But there are well over 50 terms you will come across that refer to the use of playing cards for divination purposes. And most of those terms refer to a different method for studying the system. For me, this caused a lot of confusion.
Here is a list of some of the most popular terms.
- 52 Cards
- 52 Cards of the Magi
- 52 Keys
- 52 Secrets
- Ancient Science of the Cards
- Astro-Cards
- Atlantean Cards
- Atlantean Oracle
- Birth Card System
- Book of Destiny
- Cardology
- Card Science
- Cards of Destiny
- Cards of Illumination
- Cards of Truth
- Card Science
- Card System
- Destiny Cards
- Egyptian Tarot
- Gifts of the Magi
- God Clock
- Life Cards
- Little Book of Destiny
- Little Book of Life
- Little Book of the Seven Thunders
- Love Cards
- Magian Cardology
- Magi Cards
- Metaphysical Card Science
- Metasymbology
- Metasymobolic Card Science
- Mystic Card Science
- Mystic Quadrate System
- Mystic Test Book System
- Oracle Cards
- Original Tarot Cards
- Personal Time-Map System
- Sacred Cards
- Sacred Symbols
- Science of the Cards
- Solar Cards
- Soulmancing
- Spirit & Nature Time System
- Tarotology
- The Ancient Book of Time
- The Book of Life
- The Cards
- The Cards of Life
One of the reasons why I think there are so many terms is because studying cards as a metaphysical science is just now being popularized. Additionally, Olney H. Richmond’s publication is the only authoritative publication we have on the subject and it did not assign an explicit name specifically to the use of playing cards in divination, astrology and as another form of a calendar. Just like the scientific world is just now waking up to quantum physics, we are just beginning to learn what the universe has held from the beginning in a simple deck of playing cards. This area of science is still a long way from receiving its proper rank among other sciences. Once it does, it will give more authority to the topic under its most basic identity – Metasymbolic Card Science.
Learn how to read playing cards.
Know what you're dealing with.
Metasymbolic Card Science
I feel as if the term Metasymbolic Card Science is an appropriate term to describe the science of playing cards and that is the term I use. I will have more information as to why I came to that conclusion in future blogs.
Metasymbolic Card Science is a term coined by Dalia Boretski. Boretski is an astrologer who created Metasymbology.com almost 25 years ago. Her book The New Game: 52-Day Cycles of Time is, in my opinion, the best resource currently available to start with if you want to better understand the basics of how to use playing cards for divination purposes.
Her method varies from the Spirit & Nature Time System developed by Ernst Wilhelm, which is the best in my opinion, but the overall concepts are the same. I think her book is a great introduction because it’s a quick read and gives you a broad overview of the playing cards for divination.
Cardology
Despite what makes sense to me and what I like to call it, the International Association of Cardology prefers the term (you guessed it) “Cardology” to describe divination and metasymbolic card science. In fact, they prefer it so much that it is part of their mission as an association to uniform the name as “cardology.”
Popularizing and mainstreaming this term seems a worthwhile goal nonetheless, considering the term is often confused with cardiology, the branch of medicine that deals with the human heart.
The Mystic Test Book
The only authoritative publication we have on the subject of the science of using playing cards to determine events in our life, as well as indications of our personalities associated to our birth dates and astrology is Olney H. Richmond’s publication The Mystic Test Book.
In this book, Richmond teaches us how to spread the cards out in a way that represents the perfect circle of life. This is called a quadration. Every time the cards are laid out in a certain way and then conformed to another layout, that is the action of quadrating the deck. He then shows us how to quadrate this layout of the cards to another spread that represents actual life.
The book, originally published in 1893, also goes into numerology. Olney explains how each card has a solar value. Each solar value is associated with a particular day of the year. And each day of the year is associated with a card. That card is the Birth Card of all people born on that day.
December 31st has a solar value of zero and is the only day that isn’t assigned one of the 52 cards. In Richmond’s publication on the subject, he assigns December 31st the Joker card.
If you are like me, you want this book. There is a copy of this book in my store and all members of the Association of Spirit & Nature Time System Cartomancers are given access to it in their member profile if you are interested in checking it out.
Testing, Testing…
Olney H. Richmond explains in this publication that the term “test” means to prove, measure, weigh and try. Ernst Wilhelm used systems science to develop this area of metasymbolic card science using his Cards of Truth method and along the way gave the system a proper name – Spirit and Nature’s Time System.
Wilhelm in his own words says, “If I had to think of a name for this system I would call it Spirit & Nature’s Time, as that is what it truly is – it is the dance of Spirit and Nature as they unfold as each of us and enjoy each of us in our individual lives.”
Wilhelm has hundreds of instructional videos on his website to learn from, which you can get unlimited access to through a $29.99 Paypal monthly membership. He also developed some amazing software that makes being able to predict events and timing ridiculously easy once you learn the system. His software is approximately 10% of the costs of other software and the accuracy is the best available.
This is not report-generating software. You have to learn to read the cards to be able to use this software. Robert Lee Camp provides software that generates reports. I checked that out as well; however, I did not find any other methods as useful to me as I did Ernst Wilhelm’s Cards of Truth Method.
The Spirit & Nature Time System is a system derived from Richmond Olney’s information regarding Metasymbolic Card Science and astrology in his book The Mystic Test Book that can be used to predict events, identify a person’s innate natures, life path and so much more. If this has piqued your interest, welcome to the rabbit hole.
Con mucho, mucho amor,
Valentina X. Zapata
This blog post is an excerpt from my book “Spirit & Nature Time System | The Sacred Calendar of Playing Cards.” Purchase the full book equipped with all 52 spreads and tons of tools below.
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What is the Spirit & Nature Time System?
The Spirit & Nature Time System is a system of using playing cards and astrology to understand people’s unique personalities, innate strengths and weaknesses, spiritual path, predict events and so much more. It is based on a publication from the 1800’s by Olney H. Richmond titled The Mystic Test Book.
This is a system that anyone can use if they choose to study it in detail. You do not need to be a highly-developed psychic or have extraordinary clairvoyant skills to be able to foresee events and learn more about people, places, things and yourself using this system. Many people have created their own methods for this system, however Astrologer Ernst Wilhelm’s Cards of Truth Method has been the only method I found consistently reliable and the method I have studied for years now.
To begin to explain this system and the methods used to study it, we will start by exploring a regular deck of playing cards.
Playing Cards Are A Calendar
When you take a closer look at a regular deck of playing cards you can begin to see several similarities between them and our current calendar system.
- 52 Weeks in a Year – 52 Cards
- 7 Days of a week – 52 Cards (5 + 2 = 7)
- 12 Months in a Year – 12 Court Cards
- 91 Days in a Season = 91 Pips in a Suit
- 365.25 Days in a Year – 365.25 Pips including the Joker
If you look a little closer you will see more proof of the calendar system within a deck of cards.
- 4 Seasons – 4 Suits
- Day & Night – Red & Black
- 12 Zodiac Signs – 12 Crown Cards
- 13 Lunar Cycles – 13 Cards in a Suit
The Origin of Playing Cards
To truly understand the origin of this type of science you might want to begin by knowing where playing cards came from. I did. However, that is as much of a mystery as how the system works. Many accounts to explain their origin just further support the idea that their original intent was tied to nature and not solely for playing games.
Despite many scholars contrarily claiming to know the origins of playing cards, we just don’t know. However, we have clear evidence that shows they have been around for at least 1,000 years. We have also found them, or some variant, in almost every culture. And although the symbols on the cards have varied slightly by culture, the cards have largely remained unchanged. I also find it very interesting that despite different cultures adapting different symbols at times, the symbols still all share a similar meaning.
The sheer ability for the playing cards to cross all cultures the way they have is something mystical to me. I grew up in a bilingual environment and have always found it interesting how a deck of playing cards can bring people together who don’t speak the same language by simply sharing an understanding of some basic rules. Once I learned that each of the cards is related to specific birth dates; astrology; our spirituality; personalities; life paths and future telling – I had to know more.
Spirit & Nature Time System Card Reading Reports & Tools
by valentineZcards
-
$3.33
-
$119.97
-
$9.99 / month and a $199.99 sign-up fee
-
$119.97
-
$9.97
-
$144.97
Is it Cartomancy?
It can be commonly misunderstood as cartomancy. However, it is not the same as cartomancy. Cartomancy is fortune-telling and divination using playing cards. Studying this system will also teach you how to cast cards as a cartomancer; however, the Spirit & Nature Time System can do much, much more for you once you apply the knowledge and techniques Ernst Wilhelm has developed in his method he calls Cards of Truth.
The Spirit & Nature Time System is more scientific in the sense of using sequences, methods and astrology to align with nature. For me, the Spirit & Nature Time System is much more akin to how we study and predict the weather than cartomancy and the methods that cartomancers use to foretell events.
Then What Is It?
There are many names associated with using playing cards to predict events and study human relations. When Ernst Wilhelm was first introduced to this type of card reading, the reader called it Egyptian Astrology. Wilhelm is the one who gave the system the name Spirit & Nature Time System. However, most people refer to it by the method used to study the system. Cards of Truth is the method Ernst developed and what he named his instructional website and the software he developed for the Spirit & Nature Time System.
I first discovered the cards through Robert Lee Camp who has popularized (and probably trademarked) the term Cards of Destiny. But there are well over 50 terms you will come across that refer to the use of playing cards for divination purposes. And most of those terms refer to a different method for studying the system. For me, this caused a lot of confusion.
Here is a list of some of the most popular terms.
- 52 Cards
- 52 Cards of the Magi
- 52 Keys
- 52 Secrets
- Ancient Science of the Cards
- Astro-Cards
- Atlantean Cards
- Atlantean Oracle
- Birth Card System
- Book of Destiny
- Cardology
- Card Science
- Cards of Destiny
- Cards of Illumination
- Cards of Truth
- Card Science
- Card System
- Destiny Cards
- Egyptian Tarot
- Gifts of the Magi
- God Clock
- Life Cards
- Little Book of Destiny
- Little Book of Life
- Little Book of the Seven Thunders
- Love Cards
- Magian Cardology
- Magi Cards
- Metaphysical Card Science
- Metasymbology
- Metasymobolic Card Science
- Mystic Card Science
- Mystic Quadrate System
- Mystic Test Book System
- Oracle Cards
- Original Tarot Cards
- Personal Time-Map System
- Sacred Cards
- Sacred Symbols
- Science of the Cards
- Solar Cards
- Soulmancing
- Spirit & Nature Time System
- Tarotology
- The Ancient Book of Time
- The Book of Life
- The Cards
- The Cards of Life
One of the reasons why I think there are so many terms is because studying cards as a metaphysical science is just now being popularized. Additionally, Olney H. Richmond’s publication is the only authoritative publication we have on the subject and it did not assign an explicit name specifically to the use of playing cards in divination, astrology and as another form of a calendar. Just like the scientific world is just now waking up to quantum physics, we are just beginning to learn what the universe has held from the beginning in a simple deck of playing cards. This area of science is still a long way from receiving its proper rank among other sciences. Once it does, it will give more authority to the topic under its most basic identity – Metasymbolic Card Science.
Learn how to read playing cards.
Know what you're dealing with.
Metasymbolic Card Science
I feel as if the term Metasymbolic Card Science is an appropriate term to describe the science of playing cards and that is the term I use. I will have more information as to why I came to that conclusion in future blogs.
Metasymbolic Card Science is a term coined by Dalia Boretski. Boretski is an astrologer who created Metasymbology.com almost 25 years ago. Her book The New Game: 52-Day Cycles of Time is, in my opinion, the best resource currently available to start with if you want to better understand the basics of how to use playing cards for divination purposes.
Her method varies from the Spirit & Nature Time System developed by Ernst Wilhelm, which is the best in my opinion, but the overall concepts are the same. I think her book is a great introduction because it’s a quick read and gives you a broad overview of the playing cards for divination.
Cardology
Despite what makes sense to me and what I like to call it, the International Association of Cardology prefers the term (you guessed it) “Cardology” to describe divination and metasymbolic card science. In fact, they prefer it so much that it is part of their mission as an association to uniform the name as “cardology.”
Popularizing and mainstreaming this term seems a worthwhile goal nonetheless, considering the term is often confused with cardiology, the branch of medicine that deals with the human heart.
The Mystic Test Book
The only authoritative publication we have on the subject of the science of using playing cards to determine events in our life, as well as indications of our personalities associated to our birth dates and astrology is Olney H. Richmond’s publication The Mystic Test Book.
In this book, Richmond teaches us how to spread the cards out in a way that represents the perfect circle of life. This is called a quadration. Every time the cards are laid out in a certain way and then conformed to another layout, that is the action of quadrating the deck. He then shows us how to quadrate this layout of the cards to another spread that represents actual life.
The book, originally published in 1893, also goes into numerology. Olney explains how each card has a solar value. Each solar value is associated with a particular day of the year. And each day of the year is associated with a card. That card is the Birth Card of all people born on that day.
December 31st has a solar value of zero and is the only day that isn’t assigned one of the 52 cards. In Richmond’s publication on the subject, he assigns December 31st the Joker card.
If you are like me, you want this book. There is a copy of this book in my store and all members of the Association of Spirit & Nature Time System Cartomancers are given access to it in their member profile if you are interested in checking it out.
Testing, Testing…
Olney H. Richmond explains in this publication that the term “test” means to prove, measure, weigh and try. Ernst Wilhelm used systems science to develop this area of metasymbolic card science using his Cards of Truth method and along the way gave the system a proper name – Spirit and Nature’s Time System.
Wilhelm in his own words says, “If I had to think of a name for this system I would call it Spirit & Nature’s Time, as that is what it truly is – it is the dance of Spirit and Nature as they unfold as each of us and enjoy each of us in our individual lives.”
Wilhelm has hundreds of instructional videos on his website to learn from, which you can get unlimited access to through a $29.99 Paypal monthly membership. He also developed some amazing software that makes being able to predict events and timing ridiculously easy once you learn the system. His software is approximately 10% of the costs of other software and the accuracy is the best available.
This is not report-generating software. You have to learn to read the cards to be able to use this software. Robert Lee Camp provides software that generates reports. I checked that out as well; however, I did not find any other methods as useful to me as I did Ernst Wilhelm’s Cards of Truth Method.
The Spirit & Nature Time System is a system derived from Richmond Olney’s information regarding Metasymbolic Card Science and astrology in his book The Mystic Test Book that can be used to predict events, identify a person’s innate natures, life path and so much more. If this has piqued your interest, welcome to the rabbit hole.
Con mucho, mucho amor,
Valentina X. Zapata
This blog post is an excerpt from my book “Spirit & Nature Time System | The Sacred Calendar of Playing Cards.” Purchase the full book equipped with all 52 spreads and tons of tools below.
valentinezcards.com/blog
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