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A client comes to a lawyer and spends an eternity tediously recounting every detail of his case.

The lawyer, having finally lost his patience, interrupts him:

"Kindly, sir, tell me briefly and clearly what this is about, and how it really happened ."

As for the court and jury, I can muddle them splendidly all by myself.

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Fig. No one even noticed the shackles. Ignorance—that is our chain…18

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The Medici Solitaire deck differs rather profoundly and in principle from the standard Tarot reader’s deck.

In the author’s firm conviction, several cards have been removed from popular versions of the Tarot deck.

Their removal was plainly deliberate, reducing the Tarot deck to an innocuous plaything.

The author grasps the rationale behind this decision, but in time the maimed Tarot deck has become so canonical that something simply must be done about it.19

Here, in the author’s opinion, the Hermeticists seem to have erred a touch on the side of caution.20

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Thus, for the Medici Solitaire, the deck comprises the following cards:

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The denominations of the cards follow one another consecutively from ‘zero’ to ten.

That is, there are 11 minor denominations.

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Page (Jack), Queen, Rider, King, Ace.

That is, 5 major denominations.

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And, well,

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oh yes, all of this is repeated across the four suits.

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Denarii, Diamonds – Earth, Muladhara, Workers. 22 23 24

Cups, Hearts – Water, Svadhisthana, Merchants.

Swords, Spades – Fire, Manipura, Kshatriyas.

Staves, Clubs – Air, Anahata, Priests.

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Thus, the deck for Stalking in the Medici Solitaire consists of 64 cards.

Four suits, running from ‘zero’ to Ace.

The Major Arcana of the Tarot deck are not employed in Stalking Medici Solitaire (a practice thinly veiled as ‘divination’).

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This sort of deck can be assembled from the Minor Arcana of two identical Tarot decks, ingeniously repurposing the most suitable cards to stand in for the missing ones.

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For the sake of convenience in laying out the Medici Solitaire, it is wisest to pre-ruled the table in advance.

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