 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Zodiac prediction from Liam Montier. What is this? It is basically, Liam has taken the idea of the Zodiac, the birthday that your spectator has, and then combined it with the clock wheel effect, applying a different astrological sign to each card, and then using your spectator's birthday to arrive at their lucky card, and it's a three-stage climax where their lucky card is also your prediction. You want to see the trailer? This is it. Hello Trinnell, how are you doing? I'm good, thanks. Excellent. I've got a little card trick for you. Now, I don't know, have you seen many card tricks before? A couple. A couple of card tricks, that makes sense. Well, before people did card tricks with cards, they were actually used for sort of fortune telling before, even before tarot cards were used for fortune telling. And this is because playing cards have a lot of similarities with the calendar, I guess you would say, in that there's four suits and there's four seasons, and there's 52 cards in a deck, and 52 weeks in a year. And if you add up all the numbers on the deck of cards, it adds up to 365, which is the days in a year. So it's all kind of tied together with the whole calendar and your star sign and that kind of thing. So that's what we're going to try and do a little trick with that. So we'll start off by just, well, I'll leave them here. And I've also got a little handy card here with your star signs on there. So what I'd like you to do is to have a look for your star sign on the list. You know your star sign, yeah? And I want you to take that number of cards off the top of the deck. So I'm Gemini, so I would take five cards. And you can hide them in the card box if you like. But I'll turn away while you do that. And I'll try not to listen very hard as well, just so I can't hear how many cards you take. And then just tuck them into the card box or into a pocket, anything you like, and give me a shout when you're ready to rock and roll. Ready to rock and roll. All right, perfect. There we go. So I'm going to give these a little cut. Now, obviously, we don't need an entire pack for this. But what we're going to basically do is now use your number to find your lucky card. Have you ever had a lucky card before? Yeah. Now, so this is a new experience. All right, awesome. So we're going to need 12 cards, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, and 12. And what will happen is we're going to deal them out into a little chart. So this would be number one. This would be number two. This would be number three. We're going to do it like a clock, basically. Four. That would be five. That would be six. And seven here. That would be eight. This would be nine, 10, 11, and 12. So what we're going to do is count round to find out where your lucky card is. Now, obviously, we've not met before, but I would have, and I'm not very good at all this kind of thing normally, but I would have said you struck me as a sort of Virgo. I just said you were Virgo. Is that right? It is. Okay. So if you're a Virgo, your lucky number is eight. So we would count around as if this was a clock to the eighth card. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight would take us here, right? So your lucky card from now for all time is, in this case, the seven of clubs. I had a feeling it would be the seven of clubs. I had a feeling I'd meet a Virgo today and I had a feeling that the lucky card would be the seven of clubs because this isn't just a little card, it's actually an envelope. And inside the envelope is a single card from a different deck. Could you take it out for me and show everybody at home? It is your lucky card, the seven of clubs. Well, that was a fate, but you say, you know, you've had to say that some things are written in the stars and that means that they're fated and they're always going to come true. That was true of your lucky card because it was the only result you could have had. It was all written in the stars from before we began. All right. So that was the zodiac prediction from Liam Montier. A couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get the written instructions and within those written instructions, there is also a download code so you can also download a 12 minute instructional video. There's the little black envelope with the zodiac signs on it that you saw in the commercial and then there's the necessary gaff cards that you will need. How are the angles on this? They are really clean. There's really no angle issues to worry about. It's a straightforward card trick. I don't think you would run the risk of exposing anything if performed correctly. Can it be inspected? No. These cards, there are some gaff cards to this and I only say that because there's just one element that they might want to examine and then you would have to do some dodgy. There's a beginning part where you have the spectator count off a stack of cards and they put those in the card box. If they ask to go back and look at those cards, you wouldn't be able to allow them to do that because they are also gaffs and so there's a little bit of audience management there but for the most part they should end happy and shouldn't even ask. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Big Blind Media makes really good videos. It's only 12 minutes long and so the majority of the video, all of it, is really Liam at the Big Blind Media library set prop with all the books behind him in the Boa Fett mask and he has one spectator that does the trick for her and then runs you through the setup, runs you through the presentation. It's all well-miked and it looks clean. Is it well made? It's all given to you on traditional Riderback 808 stock. How much practice does it require? Very little. This is at its core a deck stack and so if you can do a false shuffle or a false cut and retain your stack, you're good and then pretty much the stack and the pattern, the presentation moves the trick along. If you watch the trick in its entirety from beginning to end, there's really no other secretness to it so it's pretty much just following the deck stack and yeah it's easy. How much setup and reset is there? It is a deck stack like I said at the beginning so this is a great trick to use as an opener or maybe as a closer. The downside is of course with all the gas in it you aren't able to do any other effects with this deck. Positives, what are the positives to Zodiac prediction? Liam has once again created a very fun powerhouse card trick that is not only easy to do but it has the potential to hit hard. Negatives, you know like we say around here there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. Just like I said it's a one hit wonder and when you have a deck stack like that with as many gas cards in it as you do, you're just not able to use your deck of cards for anything else. So this would be a good card trick to do maybe in a routine that involves other things like coins or writing down or mentalism or predictions so maybe not a good trick to do in connection with other card tricks. Is it worth your money? It's 25 bucks, it's 25 dollars and I think personally big blind media always goes out of their way to give you more bang for your buck and so just to get the instructions, all the gas cards, the envelope, everything pre-pinted, the video, Liam's teaching definitely worth their money. If this trick appeals to you I would pick it up. Who would like this? People that like card tricks, people that like the clock force or Zodiacs or the mentalism or if that you know fits in your wheelhouse of predicting somebody's star sign, I think if that's your thing this is a great card trick to add to your routine. Alright so that is my review of the Zodiac prediction from Liam Montier and Big Blind Media. As always I want to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this trick for me so that I can do the review for you and if you would like to purchase this trick for yourself you can find it from your favorite Murphy's Magic retailer. Thanks, bye.