Gypsy Oracle Cards
Understanding What The Cards Are Trying To Tell You
It has been a long time coming but I am finally putting together a new and improved article concerning the Gypsy Oracle Cards. The first article I found to be messy and badly put together. I will still try to keep the descriptions brief since the cards don't need a long-winded dissection but I will add a more accurate and user-friendly format.
I have scoured the web over and over again to find a topic on these types of fortune telling cards to get a better understanding of what the meanings for each individual one meant without any luck. Rather than your typical tarot deck, they offer up a more literal answer to the question you seek. However you decipher the message is up to you.
With any sort of fortune deck it is already suggested that the reader needs to read between the lines since the placement of the cards will not necessarily make sense towards the question asked. So what I am doing here is giving readers a better insight towards this deck of cards which offers up a much different fortune telling experience.
"To interpret the cards, the Gypsy told of two things that had to be kept in mind: the image, which 'provoked feelings and memories in the heart and mind', and the sentence (the card's title), which 'guided sensitivities and perception in the right direction'."
2007 Copyright Lo Scarabeo
Forward: A social event, a reception, a wedding and/or baby shower, a celebration. A great need to get out more and enjoy yourself. Reversed: Uncertainty of social skills. A fear of social situations. Could symbolize a future event with a lot of interaction. Note the other cards that you have pulled in your reading to possibly narrow down the nature of this event.
Forward: A new start. Pregnancy, a baby. Infancy stage. Start of project or relationship. Looking after someone that is less fortunate than you are. Reversed: Naive, inexperience. Satisfying repressed desires and unfulfilled hopes. A longing for the past. This card can represent a new addition to the family as well as represent the character of the person receiving the reading or the person the reading is about.
Forward: A bonus, a purchase, small win, refund. Can be a small raise or increase. Finding or having some loot you forgot about. Receiving a refund check, rebate, etc. Entitlement. Reverse: Not coming in first. Not receiving what is expected in full. This card can represent a small prize heading your way. It could be a small increase in money or materialistic fortune. It can also represent a small loss that comes with little consequence.
Forward: A lack of change. Solid. Accountability. Fixed. Everything stays the same, this is usually positive. Reverse: If you are wondering about a negative situation, it doesn’t look like it will improve. Stubborn. This card represents the quality of being dependable and faithfulness as well as enduring and unchanging. Take note of the surrounding cards pulled to narrow down this card's meaning.
Forward: A conversation to take place soon. A final verdict or decisions made by those in authority. Weighing the pros and cons in a situation. Reversed: Being put through a test. Seeking acceptance to move forward. Above all else this card represents judgement and finality. A discussion is to take place soon. Take note of the surrounding cards pulled in your reading to determine what the conversation or decision will be about.
Forward: Starting a new cycle. Time to move on. Forget the past and head off into a different direction. Reverse: The answer is no. Farewell. Finalization. Endings. It’s over. Saying good-bye. Depicted as a negative card to pull but also brings some joy. This card represents endings but also brings in new beginnings. Is also used to answer yes or no questions just like the "Faithfulness" card, this card being the "No" card.
Forward: A provoking circumstance that tests your patience. A card of emotions. It could also represent that others are in despair and denotes that someone around you will be in need of your help. Reversed: Flying off the handle. Anger issues. Frustration, negative emotions, annoyed, bad mood. Represents the many hardships and cruelties that you will experience in the world. Alternatively, it may be a pun on "the spare". Perhaps the meaning is hinting at some back up.
Forward: Medicine man or woman. To care. Advisor. Reversed: Need for emotional or physical healing. Medical concerns. An emotional wound you need to bandage up. On the card you can clearly see a doctor comforting his patient. This could be regarding something medical or emotional. The card may be telling you to seek guidance or to pay attention to the health of the person receiving the reading.
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