Gypsy cards
The gypsy cards belong to the fortune telling cards . A deck of cards consists of 36 cards, which are labeled in 6 languages (German, English, French, Italian, Croatian, Hungarian). They are manufactured and sold by the Piatnik company in Vienna, among others . The maps available today were last slightly changed and updated around 1960.
Name and story
The term gypsy cards or gypsy fortune telling cards did not appear until the end of the 19th century when fortune telling cards could be produced and sold in large numbers. It simply made use here of the mystical reputation of " Gypsy " as experienced soothsayers and fortune tellers to the sale to boost something. Even before these cards were issued by the Piatnik company in Vienna around 1920, there were similar fortune telling cards or serve cards . Some of them were generally referred to as Lenormand cards , even if they had little to do with the corresponding originals.
The key words on the cards in six languages indicate that their origins in the themes and symbols of the Austro-Hungarian k. and k. (imperial and royal) monarchy can be found. The main target group was probably the upscale bourgeois society - especially women. This can be seen, for example, from the fact that the topic of “money through work” is not mentioned in the Gypsy cards. The strength of the deck clearly lies in its many emotion cards, which allow the finest shades in the analysis of delicate matters of the heart, but also of other worrisome or pleasant family events.
The gypsy cards are not to be confused with the Russian gypsy oracle . Its 25 cards each have four half-motifs in a diamond shape ( 36 cards in the original Seni horoscope oracle ). The cards are laid out in a square. The divination takes place on the basis of those pairings in which the motif halves of two adjacent cards complement each other to form a complete picture.
Due to the similarity in their pictures, names and meanings, the tipper cards are often incorrectly referred to as gypsy cards or confused with them. But they are not identical. The Gypsy cards differ from similar decks in that they are not numbered.
Nowadays the gypsy maps are an increasingly popular medium for predicting the future, but knowledge about these maps is still very limited and there is little specialist literature.
The 36 cards
Names of the 36 gypsy cards; since these are not numbered, in alphabetical order of their German terminology:
- resistance
- visit
- Embassy
- letter
- Thief
- jealousy
- Some money
- Falsehood
- enemy
- happiness
- thoughts
- Clergyman
- money
- Lover
- Lover
- gift
- luck
- House
- marriage
- hope
- child
- illness
- love
- officer
- travel
- Judge
- nostalgia
- death
- sadness
- loyalty
- bad luck
- Unexpected joy
- Annoyance
- loss
- widow
- widower
Laying methods
- Celtic cross : cards yourself or have them shuffled by the questioner and lay out in the following order ...
13/12 * 1 → Thema/Jetztsituation/Fragebetreff
11 * 2+3 → erläutern das Thema; Wodurch entstand die Situation?
4 10 * 4 → die Gedanken; Was beschäftigt den/die FragestellerIn?
6 2 1 3 7 9 * 5 → das Unbewusste, tief im Inneren auch Unbekannte und Verhaftete
5 8 * 6 → das Vergangene; Welche Einflüsse aus der Vergangenheit bestimmen die jetzige Situation?
* 7 → die nahe Zukunft; Was kommt als Nächstes?
* 8 → die Sicherheit/das Anliegen; innere Einstellung zum Problem
* 9 → Wirkung nach außen; Einflüsse aus dem Umfeld, so sehen es die anderen
* 10 → Hoffnungen/Befürchtungen/Ängste
* 11 → der Ausgang der Situation; Das, was der Fragende längerfristig erreichen wird
* 12+13 → erläutern den Ausgang der Grundproblematik
- Large board : cards yourself or have them shuffle them and lay them out in the following order ...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 * Personenkarte suchen 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 * Karten von Personenkarte aus bis zu der Themenkarte deuten 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 * Karten von der Themenkarte aus weiterdeuten 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
See also
literature
- Elfriede Jahn: The 1x1 of card reading. The secret of gypsy fortune telling cards . Workbook, Ibera-Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-900436-37-1
- Svetlana Alexandrovna-Tutschkow: Russian gypsy oracle cards - manual and cards . AG Müller Urania, new edition: Neuhausen (CH) 2006, ISBN 3038191868
- Bruno Bieri: The Gypsy Lenormand oracle cards - manual and cards . AG Müller Urania, Neuhausen (CH), ISBN 3-908646-40-5
- Anne L. Biwer: Gypsy fortune telling cards - card reading for beginners . Schirner Verlag, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-930944-68-5
- Kirsten Buchholzer / ROE: A course in card reading - Gypsy oracles . Königsfurt-Urania Verlag, Kl. Königsförde 2007, ISBN 3-868267-20-4
- Karin Knödler: Laying methods and interpretations of the Gypsy fortune telling cards . Bohmeier Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-89094-458-2
- Kirsten Kretschmer / ROE: Gypsy Oracle - love, luck, success . Königsfurt-Urania Verlag, Kl.Königsförde 2007, ISBN 978-389875-879-6
- Angela Mackert: Basic course card reading Gypsy fortune telling cards . Südwest, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08343-8
- Esmiralda: The Gypsy Prophecy Diary . Books on Demand GmbH; Edition: 1 (December 2005), ISBN 3-8334-4282-4