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Hardback edition & cards
– £80
Limited to 525 copies (limited availability ex-series)
Bound in fine orchid purple cloth with Eye of Providence onlay, and gold & black blocking on front and spine.
Paperback & cards
– £55
Unlimited
Sewn paperback, printed on fine 120 gsm paper.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
A brief history
The structure of the deck
Significators
Card Meanings Overview Constancy Visit Message Letter ThiefJealousy Little Money Falseness Enemy Merriment Thought Cleric Money Lover&Beloved Gift Fortune House Marriage Hope Child Malady Love Officer Journey Judge Desire Death Sadness Fidelity Misfortune Unexpected Joy Anger Risk Widow&Widower
Foundational MethodsInterpreting the cards Polarity Order and influence The two-card cut Three-card yes or no readings Reading a line of cards Choosing a theme significator The nuance card Timing nuance card Result nuance card Advice nuance card Investigative spreads Reading without a theme card Magnification level
The Cross SpreadCross overview The fate cross The mental-emotional cross The time cross Expanding any line of cards into a clarification cross The gypsy answer method The relational crosses method Large cross The grand cross
The Gypsy Grand TableauOverview The four corners Past, present and future Fate and control Describing the querent or another person Reading thematic crosses Reading on relationships Reading on career matters Reading on health Reading on psychic attacks and black magic Timing events in the Grand Tableau Finding confirmations Proximity and directionality
The Astrological TableauThe core method The extended method Aspects and perfections Aspects that deny perfection Using mundane houses The twelve houses Houses, cards, anatomy, signs Assigning zodiacal signs Assigning the decan Putting it all together Reading on relationships Reading on contested events Finding lost objects Timing outcomes
Appendices
The eye of providence
The nine gypsy fans
Description
Balthazar Blacke’s Divine Gypsy Mother is a reimagining of the nineteenth century fortune telling system popularly known as gypsy cards, which invoke the divining legacy of the Romani people. Both the book and cards showcase original artwork by renowned tarot artist Alexander Daniloff. These enchanting cards and book are sold as a set, and provide a highly practical and nuanced method of divination.
The symbolism of the cards has been updated to clarify meanings, drawing on the examples of hand-painted decks from the 1800s and the plethora of mass market versions, whilst staying true to the spirit of the original Gypsy cards.
Gypsy cards were originally sold without instructions, diviners relied on the titles of the cards and their images alone. Balthazar Blacke provides us with the key to understanding each individual card, their timing elements, astrological attribution and lessons. We are then provided with methods and spreads, from the quick and dirty, through Cross and Grand Cross variants to the full thirty-six card Grand Tableau.
Blacke has researched the traditions, ideas and techniques of card readers in Germany and the Netherlands, combining them with his own unique innovations. The most striking of these is the Astrological Tableau, which gives the advanced diviner a method of incorporating the houses and thirty-six decans, making this a compelling deck for those with an astrological practice.
Drawing on over ten years of client work, Blacke gives many clear examples and case studies that will transform your divinatory skills. Rather than the more esoteric decks, such as Crowley’s Book of Thoth, the Divine Gypsy Mother cards are ideally suited to providing answers, guidance and advice. The methods given pin-point issues and provide elegant accurate oracles.
Press, interviews, reviews
Intro and flip through from Balthazar Blacke
Polarity and the two-card cut with Balthazar Blacke
Order, influence, and the Death card with Balthazar Blacke
Review of book and deck by Denis Poisson for Foolish Fish
Discussion on the gypsy cards with Tarot Map
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