Cartomancy

Since we have a Lo Scarabeo Anima Antiqua Line in the tarot sub-forum, I decided that it could be nice to have the same for their new line of historical reproductions of cartomancy decks: Antica Cartomanzia! The first decks are to be released in October 2021, and February 2022 in North America, but I think they are already available on Lo Scarabeo's website. While their tarot decks are limited to 2999 copies, there is no mention about them being a limited edition for this line. I love their Anima Antiqua line, because I love historical decks, so I'll definitely add these to my collection! Antica Cartomanzia #1 - Folk Cards of Destiny Based on …

Which system is more accurate when offering readings. I just have a standard pack of cards I use

Guests Posted 14 minutes ago Hi all, I became a member today to hopefully find an answer. I came across a very old, worn deck. It is like nothing I have ever seen before. It does not contain the standard: cups, queens, wands, swords and it has inscriptions in 4 different languages. I did google some of the inscriptions and it appears to be in Hungarian, German, Latin and one other language I could not make out. The cards are very literal. ie. they spell out "thief, jealously, death, pens…

These decks are going to be getting a lot of attention soon, since Bababarock is publishing one of their own and a restoration of an old deck, as well. And I found a video with card meanings that are basically sound. This is for the Art Deco cards, but that deck is closely related to the Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten and Biedermeier Aufschlagkarten. (Note: they are NOT interchangable with Kippers, French or Italian Sibilla.) So the video is useful for those cards, as well. I also want to add that this is not an endorsement of the guy who owns the channel, who is apparently selling Art Deco cards at his etsy shop for $74 (!) Anything more than about $10-12 for a Piatnik deck…

When do the books I have been reading, had suggested that if I read Oracle cards for others, then I should not allow them to touch the deck. When I read tarot cards, I always let the seeker shuffle the cards and divide them into three piles while concentrating on their question. is there any reason that any of you can think of that I shouldn’t treat oracle decks like tarot decks? The only time I pick cards out of the deck for other peoples readings has been by remote read via video chat. If I have the person present, I would like to have them shovel and think about the question.

In a previous thread, we discussed how to figure out our Tarot Birth Card. I just found out that it has an equivalent in cartomancy - the Life Card! It's quite simple and straightforward really, and there's no need for any calculation. Just look at the table below: Find your month of birth on the first row and your day of birth on the first column. Take note of the cell where they intersect. That there contains your Life Card. So for example, if you're born on January 1, by looking at the table you'd see that your Life Card is the King of Spades. January 2 equates to the Queen of Spades, 3 to the Jack, etc. Now once you find out your Life Card, go to The …

Hi I thought I would just share these beautiful Italian cards gifted to me. It is only 52 cards without the major arcana. They were gifted to me before someone really dear to me past away. The deck is called I Misteri Della Sibilla. They have beautiful pictures. I tried to upload pictures to share the pictures or the Italian Amazon link to show the pictures, but I was unable to. I am still new to the forum and trying to familiarize myself 😊

Hi folks, I've posted an article which might interest some of you on the spread called 'the Great Game' (le Grand Jeu) and some of the cartomantic meanings from a French work on the subject, and it is online here. As far as I can tell, these meanings go back to Etteilla's works, via a 19th century book on cards.

Cynocephaly traces letters on the ground. Does anyone know what the string is written as? It's not about Petit Lenormand.

I want to use Oracle cards and learn how to use them. I recently started studying the Lemormand system. I started to read a book about them, but the author says that you must use the Lenormand deck to do her lessons. I like Lenormand, but I have found myself strongly drawn as if by a magnet to The Folk Cards of Destiny. I want to use those cards, but I am not sure it's the best place to start. What deck do you think I should use and why?

I am very new to tarot so please excuse my complete ignorance. For the last two months I've basically been playing around and just starting to get familiar with it. However, over the last week something happened at work. This is something that I completely screwed up and my boss is about to come back from leave and find out. The issue is that I've known about about the screw-up for some time and just kept putting off fixing it. Anyway, for the last three days I've been pretty stressed and concentrating on what's happened I've drawn a card from the major arcana to see what it says. And every single day it has come up the same: Death. I did it thi…

I haven’t perfected this yet. I usually ask a question and shuffle and let cards jump. I’ve watched my psychic shuffle and split the cards and just keep taking them off the top. what is the correct method. Or which method would you say works best? I don’t use tarot cards I use regular playing cards.

I'm really curious about the name of the spread on the cover of this French cartomancy book and how it's read. It is identical in layout to one I created - having never seen this one - for the purpose of missing-person tarot readings. ETA: I just realized this isn't a Lenormand book, so this post is probably in the wrong section. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz9ay5wf44526er/Train to Nowhere Spread.pdf?raw=1