Gypsy Fortune Telling Tarot Deck: formerly Buckland's Complete Gypsy Fortune Telling Deck

Buckland, Raymond

ISBN 10: 1567180930 ISBN 13: 9781567180930

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 2002

Synopsis

Now you can tell fortunes just as the Gypsies have done for hundreds of years when you use Ray Buckland's Gypsy Fortune Telling Tarot Deck. The Gypsies have always been associated with the Tarot, and may even have been the group that introduced them to Europe over 600 years ago. Ray Buckland, famous for his works on Witchcraft, is from a Gypsy (Romani) family and reveals the secrets of Gypsy fortune telling with this deck and forty-eight page booklet.

Although the traditional Tarot deck with its Major and Minor Arcana totalling seventy-eight cards was used by Gypsies, such decks were often hard to obtain. Thus, many Gypsies altered standard decks of playing cards to use for Tarot readings. This deck is based upon the one Ray Buckland's grandmother used.

The cards are the size of a deck of playing cards, so they are easier to carry than other decks. The twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana are numbered starting with one and have images from Gypsy life, usually involving the vardo, or Gypsy wagon. The booklet not only gives the meaning of the symbols but also the way the cards should be interpreted.

The Minor Arcana cards look like a regular deck of playing cards, but the aces each have a different vardo on them and there are four face cards in each suit. The people on them are typical Gypsies. Again, the booklet explains the way to interpret the cards.

The booklet includes a full ten Tarot spreads that you can use, some published here for the first time.

If you are interested in Gypsies or the Tarot, you must have this deck.

About this title

About the Author

Raymond Buckland has been actively involved in metaphysics and the occult for fifty years and has writing about it for nearly thirty.

He is the author of more than sixty books, including such best-selling titles as Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, Gypsy Dream Dictionary, Practical Candleburning Rituals, and Witchcraft from the Inside. Ray has lectured and presented workshops across the United States, and has appeared on major television and radio shows nationally and internationally. He has also written screen plays, been a technical advisor for films, and appeared in films and videos.

Ray comes from an English Romany (Gypsy) family and presently resides, with his wife Tara, on a small farm in central Ohio. Beyond writing, Ray's other passion is homebuilt airplanes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1567180930
• ISBN 13: 9781567180930
• Binding: Cards
• Language: English