Interpreting Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten cards

The Enemy As a Situation card:

ENEMY

The ENEMY cards suggests a situation is around you which appears to be not in your best interest.  It could be someone who is not what they seem.  More than likely these circumstances have a way of lingering on around us even though we don’t realize it.  Often emotional strings still remain even if the person or situation has left our immediate lifestyle.

Death as a Recent Past card:

DEATH

The DEATH card is either welcomed or feared.  Since it falls in the spot of recent past this means the energy is departing out of your life. Something (job) or someone (relationship) no longer serves a good purpose in your life and it is just as well it will be part of the recent past.  The death card suggests the elimination of things which no longer are productive or fruitful like a dead end job or dead beat relationship.

Widow as the To Come in the Near Future card:

Even though the WIDOW card doesn’t give the impression it is a joyous immediate future it means you could feel down only for a short time. It also suggests making new connections which as an outsider initially are challenging to do.  As the pending energy card the widow suggests you will be just fine and shouldn’t push anything.

The best advice would be to allow the natural flow of situations.  Whatever the cycle is it will develop into a new one within a few months (always keep the final card in mind when giving such advice).

Journey as the Result or Outcome card:

JOURNEY

What’s the outcome?  You will embark on a trip. The  JOURNEY card does indicate actual travel (trip or change in location) away from that something or someone which is slowly passing out of your life. You will leave behind what has ended or ceased to exist in a way to give you happiness.  If you move (home or job) you will have new beginning but will more than likely have to sever some other ties of past familiarity.

People and situations are in our lifestyle but when change comes knocking on the door (as is represented by the death card) we usually say good bye to aspects of certain connections. Often parts of our personality die and are reborn much stronger.

gipsy Death cards

BIEDERMEIER AUFSCHLAGKARTEN (image vanished)

GIPSY ZIGEUNER WAHRSAGEKARTEN

ART DECO WAHRSAGEKARTEN

Made by PIATNIK

Pretty creepy looking cards. So what does the death card mean?
Notice that the Beidermeier and Art Deco cards have an image of a scythe suggesting A PERMANENT SEVERANCE.
The Zigeuner death card has an image of an hour glass suggesting TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

I find this an interesting difference. I would have thought that the Beidermeier & Zigeuner would have been identical, since they are identical with the exception that one has 32 cards and one has 36 cards, respectively.

The obvious meanings are that there is an end to something. It can be the end of a relationship, a job, a dream, a plan, a goal etc. It can be the end of worry, also.

With death there are always new beginnings and new opportunities.

Things HAVE to END so that new cycles begin. Endings happen all the time. Things do not go on and on. An aspect or part of a situation always ends even though the totality of the situation remains the same.

It is like shutting the door on something once and for all. Many times we slam the door shut ourselves and many times other people slam the door in our face (ouch).

It is written by many that the Death card even in Tarot depicts transformation. I really doubt that when the original cards were created that fortune tellers said you were going to have a big transformation or change. That thought makes me laugh.
I think they just came out and said, someone was going to die and would have been quite dramatic about it- spooking the person out even more who was getting their cards done.
Picture yourself back in the 1800′s – getting a reading in a back alley, or in a gipsy wagon, or a parlor -there was lots of mystery around those who read cards. None of this psychological analysis which we incorporate now-a-days.

When you see the “Gipsy” Death Card be forewarned that CLOSURE has (past), is (present) and will (future) happen.
Keep in mind that the Death card is also a death.