Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten LOVE card.

The Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten (Ciganske Karte) is probably one of the more intriguing decks to read. Originally it was geared towards plain and simple fortune telling.  The meanings of the cards are more than just the pictorial representation.  They will mean different things to different people.  The common meanings for each card do not vary much. On occasion you will get a different insight or discover another meaning after the follow up process which I highly recommend.

LOVE

As with most Sibilla style decks there is a card to represent Romance and the emotional state of the person getting the reading.

What are the circumstances around your love life?

Cute Cupid is at centre stage shooting his bow and arrow.  The arrow could already be heading for the target.  Cupid is prepared with many more arrows if the first one doesn’t deliver the message.  The surrounding cards will tell you what kind of message it is.

Generally, the 8 red roses of passion show strength of emotion.

The 4 red hearts promise a concrete intent.

MOST POSITIVE COMBINATIONS

CONSTANCY, FIDELITY, MARRIAGE, FORTUNE

MOST NEGATIVE COMBINATIONS

ENEMY, MISFORTUNE, FALSENESS, THIEF, DEATH

Tip: When reading the LOVE card look to the card above and to the right of it to determine the strongest influence.  You can have as many as 8 cards to interpret when analyzing the LOVE card.  I find it is easier to read the horizontal and vertical cards when assessing LOVE.  Often I use the diagonal lines to thread past and future events which stem from the LOVE card. This technique will only work if you have enough cards in your layout to give you a block of cards surrounding the card which you want to know about.  It could be HOUSE or JOURNEY, etc.  Depending on what kind of mood I’m in I spot the theme immediately from only one adjoining card because it has a neon glow to it.  

Many times the card in question is in the outer rows and columns.  I don’t know how many times I have done a full board layout only to find the card in question as the very last card in the last column.  In this case I fold the cards & do not read on that day.

LOVE card

[Love, Amore, Ljubav, Liebe, Szerelem, Liefde, Amour, Amor]

The image in the Gipsy deck (on the left) shows cupid just firing off a bow. The image on the right (Art Deco) shows cupid contemplating whether to shoot the arrows of love or not. The couple in the background appears to be together for now. I think the LOVE card covers such a wide range of meanings that it could easily be misunderstood by the novice reader.

We are all not practical minded card practitioners. It depends on your Astrological make up & core personality. Me – I associate most experiences as an extension of love. You may not. You may see everything as an extension of financial worth. Different strokes for different folks, as they say.

In both decks, cupid is naked… with the private areas concealed. This suggests the love is not totally of pure state, aspects of it are still hidden or to be discovered. The indication is the beginning stages of emotional hooking.

Traditionally, these cards represent the emotional and sentimental arena of life. Yes, it denotes the emotion of love. The love of someone or something. It rules feelings. In order to truly love, you must allow yourself to feel and experience the energy. It is believed by many that “hatred” is the opposite of “love”. This in fact is not true. If you feel hate, you are still experiencing an emotion and it is an aspect of the love. To be indifferent- lack of emotional reaction is to experience the opposite of love.

The cards surrounding the LOVE card will describe a situation or person that extracts the emotion of love. In actuality, love is a state of mind. It all starts there and certain hormones are released throughout the body to cause changes within which put you in an altered state- as in being on cloud 9. The degrees of Love vary. From passionate, chemically induced love to a calm knowing that you care about someone or something.

When a reading is done with the intention of knowing more about a relationship, the LOVE card will provide you with the information whether there will be a successful long term bond, or whether the person in question reciprocates the feeling.

In business questions, the LOVE card can suggest securing a position you are highly fond of or had you heart set on.

In money questions, this card will reveal your level of happiness associated with financial progress. It can hint at greed or an unhealthy approach to the Almighty dollar.

A few combinations