Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten – 12 card Trigger Layout

Dear Friends: Thank you for all your kind well wishes for my granddaughter Katja. All is Good.

In todays’ post I will be using one of my favourite decks in the Trigger Layout. The Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten or Gipsy fortune-telling cards. Sometimes you just don’t want to do a full board Reading. It does get overwhelming trying to interpret all 36 cards. This is exactly why I designed this simple layout.

You have an option as far as time frames with this layout. Prior to shuffling decide what time frame you want to use in Columns 3 & 4. Remove the Sweetheart (if female) or the Lover (if male) from the deck.  Lay the cards according to the image below:

I always scan the Trigger row (middle) first to get a feel of the situation. I don’t talk about this row right away. I usually start at Column 1 – Past

Note: You don’t have to use the Sweetheart or the Lover cards. You can pick any card out of the deck which you think represents your situation. Also, you can decide not to pick any card at all and that’s ok, too. The cards will tell you what it is you need to know at the time of shuffle.

Isn't the fortune-telling mouse cute?

TRIGGER row – 5, YOU, 6, 7. LOSS. SWEETHEART. DESIRE. FALSENESS

This row is the essence of the reading, the rest of the cards will describe or explain to you what surrounds the essence or core theme. When you read these cards you will get a good glimpse at the entire layout.  The remaining cards are the details surrounding the TRIGGER cards.

LOSS. SWEETHEART. DESIRE. FALSENESS.

Let’s keep the interpretations real simple. A female who in the recent past experienced some sort of shortcoming in a situation or an actual loss is yearning for things which may not be in her best interest. These 4 cards are powerful. We need to find out what lead up to them and what followed them. That’s just one way to Read these cards.

To be continued in the next post Part 2

Widower + Widow

Widow

Widower

These 2 Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten cards are similar in meaning. Obviously the Widower represents a male and the Widow a female.  How would you read these cards if they are side by side in a layout?  There are a variety of combinations.

Actually they can suggest a couple. Both people may have lost partners either through divorce or death and they have joined for companionship in their latter years.  The couple can be younger as well with a similar history.

In the images the people are facing each other which means there is an amicable connection if we just study these 2 cards as if they were a 2 card draw.  A situation could have brought these two people together which was a tragedy or unpleasant experience.

They may actually be both attending the same funeral and are saddened by the loss of a friend/ loved one.

Let’s suppose you were thinking of love or romance when you drew these cards.  The suggestion is that you and the person you are thinking about have been estranged and neither of you is very happy about it.  There is hope that you will speak to each other again. You have a common interest which will bring you back together.

If you were thinking about a change of job these two cards would indicate a slow process. The timing could be off and maybe your reasons for wanting this change is rooted in a personal unhappiness rather than with the job.  These two cards can suggest being interviewed by a man and woman who have no sense of humour.  It’s strictly business with no room for expressing any human emotion.

The Widower and Widow are loyal people.  They are both a lot stronger than they appear.

Widower

widower

Zigeuner, Biedermeir, Art Deco, Sibilla type cards. The Widower does mean much the same as his companion card the Widow. Both cards indicate the state of profound sadness.

The deep grief you feel when you lose someone you love, leave long time employment reluctantly or part with a house that meant a lot to you. When a special pet dies or a child leaves home, it leaves an emptiness in ones heart. Or having some medical procedure that changes how you feel and changes your body.

There are many things in life that add up to a compounded grief. Sometimes it’s one loss after another. In this society people are not allowed to grieve. You cannot just snap your fingers and get over it. How does 3 days off work help you to deal with the pain you feel in your heart? By keeping so busy that you ignore or bury your emotions- how does that help you to go through your feelings and to get out on the other side, healed or at least recovering.

The suffering of the Widower is akin to the Widow. The male and female version of grief. Men grieve differently or so I was told when I went for grief counseling during a traumatic period in my life not too long ago. Men tend to move on faster. Is it the way of the jungle? In general, women cling on to the emotions connected to the memories of the person.

I do believe that angels change places with you just when you can’t take anymore or when the heaviness of your cross is cracking every bone in your back.

The Widower can provide the wings of an angel to those he meets. He knows what it means to feel loss. He will never come up with an excuse that he can’t go somewhere -he just goes. Sure his heart might not be in it but he has an understanding much deeper than the Widow card. There is strength in the Widower card, courage and a silence that men know who have come out of combat. You accept it and don’t psycho-analyze the sh*t out of it.

The Widower is a dutiful friend. He will not ask for your help. He helps himself by helping you.