Gypsy Oracle Cards Paperback – Import, January 1, 2007

These are beautiful cards and each card has a word that will direct you to the meaning. The book The Secrets of the Lemormand Oracle by Steinbach is excellent at teaching how to see the basic meaning of a card and its many interpretations. Without this book I would be lost. For the past three months I have been struggling to solve a problem, and the deck that has been amazing in its messages to me is the Mlle. Lenormand Cartomancy Deck, made in Austria by Piatnik, #194115. I purchased it on Amazon's Marketplace and it was shipped from Canada. This deck's messages have been clear in the 2 to 4 cards I draw freehand from the deck after shuffling while thinking about the situation. It does not muddy the waters by presenting cards I am unable to integrate into my reading.Because I have been immersed in finding my way through this personal problem, I have not seriously tried to use this version of the Gypsy Oracle Cards at this time, although I did try them and I liked them. But a book such as Steinbach's, written to relate to the Sibilla Della Zingara Oracle cards (Gypsy Oracle Cards) which are the subject of this review, would be a Godsend. The little white booklet enclosed with the cards cannot do the job for those of us who are inexperienced at this.

A must have Sibilla.

The font used for the deck is a small cursive font. If it was white like it is pictured in the separate book I bought to learn this deck, it would be readable. The font is colored in dark yellow on a black background. Who ever thought this was a good idea is a sadist. Worse, the whole deck has a sickly yellow pall over it, made worse by the black frames. If they thought it would give a look of being antique, they are wrong. The deck mimics badly printed Sunday comics pages. Many of the cards had a blotch of color that missed where the color should of been by quite a bit. I cannot believe that Lo Scarabeo allowed this to be printed in this way, let alone put their name on the deck. I do not think I can stand to use it, making the book I bought to go with it useless. I cannot comment on the book, finding no reason to learn a deck that hard to deal with on so points. Oh well, lesson learned. Never buy a deck based on a separate book's images, which are not anything like the mess of the current printing. The only good thing I can say about the deck is that it has good card stock.