I recently gave myself a long reading with the Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Cards. It was my first time using the cards, and I brought the reading to a close 3/4 of the way through the second square because it wasn't making sense. Cards contradicted other cards. For instance, no. 25 (Clouds) with the bright side toward the person indicates domestic happiness, but this was contradicted by no. 20 (Lilies), which forecasts family sorrow, because it is next to no. 25! Also, in the long reading, many cards make a general prediction of wealth or vexation for *everyone* who does the reading, since in the long reading all of the cards are laid out and *everyone* will get these cards. And finally, many of the cards, were simply redundant.
This was my first reading with these cards. Usually, I use the Rider-Waite tarot deck. I'm confused because the Rider-Waite gave me a very positive forecast (three card spread: King of Cups, Ten of Pentacles, The Chariot) when I asked whether I should give myself a reading using the Gypsy Witch cards.
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Hi
I'm abit late on the topic but anyway,
I had that problem also with them cards , in the booklet it says to start in the middle
square and work your around in circle reading each card and let it tell your story.
Mine made no sense neither but I still recorded the lay out in my Tarot note book.
And then about a year later I learned about Lenormand and the full board spread
which as I'm sure you know from the person card you go in straight lines up ,down
over , back and horizontal.
So I used that method and looked at Gypsy Witch fortune telling spread
that I had recorded in my note book and it was "Pine Chilling" , the cards
went through eight different subjects ,all the cards to the left were things that HAD
happened in the past , and the cards to the right were things that happened
after I had recorded the spread in my notes.
What got me is that the cards went through a spread and technique that
I wouldn't learn for another year,its like the cards new I would learn it
and come back to that spread ,a cryptic message .
The extra cards came in to their own, as if they had always been
used with the 32 card deck. I didn't use the writing on the cards.