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Gypsy Fortune Telling Tarot Deck

Raymond Buckland comes from a Romani (gypsy) family. This deck is the one that was used by his grandmother. Like a tarot deck, it has a major arcana (Boro Lil) and a minor arcana (Tarno Lil). The Boro Lil shows pictures from the Romani way of life. For example, several cards show the gypsy vardo, or wheeled house, under various conditions that suggest different interpretations. The Tarno Lil court cards show Romani portraits, and the numbered suit cards are those of a standard playing card deck. The instruction booklet offers some explanations of the Romani objects and scenes as well as brief card meanings and ten card layouts. The deck/book set comes with Buckland's book Gypsy Fortune Telling and Tarot Reading which covers a variety of different gypsy divination methods. Buckland is also the creator of the Romani Tarot, a more traditional deck with a gypsy theme.

Number of Cards Size Copyright Order Code Deck Price Deck/Book
Boxed Set
Price
78 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" 1998 1-56718-093-0 $12.95 (US) $19.95 (US)
How to Order

[picture of back design]

Back Design: See right

Language of Card Titles: no titles

Style of Suit Cards (2-10): playing card format

Also Included: instruction booklet

Boro Lil (as major arcana):
Approaching Vardo, Passing Vardo, Departing Vardo, Flat-Cart, Harness,
Neglected Vardo, Burning Vardo, Making Clothespins, Labor, Pulling,
Double-Horse Team, Money, Poaching, Single Horse, Old Man and Girl,
Bender, Kettle, Encampment, Dancers, Fortune Telling, Wise Woman, Significator

Suit Names: Clubs, Hearts, Spades, Diamonds

Court Cards: King, Queen, Knight, Page

SAMPLE CARD IMAGES:

[picture of Making Clothespins] [picture of 9 of Hearts] [picture of Queen of Clubs]

DECKS

Text based on the instruction booklet and Llewellyn Trade Catalog 2000.

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Created 6-4-95 by One Spirit Ministries aka God's Church , Rev. H. Heinz © Copyright , All Rights Reserved, December 26, 1995 by God's Church. Last updated 06/15/2006. We are an IRS approved 501(c)(3) church. We are also affiliated with the World Federation of Practical Christianity (aka World Federation of Independent Unity Churches), Association of Inner and Interfaith Ministries, and friends with Association of Unity Churches, and other New Thought and Religious Science Churches, and other Metaphysics Ministries.