Combining Vera Sibilla/Gypsy Oracle Cards

As a storytelling system, it helps to find ways to combine the cards into meanings. Here are my tips.

As you’ll have noticed, I tend not to read Sibilla cards on their own, although you can if you wish. But the real benefit of the system is that the cards can tell you an everyday story in answer to questions, and in order to get a good story you need combinations of characters and events and situation. All of which the Sibilla cards are particularly designed to tell you, and often in very direct ways, hence their continued popularity.

Now, I must make clear that if, when you saw the word “combine” your first thought was “Ooh, goody, can we have look up lists of suggested Sibilla card combinations like you do on your site for Lenormand?”, I’m sorry to say that the answer would be no. It really won’t help you become a fluent and fluid Sibilla reader, if that’s what you’d like to be, because you won’t get into the natural rhythm of the cards and their messages, and how they tend to work together.

At the same time, there ARE some basic tips and techniques you can use—not entirely dissimilar from that of the Lenormand or other oracles— which will help you start to mix and match cards for yourself into stories that answer any questions you might put to the cards.

Let’s begin.