Current Big Picture: State Of The World End Oct 2023

A Grand Tableau With The Piatnik Traditional Fortune Telling Cards

This week, as we’re coming up to November, to Samhain/Halloween and moving into winter and the end of the year, I wanted to do some “bigger picture” readings, just on general energies and events around at the moment and what the various oracle decks suggest are on the way.

So for today’s reading, I am using the Piatnik Traditional Zigeuner Fortune Telling Cards. This, as you may know, is from the same family of oracle cards as the Vera Sibilla/Gypsy Oracle Cards and the Kipper. Like Kipper, it has 36 cards, but you will doubtless recognise many of the images from both systems.

You can see a comparison between this deck and the Vera Sibilla, along with the meanings of the cards, here:

Today, we’re going to be reading the Traditional Fortune Telling cards in a Grand Tableau, or “The Big Picture” format. And I’ll broadly be using the same methods as detailed for the Kipper cards GT. Take a look at the start of the instructions for the Kipper GT here:

There’ll be a number of key differences,…