Russian Gypsy Card and I-ching Card Reading    

  Contrary to popular belief, Destiny is not carved on card papers.

  Card itself is a only tool, not the answer to your destiny.  Thus, you can   choose  any sort of cards you are familiar with. The key is,  as you  read   through the meaning shown in the card (象; Phase), your heart and

  sprit naturally come to realize what it means for yourself. Good to  Great!

One of the most beautiful and myterious card in the world

Gorgeous experience different from Taro

The Russian lacquer box art used for the cards is gorgeous.

An amazing pack that is so different to the tarot but so easy to use. It can challenge your alertness and awareness so that you don't miss out on extra messages.

This oracle deck has 25 cards and they are the most unique cards I have ever seen. This deck is breathtakingly beautiful. The cards are square and each is quartered on the diagonals. Within each resultant triangle there is one half of a square illustration. When I initially saw these cards, they reminded me of quilt blocks. The colors are vibrant and the illustrations are very detailed (viewing them as scanned images doesn't do them justice). The one flaw I would have to say this deck has is that the card stock seems very thin and this may limit the useful life of the deck.

Although there are only 25 cards, there are a total of 50 illustrations depicted in the quarters of the cards. The backs of the cards are black with a gold design. The cards are intended to be used in four different positions so reversals are used with this deck. I will explain more about this later in this review. What makes this deck particularly unique is the fact that the cards are separate from the pictures - a reader doesn't work with the "cards" other than to lay them out - they work with the pictures created by combining the cards together through rotation of the card in its place. This makes for an interesting abstract-like detachment between the cards and the pictures. The illustrations remind me of the smaller, 36-card Titania or Mystical Lenormands. They are not like Tarot in any way, but as a Tarot reader, I have found the illustrations to be deep in meaning and easy to interpret despite their relative simplicity.

Each meaning is relative to the direction the picture is facing during a reading. Along with the meanings of the pictures for each position, the general meaning of the illustration is given. A "period of influence" for the illustration is also included so putting a reading within a time context is possible. The third section is devoted to sample readings. I think it would be interesting to experiment with different ways to read the cards, such as a one card pull or card of the day, which would consist of pulling one of the cards and using the four partial pictures to form a reading.

The more I work with this deck, the more fascinated I am by it. The pictures are different, the technique is different, even the type of reading is different. I really felt like I was fortune telling (and working a fun puzzle!) when using this deck. The pictures lend themselves to interpretation easily, so readers can choose not to use the book if they wish. I would definitely recommend this deck to anyone who loves unique and stunningly colorful artwork, gypsy fortune telling history, or just want to try their skills with something that is very different from Tarot.

Oriental I-Ching Card is another mirror for your answer

The I Ching (Classic of Changes or Book of Changes), also known as t

he Yi Jing, Yijing, or I Ging, is one of the Five Classics, the fundamental books of Confucianism.

It is over 3000 years old (the symbols used in divination are over 5000 years old), making it both

one of the oldest surviving books in the world, and one of the oldest forms of divination.

It is by far the most popular spiritual resource and oracle in Asia, and has a growing following

in Europe and the Americas based on its uncanny ability to provide detailed insights to those

who study it carefully

Reading the I Ching involves casting coins or yarrow stalks to build a series of 6 lines called

a "hexagram". Each line is either Yin (the passive or feminine force) or Yang (the active or

masculine force). The resulting hexagram is then looked up in the I Ching itself, to yield a passage

describing what each of the 6 lines means. There are 64 possible hexagrams, each of which can

be further broken down into groups of 3 lines called "trigrams". One of the most fascinating aspects

of I Ching readings is that each line in the present hexagram may be old, indicating that it is about to change from Yin to Yang or vice versa - by inverting each of these changing lines, we can generate a hexagram depicting the immediate future.