Description

A beautifully reimagined nineteenth-century fortune-telling system, with original artwork throughout by renowned tarot artist Alexander Daniloff. Divine Gypsy Mother draws on the divinatory legacy popularly known as “gypsy cards” — a tradition rooted in Romani divining practice — and updates it with clarified symbolism and modern scholarship, while staying faithful to the spirit of hand-painted nineteenth-century originals.

Where the original cards were traditionally sold without instructions — diviners relying on title and image alone — Balthazar Blacke provides the missing key: detailed meanings for every card, their timing elements, astrological attributions, and practical lessons, drawing on his own decade-plus of client work. The book builds methodically from quick two-card readings through Cross and Grand Cross spreads to the full thirty-six-card Grand Tableau, and culminates in Blacke’s own innovation — the Astrological Tableau, incorporating the twelve houses and thirty-six decans for readers with an existing astrological practice. Genuinely practical rather than purely esoteric, this is a deck built to answer questions clearly, accurately, and with real nuance.

This edition comprises the 272-page hardback (8vo, colour images and diagrams throughout), bound in fine orchid purple cloth with an Eye of Providence onlay and gold-and-black blocking to front and spine, together with the full 39-card deck on premium 350gsm stock — including variant Lover and Beloved designs and a colophon card — presented in a custom box.