Magdalena in her blog introduces the reader to the Boarding Reading her Grandmother used in Poland. The steps are fairly simple. A: choose a significator card. B: shuffle and cut the cards into 3 piles. C: turn the piles over and read the first 3 cards D: place the deck back together and then lay the cards into 3 piles of 8 E: start at the choose significator and then count 3 cards in any […]
There was no question asked today. I wanted to create a story line with all four methods. One of the authors of a book on learning to read playing cards talks about making up a story. It can be as fanciful or realistic as you like. Once the story is created you go back and reread the story looking for key words or thoughts throughout the story that may reveal what the reading is truly […]
I felt the need to start with Stef Sanjati Scottish Grandmothers Spread that she showed on her YouTube channel. There are no designated positional meanings to the spread that she spoke of. To give it a title, I have called it the Stef Grandmother Spread In the picture posted of this spread you will see that I have placed the 7 of Hearts and the 7 of Diamonds on top of the two 9’s. The […]
The Face or Court cards: It is important in the Bulgarian and Romanian method to choose a significator based on hair and eye colouring. To keep things simple among the 4 different methods, I am going to break tradition and have one system to describe the hair and eye colouring of the Face Cards. Some notes: The Scottish method is the only card system out of these 3 that does not require a significator card […]
To avoid having to write the names of the countries as I give the meanings to the cards, I will shorten them to… B = (Bulgarian), P = (Polish), R = (Romanian), and S = (Scottish) The Spades: Ace of Spades: B: Upright: good news or message, a letter of good news Reversed: death P: your home R: Upright: marriage, family, relationships Reversed: instability or troubles in marriage, family, relationships S: death or serious illness […]
