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Wikipedia defines Cartomancy as, “fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards.”

Many people use a standard deck of 78 Tarot Cards, a deck of playing cards, or any set of oracle cards that often have esoteric images with or without predisposed definitions that are interpreted by the one reading the cards.

Spanish Cards, or as Wikipedia defines them, “The Baraja (literally deck/pack of cards) is a deck of playing cards associated with Spain. It is usually called Baraja Española (literally Spanish Deck). It has four suits and is usually made up of 40 cards.”

Anyone who has been in a border town between the US and Mexico knows, has known or knows someone who knows someone that can read such cards.

There are many methods of reading these cards, styles varying from person to person. After all, anyone who has read them long enough has hopefully developed and evolved their style to the point where it isn’t often recognizable. Not only must the reader be knowledgeable in the definitions of each individual card, but of their meaning in combination with other cards surrounding it, depending on the spread being used. A spread or “tirada” is a specific layout of cards used to guide the reader in the insight given by the cards themselves.

So what qualifies me to tell you how to read cards? To begin with, my grandmother read la baraja consistently for over 40 years to many people. With her gift, she was able to develop her intuition to the point of providing her clients detailed information such as names of people, dates, locations, etc. … information that is not clearly visible on just a pack of playing cards, but that comes with years of practice.

Spanish Playing Cards Rules

I have developed my own method of reading with these cards, those meanings are the ones that I will be withholding for myself. The definitions originally ascribed by my grandmother will be the ones that I provide for you the reader. I hope that these may be useful to those who wish to learn the art of cartomancy.

The Cartomancy exists as a divination science, formerly was associated with symbols that had to do with war but later have been associated with known symbols are clubs, coins, cups and swords. Formerly it was clovers, tiles (diamond), pikes (spades) and hearts. Clovers had to do with the clubs, tiles with coins, pikes with cups and hearts with pikes. Later it was found the equivalence with the Spanish Playing Cards, clovers corresponds to clubs, hearts corresponds to cups, pikes corresponds to swords, and tiles corresponds to the coins.

Spanish Tarot, basic spread:

The Spanish Playing Cards

In basic spread three piles are used, for what you want to know on the top, for me in the middle, and the house on the bottom. Throw to the left is the traditional method, always as the cards are displayed.

Meaning of Spanish Cards:

Golds stick trade, money, passion, interest, resentment.

Swords basically mean justice, also betrayal, pain, jealousy, power.

Cups basically means debauchery, joy, happiness, friendship, love.

The Clubs basically means peace, vigor, agriculture, hardness, strength, will and sensuality.

The Spanish Tarot and the Spanish Playing Cards interpretation is not reduced to 'card by card', but rather, a combination of several card, thus makes interpretations become an art, of good intuition and knowledge.

Spanish Playing Cards Meaning

Spanish Playing Card free spread online, it is an excellent tool to introduce us in the Tarot practice with Spanish Playing Cards, which is one of the most popular for interested and Spanish-speaking scholars, and for all Westerners in general.

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