🃏 Learn the Oracle de Gé: a complete introduction and interpretation of the 61 cards ✨

Ever since humankind carved out a place within the society it created for itself, it has doubted its future and longed for clear answers to its questions. This is why the practices of fortune-telling have always drawn crowds, and have done so since antiquity.

Today, the situation has not changed all that much, even though fortune-telling has broadened a little further. In tarot reading, for example, an uncommon new tarot deck emerged in the 1990s that works with great effectiveness, even though its imagery is simpler and more contemporary, in tune with the 21st century: this is the Oracle de Gé.

It was therefore at the very end of the 20^th century that its creator devised the Oracle de Gé, to adapt the divinatory readings performed with the cards of a tarot deck to our modern era. He is Gérard Barbier, a famous psychic who has practised the divinatory art of foretelling a querent’s future through the interpretation of the cards ever since his teenage years.

It was his drawing teacher at university who introduced him to the esoteric world of fortune-telling and taught him the basics of cartomancy. He devoted his entire life to it and, as someone genuinely passionate about the cards and their many symbolic meanings, he went on to write several books on the subject.

This practice of fortune-telling, which he has carried out as a professional since the age of 21, he reveres, and he respects its origins and its past; but in the late 1980s, he increasingly thought about creating his own oracle, one that would be closer to everyone’s daily life at the close of the century.

So he set to work and, thanks to his artistic talents as an illustrator as well as his extensive knowledge of tarot reading, he brought to market a new tarot deck, the Oracle de Gé. Moving somewhat away from the famous Tarot of Marseille and its overly kabbalistic arcana, which he found a little outdated, he conceived a new kind of oracle.

While this latter still draws inspiration from the Oracle de Belline, created by Mlle Lenormand and the mage Edmond, it also moves away from it by making very little use of horoscopes and astrology. It is therefore a very modern oracle, but above all a very accessible one, being almost childishly simple.

Gérard Barbier very quickly achieved great success with his Oracle de Gé and published many other works to reveal all its secrets. More recently, he created a new oracle of universal scope named Le Manuscrit.

This new tarot card deck marketed under the name the Oracle de Gé is therefore just as effective as its forebears at foretelling the future of the person concerned. It is made up of 61 cards, each with its own distinctive imagery, but which are more rational and far less esoteric and ambiguous about human nature than in the past.

These 61 cards are influenced by the 4 seasons: autumn, winter, spring and summer.

That is to say, they place us within cycles of three-month periods during a divinatory reading, which helps to guide us more accurately.

All these cards depict people, insects, animals, flowers and other objects or symbolic figures relating to our era, and they can map out the course of a life. Depending on the position and orientation of each of the cards, we obtain a great deal of information about the age, the sex and the hair colour, for example, of the querent concerned by the reading.

Some of these cards have a double meaning, but it cannot be seen with the naked eye, since nothing indicates whether they are upright or reversed when they are drawn.

Only the seasoned tarot reader will be able to discern their true functions and meanings during their interpretation. The Oracle de Gé has this further peculiarity that it can indicate, within the content of certain cards, upcoming health problems that are clear and precise; but it is for the tarot reader to know whether they should truly be interpreted as such for the querent, depending on the latter’s sensitivity and personality.

While this new oracle is often recommended to people wishing to get started with divinatory readings, it is nonetheless very powerful and effective, which is why it should be handled with the utmost tact and seriousness.

In any case, and as with all tarot decks, it is an oracle based on intuition that fosters personal growth by drawing on the querent’s past. It thus reminds us that all the events to come in our destinies are necessarily an outcome of our past actions.

As with any good tarot, such as that of Marseille, the Oracle de Belline or the Egyptian tarot, you can perform fortune-telling readings free online on sites dedicated to the Oracle de Gé. While they are just as effective as a consultation in person, it is your personal situation that will lead you to choose between the two options. The Oracle de Gé cards each have their own meaning.

For example, the cards of the elderly woman or the young girl tell you that you know one such person in your circle and that you must take great care of her.

The card of the broken flute tells you that you are in need of rest.

And the ones with sexual symbols that you are seeking a new romantic partner.

But there are 57 others, and you will need to truly know their senses and meanings before embarking on a divinatory reading.

The first-name reading

This is an exemplary first reading for getting familiar with all the cards contained in the Oracle de Gé. While it does not predict upcoming events in your querent’s life, it will nonetheless be able to analyse in detail the main features of their personality.

You will need to have them draw as many cards as their first name has letters. Each of these cards will bring you a wealth of information about who they really are, what they are seeking and what they would wish to obtain. It is a simple reading and one of the most perfect for moving up to the next level.

The yes-no reading

First of all, your querent will need to have a relevant question to ask you.

They will then need to draw 7 cards from the deck you will have shuffled beforehand.

These 7 cards will be laid out in front of you, in a straight line and face down. Then you will turn them over one after another and read them. They will each have a positive or negative meaning, and if you have a majority of positive ones, the answer to the question asked will be yes.

In the opposite case, the answer will necessarily be negative.

But it can happen that you land on a majority of neutral cards, such as the bird card or the one of the numbers. You will then need to ask your querent to rephrase their question and repeat this same operation.

Full Oracle Gé reading

It is this reading that will allow you to give predictions about the future to your querent. This is done through the interpretation of the cards they will draw. You must start with what is known as the method of six.

That is to say, there are six corresponding cards for a very specific subject, which affects us all in our destinies. Thus, the tools card represents work.

The card of the 2 hearts embodies love. The card of the home speaks to us of family. The card of money is synonymous with our finances. The card of the papers represents exams and future contracts to come. Lastly, the card of justice speaks for itself. 

Your querent will therefore need to choose a theme that they would like to see developed into a prediction, and to draw one of these 6 cards. This card will be placed at the centre of your table, then you will have them draw 6 more cards from the deck, always face down.

• The first will be placed to the left of the centre card and will signify the current situation, at the present moment.

• The second will be placed to its right and will embody future situations.

• The third will go above the middle one, and will speak to us of all that is favourable or not.

• As for the fourth, fifth and sixth cards, they will be placed below the master card and will be the final synthesis of this reading during their interpretation.

The reading of these cards will of course take into account their meanings and various symbolic aspects, but also their positions within the spread.

Their associations with one another can also influence their interpretations; they are numerous and will perhaps be less easy to grasp during your learning. No matter – the practice of divination through cards calls for a great deal of rigour and intuition. Above all, you must not try to rush the pace, for you might set aside subtleties of great importance during a reading. It takes a great deal of time and work, but you will soon be rewarded for it.