L'Oracle de Belline

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This is translated information from the French Wikipedia entry. A link to the French language entry is below.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Belline

According Belline, these cards were drawn between 1845 and 1865 by Jules Charles Ernest Billaudot better known under the name Mage Edmond (1829-1881); these cards are a set of symbols for divination that mix blades Marseille tarot and the first set of Etteilla . Some authors [who?] , correspondence and meaning of the arcana are borrowed from the book of Paul Christian " The Red Man of the Tuileries "published in 1863.

Mage Edmond began his career at 30 rue Pierre Fontaine

Belline seeing the twentieth century who exercised from 1950 to 1980 and, since 1955, consulted the 45 of the same street, gave its name to the game he would have discovered.

According to him, a consultant who moved to retire in the country asked him to come and take her home documents that could be of interest. There it would be made and would have discovered the card games and a manuscript which at the time could have been dated more than a century and have belonged to one of the predecessors in places, the famous Mage Edmond Seeing the nineteenth century who in his time would have predicted among other literary success in Alexandre Dumas and exile Victor Hugo .

Mage Edmond created two divination games - one of 53 cards known as the Oracle Belline, published in 1961 by Grimaud . - A set of tarot copied the model of the Tarot de Marseille , 78 cards numbered from 0 (the Fool) to 77 (the Ten Pence). This game, published for the first time by Belline, under the name "The Great Tarot Belline" includes large cards and was republished by JP Simon, Paris.

Game composition

The Belline Oracle has 53 cardboard plastic cards. The method of interpretation and explanatory texts are Belline. Each card contains the symbolism of the 7 core planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), the oracle is divided into 7 groups of 7 cards, 49 cards plus 3 cards without global reference ('The Key' is destiny, 'The star of women' representing either the consultant or a close female, 'Man's star' representing either the consultant or a male presence) and that Card 'blue', not influenced by a planet and bearing no number (it is a beneficial card, a kind of talisman , protection). Some games have a card with the photo of the Mage Edmond.

The reference to the Mage Edmond is in the same game since the name of Edmond is written on four cards 'key' or 'destiny', 'Man's star', 'The star of women', and 'The Nativity', like its predecessor Etteilla whose name was also included in the version of Tarot cards .

Prints

Whatever the draw, the first step is to shuffle the cards and then to be cut by the consultant or by yourself (if one consults for himself), this cut preferentially taking place with the left hand (considered more "intuitive").

The classic draw practiced in other divination games and supposed to answer specific questions, drawing on the cross is the "four cards placed on the cross and placed in the center"

The first output card is placed to the left of the seer; it represents the affirmation; it advocates expresses the quality, guidance, assistance can be expected.

The second is positioned to the right; it represents the negation, it argues against and predicts which is unfavorable, what to avoid. It expresses the difficulties, dangers and troubles.

The third is placed before the soothsayer and far enough away from him; it forms the discussion: it is the judge. It shows the way forward.

The fourth is placed before the soothsayer and close enough; it is the solution: it is the sentence. This is the solution omen and the final result.

The fifth, finally, is placed in the middle of the other four which it brings synthesis; it sums up the essence of the subject of the consultation

Thus Maps 1 and 2 (horizontally) describe, while the cards 3 and 4 (vertically) predict.

In his pamphlet, Belline himself gives three other types of circulation: the "Belline method" (the consultant gives a number that corresponds to the card that is returned and placed on the table, and so on until it no more cards in the deck, then performing interpretation from right to left), the "first names of method" (the consultant chooses as many cards as there are letters in his name or in the the person who is interested) and the "method of the cosmic number" (choose 12 cards spread out in a line, return and interpret them from left to right).

Some authors give the meaning of the card combinations (see bibliography). But these seem from their personal practice. Belline himself says in the presentation booklet that "a priori there is no reading rule" regarding the reconciliation of multiple cards, the consultant to trust his intuition and experience.

References

The big book of the oracle Belline, Marie Delclos, Path Publishing , 1995. ISBN 2841970027
The oracle Belline in everyday life, unveiled the 2652 combinations, Colette Silvestre Path Publishing, 1998, ISBN 2841970876
The practice of Oracle Belline, Corinne Morel , Bussiere Publishing, 1999
The Oracle Belline, combinations and prints, the 52 board cards, all associations maps them Stéphanie Bellecourt, Ed. Exclusive 2003, ISBN 2848910011
The guestbook Oracle Belline, explanations maps for all areas of life, explained 12 drawing methods, Sylvie Lacombe, Ed. Exclusive 2004, ISBN 2848910178
The Oracle of Belline Claude Darche, Ed Dangles 2004
Complete course on the Urn of Fate and the Oracle Belline, Kuhner Christine Ed's Cauldron, 2012
The Oracle Belline: More than 2,600 associations maps, Stéphanie Bellecourt, Exclusive Ed, 2012, ISBN 9782848911229