✳ Oracolotto

A deck of twenty oracle cards, based off the traditional major arcana minus the emperor. The original archetypes are associated with numbers from the Neapolitan Smorfia, a book for dream interpretation which allows you to associate dreams to number in order to play the lottery.

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	o.g. major arcana	english oracolotto		neapolitan oracolotto	symbols
0	the fool	the cofffee	42	'o ccafè	A cliff-edge or precipice (leaving safety behind) Sunshine (positivity, action, embracing life) A dog or animal helper (because you are not alone, you are supported) A small bag (travelling light, taking only what you need) A wand, held lightly (you have access to magic, even if you don’t know how to wield it yet) Flowers (purity, beauty, lightness of spirit)
1	the magician	the two old unmarried women	66	'e ddoje zetelle	Four suits or four elements (access to resources) Magic wand (channelling ‘magic’ energy from the Universe) Pointing to the ground (making something tangible, earthing your energy) Lemniscate / infinity sign (transcendence) Flowers (growth, visible manifestation of life force) Yellow and red colours (passion, life, energy)
2	the high priestess	the bride	63	'a sposa	The moon (intuition) Water, especially still water (emotion) A veil (a division between worlds, or layers of consciousness) Scripture or text (wisdom, learning) A temple (a place of spiritual devotion) Blue and purple colours (serenity, spirituality, peace)
3	the empress	the mother	52	'a mamma	Plants growing (fecundity, growth) Crops (abundance, richness) Venus symbols (love, sexuality, pleasure) A crown (power, being in charge) Pregnancy (fertlity and birth) A river (feelings in motion, flow)
4	the hierophant	the church	84	'a chiesa	Key (initiation, unlocking secret wisdom) Pope-like figure (a conduit between worlds, a translator) A teacher (passing on of wisdom)
5	the lovers	the upside down	69	sott'e 'ncoppa	Roses (love!) Angel (transcendence, choosing a ‘higher path’) Any two or more parts creating a whole representing a sense of completion
6	the chariot	the bird	35	l’aucelluzzo	Armour (doing battle) Black and white creatures pulling the chariot (focusing opposing energies) Riding without reins (driving forwards by sheer force of will) The chariot itself (movement) Crescent moons
7	strenght	the breasts	28	'e zzizze	Lemniscate / infinity sign (transcendence, magical powers, tapping into something higher) Lion (the ‘wild beast’ within us, anger, lust, etc) A woman taming a lion (love and gentleness overcoming that wild beast) White clothing (peace, innocence) Flowers (love, care, beauty)
8	the hermit	the crying	65	'o chianto	A lamp (inner wisdom guiding you) A staff (leaning on knowledge and wisdom) Mountaintops or isolated places in nature (solitude) Hooded cloak (devotion to study)
9	the wheel of fortune	the set table	82	'a tavula 'mbandita	In traditional decks, this card bears a whole heap of mythical symbols, representing the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, and the four ‘fixed’ signs of the zodiac (and thus the entire zodiac). For an exploration of these, I recommend Rachel Pollack’s Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom. The most important symbol here is of course a wheel – or other rotary symbol – representing the ever-turning nature of life.
10	justice	the lament	60	'o lamiento	Scales (balance, fairness) Sword (rational thought, cutting through confusion) Symmetry (logic, structure) Thrones, crowns, robes (power and status)
11	the hanged man	purgatory's souls	85	ll'aneme 'o priatorio	Hanging upside down (independent perspectives, your own truth) Halo or other magical symbols (transcendence, enlightenment, inner peace)
12	death	the speaking dead	48	'o muorto che pparla	Skeletons (death) Shedding skin (change) The grim reaper (change is inevitable, and is coming) Sunrise (rebirth, a new day) Flowers (renewal)
13	temperance	the warm soup	68	'a zuppa cotta	Non-gendered angel (transcending the duality of gender) One foot in the water (testing the water, blending elements of earth and water) Water – being poured and in the landscape (intuition, feeling) Sunrise (a new day, a new start) Two cups (love) Flowers (natural renewal)
14	the devil	the little devils	77	'e riavulille	Chains (bondage) Nakedness (vulnerability, poverty of spirit) Hellish imagery (a spiritual prison) A devil or demon (inner demons) A key (freedom) Upside-down pentagram (materialism)
15	the tower	the stormy weather	83	'o maltiempo	Lightening (a sudden shock, disaster, destruction) A tower (the old establishment, the old way) Falling people (fallout, harsh consequences)
16	the star	christmas	25	natale	The water bearer (Aquarius) Nakedness (being vulnerable, but feeling safe) Pouring water (soothing emotion) Stars (guiding lights) Cups (containers of emotion)
17	the moon	blood	18	'o ssanghe	Howling dog and/or wolf (your wild nature) Crab or lobster (messages from the subconscious rising to the surface) Sea, water (intuition, emotion) Mountains in the distance (a journey) The moon (intuition, hidden realms, inner wisdom) A mask (deception, obscuring the truth)
18	the sun	laughter	19	'a resata	Warm, yellow rays of sunshine (life force, energy) Sunflowers (growth and renewal) A naked child or person (simplicity)
19	judgement	the gossiping woman	43	onna pereta fore 'o barcone	Horn (hearing a call) Angel (transcendence, call coming from ‘above’) People, birds or other things ‘rising up’ (the soul transcending, lightness)
20	the world	the good wine	45	'o vino bbuono	A dancer (pure self-expression) Flags (movement and joy) Wands (magic) Circles (wholeness, completion, cycles)

✳ 42. the coffee

• A blank canvas, unformed potential
• A fresh start
• Taking a risk
• Not caring what the world thinks
• Surrender
• Answering a ‘call’
• Trusting in the universe
• Overcoming self-doubt
• Embracing uncertainty
• Defying social norms

The number 42 in the Neapolitan Smorfia is represented by coffee. Coffee is a drink that is obtained by grinding the seeds of some species of small tropical trees belonging to the genus Coffea. The Arabic word qahwa (قهوة), originally, identified a drink produced from the juice extracted from some seeds that was consumed as a dark red liquid, which, drunk, caused exciting and stimulating effects, so much so that it was also used as a medicine. Today this word indicates, in Arabic, precisely coffee. From the term qahwa it passed to the Turkish word kahve through a progressive narrowing of meaning, a word reported in Italian with coffee. This derivation is disputed by those who claim that the term coffee derives from the name of the region where this plant was most widespread in the wild, Caffa, in south-western Ethiopia. A legend has as its protagonist the prophet Muhammad who, feeling sick, one day had a vision of the Archangel Gabriel who offered him a black potion (like the Holy Stone of Mecca) created by Allah, which allowed him to recover and return in strength. Dreaming of coffee can have many meanings, feeling even just the scent represents the search for something from which to draw the mental energy necessary to carry out a project, but also realizing that you feel an attraction for a person or have a good chance of increasing the finances available.

Therefore, when the dreamer dreams of coffee it means that he needs to stimulate his own strength, or that he must try to make his choices with greater lucidity and attention.

Sipping coffee alone or in company in the dream could allude to one's intimacy, to an attraction or to something from which the dreamer can take pleasure.

The coffee number is 42 but it can change depending on the type, for example, bitter coffee is 27, hot 2 and correct 19.

Depending on the symbol that we will see, we can have a positive or negative meaning: for example, a bee can mean success or news on the way, on the contrary, the shepherd can mean that we will have to watch our health.

Indeed, for many, coffee is a daily element and is not perceived as something special.

If you are in this situation, the number 42 must be "your" number only in cases where some element has detached from the daily routine that binds you to the coffee itself.

References to the number 42 are also present in the Bible.

42 were the generations born and raised between Abraham and Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew;

42 were the months during which the Gentiles trampled the holy city underfoot;

and again, 42 months also lasted the famine of Elijah and the odes of Solomon.

In general the number 42 appears in the Bible 8 times. If instead 42 appears as an angelic number, it has an absolutely positive meaning.

In fact, the number wants to represent the confidence that your angel invites you to have, the positive and optimistic approach that you must have to face life, aware of the fact that everything will go your way.

At this point you should have all the information you need to understand whether or not 42 is the number to bet on and to take into consideration.

✳ 66. the two old unmarried women

• Setting intentions / being intentional / declaring your intent
• Directing energy consciously
• Willpower
• Being dynamic
• Putting thoughts into action
• Making something tangible
• Getting started
• Having all the resources you need
• Being powerful
• Leadership
• Success

The number 66 in the Neapolitan grimace is represented by the spinsters. The spinster is a single woman of advanced age; mostly with an idea of withered femininity and a bitchy mood. This term was used in the past, but today the much more politically correct term single is used.

In the past, not finding a husband and therefore becoming a spinster was a real calamity. For some, not getting married was due to particular causes such as raising a brother or looking after a sick parent, while for others it was their own will or the fact of not finding the right man.

In current usage the term spinster refers only, and mostly in a joking or derogatory tone, to unmarried women a little advanced in years.

Let's see what it means to dream 'e ddoie zetelle. Dreaming of a spinster can have multiple meanings and consequently gives rise to different interpretations.

Dreaming of being a spinster represents one of the greatest fears for women, in fact, the atavistic sense of shame arising from the social conventions of the past remains and, if she is not accompanied by a man in real life, it is very probable that seeing herself in the shoes of a spinster fears a life of emotional solitude.

If the dreamer sees herself as a spinster but on the altar, then this negative vision will soon be denied and the course of daily existence will undergo a sudden, usually positive turn.

As we know, the spinsters in the Neapolitan grimace are represented by the number 66, but if, in a dream, they appear naked, the corresponding number will be 7.

Old maids and old age make 50, in church 1 and if they are knitting we have 10.

In the tarot

In cartomancy we don't find any card that can be associated with the figure of a spinster. The number 66 is associated with the figure of a spinster.

She is a woman who according to popular tradition is advanced in years but has no husband.

Rude attitudes are often associated with this woman. To be more precise, the double number 66 does not indicate one, but 2 spinsters.

At this point it is legitimate to ask where this association was born and how it was fueled.

In general 6 is considered the number of woman, of femininity and also of female sexual pleasure.

However, the association of 2 digits 6 distorts this meaning and indicates two women who, having not found a husband, appear bitter and grumpy, even from a sexual point of view.

The acidity of these women would be connected to the fact that, having never been loved, these women are vicious, also because they have not been able to experience the joy of motherhood.

In a broad sense, 66 can be used to indicate two women intent on talking or gossiping.

At this point we understand in which cases it is possible to bet on the number 66.

It is certainly the right number to rely on if a couple of spinsters appears in our dreams, but it is also the number to rely on if you dream that someone judges our behavior or our relationship in an acid and bad way.

Other interpretations of the number 66

The grimace is not the only one that can help us read and interpret the number 66.

According to a symbolic approach, for example, the number 66 indicates an important diminution of the divine plan, closely connected to the fact that man often tends to rely exclusively on intelligence and reason, neglecting or betraying the religious or spiritual inclinations that could somehow give different nuances to one's life, thoughts and actions.

Then there are a series of situations that refer to this issue in a more or less intentional way.

On Easter Island, for example, there are 600 giant stone states, which measure 66 feet each (66 feet correspond to about 20 meters). Sixty-six were also the years that Hezekiah had when she, in the company of Ptolemy, had left Egypt.

On the purely numerological front, however, it may be interesting to note how by adding the numbers from 1 to 66, the number 2,211 is obtained, a divine number which, according to some esoteric texts, would represent the image of God in the temple.

There are also 66 geostationary satellite orbits that allow you to identify any point on the surface of our planet.

66 can also be an angelic number. It frequently occurs in situations of tiredness, whether physical or mental.

Through this number, our angel wants to invite us to recover our strength by leaving aside unnecessary worries and dedicating more time to spirituality.

In this way, in fact, you have the opportunity to get back in touch with your essence and to better perceive the message that our angel wants to leave us.

✳ 63. the bride

• The answer is within you
• Listening to / trusting your intuition and feelings
• Looking beneath the surface / exploring your subconscious
• Getting therapy or accessing self-help resources
• Exploring or studying spirituality
• Taking a non-rational approach
• Knowing something you can’t explain
• Stillness, quiet, passivity, meditation
• A witch, shaman, psychic, or ‘wise woman’ figure
• Lunar cycles
• Spellwork and ritual
• Mystery

✳ 52. the mother

• Self-love and love for/from others
• Creativity and self-expression in all forms
• Abundance, richness
• Nature, cycles, feeling in tune with the seasons and the natural world
• Being in the flow
• Sexuality, sensuality, enjoying your physicality
• Fertility
• Life force
• A maternal figure in your life

✳ 84. the church

• Ancestry
• Connecting to your past
• Honouring your ancestors
• Family history research (where family can be genetic or chosen)
• Talking with elders
• Initiation into a religious or spiritual community or path
• A new start, spiritually
• Spiritual wisdom or teachings
• Religious or spiritual study
• Becoming a teacher or mentor
• Reaching a milestone in any kind of study

✳ 69. the upside down

• Love (of all kinds)
• Making heart-centred choices
• Doing the right thing
• Compassion
• Partnerships and relationships
• Self-love
• Being your ‘best self’

✳ 35. the bird

• Focus
• Focused action
• Self-belief and confidence
• Commitment, drive and determination
• Getting super-clear about your goals
• Fighting for what you believe in
• Activism
• Overcoming obstacles
• Hard, passionate work
• Courage

✳ 28. the breasts

• Inner strength and courage
• Loving activism, fighting fear and hate with compassion
• Dignified resistance
• Emotional labour (and its value)
• Forgiveness
• Love in the face of anger or fear
• Checking in with your emotions and overriding those that will burn you out
• Accepting and loving the ‘shadow self’
• Self-love
• Making positive, compassionate choices

✳ 65. the crying

• Solitide, retreat
• Peace and quiet
• Giving your mind space
• Working things through on your own
• Claiming space and time for you
• Mentoring / teaching
• Finding a mentor / teacher
• Self-guided or guided study

✳ 82. the set table

• Change is happening
• A change in luck, especially good
• Predictions and prophesies
• Feeling like something is ‘destined’ to happen
• A shift in power dynamics
• Taking responsibility
• Focusing on what you can do (rather than being frustrated by what you can’t change)
• All things are interconnected
• Seeing the bigger picture

✳ 60. the lament

• Rational, logical thought, objectivity (is this helpful or harmful?)
• Binary, ‘right/wrong’ thinking (ditto)
• Knowing what is ‘right’
• Justice, fairness, balance
• Accountability
• Social justice principles
• Intersectionality
• Cause and effect
• Cutting through bullshit
• Legal affairs (whether ‘just’ or not)

✳ 85. purgatory's souls

• Passivity
• Holding back
• Patience
• Acknowledging that you do not know everything
• Allowing events to unfold
• Meditation and mindful practice
• Inner peace
• Independent thinking, taking a different perspective
• Self-acceptance
• Overcoming ego
• Not being afraid of what’s inside you

✳ 48. the speaking dead

• Personal transformation
• Starting over, moving on
• The ending of a cycle
• Letting go, saying goodbye
• Preparing to begin a new cycle
• Ritual to honour change
• Being in the flow of change, not resisting
• Letting go of an old identity, accepting that you have changed
• Honouring the seasons of life

✳ 48. the warm soup

• Balance, harmony
• A blending of dualities
• Alchemy
• Seeking the middle path
• Not making extreme decisions
• Taking a nonbinary attitude
• Testing the waters
• Self-care, grace, gentleness
• Integration into something you were resisting

✳ 77. the devils

• Bondage
• Addiction
• Materialism
• Destructive behaviours
• Getting trapped in harmful cycles
• Choosing to get free, or choosing not to get free
• Losing sight of what is important in life
• Confronting fear
• Accountability to yourself
• Delusion…and self-awareness
• Committing to your own freedom

✳ 83. the storm

• Revolution
• Disaster
• Shock
• Mourning
• Blowing apart old structures, demolition of the status quo
• Toppling systems of power (on small or large scales)
• Potential
• Making way for the new
• Finding a new way
• Rebuilding after disaster
• A blessing in disguise as a disaster
• Rehabilitation. Regeneration

✳ 25. christmas

• Hope
• Love and support
• Coming home to yourself
• Self-care
• Healing
• Being true to yourself
• Being guided by your intuition
• Integrity, honesty
• A positive new start or new vision

✳ 48. blood

• Shadow work
• Getting in touch with your wild nature
• ‘Letting you wolf howl’
• Listening deeply to your intuition
• Secret messages, signs and symbols
• Being totally non-rational
• Witchcraft, magic and spellwork
• Lies and deception
• Deceiving yourself
• Wearing a mask

✳ 19. laughter

• Positivity
• Saying yes
• Joy
• Practicing gratitude
• Success, things coming together
• Life’s simple pleasures
• Allowing yourself to simply be
• Starting an exciting project
• Connecting to a dynamic life force

✳ 18. the gossiping woman

• Liberation, freedom, casting off shackles
• Laying down of old baggage
• Self-acceptance
• Total accountability for self
• Integrity, honesty
• Forgiveness of self
• Forgiveness of others
• Self-love
• Letting go
• Allowing yourself to move forwards

✳ 45. the good wine

• Completion
• A sense of wholeness
• Knowing who you are in the world, having a sense of place
• Feeling deeply connected to all things
• Reaching your goal
• Bringing things to their end, wrapping up projects
• Focusing on your goal
• Celebration
• Preparing to start over