✳ 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.

	o.g. major arcana	english oracolotto		neapolitan oracolotto
0	the fool	the cofffee	42	'o ccafè
1	the magician	the two old unmarried women	66	'e ddoje zetelle
2	the high priestess	the bride	63	'a sposa
3	the empress	the mother	52	'a mamma
4	the hierophant	the church	84	'a chiesa
5	the lovers	the upside down	69	sott'e 'ncoppa
6	the chariot
7	strenght	the breasts	28	'e zzizze
8	the hermit	the crying	65	'o chianto
9	the wheel of fortune	the set table	82	'a tavula 'mbandita
10	justice	the lament	60	'o lamiento
11	the hanged man	purgatory's souls	85	ll'aneme 'o priatorio
12	death	the speaking dead	48	'o muorto che pparla
13	temperance	the warm soup	68	'a zuppa cotta
14	the devil	the little devils	77	'e riavulille
15	the tower	the stormy weather	?	'o maltiempo
16	the star	christmas	25	natale
17	the moon	blood	18	'o ssanghe
18	the sun	laughter	19	'a resata
19	judgement	the gossiping woman	43	onna pereta fore 'o barcone
20	the world	the good wine	45	'o vino bbuono

✳ 42. the coffee

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

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.