In love
In a couple, Ventures speaks of a joint project built step by step: a trip, a place to live, a way of organizing things together.
Belline oracle
Ventures: meaning of the Belline oracle card
Ventures is the card of initiative: a project you set up, organize, and put in motion.
- initiative
- projects
- organization
The essentials
Ventures at a glance
For you, Ventures invites you to move from the idea to a concrete first step, however modest, and to carry it out with method.
A strength
A spirit of organization and the drive to begin, which turn an idea into something visible.
Something to watch
Read more Multiplying undertakings without finishing any, or launching without clarifying what you are after.
Meaning of Ventures
Ventures speaks of what is starting up. The card evokes the spirit of initiative: the project you put on the table, break into stages, and decide to lead. It concerns a job, a partnership, a creation, but also a life project or a home project.
In the Mercury series, which touches on ideas and exchanges, it takes on a practical color: it is less about dreaming than about putting things in order, gathering people around you, and choosing the first moves. It encourages the boldness to try and adjust along the way.
Its reverse side is scattering: starting a lot, sustaining little, or mistaking agitation for real progress.
Ventures in your life
At work
In a work setting, the card puts initiative forward: proposing, structuring an idea, taking charge of a file and giving it a shape.
Draw the Belline cards
One, three, or seven cards, and the dominant planet: the interpretation starts with what the reading means for you.
Free, no account · nothing is sent · no predictions
Ventures in a reading
In its position
Ventures turns the question toward action: a project needs structuring, with named stages and a first step to fix.
Mercury series
Exchanges: ideas, trade, news, the flow of money.
Change, Money, Intelligence, Theft-Loss, Trade, News
The Belline cards help you look at a situation from another angle: they predict nothing, and the choice remains yours.
Its place in the deck
Ventures bears the number 22 and opens the end of the Mercury series, which runs from card 18 to card 24. There it keeps company with Change, Money, and Intelligence: all speak of what circulates, organizes itself, and gets moving. Versana reads it as a drive of initiative, never as a promised success.
Reflecting on Ventures
A question
Which project is only waiting for you to set its first step?
A gesture
Choose a project that matters to you, break it into three stages, and put the first one in your calendar.
How is it built?
- Place in the deck
- Card 22 of the 52 numbered cards
- Series
- Mercury (cards 18 to 24)
- French name
- Entreprises
- Tone
- Neutral (the site’s reading convention)
- Pictogram
- Drawing by Versana: a cogwheel
Where the sources disagree
- Tone of the cards: A ranking set by the site from the name of each card, with no old source: 21 supportive cards, 14 demanding, 18 neutral. It gives the tone of a reading, never an answer or a yes or no.
- Dominant series: When one planet comes up more often than the others in a reading (at least two cards), its series colors the interpretation. A modern reading rule, described by several guides; cards outside the series are not part of the count.
- Images of the cards: The drawings attributed to the mage Edmond (died 1881) are old, but the cards published since 1961 and the Mucem photographs are not under a free license. The site draws its own pictograms and reproduces no card.
Sources
- belline.fr, “The 53 cards of the Belline Oracle,” and lavoiedeloracle.fr, “Belline oracle: guide to the 53 cards,” read on October 15, 2026: blue card without a number; Destiny (1), the Star of Man (2), and the Star of Woman (3) outside the series; seven series of seven: Sun 4-10, Moon 11-17, Mercury 18-24, Venus 25-31, Mars 32-38, Jupiter 39-45, Saturn 46-52. Names and numbers only, no text taken.
- Wikipedia (French), “Oracle Belline,” read on October 15, 2026: deck of 53 cards published in 1961 by Grimaud; a first edition seems to date from 1960 (La Ducale); drawings made between 1845 and 1865 according to Belline; mage Edmond 1829-1881.
- Wikipedia (French), “Marcel Belline,” read on October 15, 2026: Marcel Forget, known as Belline, born June 12, 1924, in Paris, died February 9, 2001, in Colombes (one source gives 1994); published the oracle in 1961 and attributed it to the mage Edmond (around 1845); in 1977, donated his fortune-telling office to the state (national museum of Arts and Popular Traditions, now the Mucem).
Frequently asked questions about Ventures
What does Ventures mean in the Oracle de Belline?
Ventures means initiative and the projects you set in motion. The card invites you to organize an idea into concrete stages, guaranteeing nothing about its outcome.
Does Ventures speak only about work?
No: it concerns any project you lead, professional or personal, such as a trip, a creation, a move, or a shared activity.
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