2023 News Predictions: A Kipper Grand Tableau— Overview
Monday 19th December re: 2023 News Predictions
As promised, for the next couple of weeks I’ll be looking at News Predictions for 2023 using various different decks.
We’ll be starting with my Kipper Grand Tableau for 2023 News. In laying it, I just asked “What are the main news stories coming up for 2023?”
So instead of the usual daily reads with different decks, this week, I’ll be looking each day at a different aspect of the same Grand Tableau layout and covering different areas. This also gives those of you already familiar with Kipper a chance to take a look at the layout and see what you think it’s telling us is coming up!
Here are the cards I pulled, using Ciro Marchetti’s Fin de Siecle Kipper deck with its three extra cards, for Lozzy’s Kipper Grand Tableau for 2023 News Stories.
Kipper Grand Tableau: News Stories 2023
Now, you may or may not find Kipper “Houses” useful, but I do, so I’m also including below a “House” layout to help with that additional aspect of reading. And if you like to create “Houses” for extra cards in decks, the three extra cards at the bottom will fall in the “Houses” of 37 Poverty, 38 Toil & Labour and 39 Community.
2023: The Overall Picture
So let’s begin just with an overall picture for the year, not going into any detail.
For this, just as I would with Lenormand, I’m going to look at the four corners of the spread, the “message” from the cards at the bottom, and then the story broadly being told by the rows and columns. We’ll cover individuals and particular events in more depth throughout the week.
The Four Corners And Bottom Three Cards
We can read the corners in a couple of different ways; first in diagonals, and then, telling a “story” about them starting with the bottom left and going clockwise round the spread.
So in the top left hand corner, we have the Lovers (in the House of Main Male), suggesting a male lover or a much loved male person, and the Main Male also appears in the opposite corner (in the House of Distant Horizons/Hope Big Water). So this suggests an important male figure or men in general getting the love, as it were, and the fulfilment of a man’s (or men’s) big ambitions.
The other diagonal shows us a major ending or death of some kind (Coffin) appearing in the House of Change. This suggests a dramatic ending signifying change, or change being brought through an ending. Or perhaps it’s more that a process of change draws to an end. Diagonal to that, we have Sudden Wealth/Big Money appearing in the House of Expectation, so it looks as if we won’t be expecting a period of great wealth anytime soon. Money ending, a source of money drawing to a close, perhaps (Coffin, Big Wealth) or money arising out of an ending or death, so inheritances etc.
Reading the cards from the bottom left corner round, the “story” we get here is of an expected abundance of love for a man or men bringing an ending or death connected with change and a man’s or men’s big dreams and ambitions (Sudden Wealth, Lovers, Coffin, Man). No idea at this point who this’d be, so we’ll see.
The bottom three cards (in the “extra” houses) speak of domestic matters or infrastructure (House) in the House of Poverty, Bad Health in the House of Toil & Labour, so poor working conditions, and Message/Letter in the House of Community. This suggests the kind of news that the public will be hearing; pretty doomy and gloomy, really, about crumbling infrastructure and the cost of living crisis, poor and exploitative working conditions, and possibly for the UK at least, continued issues for health service workers.
Overall Story: Rows & Columns
Without going into too much detail and directions for individuals here, I’m just going to look at the rows and columns in the broadest sense for overall influences at play.
Top Row:
Reading the top row and mirroring the cards, we get a love relationship or alliance ending (Lovers-Coffin), a gift that is false (False Person-Gift), so we should be watching out for Trojan horses, political spin and the like, then legal proceedings (Court House) with regard to hard work and labour (Toil & Labour). So this perhaps suggests legal proceedings with regard to labour laws. There’s also Change and High Honours (changes to the honours system or public standards? Change with regard to rewards and breaks?) around the Family Room, so this’ll be something to do with privacy or people’s family or personal life, or involve taking a good look closer to home, perhaps at “honours for cronies”. Reading this row from left to right, you get a false love, and a legal falsehood with regard to the processes for “honours” or rewards. This is in the private or domestic sphere and brings changes to work or labour, and an end to “gifts”, freebies or advantages. That’s likely to be very UK-based if so.
Second Row:
Here, we get an image of poverty and despair (Despair-Poverty), around a journey to good luck and great fortune (Great Fortune-Journey), which could involve young people gathering (Courtship/Meeting- Child), so perhaps protests about wealth disparities, or good things arising out of bad like people coming together more? There also appears to be related imprisonment of people (Community-Imprisonment) connected with an older woman or one in a position of seniority (Mature Woman). Reading from left to right, we have despair which somehow brings great fortune in terms of people coming together as a community, but an older woman imprisoning or trapping younger people on a journey to austerity and poverty.
Third Row:
Unexpected income or a small amount of money for an official person (Unexpected Income/A Little Money-Official Person/Military Man) brings bad news or a message of concern about an older or senior man (Message of Concern/Bad News-Mature Man) who’s been waiting for an accord, a deal or “marriage”, perhaps a reconciliation (Marriage-Expectation) This seems to concern big ambitions and dreams or hopes with regard to a judgement (Judication-Distant Horizons/Hope, Big Water) around a privileged young woman (Rich Girl/Privileged Lady). Reading the cards from left to right, we get concerning news about a little money and a deal or agreement that’s handed down regarding a privileged young woman. There are big hopes and expectations regarding an older or senior man and an official or military one.
Fourth Row:
A main man gets big money or abundance (Sudden Wealth/Big Money-Main Male) , and it seems to have been a long time coming business-wise (Long Road/Pathway-Wealthy Man). This is negative for a woman or women (Main Female-Murky Thoughts/Concern) whose day to day activities are stolen or jobs lost (Occupation-Thief) to thoughts (Thoughts/His Thoughts). Reading from left to right, a long road to abundance for a woman or women in terms of work, occupation and day to day, but there are thoughts of loss and theft which are causing concern and negativity for business and a main man or men.
Bottom Row:
As we we’ve already said, this involves news from home about ill health.
Now we can look at the columns from left to right.
First Column:
Love, friendship and support brings big money (Lovers/Success in Love-Sudden Wealth/Big Money) where there’s despair about only having a little (Despair-Unexpected Income/A Little Money). So this could involve a charity endeavour. From top to bottom, we see love, care and support with regard to despair over little money becoming big money and abundance.
Second Column:
A supposed long road is false or not as appears (False Person-Long Road/Pathway) around a fortuitous bit of bad news or a negative message (Great Fortune-Message of Concern). Luck and good fortune is not as it appears when it comes to bad news and a long road ahead.
Third Column:
A legal case or official process for a woman or women (Court House/Legal Matters-Main Female) around a meeting and agreement, deal or marriage (Courtship/Meeting-Marriage). A legal process convenes with regard to agreements/marriage for a woman or women.
Fourth Column:
For a “house of high honours” (High Honours-House) comes community action or people’s work (Community-Occupation) and a judgement (Judication). High honours and rewards for the public, or a “higher” community or house gets a judgement about its work at home or in the house.
Fifth Column:
Where something’s wrong privately (Family Room-Bad Health) an older woman gives her thoughts (Older Woman-Thoughts) on a privileged young women or women (Privileged Lady/Rich Young Woman). A private or family-oriented older woman and a younger, privileged woman’s thoughts are unhealthy or go through a bad patch.
Sixth Column:
News of a change (Change-Message/Letter) around imprisonment or restrictions and loss (Imprisonment-Thief) with regard to hopes and dreams, ambitions, big plans, the future (Distant Horizons/Hope, Big Water). A changed sense of restriction for hopes, dreams and big plans, there’s a loss involved and news of this.
Seventh Column:
Negativity about labour and work (Toil & Labour-Concern/Murky Thoughts) around something younger people are waiting for, or maternity (Child-Expectation). Work and labour for young people and waiting/passivity concern and negativity.
Eighth Column:
A gift for the wealthy or business or financial people (Gift-Rich Man/Wealthy Man) around a journey to maturity or seniority (Journey-Mature Man). A gifted journey from an older or senior man to business or the wealthy or financial sector.
Ninth Column:
Finally, we have a death or ending for a main man (Coffin-Main Male) connected with poverty and officialdom or someone in an official position (Poverty-Official Person/Military Man). Ending poverty with someone in an official or governmental position and a significant man.
So, in 2023, a main man or men in the picture will be “getting the love” and support with regard to big ambitions and dreams. But change brings endings with regard to sudden wealth. An abundance of love or support for a man seems to bring an ending for him. Meanwhile, the news for the public is of crumbling infrastructures & cost of living crisis and poor working conditions; the public won’t be hearing a message of good health in the press, that’s for sure.
A love-in of some kind ends, and there could be legal proceedings around labour, and bringing changes to private rewards and recognition. People and communities come together in spite of despair, but there’s an older woman involved in imprisoning the young on the road to poverty and loss. Meanwhile, an official person gets a little money, but there’s disappointments regarding an older or senior man and reconciliation or deals. An ambitious young woman gets a legal judgement. A man’s abundance or wealth is bad news for a woman or women, who fear loss of jobs or day to day activities, and are thinking about this at this time.
Love and support where there’s despair over little money brings big money and abundance. But luck and good fortune is not as it seems when it comes to bad news and the long road ahead. A legal process for a woman or women involves meeting and coming to agreement. There’s a judgement for the public regarding rewards and honours, perhaps in a “higher house” involving work and occupation. In private or on the home front, an older woman or women and a younger, more privileged woman or women think in ways that are perhaps unhealthy. Changes and restrictions bring news of loss of hopes and ambitions.
There is negativity with regard to work and young people. A journey or progress is gifted from an older or senior man to business or the financial sector, and an ending with regard to poverty from an official or governmental person who is male.