A Woman Or Women Rage At Being Thwarted, Backlash, Protest

Thursday 27th October '22

Today, a different deck for you. This is also a European Sibilla deck, popular in the 19th century, but is very different from La Vera Sibilla or the Gypsy Oracle Cards we’ve seen before. It’s sometimes known as the “Parlour Sybil” or the Sibilla Indovina, and tended to be more popular in France than Italy.

Like the Vera Sibilla, it includes situational and people cards, and some you’ll recognise the essence of, although the two decks are wildly different, with different situations, characters, and no similarity with regard to the playing card references. And the three cards I’ve pulled for today illustrate that:

Impediment: Delays, complications, blocks, although these are likely to be temporary

Angry Woman: A female enemy, vicious criticism, raging

Contrariety, Displeasure: Confrontation, misunderstanding, strong opposition or reaction, backlash

Displeasure or backlash against delays or complications connected with women, criticism or rage (Impediment, Contrariety, Displeasure). Conflict…