Coming Up: Surprising Yet Amusing News On The Way? Some Kind Of Karma? Vera Sibilla Cards Take A Look
Monday 4 August 2025
So! We begin another week with our new deck and a “week ahead” (ish) reading. This time, we’re using the Italian Vera Sibilla cards, and a spread which is basically just an expanded 9-Card Box Spread. These are great for looking more deeply into a particular issue, for which you can choose an appropriate centre card to focus the reading.
Here, I’ve chosen the Letter for news, so we’ll be reading the cards around that to see what the cards predict is likely to come up!
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So! Here’s how the cards came out for the week ahead.
The Cards (in English, from the top)
Coffin, Servant/Maid, Cheerfulness; Fortune, Melancholy, Doctor; Wedding, Pleasure Seekers, Letter, Surprise, Joyfulness; Money, Frivolity, Messenger; Child, Sighs, Merchant
Since La Vera Sibilla also includes playing card references, you can add to your readings with them if you wish. You can find my guide on how to do that here:
Let’s take a look at what it’s all suggesting!
The Reading
Starting with the Letter in the centre and reading the cards immediately around it, first of all, it seems we can expect some negative news this week or a story with a negative slant on something (Melancholy). Some recent type of madness, perhaps mob behaviour, perhaps recent addiction, is likely to be in the news (Pleasure Seekers) but there also appears to be a surprise coming (Surprise), not to mention news of some lightness, something that’s actually fun and less serious for a change (Frivolity).
If we look first at the corner cards of that central square, we can see that the negative message is likely to be over the luck poured regarding a crazy, ‘drunken’ or even obsessive partnership or deal, perhaps a dogged commitment by people to something clearly quite mad (Melancholy, Fortune, Pleasure Seekers beside Wedding). The craziness appears to have involved a lot of money being spent on frivolities and fun (Pleasure Seekers, Money, Frivolity), so this could be a story about someone, or more likely a group of people, being dissolute and wasteful.
On the other side, we have the negative approach being healed somewhat by what could be a surprise revelation (Melancholy, Doctor, Surprise) which’ll have people partying (Joyfulness). So a surprise message or piece of news is likely to be unearthed regarding frivolity and lightness, or that people find great fun or makes them laugh (Surprise, Messenger, Frivolity).
So reading the whole centre row, then, we get some kind of wedding of craziness, a mad partnership or adherence to something crazy (Wedding, Pleasure Seekers) recently and news about that, before a surprise is unearthed (Letter, Surprise) that has everyone partying (Joyfulness).
The story, whatever it is, is likely to heal some of the negative press over someone or certain crazy people who appeared to have luck pouring on them at every turn (Fortune, Melancholy, Doctor). It appears to have been connected with a death or ending, help or assistance, perhaps an employee, and eventually having something to celebrate (Coffin, Servant/Maid, Cheerfulness).
There could well be a message about to be delivered about frivolous spending (Money, Frivolity, Messenger), and it appears to involve someone young, a yearning or craving and a businessman (Child, Sighs, Merchant).
Reading the cards vertically and diagonally, you get the end of a partnership or contract with a young person or subordinate (Coffin, Wedding, Child), the end of luck being poured on that partnership (Coffin, Fortune) and news being delivered about that which involves a businessman (Letter, Messenger, Merchant). He may be acting as the messenger himself. There’s also been something about a deal involving money being desperately yearned for (Wedding, Money, Sighs).
Some crazy behaviour has involved some amazing luck and likely money being spent foolishly (Fortune,Pleasure Seekers, Money) so it sounds like a case of more money than sense here. And it seems that now we have a servant, employee, someone who’s been helping, start to give negative press (Servant, Melancholy, Letter), either because they’re craving a bit of fun and lightness themselves, or about the main subjects’ desire for fun and frivolity, or indeed their frivolous, unserious desires (Letter, Frivolity, Sighs). Whoever the ‘servant’ figure is, they bring healing and improvement in the form of joyous fun, partying, amusement (Servant, Doctor, Joyfulness). The healing, in fact, involves bringing some surprising info to light (Doctor, Surprise, Messenger). There is a great deal of fun and celebration to be had, it seems, that involve a businessman, or that someone can make a lot of money from (Cheerfulness, Joyfulness, Merchant). And there’s partying over the delivery of news involving some kind of insatiable yearning or craving (Joyfulness, Messenger, Sighs).
Now, as the Vera Sibilla also has playing card references, we can utilise those too to squeeze out a few extra messages. We have seven Quadri (Diamonds), five Fiori (Clubs), three Picche (Spades) and only two Cuori (Hearts). So the reading is dominated by Diamonds and Clubs, and this very much gives it a flavour of “events people will be reacting to” which possibly mark success and achievement (and moneymaking opportunities) for someone at least.
What about the multiples? Well, we have all four 5s, three 6s, two 9s and two Kings. To me (with the meanings I personally use), these would suggest we have some kind of buzzy, game-changing energy or news coming up involving senior men, where people get to assess gains and losses, payback and karma perhaps, where events start balancing or the pendulum swinging in another direction which appears to cheer people up quite a bit!
We will see!
It seems we can expect some negative-angled news this week initially, perhaps of someone complaining or whining, but it’s definitely not all bad news at all. Some recent type of madness, perhaps mob behaviour, perhaps recent addiction, is likely to be reported on, but there also appears to be a surprise coming, not to mention news of some lightness, something that’s actually fun and less serious for a change.
The negative message is likely to be over the luck poured regarding a crazy, ‘drunken’ or even obsessive partnership or deal, perhaps a dogged commitment by people to something clearly quite mad. The craziness appears to have involved a lot of money being spent on frivolities and fun, so this could be a story about someone, or more likely a group of people, being dissolute and wasteful.
On the other side, we have the negative approach being healed somewhat by what could be a surprise revelation which’ll have people partying. So a surprise message or piece of news is likely to be unearthed regarding frivolity and lightness, or that people find great fun or makes them laugh.
So we get some kind of mad partnership or adherence to something crazy recently and news about that, before a surprise is unearthed that has everyone cheering.
The story, whatever it is, is likely to heal some of the negative press over someone or certain crazy people who appeared to have luck pouring on them at every turn, It appears to have been connected with a death or ending, help or assistance, perhaps an employee, and eventually having something to celebrate.
There could well be a message about to be delivered about frivolous spending and it appears to involve someone young, a yearning or craving and a businessman.
Reading the cards vertically and diagonally, you get the end of a partnership or contract with a young person or subordinate, the end of luck being poured on that partnership and news being delivered about that which involves a businessman. He may be acting as the messenger himself. There’s also been something about a deal involving money being desperately yearned for.
Some crazy behaviour has involved some amazing luck and likely money being spent foolishly so it sounds like a case of more money than sense here. And it seems that now we have a servant, employee, someone who’s been helping, start to give negative press either because they’re craving a bit of fun and lightness themselves, or about the main subjects’ desire for fun and frivolity, or indeed their frivolous, unserious desires. Whoever the ‘servant’ figure is, they bring healing and improvement in the form of joyous fun, partying, amusement. The healing, in fact, involves bringing some surprising info to light. There is a great deal of fun and celebration to be had, it seems, that involve a businessman, or that someone can make a lot of money from And there’s partying over the delivery of news involving some kind of insatiable yearning or craving.
With the reading dominated by Diamonds and Clubs, it has a flavour of “events people will be reacting to” which possibly mark success and achievement (and moneymaking opportunities) for someone at least arising out of whatever the surprise news is. It could be some kind of buzzy, game-changing energy or news coming up involving senior men, where people get to assess gains and losses, payback and karma perhaps, where events start balancing or the pendulum swinging in another direction which appears to cheer people up quite a bit!