Coming Up This Week: Wishful Thinking From An Absent Man Desperate For A Return, Reconciliation, And The Reward Of Admiration
Monday 23rd January 2023
Good morning! We’ll start this week with the 19th Century Sibilla Indovina/Parlour Sybil deck and our trusty 9-card spread, always good for diving into a bit of detail to a situation. You can choose a keycard in the middle to focus the theme, although I let it fall naturally in this one. And as you see, none of them fell in reverse today.
The Cards
Weakness: Sickness, Malady, Problems
Hope: Hope, Wishes, Optimism
Lawyer: Legal Matters, Rules & Regulations, Person in Authority, Rulemaker
Absence: A Lack, Sadness & Loss, Emotional Pain
Reconciliation: Reconciliation, Agreement Reached, Return After Absence
Flatterer: Flattering Person, Fakeness If With Negative Cards, Obsequiousness, Admiration, Suck-Up
The Consultant (Male): A Main Male Figure, like the Gentleman in Lenormand
Presents: Gifts, Benefits
Thought: Thinking, Ideas, Consideration, Analysis
Overall, the cards here centre on a Reconciliation, an agreement being arrived at, a return, often after a period of absence, which is interesting, given the Absence card itself sitting right above it. It could be that this is more about hopes of reconciliation or a coming to an agreement after an absence (Absence-Hope). The cards also suggest the gaining of a reward or gift that involves someone being flattering about you, saying nice things (Presents-Flattery).
At the centre, it seems again that this is more about the hope of this happening, the wish to gain the reward of a reconciliation or agreement (Hope-Reconciliation-Presents). Above this, there seems to be a malaise, a problem, with sadness over a man being missed—or it is the man himself experiencing the feelings of loss (Weakness-Absence-Male Consultant). Sitting beneath this, so perhaps unconsciously, there is a deep sense of wanting admiring or flattering thoughts from a person of authority or the establishment, a good press, and this is in the person’s thoughts (Lawyer-Flatterer-Thoughts).
However, these hopes regarding the establishment or a person in authority may not be particularly healthy and could be rather skewed and unrealistic (Weakness-Hope-Lawyer). Does absence make the heart grow fonder, will it bring reconciliation and people saying lovely things? (Absence-Reconcilation-Flattery). Our man continues to mainly think about, perhaps obsess on, what it is can gain from the situation, the rewards that might be on offer, and fully expects and needs them to be given (Male Consultant-Presents-Thought).
Diagonally, we can see again that these thoughts of reconciliation are perhaps fantasies and somewhat obsessive (Weakness-Reconciliation-Thought), although it could also be that any reconciliation in itself would be thought of as a weakness. Our man could be in a position of authority in terms of reconciling or coming to an agreement (Male Consultant-Reconciliation-Lawyer).
To look a little more deeply into each of the cards by knighting them, we can see that the Weakness in particular involves this person needing to be flattered, having nice things said about him, essentially, having to be rewarded with admiration (Presents-Flattery). The Hope belongs to our Male Consultant and fills his Thoughts. Are those in power and the establishment missing him—or is it him missing them and wanting that back? (Lawyer-Absence-Presents). Do those in authority think about his Absence or is it more that he can’t stop thinking about them and misses them and wants their approval (Lawyer-Thoughts)? The need for Flattery and admiration is a great Weakness of our Male Consultant, but it’s all he wishes for (Male Consultant, Hope, Flattery). The benefits of Presents of a weakened government or establishment (Weakness-Lawyer). But his Thoughts suggest he may miss them more than they miss him (Absence-Lawyer).
So who is our man? There could be a number of candidates of course. Harry as usual, but also possibly King Charles (though he hasn’t been absent himself), not to mention politicians past and present. Ex PM Boris Johnson, in particular, appears to be angling for a comeback right now, and he’s another person who has been ‘off the scene’ for a little while. I can’t help feeling that this desperate need for flattery and admiration, and this thing about absence making the heart grow fonder, might have something to do with him, and there does seem to be something rather needy and pathological about it (which could apply to both him and Harry). “See how much you missed me? I’m really just here for the love you know I deserve.”
Hopes of a reconciliation or agreement being reached after a period of absence or loss for someone and a reward gained of flattery, people saying nice things, getting a positive press or spin. The wish for the gift of reconciliation, as there is a particular man being greatly missed or missing others himself, and it’s causing great sadness and pain. Underpinning this is a person of authority or ‘the establishment’ and flattering thoughts, someone thinking about their reputation and wanting to be admired and thought well of, seen as an authority. These hopes, however, are likely to be unrealistic and a little warped, an expectation that absence and being missed will bring a reconciliation, a good press, and people saying lovely things. The man in question can only really think about what he stands to gain, the rewards.
Would reconciliation come across as a weakness, and is he thinking about this in an unrealistic manner? Would it give our man authority and standing in some way, and would it bring him back into the establishment fold? He is someone with a weakness for flattery, a desperate need for admiration, particularly from those in authority, and it appears to be be filling his thoughts, and is all he dreams of. He likes to think of the establishment as weak, but the truth is, he may be missing them far more than they are missing him.