Coming Up With The Witch's Tableau: A Visit, But There's Weariness At The Constant Lying
Week commencing 15th September 2025
So the disruption continues wherever we are in the world, I should think. The aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting rages in the US & reverberates elsewhere, while the background and motives of the shooter are still being investigated. Meanwhile, here in the UK, Trump is about to grace (?) us with his presence, Starmer is reeling from yet more revelations, this time over the re-disgraced Peter Mandelson and Epstein (yet again), and those hoping to be Keir’s successor in the top job appear to be sharpening their knives once more in the background. An ousting could be on the cards relatively soon, I feel. Plus we’ve had two massive opposing marches in London this weekend (essentially left v right) and it’s all getting - well, somewhat fraught out there, and I don’t see the tribalism lessening any time soon.
We’re still on the Bohemian cards for now, and the “coming up” spread I’m using for today is the Witch’s Tableau, a 16-carder with a fairly flexible storytelling read and four ‘quadrants’, as well as rows, columns and pairing as part of the reading. It can be used with any deck.
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Here’s how the cards fell.
What are they predicting, do you think?
The Cards
Falseness, Constancy, House, Visit; Hope, Sorrow, Journey, Letter; Ecclesiastic, Widow, Fidelity, Thought; Thief, Lover, Desire, Death
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The Reading
So! In the first quadrant, representing our conscious very recent past, we've had what looks like constant, neverending lying (Falseness, Constancy) and sadness overriding hopefulness (Hope, Sorrow). The offer or feeling of false hope (Falseness, Hope) but followed by constant disappointment and sadness (Constant, Sorrow). So a feeling of both let-down and inevitability pervades this.
The underlying or unconscious energy, meanwhile, appears to have been one of righteousness or morality/spirituality in the face of loss, regret or grieving for a woman in particular (Ecclesiastic, Widow) and may represent a religious woman,regarding the theft or loss of her love (Thief, Lover). So yes, this might represent the Kirk situation and Erika Kirk over the weekend. We have some sort of religious or morality stolen or snatched away (Ecclesiastic, Thief) and the Widow of a male figure, grieving (Lover).
Coming up, on the conscious level this week, we have a domestic visit (House, Visit) and a trip about which there will be news written (Journey, Letter). A house move or going between countries (House, Journey), and a visit which will be news or delivering a letter (Visit, Letter). So this could well be Trump and his visit to the UK.
On a less conscious level, we have thoughts of loyalty (Fidelity, Thought) to some cause or belief, and a desire for an ending, even a death (Desire, Death), so somebody may still be plotting. The cards show a burning desire which is about loyalty or faithfulness to something, could be obsessive (Fidelity, Desire), and thoughts of death or endings (Thought, Death). Certainly a lot of tribal thinking going on, and much of it not at all conciliatory right now.
To read across the rows from the conscious to the less conscious levels, top to bottom, we have on the surface, constant lies and falsehoods so nobody knows who or what to trust during a domestic visit (Falsness, Constancy, House, Visit). So yep, that figures.
Hopes have turned to sorrow while the news moves forward or gathers apace, likely involving a particular trip or journey and news or documentation about it (Hope Sorrow, Journey, Letter)
Morality, religion or spirituality is mourned by a widow while there are loyal or even tribal thoughts and beliefs just under the surface (Ecclesiastic, Widow, Fidelity, Thought)
The loss or snatching away of a male figure brings a burning desire in someone for death (Thief, Lover, Desire, Death). We need to be careful of revenge attacks I think or people being emboldened to carry them out, tit for tat.
Moving from past to near future, we get false hope regarding morality or religion that's been stolen away or snatched (Falseness, Hope, Ecclesiastic, Thief) - or that could have been snatched by religious figures themselves.
Then there's constant or continuing reasons for sorrow and sadness, neverending negativity as a woman grieves for a man (Constancy, Sorrow, Widow, Lover).
A house move or trip between countries (House, Journey) brings loyalty and faithfulness along with a burning desire connected with that, an obsessive desire to be loyal or true to 'one side' perhaps (Fidelity, Desire).
A visit bings news or a message (Visit, Letter) regarding thoughts or beliefs about a death or ending (Thought, Death). Since both of their recent brushes, perhaps Charles and Donald will actually have something to discuss about this, but I’d imagine political assassinations are much on both their minds.
Diagonally, the cards give us false displays of sadness (Falseness, Sorrow) so expect lots of “thoughts and prayers” type sentiments, but loyalty to or fixation with death and endings (Fidelity, Death). As well as a visit on a trip involving a widow grieving her losses and what's been taken from her (Visit, Journey, Widow, Thief).
Pairing the cards corner to corner, we get:
A false ending or death involving a constant and burning desire for the house or country of the man to visit and steal something away.
Hopeful thoughts and sorrowful loyalties of a woman on a journey or moving on and news or a message of morality or religion.
Double pairing them gives us:
False hopes on thoughts of death or endings
Constant and neverending sorrows involving burning loyalties
A house move or journey between places where a widow is grieving her lover
A visit bringing news or a message of morality of religion where something's been stolen or lost
The cards this week speak to the recent past and what looks like constant, neverending lying and sadness overriding hopefulness. The offer or feeling of false hope but followed by constant disappointment, upset and sadness. So a feeling of both let-down and inevitability pervades this.
The underlying or unconscious energy, meanwhile, appears to have been one of righteousness or morality/spirituality in the face of loss, regret or grieving for a woman in particular and may represent a religious woman, regarding the theft or loss of her male partner. So yes, this might represent the Kirk situation and Erika Kirk over the weekend. We have some sort of religious or morality stolen or snatched away and the widow of a male figure, grieving.
Coming up, on the conscious level this week, we have a domestic visit and a trip about which there will be news written or the transport of some documentation. A house move or going between countries, and a visit which will be news or delivering a letter or document. So this could well be Trump and his visit to the UK.
On a less conscious level, we have thoughts of loyalty to some cause or belief, and a desire for an ending, even a death, so somebody nefarious may still be plotting. The cards show a burning desire which is about loyalty or faithfulness to something, could be obsessive and thoughts of death or endings. Certainly a lot of tribal thinking going on, and much of it not at all conciliatory right now.
To read across the rows from the conscious to the less conscious levels, top to bottom, we have on the surface, constant lies and falsehoods so nobody knows who or what to trust during a domestic visit.
Hopes have turned to sorrow while the news moves forward or gathers apace, likely involving a particular trip or journey and news or documentation about it.
Morality, religion or spirituality is mourned by a widow while there are loyal or even tribal thoughts and beliefs just under the surface.
The loss or snatching away of a male figure brings a burning desire in someone for death. We need to be careful of revenge attacks I think or people being emboldened to carry them out.
Moving from past to near future, we get false hope regarding morality or religion that's been stolen away or snatched - or that could have been snatched by religious figures themselves. Then there's constant or continuing reasons for sorrow and sadness, neverending negativity as a woman grieves for a man.
A house move or trip between countries brings loyalty and faithfulness along with a burning desire connected with that, an obsessive desire to be loyal or true to 'one side' perhaps. The visit bings news or a message regarding thoughts or beliefs about a death or ending.
Diagonally, the cards give us false displays of sadness so expect lots of “thoughts and prayers” type sentiments, but loyalty to or fixation with death and endings. As well as a visit on a trip involving a widow grieving her losses and what's been taken from her.
A false ending or death involving a constant and burning desire for the house or country of the man to visit and steal something away.
Hopeful thoughts and sorrowful loyalties of a woman on a journey or moving on and news or a message of morality or religion.
False hopes on thoughts of death or endings
Constant and neverending sorrows involving burning loyalties
A house move or journey between places where a widow is grieving her lover
A visit bringing news or a message of morality of religion where something's been stolen or lost
So yeah, I’m not really seeing any great comings-together this week, I’m afraid; everyone’s still too raw and polarised. And some are likely enjoying that polarisation.