Friday: An Older Woman Contemplates Her Commitment, Entrapment & High Honours
Friday 17th March 2023
For today’s reading, we are back with Ciro Marchetti’s Fin de Siecle Kipper deck and a Master Card reading.
The Cards
Expectation: Anticipation, waiting
Mature Woman/Good Lady: An older or senior woman
Thoughts/His Thoughts: Thoughts, contemplation
Imprisonment: Prison, entrapment, limitations
Marriage: Marriage, bonds, agreement or link
Lovers/Success in Love: Love relationships and friendships
Great Fortune: Good luck, good fortune
High Honours: Rewards, honours, high position, recognition
House: House, home, family, neighbourhood, roots
Concern/Murky Thoughts: Negativity
Coffin: End of message.
The Reading
We have an older or senior woman who is waiting and looking ahead in anticipation (Expectation-Mature Woman). There is a sense that her thoughts are of entrapment, being limited and imprisoned in some way (Thoughts-Imprisonment), although she is married to her love, or bonded to her partner (Marriage-Lovers). She has excellent luck, however, recognition and high honours in a family or “house” (Good Fortune-high Honours-House), even though there may be underlying negativity or concerns (Concern/Murky Thoughts). These appear to have largely been overcome.
Across the rows, we see her anticipation of future events (Expectation) and thoughts including of marriage and commitment and her good fortune, thinking about what she has committed to, although she thinks in a way she has committed to enormous great fortune. (Thoughts-Marriage-Good Fortune). The Coffin card in this reading usually just means “full stop”, although I wonder if she is concerned all this good stuff might end. Below that, we have the older or senior woman and limitations, entrapment, perhaps with loved ones also, for position and honour (Mature Woman-Imprisonment-Lovers-High Honours).
Diagonally, we have the anticipation of entrapment and limits (Expectation-Imprisonment), due to a commitment, her marriage and the high honours and position it will also involve committing to (Imprisonment, Marriage, High Honours). Her thoughts (Mature Woman-Thoughts) are of her loved ones and the family or household, even where she may live (Thoughts-Lovers-House).
If we knight the cards, we can see that she is waiting for or anticipating something with regard to her loved ones (Expectation-Lovers). She is committed or this is about her marriage in particular (Mature Woman-Marriage). She is thinking about the honour bestowed or the position (Thoughts-High Honours). And perhaps recognises that the entrapment is a fortunate one in many ways, at least with the family or institution (Imprisonment, Great Fortune-House). A family commitment or deal (House, Marriage), despite doubts and negativity about her romantic life (Murky Thoughts, Lovers).
I suspect this one is about Camilla, personally, thinking about the upcoming Coronation and the limitations it is likely to bring. I wonder who could have imagined she’d be in this position, 30 years or so ago! Not her, I’d imagine…
An older or senior woman is waiting, looking ahead. She thinks of what is in some ways an entrapment, along with her love, but sees that she has great fortune and luck with regard to high honours and position in a family or institution, despite any underlying negativities. She considers what she has committed to, and is thinking of future events. She knows she is fortunate in many ways, but is aware also that it will symbolise entrapment and limitations for her loved ones, along with the high position. She is thinking about the position and what it involves, and that the sense of limitation is a positive one domestically, and the commitment she will make to the family or institution, despite any doubts and negativity there may be about her partner, her relationships or former love life.