Just a very quick one for today, using the 19th Century Sibilla Indovina/Parlour Sybil deck.
Chattering: Gossip, Bitching, Chatter
Pensioner: Older Man, Someone Focused On Material Possessions & Wealth, Selfish In Love, Money Hoarder
Love: Love and Romance, Passion, Harmony, Affection, Joy
So here’s our Chattering card again, that I previously used in this reading last week. It’s generally quite a negative card, suggesting complaining and moaning, the word on the street, and gossip, which can, at times, be quite vicious. So “bitching”, really.
The Pensioner is one of the King cards (King of Hearts) in the Sibilla Indovina deck (the other three are the Clubs’ Protector, the Diamonds’ Soldier, and the Spades’ Lawyer cards). As above, it has quite a negative connotation in love, and suggests a focus on money and wealth. So this is likely to be someone quite wealthy, who nonetheless, may be quite selfish in love.
Love is a very positive card in this deck, the traditional Cupid, which is about joy in love, happiness and affection, love and romance.
Put together, we see gossip and bitching from the public (Chattering, Love) with regard to the love life of a wealthy, but selfish in love, older man (Pensioner).
With the dropping of Netflix’s 5th series of The Crown at midnight tonight, UK time, and frenzied and not entirely unfair criticism in the UK press re its veracity, ethics, appropriateness in terms of timing, and obvious panic from the new King Charles over the series raking up deeply painful memories and stirring up public opinion against him again over the disintegration of his disastrous marriage to the late Diana and affair with Camilla, the now Queen Consort, I’d assume it’s about this. The Pensioner card fits him pretty well here.
Given it’s right at the point when Queen Elizabeth’s just died and Charles has only just become King, it’s spectacularly unfortunate timing for him, especially after many years of Camilla’s “rehabilitation” in the public eye, at which she’s done pretty well, to be fair. People will have opinions and take sides though despite, from my understanding, the series not necessarily taking one side of the mess over the other. Just two deeply unsuited unhappy people and the embarrassing and ultimately tragic public disintegration of a marriage, and his ongoing affair with a woman, clearly the love of Charles’s life, who, as Diana said, was always a “third person” in the marriage.
I’m not sure whether the current hysteria and outrage in the press will increase sympathy for Charles or not. I’m not really a fan of pandering to the Royals and deferring to their preferred narratives and avoiding uncomfortable truths about them just because of who they are. Either way, though, there’s still a genuine ethical issue as to whether raking up something so genuinely painful for many still-living people, and dramatising, often purely fictionalising, for the sake of public entertainment is something any show should be doing, but that, too, will ultimately become part of the Chatter of public opinion.
Public chatter and opinion about the love life of an older, wealthy, rather selfish man.
Absolutely The Crown dropping! I love your daily oracles.