The UK Government: Wealth & Poverty, Wedded To Falsehoods Or Lies About A Deal
Thursday 2nd February 2023
Here are our cards for today, and a much shorter reading.
Today, we’re using the Ciro Marchetti Fin de Siecle Kipper deck, a design from the last few years, but a new take on the original German Kipper cards which were originally published in the late 19th century/ turn of the century. (I’m sure now you’re familiar, you can see how strongly the cards and their themes were influenced by the slightly earlier 19th century European Sibillas. But unlike them, Kipper cards have, only 36 cards usually).
The Fin de Siecle deck has three additional cards, to reflect the English Victorian sensibility (and class divisions) Marchetti wanted to focus his design on. The extras that aren’t in other Kipper decks are Toil and Labour, Poverty and Community.
Today, I decided to focus the cards on what’s going on with the UK government, particularly in the light of the latest IMF report, which showed the UK as the only major G7 economy forecast to be shrinking this year. Not to mention the now-ousted Zahawi and his “tax irregularities”.
The reading (a Master card reading, just a short one this time) was as follows. Once again, the Coffin is used as a stop, or fullstop, card in the layout, a bit like the “STOP” in a telegram.
The Cards
Sudden Wealth/A Lot Of Money: Wealth, Riches, Abundance, Winnings, The Wealthy
False Person: Not necessarily a person, Fakeness, Lies, Falsehoods, Things That Are Hidden
Marriage: Literal Marriage, Deals, Bonds. Also Often Connects The Cards To Its Left And Right
Poverty: One of Marchetti’s extra cards; what it says on the tin, really. Poverty, Suffering, Lack, Austerity, Hard Times.
Coffin: Death or Ending, But Also The Fullstop Or “End of Message” Card.
Is our False Person an actual individual here or not, or just a general sense of falsehood and lies? Both could be true. We can see quite clearly here that there’s a juxtaposition between the Sudden Wealth and Poverty cards—again, the haves and have nots in both government and society that previous readings with other decks have talked about, and this really seems to be the main theme of the layout, along with something being really not quite right underneath (False Person),
Reading vertically from left to right, it suggests that in government at the moment, we have someone deceptive who is—or seems— very wealthy, someone wealthy and untruthful—or somebody who is hiding their wealth or a large source of income (Sudden Wealth-False Person). if not an individual, this would indicate falsehoods about wealth and money, perhaps dirty dealings.
There then appears to be a link or ”wedding” (or agreeing) to poverty. Pleading poverty, perhaps, or some kind of agreement or deal that ensures it or binds us to it (Wedding-Poverty).
And then we get the Coffin card, as a fullstop on the reading (I often read it as “End of Message”), although it could refer to an actual ending or demise as well.
Reading across-ways, the surface cards suggests wealth and a lot of money and an agreement has been involved, which may be coming to an end (Sudden Wealth-Marriage-Coffin). An agreement ends wealth, perhaps. Beneath that, bubbling under the surface, we have our False Person, or Falsehood and Poverty, suggesting either that the poverty claimed is not true in some way, or that lies and falsehoods have really brought loss and diminishment.
Diagonally, the cards show that conflict or disparity between great wealth and poverty, along with a possible ending (Sudden Wealth, Poverty, Coffin). And also that a commitment, vow or deal has been false in some way (Marriage-False Person)— or a sense of being wedded to falsehoods. The only card you can “knight” in this lot is the Coffin, and it’s linking with the False Person, suggesting exposure of a falsehood, perhaps, a lie or deception coming to an end.
In Summary:
For the government, a contrast between wealth and poverty, the haves and have-nots, and a falsehood playing underneath. There appears to be deception about wealth, perhaps someone hiding a source of wealth, dirty deals being made and lies being told. This also connects to poverty and loss, as if it has been agreed somehow or a deal has either created it, or has itself been undermined. A source of wealth may be coming to an end, and falsehoods and deceptions have brought diminishment and lack. The deception may be forced to a stop or a lie will be exposed.