This Week: An Older Woman & The Role of Women, Perhaps? Healing & Muted Supposed "Gifts"
Monday 16th Sept 2024
Huge apologies for lack of roundup post this weekend - was away, and am afraid it was a bit late in the day to post by the time I got back last night. I can incorporate any major look-back into this weekend’s - but just to say, I don’t think last week’s cards were wrong about the debates, were they? They gave a clear suggestion that Kamala would “win” those, focused as they were on the “Dark-Haired Woman” and walk Trump into a trap somewhat.
Meanwhile, it would seem a bit odd for Trump to be considered “lucky” re what appears to be his second assassination attempt this weekend, so I’m not sure if Friday’s reading was about him, but I do wonder what being targeted yet again will do to his level of support. It’s unlikely to harm it any, after all. And I did find myself asking if the soft fuzzy feelgood element of last week’s week ahead might have been a reference to the somewhat ad-like Royal family video released by Kate & Wills to announce the cessation of Kate’s treatment at last.
Anyway. Back to this week’s Week Ahead reading. I’m going for the Sibilla della Zingara (Gypsy Oracle Cards) today. You can read ALL the posts I have written so far about this deck and its more complex sister, the Vera Sibilla, here:
The spread we’re using for this week is the 16-card Witch’s Tableau, and you can use it with any oracle deck, or indeed Tarot or playing cards. Here’s the lowdown on laying and reading this one:
Here’s how today’s tableau fell:
The Cards
Room, Doctor, Love, Old Woman; Letter, Gifts, Malady, Child; Thief, Reunion, Joyfulness (R), Conversation; Pleasure Seekers, Service, Wife, Constancy.
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The Reading
The cards speak first of what we know about; a healing in private that’s happened recently (Room, Doctor), and news of a treasure, benefit or gift given (Letter, Gifts). There’s private news here, or for a family (Room, Letter) and the gift is one of healing and wisdom (Doctor, Gifts).
What’s been under the surface? The taking away of a coming together or reunion with others (Thief, Reunion) or a coming together of those who wish to steal or take away, perhaps a ganging up. And there’s been service and pandering to that, to a crowd of foolish, “drunken” people, the mob if you like (Pleasure Seekers, Service). A foolish, perhaps hive mind kind of crowd who want to take what they can get (Thief, Pleasure Seekers) and a coming together of those who will serve and pander to them, fawners perhaps (Reunion, Service).
What’s ahead? Well, we appear to have the love and passions of an older woman, so perhaps looking back at those (Love, Old Woman), along with a sickness involving a child or a new project that is deeply unhealthy or dysfunctional in some way (Malady, Child). Love sickness, a dysfunctional relationship, perhaps (Love, Malady) and either a generational difference, or an older woman and her “baby” or her youth (Old Woman, Child). So it could be we have an older woman giving her story this week, perhaps about her past.
Under the surface what will be going on though? Well, it appears there’ll be talk about a kind of muted celebration, party pooping if you like, or a get together that isn’t quite the big party expected (Joyfulness R, Conversation) while there’s consistency, steadiness and calm from a Wife figure, a mature and responsible family woman (Wife, Constancy). Her celebration is kind of muted, however, a bit of a damp squib (Joyfulness R, Wife) while there’s talk of stability and calm. So it may just be all a bit dull and boring underneath really.
Reading the rows across, we get this private healing that’s happened (Room, Doctor), seemingly involving the love life or passions of a now older woman (Love, Old Woman), so perhaps someone talking about “the way things were.” There’s news of gifts or the giving of a message or documentation in the past (Letter, Gifts) that had something to do with unhealthiness, sickness connected with a child or children, or a new beginning where all is not well (Malady, Child). A get-together of those who wish to steal or take away (Thief, Reunion), brings muted joy or pours cold water on happiness (Joyfulness R) as people get together (Conversation) or they are talking about it. Party pooping abounds. All very unfun and unpleasurable.
There’s service too to the craziness, to crowds of foolish people (Pleasure Seekers, Service) and it may be a woman pandering to the idiocy (Service, Wife) just to keep the peace (Wife, Constancy).
Reading the columns down, we have had private news or a message (Room, Letter) of a theft, or a thieving bunch of unwise people, drunk on whatever it is they’re thinking about (Thief, Pleasure Seekers), although it could be suggesting the party pooping side of things again. You then have the gift of healing (Doctor, Gifts) bringing a coming together and that being served or pandered to (Gifts, Reunion, Service). Then you have a love sickness or romantic problems making a celebration somewhat muted for a wife figure (Love, Malady, Joyfulnesss R, Wife), while an older woman’s child or new beginning is talked about in terms of consistency or involves a coming together that will last the course (Old Woman, Child, Conversation, Constancy).
Diagonally, the cards show private gifts or treasures provided, benefits gained even when things are kind of dull (Room, Gifts, Joyfulness R, Constancy), and an older woman’s unhealthiness regarding people coming together and perhaps descending into madness (Old Woman, Malady, Reunion, Pleasure Seekers).
Pairing the cards gives us private or family consistency and stability (Room, Constancy) and healing for or from a wife figure (Doctor, Wife), with a service or sense of duty to love and romance, perhaps a particular relationship (Love, Service) and an older woman connected with crowd behaviour or mass foolishness (Old Woman, Pleasure Seekers). It appears there’ll be news of a conference or get-together, a discussion (Letter, Conversation), perhaps a public debate on an issue, with “treasures” given that aren’t all that fun or uplifting (Gifts, Joyfulness R), an unhealthy coming together (Malady, Reunion) between two parties, and a young thief, or the snatching or kidnapping of something or someone young or new (Child, Thief).
Finally, double-pairing the cards gives us private news of a get-together for stability’s sake (Room, Letter, Conversation, Constancy), a healing “gift” that’s about being muted for a wife figure (Joyfulness R, Wife), romantic or relationship maladies that involve serving those who get together (Love, Malady, Reunion, Service) or trying to get people together who aren’t really suited, perhaps, and an older woman’s “baby” and a theft or loss involving some kind of mass craziness (Thief, Pleasure Seekers).
I don’t know. This sounds like it could be some kind of religious revival thing, or a public debate about women and conservatism, particularly the focus on the wife figure, children, and supposed healing. I may be way off the mark here, but that’s the vibe I’m getting. Perhaps a lecture by or about an older woman. We’ll see.
The cards speak first of what we are alleged to know about or that’s on the surface; a healing in private that’s happened recently and news of a treasure, benefit or gift given. There’s private news here, or for a family and the gift is one of healing and wisdom imparted.
What’s been under the surface? The taking away of a coming together or reunion with others or a coming together of those who wish to steal or take away, perhaps a ganging up. And there’s been service and pandering to that, to a crowd of foolish, “drunken” people, the mob if you like. A foolish, perhaps hive mind kind of crowd who want to take what they can get and a coming together of those who will serve and pander to them, fawners perhaps.
What’s ahead? Well, we appear to have the love and passions of an older woman, so perhaps looking back at those, along with a sickness involving a child or a new project that is deeply unhealthy or dysfunctional in some way. Love sickness, a dysfunctional relationship, perhaps and either a generational difference, or an older woman and her “baby” or her youth. So it could be we have an older woman giving her story this week, perhaps about her past.
Under the surface what will be going on though? Well, it appears there’ll be talk about a kind of muted celebration, party pooping if you like, or a get together that isn’t quite the big party expected, while there’s consistency, steadiness and calm from a female wife figure, a mature and responsible family woman. Her celebration is kind of muted, however, a bit of a damp squib, while there’s talk of stability and calm. So it may just be all a bit dull and boring underneath really.
Reading the rows across, we get this private healing that’s happened, seemingly involving the love life or passions of a now older woman, so perhaps someone talking about “the way things were.” There’s news of gifts or the giving of a message or documentation in the past that had something to do with unhealthiness, sickness connected with a child or children, or a new beginning where all is not well. A get-together of those who wish to steal or take away brings muted joy or pours cold water on happiness as people come together or are talking about it. Party pooping abounds. All very unfun and unpleasurable.
There’s service too to the craziness, to crowds of foolish people, and it may be a woman pandering to the idiocy just to keep the peace.
We appear to have had private news or a message of a theft, or a thieving bunch of unwise people, drunk on whatever it is they’re thinking about. You then have the gift of healing bringing a coming together and that being served or pandered to. Then you have a love sickness or romantic problems making a celebration somewhat muted for a wife figure, while an older woman’s child or new beginning is talked about in terms of consistency or involves a coming together that will last the course.
The cards show private gifts or treasures provided, benefits gained even when things are kind of dull, and an older woman’s unhealthiness regarding people coming together and perhaps descending into madness. There is private or family consistency and stability and healing for or from a wife figure, with a service or sense of duty to love and romance, perhaps a particular relationship and an older woman connected with crowd behaviour or mass foolishness. It appears there’ll be news of a conference or get-together, a discussion, perhaps a public debate on an issue, with “treasures” given that aren’t all that fun or uplifting, an unhealthy coming together between two parties, and a young thief, or the snatching or kidnapping of something or someone young or new.
Finally, there’s private news of a get-together for stability’s sake a healing “gift” that’s about being muted for a wife figure, romantic or relationship maladies that involve serving those who get together, or trying to get people together who aren’t really suited, perhaps, with an older woman’s “baby” and a theft or loss involving some kind of mass craziness.
It sounds like could be some kind of religious revival thing, or a public debate about women and conservative values, particularly the focus on the wife figure, children, and supposed healing.
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