This Week: News Of Financial Gloom, With Blocks In Trade & A Friendship Betrayed
For this week’s week ahead “news” reading this week, we’re using the Austrian Piatnik Mlle Lenormand Cartomancy Deck, and I’m going to be using an expanded 9-Card Spread, which I’ve adapted from a common one used by the Gypsy Witch deck, (which is itself an expanded US derivative of Lenormand: more on that another time!)
Today, I’ve chosen the Rider at the centre for “delivery of news” so we’ll see what these cards have to say.
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Meanwhile, let’s get back to our reading for today.
The layout fell as follows:
The Cards (from top left)
Fish, Stars, Snake; Anchor, Clouds, Dog; Ring, Tree, Rider, Lady, Crossroads; Mountain, Ship, Key; Bouquet, Scythe, Garden
Quick meanings can be found below:
The Reading
Okay, so what do we have here? Well, just looking at the centre tableau for now surrounding the Rider, for news (or rather “delivery of news”), by looking above him, we can see that the news is likely to be negative or dark this week (Clouds). He’s the bringer of bad news, and it seems it’s something about long term health, growth and stability (Clouds, Anchor, Tree). It appears there’s a blockage or obstacle of some kind to growth, particularly in international trade (Tree, Mountain, Ship).
There also appears to be some darkness or negativity regarding a friendship or alliance (Clouds, Dog), so perhaps in support of someone, and the “someone” appears to be a female figure (Lady). She seems to be significant in terms of overseas trade (Lady, Key, Ship) so I am wondering if “she” is perhaps a country.
Looking right across the centre, to incorporate both cards either side it, we see there’s been some kind of deal or arrangement regarding growth and energy (Ring, Tree), the news that’s coming is about that (Rider) and a Lady will have to make choices or decide which road to go down.
There’s darkness above it with regard to support for it or its stability (Anchor, Clouds, Dog), and beneath there appears to be some kind of important blockage regarding trade. An embargo, perhaps (Mountain, Ship, Key)? If you read the additional cards in the very top row, we can see that this appears to be financial goals running into problems (Fish, Stars, Snake). A gift or reward of some kind gets removed or reduced, perhaps due to public pressure (Bouquet, Scythe, Garden).
If we go beyond that central tableau and read the cards on the left, we can see that there’s been some kind of previous financial deal or sweetener (Fish, Ring, Bouquet). Then we can see that health or growth has been stable but now it is getting stuck or blocked (Anchor, Tree, Mountain). The central column with the extra cards tells us that there may be some hope regarding the negative news (Stars, Clouds, Rider), but also that we may hear news of international trade being cut off (Rider, Ship, Scythe), or a trip may be cut short. The friendship or support of a particular “Lady” will be been crucial (Dog, Lady, Key). But a wrong turn is likely to be taken with regard to the public (Snake, Crossroads, Garden).
Taking a look at the diagonals, the cards suggest that there’ll be news about financial stability or certainty (Fish, Anchor, Rider) which will have a key impact on the public (Rider, Key, Garden). The other diagonal shows a betraying or false friend or ally and news coming about that (Snake, Dog, Rider) and the blocking of benefits or rewards (Rider, Mountain, Bouquet).
The cards suggest that the news is likely to be negative or gloomy this week, and it seems it’s something about long term health, growth and stability. There could be an obstacle of some kind to growth, particularly in international trade.
There also appears to be some darkness or negativity regarding a friendship or alliance, so perhaps in support of someone, and the “someone” appears to be a female figure. She seems to be significant in terms of overseas trade or a traveller so I am wondering if “she” is perhaps a country.
There’s been some kind of deal or arrangement regarding growth and energy the news that’s coming is about that and this lady will have to make choices or decide which road to go down.
There’s darkness above with regard to support for stability and beneath there appears to be some kind of important blockage regarding trade or movement. An embargo, perhaps? Financial goals are running into problems, and a gift or reward of some kind gets removed or reduced, perhaps due to public pressure.
It seems there’s been some kind of previous financial deal or sweetener and while health or growth has been stable, it’s now getting stuck or blocked. There may be some hope regarding the negative news, but we also may hear news of international trade being cut off or a trip being cut short. The friendship or support of a particular “Lady” will be been crucial, but a wrong turn is likely to be taken with regard to the public.
So there’ll be news about financial stability or certainty which will have a key impact on the public. The cards show a betraying or false friend or ally and news coming about that and the blocking of benefits or rewards.
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