This Week: The Message Is One Of Luck & Fortune In Documentation Or The News. Really?! Let's See...
Week commencing 22 September 2025
So for our week ahead reading this week, we’re using the Piatnik cards again and one of my old faves for tableau readings, the Mystic Sevens (and yes, you do count in sevens to identify your cards for the reading). This is a tableau-like spread where you pick a significator (usually to represent the Querent, but not, as in news readings, necessarily always the case) and then have three rows of seven cards that you can read horizontally, vertically, and then, in classic style, pair.
You can remind yourself of how to lay and read this one here:
Meanwhile, here is our spread for this week’s news.
Note I’ve used the Message rather than the Letter card as the significator for news; gives a slightly different flavour, perhaps, but as you can see from the image, it’s really about the various messages and pieces of information flying around.
The Cards
Hope, Jealousy, Widow, Fortune, Enemy, Sadness, Malady; Widower, Anger, Money, Merriment, Letter, Love, Ecclesiastic; Unexpected Joy, Lover, Gift, Constancy, Marriage, Sweetheart, Thief
The Reading
At the core of this reading, in the central column, we have a message about luck and good fortune, happiness and a constant watching-over (Message, Merriment, Constancy). Which sounds more positive than news usually is, but there we go!
If we read across the horizontal rows (right to left, top to bottom as is standard for this reading) we get the following:
There seems to be a sick or unhealthy sense of sadness or upset about illness/dysfunction (Malady, Sadness) over an Enemy figure, but there’s actually luck (Fortune) pouring over the news or information we’ll be getting in some way (Fortune pouring on Letter). An older woman or bereaved wife mourns envy (Jealousy, Widow) but there is also Hope springing from that.
A spiritual, religious or moral figure preaches love (Love, Ecclesiastic) and there may be news of this (Letter) which brings happiness and joy (Merriment) but there’s also anger around money or the value given to or by an older male figure who may be looking back in regret (Money, Anger, Widower).
In the bottom row, we have a Thief and a Sweetheart, so someone may be snatching a woman, or a woman or female figure may be the thief in a deal or marriage situation (Marriage, Sweetheart, Thief) which is constant or always overseen (Constancy).That brings a gift for a male figure and a pleasant surprise (Gift, Lover, Unexpected Joy).
Reading the columns down from the right, we get that there has been a sickness in morality, that it has been stolen in some way (Malady, Ecclesiastical,Thief) and there’s sadness over love and relationships for a female figure (Sadness, Love, Sweetheart). There’s news or documentation of an enemy deal, perhaps a signed declaration or bill (Enemy, Letter, Marriage) and as we’ve seen, at the core of the message is luck pouring over that bringing happiness to those who would oversee that and make it permanent (Message, Fortune,Merriment, Constancy).
An older woman may give or receive money as a gift or compensation (Widow, Money, Gift) and there’s jealous rage and anger over a particular man (Jealousy, Anger, Lover), while there’s hope for a senior,older man that a pleasant surprise may be unearthed (Hope, Widower, Unexpected Joy).
Pairing the cards give us an unhealthy surprise, or unhealthy glee at a surprise (Malady, Unexpected Joy) amid sadness for a particular man (Sadness, Lover). An enemy either gifts something or receives a gift (Enemy, Gift) involving luck and good fortune over stability and/or “everything”, oversight (Fortune, Constancy).An older woman, possibly grieving and her marriage or she makes a deal (Widow, Marriage) and there’s jealousy of a younger woman (Jealousy, Sweetheart) with hopes of stealing something or taking something from her (Hope, Thief).
A spiritual or moral older man (Widower, Ecclesiast) OR an older man faces up to a more moral one, where there’s anger in love (Anger, Love) around news of money or payment (Money, Letter) that the message appears to bring happiness about (Message, Merriment).
So this appears to be an upbeat message of luck and good fortune, happiness and a constant watching-over for this week. Which sounds more positive than news usually is, but there we go!
There seems to be a sick or unhealthy sense of sadness or upset about illness/dysfunction over an enemy figure, but there’s actually luck pouring over the news or information we’ll be getting in some way. An older woman or bereaved wife mourns envy but hope eternal also springs from that.
A spiritual, religious or moral figure preaches love and there may be news of this which brings happiness, pleasure and joy,but there’s also anger around money or the value given to or by an older/senior male figure who may be looking back in regret.
Someone may be snatching a woman, or a woman or female figure may be the thief in a deal or marriage situation which is constant or always overseen. That brings a gift for a younger male figure and a pleasant surprise.
Reading the columns down from the right, we get that there has been a sickness in morality, that it has been stolen in some way.and there’s sadness over love and relationships for a female figure. There’s news or documentation of an enemy deal, perhaps a signed declaration, document or bill and as we’ve seen, at the core of the message is luck pouring over that bringing happiness to those who would oversee that and make it permanent.
An older woman may give or receive money as a gift or compensation but there’s jealous rage and anger over a particular man, while there’s hope for a senior,older man that a pleasant surprise may be unearthed.
Pairing the cards give us an unhealthy surprise, or unhealthy glee at a surprise amid sadness for a particular man. An enemy either gifts something or receives a gift involving luck and good fortune over stability and/or “everything”, oversight ).An older woman, possibly grieving and her marriage or she makes a deal, and there’s jealousy of a younger woman with hopes of stealing something or taking something from her, or hope itself being snatched away.
A spiritual or moral older man OR an older/senior man faces up to a more moral one, where there’s anger in love/support around news of money or payment that the message appears to bring happiness about.