As it was the end of the month, end of a season, Samhain, and major stuff going on in the news, it was time for some BIG readings this week, or rather, “Big Picture” readings.
Some of the layouts I used this week were as follows. Click on the buttons if you’d like step-by-step details on how you might lay or read them:
News Readings This Week
As the world seems to be going some major turmoil right now, with lots of difficult truths appearing to be coming to the surface for us to address and think about, most of the spreads this week have reflected that, as there are big picture global issues and concerns at play. Mourning, loss, and the military or authority played a part in a number of the readings, and across different decks. Most of the readings need little in the way of explanation, so I’ve kept further analysis to a minimum this week as it should be fairly obvious to what each spread is referring.
Current Big Picture: State Of The World End Oct 2023
The cards centre on a grieving male enemy, focusing on what and whom he has lost, being at the centre of events. A “visit” that was promised, planned or agreed has brought a surprising amount of rather dark, dysfunctional celebration and happiness over it. The visit had a religious element and “gifts” only grief and mourning and a military promise with a message of resolve and loyalty, that any “unexpected joy” is rooted in dysfunction and falsehoods, and any happiness perceived for a particular country will invoke financial ruin, devaluing and disaster. The visit brought death and money, the celebrations are of a gift stolen, the surprise happiness, with money or value in loyalty to the cause, and the cause committed to involves young passionate men and their rage.
Someone is determined to keep taking, but may believe he is always being stolen from. He causes sorrow for women and engages the minds of passionate young men. Losses bring hope of death, news of jealousy and envy and a more general message of anger.
The promise of a visitation or one that was planned has a religious message, involving constant yearning and desire, perhaps even a claim of a divine desire. The news has been of a young woman or women and the loss of love or heart, or care, heartlessness, callousness. Jealousy and envy bringing sorrow, and thoughts of hope and ambitions involving an unhealthy destruction with a surprising amount of celebration of it. Widows mourn their soldiers, gifting loyalty to the tribe and the death of young men. Judgement comes about the direction of travel from senior individuals and lawmakers, there is our enemy widower, our grieving man, and the chances, fates and fortunes of the very young and children. Money and value is lost or stolen and anger and rage is given more value with regard to a “false home” or country.
A visit that brings widows and the promise of military action. A religious “gift” of a message about loyalty and tribalism. The only constant is death, which the young men appear to desire and yearn for. There is news of senior figures, of judgements handed down over the movement and journeys of women. A passionate enemy mourns his losses. Envy wins and children are in sorrow. Thoughts of gains through hopes and plans of stealing them. A deeply unhealthy rage and a well-financed destruction, celebrating falsehoods and a country’s supposed “joy” and advantage.
The visit brings mourning to the country of supposed merriment. The visit gifts theft, loss and sorrow. It brings death but also funding. There is a resulting commitment to anger from young men.
Religious and spiritual mourning over losses; religious deaths, children and the young lost. It involves theft and loss from a country, a sense of it being “burgled”, religious judgements and leaders, but also a message of movement, or moving ahead, and false value or rewards.
A perception of gifts given to the “house” or country. Constant deaths, theft planned. Also overseen by, perhaps a judgemental god figure, as well as those in power, and men mourning the loss of women. Constant mourning and children and the young being of value to the enemy. Permanent emnity. A yearning from those mourning, a desire for angry karma, a vengeful destiny.
News of deaths to wealth and supposed merriment; news of judgement and senior figures and children’s sorrow, or sorrow over children; news of an enemy’s moves, progress, and deep inner desires and yearnings that may never be fulfilled or sated. News of a gift of mourning over losses. News of fate. News of very young women or children and women, reward for the enemy, loyal women.
“Caring” or passionate judges’ or those in power’s thefts and destructions. A passionate enemy mourns losses. Passion brings “luck” and fatedness to a young man’s message. Passionate death, love dies with the movement of children, the love of reward and money. Theft and loss, the hand of fate and judgement, the fate of those in power, young men’s losses.
A jealous enemy’s hopes and plans for a new generation. Envy pours fortune on the movement of women or the progress of the idealised “sweetheart”. Jealous judgements, and a young man’s sense of loss of grieving. Jealous rage. Jealousy over value brings loyal commitments and promises. The sorrow of the wealthy, deaths brought by the enemy causing sorrow, shifting the sorrow.
Thoughts of fortune or fate with regard to the grieving of those looking at what has been lost. Thoughts of value or rewards for young men’s desires and yearnings. Thoughts of anger in military action, thoughts of revenge. How to think of the enemy, how to move forward loyalty to the cause, how to be false and engender false beliefs and propaganda. Hopes, desires and plans for the country, awarded by the powers that be as a gift, a widower’s plans.
Unhealthy value or rewards as progress and movement is lost. Dysfunctional rage brings loyalty to the message, but there’s distortion and falseness, perhaps propaganda. Unhealthy fate or destiny, sickness in the militarism of young men. Death and grief brings only more destruction. Destruction of childhood, of innocence.
Celebrations and joy in the anger of young men and women and against women. Celebration of falseness, false militarism that is committed to. Celebration and glee in rewards for loyalty. A degree of merriment and pleasure from stealing and taking.
A sense of neverending strife, neverending desire for something that can never be fulfilled, falseness, dysfunction, propaganda, rage, death and young idealistic men in particular. The truth is distorted, but worse, many who are raging do not seem to care.
Tuesday: Two Readings For Samhain. What Must Pass, & A Spiritual Message
What ending, death or transformation must we undergo? What must die and be released or transformed? The time has come, but for what? What’s getting in the way, we’re told is fighting, struggle, and battling to the end. It will prevent us finding the peace we seek. We need to stop complaining and griping about petty things, the things we cannot change, making pointless complaints. Only then can the pain and sorrow come to an end and bring us the sweetness we seek. There is a game afoot, a risk a gamble. Endings can be peaceful, with an absence of battles and fighting. But be aware that for some, there will be annoyance if sorrow ends. Sorrow gives them pleasure. It is a game for them, and life would be far less entertaining for them, it’s suggested, in the absence of sorrow and loss.
A first reading for Samhain here, on the question of what needs to be left behind, warning us to watch out for misery-merchants, those who thrive on negativity and conflict, and will stir it up if it seems to be disappearing. “Sorrow is a pleasure for them, it is a game.”
The second reading, detailed below, was more about the spiritual side of the festival, a message from spirit.