This Week's Themes: Surprise Love Reunion; Older Woman & Mob Behaviour; Duty, Gifts, The Law, Theft, Self Righteousness & An Enemy On The Move
Week Commencing 6th November 2023
We’re starting this week with an extremely useful layout I’ve not used for a while called the Six Main Themes layout. You can use it with either of the Sibilla decks, but it does require 52 cards, so isn’t suitable for smaller decks, really, although you could make the main layout a little smaller.
It’s a reading of two halves and you can find all the details of how to lay it and read it here:
Today, we’re using the Sibilla della Zingara (aka Gypsy Oracle Cards), and the layouts fell as follows:
The Cards
Surprise, Reunion, Love, Fortune, Old Woman, Pleasure Seekers, Joyfulness, Room
Melancholy, Service, House; Friend, Merchant, Gifts; Sweetheart, Priest, Lover (R); Foe, Thief, Constancy; Haughtiness, Prison, Child; Marriage (R), Enemy, Journey
The Reading
Here’s the interpretation of the layout in its two halves:
Overall Message
According to these cards, there’s a Surprise coming up for us regarding a particular romantic or loving reunion or coming together (Reunion, Love). And there’s luck and good Fortune pouring in courtesy of an older or senior woman (Old Woman), which appears particularly to pour over those who are being somewhat gleeful, deranged, or over the top, especially when in groups, right now (Pleasure Seekers). Partying and celebrations will be happening in private, so perhaps there’ll be some quiet cheering on at play here (Joyfulness, Room), or a happiness kept behind closed doors.
The Six Themes This Week
Service & Duty
Melancholy, Service, House
On the domestic or structural front, we see a negative and grumpy approach to the idea of service or duty this week, so are likely to see help and assistance that is rather, and perhaps obviously, grudgingly given. Service focuses on what you can do for others, it can be about having to bow down to someone else, and it can involve employees and employment, or having to knuckle down whether you want to or not.
Business & Moneymaking, Wealthy Person
Friend, Merchant, Gifts
This could be general business and moneymaking or it could involve a particular person, most likely a man, who is wealthy and a businessman (Merchant). It looks rather as if there may be some bribery or benefits going on, perhaps someone very wealthy giving disproportionate rewards to their mates or supporters (Friend, Gift)
Authority, Religion, The Law, A Religious or Senior Legal Figure
Sweetheart, Priest, Lover (R)
Ethics, morality and the law and authority figures come into play this week, so perhaps the lawyers are called in, or religion begins playing a part (Priest). A male and female figure are involved, but the male figure seen negatively, a man who doesn’t love women, perhaps, or negative behaviour from a male partner or one who has ceased to love the woman. So it could involve a senior authority figure opining on couples in general, it could be the lawyers being called regarding a particular couple, or it could involve laws being made on domestic situations, divorces, DV etc.
Theft & Loss
Foe, Thief, Constancy
Here, we have a female enemy figure and constant theft or loss associated with her. Is this someone being constantly demonised and having things taken from her, or is she herself the thief? Woman constantly taking or stealing things.
Imprisonment, Entrapment, Rigidity
Haughtiness, Prison, Child
A child or young person locked in by their own arrogance, it seems to me. Hubris. The trap of self righteousness (Haughtiness, Prison) which makes one rigid and immovable. A young person or younger people being trapped by this, or cornered by it (Prison, Child). This, of course, can also refer to physically trapped children, such as those kidnapped or trapped in other ways, caught up in events caused by others’ arrogance and pride.
Enemies, A Particular Enemy
Marriage (R), Enemy, Journey
Yet more enmity, or someone working against us, perhaps hiding in order to do so, and in this case, likely to be male. An enemy making progress this week towards breaking down an agreement or accord (Marriage R, Journey) which may be from far away. An enemy’s agreement or promise is shattered, a bond broken, which represents movement for the enemy. The enemy is on the move right now.
The cards suggest that this week, we’ll be getting a big surprise regarding a particular love-in or romantic reunion. There’s also luck and good fortune being poured by an older or senior woman over those who are acting unwisely, drunkenly or over the top, particularly in groups. Will it fuel the behaviour or quell it? We will see where the luck falls. There’s private happiness, or joy being expressed privately or behind closed doors.
The six themes coming up this week concern the concept of service and duty, the wealthy and perhaps a particular wealthy individual, legal authority, theft & loss, rigidity or self righteousness among the young, and the movement of an enemy to crush or upturn an agreement or accord. We’re likely to see a negative approach to service, or help that is grudgingly given on the domestic front, having to knuckle down to fulfilling your duties even if you don’t want to or don’t feel like it. A wealthy man may be accused of giving gifts and benefits to his friends and associates. Ethics and morality come into play, along with authority, the law and perhaps religion and are particularly connected with couples or perhaps a specific couple, where the male partner is no longer a lover, actively dislikes the woman or women or has lost his sheen. The lawyers may be being called in or related law may be made. Meanwhile a female enemy figure is associated constantly with theft and loss. Is she being unfairly demonised, or is she herself the thief? A young person or younger people demonstrating self righteousness and hubris is highly likely now, getting locked into an arrogant approach from which they cannot escape or budge. All good news for an enemy, likely a male one this time, someone working against us, in order to break bonds and ties, or some kind of deal or accord. The enemy is on the move right now.