Thursday: A Man Who's Been Mourning Takes A Trip Which Brings Merriment, But Old Losses And Forces In Play, Especially In Love
Thursday 30th March 2023
For today’s reading, I’m going to show you a quick ‘n dirty way to read a 9-card spread that’s a little different from how I would normally do it, but it is one that’s definitely worth trying.
The deck we’re using here is the 1901 Piatnik Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards, the 36-card Austrian deck with notable similarities to both the Vera Sibilla/Gypsy Oracle and the Kipper. They both derived from an earlier version of this deck. Here are today’s cards.
The Cards
Journey: A trip or journey
Hope: Hope, positivity
Lover: A love interest, a male lover or partner, or just the main male in a reading.
Widower: A man who is mourning
Merriment: Happiness, joy
Widow: A woman who is mourning, an older woman alone
Judge: Decision-maker, law, verdict
Anger: Anger, irritation, annoyance, conflict
Love: Love, romance
The Reading
We begin with the card at the centre. Today, this is the Journey, so the cards are telling us about a literal journey or trip, or progress or movement more generally. What is the journey or progress about? We look above the centre card to find that out and combine that with our central card and it turns out it’s a journey of Hope, or the hope that progress will be made.
What’s at the root of this? Well, you can find this out from the card below the Journey—the Lover, and combining it. So this is likely to be “a lover’s” or the main man’s journey, or he is hoping for things to progress—and he himself is travelling (literally) or progressing. The Lover himself is dressed in rather formal military garb - he’s not the same as the Military card also in this deck, but just worth considering.
Next, we look at the recent past of the situation, and for this, we use the card to the left of the Journey, in this case the Widower. The recent past shows us a man, perhaps an older man, in mourning for his loss.
What’s immediately ahead? We have Merriment. Positivity and happiness, a happy outcome of this journey or the progress made in the near future.
Now we look at the more distant past of the situation. For this, we can pair the two left corner cards, here, the Widow and the Judge. A woman in mourning, her loss, and the verdict connected with her, perhaps, that is linked to this journey or trip. The farther future? The two right corner cards, which show us Anger and Love. Conflicts and annoyance in or over love are predicted in the long run.
That’s the main thrust of the reading, but if we wish, we can additionally make the bigger picture connection on what else the journey will relate to in the minds of those involved over the long term, by looking at the two top corner cards, the Widow and Anger. It looks as though there’ll be a resurgence of conflict over the long-ago losses or sadness of a woman. And for the underlying root of this in the big picture sense? The bottom corner cards, the Judge and Love: verdicts or judgement (or opinion) regarding our traveller’s love and relationships, or someone being judged with love and affection. Further, we can look at the diagonal corners and see that the woman may have been mourning the loss of a love (Widow-Love) and that there is anger and conflict over that in terms of the judgement regarding this man (Anger-Judge).
Interesting! Especially as we have two rather formal royals on trips right now, and at least one with a Germanic feel, Hazza to the UK for the shared case with Associated Press, and his father on his first state trip as King to Germany (sure, I could make a joke about ‘visiting the rellies’ there but I won’t) after the France one got cancelled due to the peasants people rioting…
Who does it fit best? I’d say Charles more probably with the mourning ‘loved’ woman (a certain former wife) and the angry judgements about the past, but let’s see. Perhaps it is both, in a way.
A journey or trip, or progress more generally, taken by a man, that is all about hope and positivity. His trips have more recently been about mourning and sadness, loss, but this one appears to bring cheer and merriment. In the distant past, there may well have been a similar journey undertaken with a sad or mourning woman on whom a verdict was delivered. In the far future, there may be a conflict over love which is somehow connected with this journey.