Thursday: A Spy In The Royal Ranks? Using Gypsy Oracle Sibilla Cards To Dive Deeper: Part I of II
Thursday 28th March 2024
Hmm, have had a pretty interesting series of readings coming up on the (FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY, natch!) topic of “an insider, mole or spy within the Royal household” lately using the Gypsy Oracle/Sibilla della Zingara cards, so I thought I’d share a couple of them with you today and tomorrow.
The topic came up because I’ve done a number of larger readings where I keep getting either one of the reversed Servant/Maid cards, which is the female version, or the reversed Service/Domestico card, the male, showing up in Royal spreads. As a matter of curiosity, I wanted to investigate further if the cards wanted to reveal something going on with someone who couldn’t be trusted “on the inside”. I don’t mean the Harkles, because they’re well and truly on the outside right now, and we all know that. I wanted to see if there was someone else.
So! The technique I used, and it’s one you can use yourself with any deck you have if you want to do a deep dive into an issue, is to start a set or chain of readings with a fairly “open” one on a particular topic (“What’s coming up for so-and-so?” “What’s going on with X topic?” and so on).
An ideal spread to use would be either one of the larger tableaus, or a classic 3 x 3 9-card box spread as these show you lots of different influencing factors from different angles. Click the button below for instructions for reading 9-Card Spreads for Kipper cards: a similar method can be used for most other decks (I read the Lenormand slightly differently). Directionality is used in Kipper, but I don’t generally use that with the Sibillas like the ones I’m using today.
So you interpret your spread in the usual way. And what you then do once you’ve done your initial reading, is pick the most interesting or curious of the cards that came up in THAT spread to place at the centre of a new spread as a key card to do a deeper dive. You read that new spread. You might find even more curiosities in your second spread that could do with exploration so you do the same again. And you can keep going as long as you want, depending how many “cards of interest” you find and how deep you want to go. You’d be surprised how often the same cards and themes keep repeating in the chain when you’re “onto” a topic.
So! I wanted to show you today the first couple of spreads that came up in a chain of readings I did about “Royal moles or spies”. The first used the female Servant/Maid card, in its reversed format, in the centre, as that’s one of the cards that keeps on coming up. And the question was: “Who is the ‘underhanded female servant’ who keeps appearing in spreads? What can you tell me about her and what she’s doing?”
Here are the cards I got for that.
The Cards: Spread 1, The “Maid”
House, Sweetheart, Sorrow, Gift, Servant/Maid (R), Joyfulness, Enemy, Hope, Merchant
We’ll get onto the full interpretation in a moment. The card of curiosity here was the Enemy card, so I used it as the central keycard in a new spread, asking who this was and what he was doing.
So here was our Enemy card spread. You’ll see that I’ve reversed him; this is because a reversed Enemy is an exposed one, and the reading is all about exposing him, so it seemed appropriate.
The Cards: Spread 2, The “Enemy”
Thought, House, Fortune, Hope, Enemy (R), Constancy, Joyfulness, Death, Priest
So quite a few of the same cards; the House, Hope and that slightly ikky Joyfulness.
And just to say, one VERY curious additional about this one was that the underlying energy card, the card left at the bottom of the pack after I’d laid my 9 cards, was… this one. In this reversed position.
Hmm. This card usually represents someone relatively powerful, but usually corrupt, useless, or otherwise, not a particularly good person. Someone’s dark side, Now that IS interesting, no? We’ll be looking in more detail at him in the post tomorrow.
But back to today’s. Together, what do these two spreads suggest about our topic: insiders or “moles” in the Royal household?
Read on to find out!