Thursday: Charm Offensive By A Woman, Game Played With A Wealthy Older Man, & She's Playing To Win
Thursday 20th July 2023
Today’s reading comes courtesy of the Grimaud Sibylle des Salons deck, known elsewhere as the Sibilla Indovina.
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The cards for today fell as follows. The card at the centre is usually known as the Blonde Woman, but in this 2022 version of the deck, Grimaud have renamed this the Romance card.
The Cards
Pensioner, Gamblers, Contrariety/Displeasure, Widow (Solitude), Blonde Woman (Romance, Love, Thought (Reverie), Victory, Letter
The Reading
At the centre, then, is the card usually known as the Blonde Woman, but here it is the Romance, or rather flirtation card. This is likely to refer to an actual woman but also a case of flirtation, of trying to use one’s feminine wiles to get what you want. And this does indeed appear to be a game of some kind (Gamblers), a woman doing her best to play the charm game, to score a Victory, and gain love and adoration, perhaps popularity, ahead (Love).
There seems to be an older, wealthy man involved (Pensioner), and a game or flirtation played to relieve a woman’s losses or loneliness (Gamblers, Pensioner, Widow (Solitude)). The flirtatious, charming woman has been dreaming or thinking (Thought/Reverie) about being alone, or just perhaps independently (Widow), about how to score a Victory. She is likely to make complaints and a sense of dissatisfaction part of her game (Gamblers, Contrariety/Displeasure), as part of the game of Love. There’ll be news that she does receive it (Letter), which represents a Victory for her.
So she needs to go, through flirtation and charm, from a situation where she’s alone and grieving, a Widow, to adoration and love (Widow/Solitude, Blonde Woman, Cupid). And there’s an older wealthy man with whom she’s playing games of complaining, I guess to see what she can get (Pensioner, Gamblers, Contrariety/Displeasure). Beneath comes news of her dreams of victory (Thought, Victory, Letter).
She may have had thoughts about the older wealthy man when in solitude (Pensioner, Widow, Thoughts), and now it’s time for her to play for the win (Gamblers, Blonde Woman/Romance, Victory).
Coming up soon will be news of her complaints over love, or she’ll be writing to him complaining (Contrariety/Displeasure, Love, Letter).
So overall, diagonally, we have this older wealthy man and a flirtatious woman, and news of this, and she is considering complaining or being difficult as part of a gameplan.
And no, I’ve no idea who this might be. But she might connect with the Sweetheart from the Gypsy Oracle reading the other day.
A woman is using her charm or skills of flirtation, to get what she wants. And this appears to be a game on her part, a play to score a victory, and gain love and adoration, perhaps popularity.
There’s an older, wealthy man involved and the game or flirtation is played to relieve the woman’s losses or loneliness. She has been dreaming or thinking independently , about how to score a Victory. There’s likely to be news of her complaints and a sense of dissatisfaction part of her game-plan to receive love. She may have had thoughts about the older wealthy man when single, and now it’s time for her to play for the win.
So overall, diagonally, there’s an older wealthy man and a flirtatious woman, news of this, and she is considering complaining or being difficult as part of her gameplan.