Tuesday: Despair In High Institution Over Man's Taking Of Value, Leaving Only Unpleasant Tough Work To Be Done
Tuesday April 25th 2023
For today’s reading, we’re using the Fin de Siecle Kipper deck. As a reminder, this contains three additional cards to the standard thirty-six—Poverty, Community and Toil & Labour, to reflect the English Victorian aesthetic the designer (Ciro Marchetti) was going for.
Meanwhile, for paid subscribers, we’ll be starting to look more closely at the Kipper cards in general here from next week.
The Cards
House: Home, locale, institution, structure
High Honours: Rewards, high office
Despair: Despair, sorrow, grief
Main Male: Main male character
Thief: Theft, losses.
Expectation: Anticipation, waiting, patience
Toil & Labour: Labour, hard graft, thankless work
The Reading
In an institution of high office, perhaps the higher echelons of society, there is despair (House, High Honours, Despair) due to something a particular man has taken, or his being revealed to be a thief (Man, Thief). Having to do hard graft and unpleasant work is anticipated as a result (Expectation, Toil & Labour).
Across-wise, there is an atmosphere of expectation and anticipation, perhaps dread in his “house”, local area or domain (House, Main Male, Expectation). Underpinning this is the sense that respect, rewards and honour have been stripped, and instead, only thankless and unpleasant work will remain or be expected (High Honours, Thief, Toil & Labour): that something has been downgraded to the very basics and worst. This brings a sense of utter Despair.
Diagonally, the cards show something stolen or lost from this particular environment (House, Thief) and the expectation being that this can bring only despair and sorrow, that all of value is lost (Expectation, Thief, Despair). The high position of the Man concerned comes off the back of others’ labour (High Honours, Man, Toil & Labour)
Not sure who or what this is about, but it definitely has an “institutional” feel, and the sense of a hard and unpleasant taskmaster involved.
Despair in the higher echelons over a man who has stolen something, bringing expectations of unpleasant, hard work to be done. Those in his domain or institution are having to wait, but the underlying energy is that all value and honour has been stripped and downgraded by him, leaving only grim, thankless tasks to do.