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 …