Today’s reading is a 9-Card with the Gypsy Oracle Sibilla deck.
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Today’s layout:
The Cards In Brief
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Sorrow: Sadness, bad news, possibly unexpected
Foe: An unpleasant female enemy
Fortune: Great luck, good fortune
Old Woman (R): An unpleasant or difficult older woman
Widower (R): A loss that has been grieved, time to move on
Merchant: Business person, moneymaker
Falseness: Facade, fakeness, something wrong
House: Home, home environment, roots, building
Money: Money, assets, financial security
The Reading
At the centre, then, is sense that a loss is now being moved away from, that it’s time to move on (Widower R). But from what?
Around the reversed Widower, so the sense of things being got over, we have two quite unpleasant female cards, an older or senior woman who appears to be acting out of spite or is at least difficult (Old Woman R), and it looks like she’s fairly out in the open about her targeting (Foe) or there are or have been open hostilities and opposition between two women. They’re likely to be someone close to home (House), and moneymaking and business or business people are involved (Merchant).
At the centre, we appear to have things at home (an organisation, family, or a political party, perhaps) and a sense of perhaps moving on from or letting go of friction with a particular female enemy or opponent (Foe, Widower R, House). It appears that this involves the facade of grief, or perhaps “fake tears” over a difficult older woman (Sorrow-Old Woman (R), Falseness)—or an older woman expressing sorrow or sadness that isn’t genuinely meant.
Underneath, the hidden or buried foundation of this situation appears to be great luck in building and hoarding money (Fortune, Merchant, Money).
It looks as though this female rival or opponent, whoever she is, has been expressing sorrow or gets bad news over someone’s good fortune—or there’s been sorrow that she’s been quite lucky (Sorrow-Foe-Fortune). Now, however, a harsh or troublesome Older Woman appears to be letting go and moving on (Widower R) regarding the business side of things (Merchant). Ahead, seems to be something false or perhaps a pretence going on with regard to home (Falseness, House) and to do with ensuring financial comfort (Money). Again, someone may be pretending that they’re better off or more wealthy than they actually are, or may be paying someone to keep up the facade.
Diagonally, the cards suggest again a getting over of grief, a moving on to consolidate assets (Sorrow, Widower R, Money), but that it is primarily the appearance of that which brings the benefits (Falseness, Widower R, Fortune).
The Sorrow or sadness impacts the family business or a business close to home (House, Merchant), and the Foe is particularly connected with having the appearance of money or assets, or ‘fake wealth’ in some way, or is paid to play a role in some way (Falseness, Money). This is extremely fortunate (Fortune) for the difficult older or senior woman in the household (Old Woman R, House).
She, meanwhile, does particularly well financially out of any arrangement (Old Woman, R, Fortune, Money), and certainly, fake tears or sadness are good for business (Merchant, Sorrow, Falseness). And it’s how the Foe makes her living also (Falseness, Foe, Merchant). In this House, sadness or expressions of sorrow are lucky (Sorrow, Fortune), and money can be made by both parties (Money, Older Woman R, Foe).
Someone, perhaps two rivals, a rather bitter older woman close to home and another female enemy, feels it’s time to move on for the sake of business or moneymaking. There may be a show of sorrow over this that is entirely fake, but at root, it’s likely that it’s mainly about the benefits for financial reasons. That said, any appearance of wealth and financial security at home may well also be a veneer. Money can be made over expressions of sadness, and moneymaking and the securing of assets is entirely the name of the game here.