Tuesday: Privacy, Money, Poor Advice, The Cheering On Of Falsehoods & Jealous Despair
Tuesday 3rd January 2023
For today’s reading, we’re looking at the Vera Sibilla. The card at the core of this, so the “Significator” (although I did not choose one specifically) is Stanza, The Room. This refers to intimacy, privacy, the private and personal.
The full reading, meanwhile, is as below. Only one reversed card this time.
Centre Cards: The Main Theme
(Stanza) Room: Intimacy, personal, private or family life
(Denari) Money: Money!
So this would be either about an issue of financial privacy (note, not necessarily secrecy) or money in a private or personal sense. Personal finances.
Top Row: Further Detail
(Falsita) Falsehood: Falseness, lies, things not being as they appear, betrayal
(L’Amica) Friend or Friendship: A friend or friendship, advisor
(L’Allegria) Cheerfulness Positivity, good cheer, and celebration
Connected with the privacy and money appears to be a friend’s lie, betrayal or falsehood, or poor advice, along with good cheer and celebration. So there is perhaps someone around, a friend or advisor, giving an aura of false positivity or pretending to be on-side when they’re really not or may be working against you, or just giving poor advice, cheering on something false.
Bottom Row: Likely Outcome
(Domestico) Service: Spirit of being in service, male servant
(Disparato Per Gelosia) Despair (R) Great upset and despair, possible jealousy, but the reversal shows it could well be interrupted somehow, with someone perhaps learning not to behave in inappropriate ways, or finding the root causes of their upset with help
(Mercante) Merchant Business, business person
The outcome seems to involve a servant or someone in the spirit of service experiencing or relating to upset and despair, but it may be drawing to a close as they find ways to ensure they don’t respond inappropriately, turning int into a business opportunity. Someone making a business of offering a service, perhaps around ensuring despair and jealousy doesn’t get out of hand? So it could be a therapist or a paid PR person.
Diagonally, it looks as if someone may not be making quite as much money as they claim (Falsehood, Room/Money, Merchant) or someone gains money privately for false reasons, is a charlatan.
In the other direction, there is cheer in the form of private money (so perhaps a private handout?) for a servant, or someone acting in a “service” position (Cheerfulness, Room/Money, Servant)
Finally, if you look at the cards vertically, we have a false or betraying sense of service, so someone is faking in some way (Falsehood, Service), the friend or adviser with private money or money for privacy somehow stopping the negative fallout of jealousy in its tracks (Friend, Room/Money, Despair (R))—and finally Cheerfulness, although primarily for the Merchant figure.
An issue around private or personal finances, or the very personal or private involving money. It could be that this involves poor advice from someone or a person purporting to be a friend is cheering on falsehoods or just a situation that isn’t quite as it seems. Somebody could be gaining money privately through falsehoods or may not be quite as they appear; it has the air of the charlatan figure about it, so there could be someone of that ilk involved. Money may be changing hands privately for someone who’s working in the service of others. The spirit of service offered, however, also appears to be false in some way, so there could be some double-crossing going on. A friend or adviser, a private financial arrangement, and the negative effects of jealousy or despair stopped in its tracks—but the only one who gains in the end is whoever’s making the money out of it.