UK Predictions: Charles III on the passing of HMQ Elizabeth II
What the Kipper cards had to say about King Charles III...
Kipper Cards are a German oracle deck (named after a Frau Kipper) that came into being towards the end of the 19th century, and while they are similar to the Petit Lenormand deck in terms of layouts and number of cards in the deck, they actually owe far more to the earlier Gypsy Oracle cards that were popular in Europe in the 19th century, and that are otherwise known as La Vera Sibilla in Italy.
You can check out the Meanings of the Kipper cards on the Lozzy’s Lenormand blog, but they are, as you can see from the layout below, usually fairly self- explanatory.
I am from the UK, and around the time of the Queen’s death last month, I drew the following Grand Tableau using the Kipper cards, which very much focused on the new King Charles III. I was quite stunned to see the Main Male and the Coffin cards right at the centre, the cards around the edge, and the way the story seemed to be panning out.
The deck used here is the Ciro Marchetti Fin de Siecle Kipper.
Here were my interpretations of the cards, and my predictions for the new King in the wake of his mother’s passing. I have interpreted the cards in the Kipper Houses they are sitting in, as well as in relation to one another. The “Houses” are below, for reference.
The Four Corners/Overview
The overall story of the spread is an exceptionally long period of waiting, a long road (70 years in fact!) until a man (Charles) gains official position, after a big change with regard to the main woman (HM the Queen) and both public and personal life. They are both reflected by the ‘personal, intimate family room’ in the house of the ‘big water’ ie big picture, showing the private self has a public aspect.
Looking at the four corner cards first of all, we can see an Official Person/Military Man in the first position. He’s actually standing in the House of the Main Male (i.e. Charles) reiterating that this is his official ‘uniformed’ self, the “King” version of Charles. In the opposite diagonal corner, we see that this role is connected with his very private family and personal life (Family Room) that nonetheless appears on a big or global stage (in the House of Distant Horizons/ Big Water). Meanwhile, the opposite corner shows his connection with a Woman (in the House of Change), who I interpret as the late Queen, and in the bottom left corner, the Pathway/Long Road is in the ‘House’ of Expectation & Waiting. She will have been in place and he will have been waiting for a very, very long time to reach this position.
There are two “versions” of Charles in this reading, therefore; the “personal” version (Main Male) and himself as King (Official Person).
Charles Himself (Personal Version)
At the centre of the reading is the main male, Charles, now an older man, who is dealing with the death of his mother, the late HMQ Elizabeth II, and the reading tells us that not only was it very, very bad news for him personally, the death, as we know, involved both legal and official undertakings for him.
We begin with the personal version of Charles (the Main Male) and the cards immediately around him. He is currently standing in the House of Message of Concern/Bad News, so finally received the news he had always been dreading; that of the death of his mother. As we see from the Mature Man card above him, at 74, he is now an old man, and here, the Coffin immediately below him shows him dealing with the death of his mother, both in the personal and the official sense. The Coffin itself appears in the House of Courthouse/Legal matters, so this involved all of the associated officialdom, from the Queen's State Funeral to Charles's signing of the Proclamation at the Accession Council that officially made him King. We see that below that, the death bonds him to a commitment (Marriage), but ominously, although not surprisingly, this appears in the House of Despair, so not a commitment he has wished for.
His Past
The spread shows a man who has been brought up in a childhood of privilege and great wealth, not all of the wealth expected. Some of it has come courtesy of his mother His youthful love life has been of interest and is still an influencing factor today, and he may have received some of his personal wealth by untoward means, or means that might be considered ‘thievery’ by some. He has, however, been blessed by great good fortune, particularly with regard to his very wealthy “House” his family, in their official capacity, the House of Windsor.
Immediately behind him (he is facing to the left, so in Kipper the cards to his right are the past), we can see that he's someone who had a childhood of great wealth (Child-Sudden Wealth), which has come courtesy of the official Household into which he was born (House) and pure good fortune and a high position in life (Great Fortune in the House of High Honours). His youthful love life and relationships still appear to be having an impact (Child in the House of Love). We also see that he then had additional income bestowed on him (Unexpected Income), which made him a Wealthy Young Man, possibly through his business interests and the Duchy of Cornwall. It should be noted, perhaps, that his thoughts appear often to have been on money or others have thought about it too (Sudden Wealth is in the House of Thoughts). It's worth noting that here, the Wealthy Man appears in the House of Thief - perhaps, if press rumour about royals ensuring tax legislation benefitted themselves, is to be believed, some of the money gained has not always been above board. The wealthy young man could also, of course, refer to someone younger in the family, the disgraced Prince Andrew, for instance, or Prince Harry, as for both of whom, scrabbling for money in the "business" sense has recently been of prime concern.
His Future
Ahead, for him is having to face and go into the big wide world with regard to his job, which he views with utter despair and a sense of imprisonment of the ‘high honours’ of his new position brought through the death of his mother. He will also be filled with grief and in a way mourning the loss too, of his youthful self and previous life of wealth and privilege
Immediately ahead of Charles is the card of Distant Horizons/Big Water, signifying that he is now on the grand global stage, once again as a wealthy, privileged individual (it's in the House of the Wealthy Man), something that we can see from the card above it (Expectation), he has always known was coming, and he has to an extent been having to court the public (Expectation in the House of Courtship) in that knowledge. His mother's death has, however, brought him to the situation he's always been dreading: the gilded jail of being the Monarch, as shown here by Imprisonment in the House of Official Person. And as we can see from the cards next to that, this sees him in a state of utter Despair, both on a very personal level with his grief (Despair in the House of Living Room), but also connected specifically with his job (Occupation), as it relates to high office High Honours and all the judgement and scrutiny that entails (High Honours in the House of Judication).
The Main Man card is knighted, meanwhile, in the past by the House and Great Fortune, so a family that he was born into purely through chance and destiny, below him by progress and movement, the Journey (in the House of Message of Concern) and the Message of Concern itself appearing in the House of Bad Health, showing the progress of the bad news breaking about the Queen's health, and perhaps also her final journey from Scotland back to London to lie in State.
Ahead of him, interestingly, he's knighted by the Privileged Young Woman/Rich Girl, appearing here in the House of Marriage, and Despair again, in the House of Living Room, for close family and personal matters. This could be referring to the recurring personal issues with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; it could equally refer to the revival in the public memory by Netflix's The Crown, of the toxic disintegration of his first marriage to Diana, which will, with unfortunate timing, be broadcasting in the next few weeks, just as he begins the more day to day functioning of his reign and hoping it would all be forgotten. Notably, either may well involve legality, with the Courthouse/Legal matters next to the Privileged Young Lady, a Gift being bestowed in the House of Sudden Wealth, so perhaps a payout or compensation of some kind, and Judication in the House of Journey, indicating a judgement that may already be in progress, and seemingly connected with himself in official capacity as King (Official Person).
Charles In Official Capacity (King Charles III)
Around him appear to be lots of legal matters, perhaps payouts and judgement, but also losses, negative issues and complaints within the family, and continued feelings of entrapment and despair.
The main cards we see around Charles the King are legal ones: The Court House/Legal Matters (in the House of Woman, so perhaps relating mainly to legal affairs from his mother’s reign), and Judication, where decisions will be made, perhaps on his behalf. Here, we see judgments made both in terms of financial awards (Gift in the House of Sudden Wealth), but we also see the Thief (in the House of Coffin) signifying losses and endings, that appear to relate to negative thoughts from or on the family as a whole (Concern/Murky Thoughts in House of House). Again, he appears to feel trapped “forever” (the Pathway/Long Road) by the expectations of him, particularly as relates to meeting other people (Courtship in the House of Prison.)
The King is knighted in this spread by the requirements of his job (Occupation) and negativity in general with regard to the official family (Concern/Murky Thoughts in the House of House)
If we were to use the Houses to travel around the spread in a “story” we could read it thus:
The Man is now King, having had bad news about health which turns his fortunes for the worse. He has had great fortune and high position through luck/destiny, but now he will be judged on them, and this is a process. It is one marred by negative thoughts, however, with regard to the House of Windsor, and there could be news about this, about unexpected income from an older woman, given as a gift creating great wealth. He has been thinking about this in terms of his new job role, and that of younger women married into the family. A marriage brings despair on the personal and private front, which is being played out globally, in terms of business and money. Money could be lost, or a man judged a thief in a business capacity, and losses incurred. A death has involved many legal and official matters and procedures, much of which relate to the late Queen, and changes connected to her. There’s been change with regard to her children, the love lives of her children, and there’s likely to be a very long-term love relationship involved. He has had to be very, very patient, for years, has waited a long time,, relationship-building has also taken a long time, but there’s entrapment and restrictions involved now that he’s in the role of King.
Queen Elizabeth II
Change for the late Queen, who we always saw more as her “persona” of the Crown than herself, and a huge change in both the public and private sphere, with news of her bad health, but a “fortunate final illness” for her, a “good journey” in terms of her passing, although of course, very difficult for her family whose thoughts and focus were on her. In death, and at her funeral, she was judged with the highest honours and regard for her years of service.
Although the Queen (Woman in the House of Change) is not the main focus of the reading, she is, of course, very much a presence. We see to some extent that although she was Queen for a long time and a permanent presence, there is a sense that also never really saw the ‘real her’ (False Person-Woman), and that she would always be hidden behind the House of Windsor, the Crown, and its messaging (House in the House of Message). Here, the message is of Change in the private, as well as the public sphere, particularly for her children (Woman-Change-Letter-Family Room).
As an older woman, in the role of the nation’s “grandmother” so to speak, although a persona rather than herself (False Person-Older Woman), we see noticeable recent Bad Health, possibly after the loss of a loved one she’d been in a relationship with for a very long time, as signified by the Lovers in the House of Pathway (her death following just over a year after that of Philip, her husband of more than 70 years).
As an older woman, we see her as the “face”, the persona of the younger Queen, the representative of the Crown and House of Windsor (House-False Person-Woman), changes with regard to wealth particularly for her children (Wealth-Mature Woman-Change), and of course, news of destiny turning with regard to her ill health (Good Fortune-Bad Health-Letter), but from her perspective, her passing seemed fairly quick and was as “good’ or “lucky” a final illness as one might hope for, and the “journey” of the passing, we see, went well (Great Fortune-Journey)
In terms of the cards knighting the Queen as an older woman, we see the close family focusing on her as news of her illness broke (Thoughts-Family Room), but also some unexpected money given by her to a younger man (Unexpected Income in House of Mature Woman and Wealthy Man in House of Thief. So perhaps it IS in fact Andrew).
The cards show also that in death, (Coffin), in terms of the Queen’s funeral, despite all the trauma and pain around it for Charles, for someone who began as a young woman, she was regarded and ‘judged’ with the great respect and the highest honours for her many years of service (Occupation in House of Privileged Lady, High Honours in House of Judication) which we saw in her widely televised and widely attended state funeral. The gun salute in this version of the High Honours card seems most appropriate.
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