Wednesday: Negativity & Sadness Need Healing, But Displays Of Arrogance & Pride Become The Story For This Child
Wednesday 9th August 2023
Today's reading comes with the Gypsy Oracle deck (Sibilla della Zingara), a less bells-and-whistles version of the Vera Sibilla. It's a fantastic deck for "What's the gossip?" type reads.
If you’re curious about the difference between the decks I use here on the Daily Oracle, take a look here at my comparison between different oracle decks and their uses.
And you can find out what all 52 cards in this deck mean (including reversals) here:
The cards for today fell as follows:
The Cards
Melancholy; Sweetheart; Child; Messenger; Doctor; Haughtiness; Sorrow; Letter; Conversation
The Reading
Negative feeling and complaints are at the centre of the reading today, and it's something to do with a Child, children or younger people, that there'll be news about (Letter). It could also refer to a childish way of thinking; the sense that someone is being sulky, perhaps. The negativity needs healing (Doctor), but pride or a haughty attitude is going to come out and be on display instead (Haughtiness).
A young Sweetheart needs healing or brings healing to childish negativity (Child, Sweetheart, Doctor), and there is news or a message or document about trying to heal or improve feelings of sadness and sorrow (Doctor, Sorrow, Letter). Ahead, however, it appears there'll be a rather childish and prideful display as a response (Child, Messenger, Haughtiness), which will in itself end up being talked about as news (Haughtiness, Conversation, Letter).
At the centre, then, is a prideful approach to healing sadness and negativity (Doctor, Melancholy, Haughtiness), and it's likely that out in the public world, this will involve a woman, a "Sweetheart" figure, acting as a Messenger for this Child or childish character. But the gossip about all this behaviour becomes the news in itself, only adding to the sorrow involved (Sorrow, Letter, Conversation).
A female lover's supposed "healing" of sorrow (Sweetheart, Doctor, Sorrow), but now there's news of a Child continuing to be mournful and negative (Child, Melancholy, Letter). Ahead is someone bringing a message of pride and defiance that is all anyone will be talking about, however (Messenger, Haughtiness, Conversation).
The Sweetheart's negativity and complaints will be discussed (Sweetheart, Melancholy, Conversation) as the Messenger has been entirely negative and complaint-driven (Messenger, Melancholy, Sorrow).
For even more detail on each card, we can see the following:
The female lover’s prideful approach is news (Sweetheart, Haughtiness, Letter), and something about a doctor or healing becomes the driver of conversation (Doctor, Messenger-Conversation). This only increases the sadness for a Child, but prideful displays win the day instead (Child, Sorrow, Haughtiness). The Child’s sadnesses are discussed (Child, Sorrow-Conversation) and it appears that it is the Sweetheart who delivers the message (Sweetheart-Messenger, Letter) in a capacity as a ‘healing’ figure (Messenger, Doctor, Letter).Proud and haughty displays, however, arise from the Sweetheart’s sorrows (Haughtiness, Sweetheart-Sorrow), and all the discussion upcoming will be of healing the Child concerned (Conversation, Child, Doctor).
Today’s reading centres on someone’s, most likely a child or childish figure, and their negativity, sadness and complaints that there’ll be news of. Negativity and depression needs healing but an arrogant, prideful attitude will be on display instead. The news appears to be of a female lover figure bringing healing in a situation of sadness or sorrow, but a childish and haughty attitude will end up being what gets talked and gossiped about. The Child, meanwhile, will continue to be mournful and negative, and it’s an eternal negative feedback loop, with gossip about the behaviour creating even more grief and sadness. A messenger shows great arrogance, with negativity and complaints discussed publicly. But who is the person bringing the message, and telling on the details of the sorrow and their role in the ‘healing’? Actually caring for the Child concerned starts to be discussed.