Wednesday: Revelation Over Reunion & Deal Between Older & Younger Man, But Enemy Lurks & One Will Lose To The Other
Wednesday 28th June 2023
A bit of a curious one for today’s reading, which is using Grimaud’s Sibylle des Salons deck, and replicates the original 1840s illustrations by Jean-Jacques Granville. I began by using the Conseil de Penelope layout (a suggestion from the modern 2022 deck), but added a few cards to it for clarity as I went along.
If you’re curious about this deck, my introduction to it is here:
As above, the cards I drew today were as follows:
Initial Cards
Absence, Reconciliation, Important Revelation, Dark-Haired Young Man, Marriage, Enemy.
I then drew two clarifying cards for the male characters involved, plus looked at the card that was at the bottom of the deck for an overall picture.
Clarifying Cards
Victory, Loss of Money, Thief
The Reading
At the centre, then, we have an Important Revelation of some kind. To the left side, likely indicating the recent past, is what looks like a Reconciliation after an Absence. To the right, presumably what lies ahead, are two men; the Dark-Haired Young Man who may or may not actually be dark-haired, but usually indicates a smart, wily young man, and the Protector, an older, generally more affable senior figure, who may well trust this person, or even be a mentor figure.
The card in the Conscious position above is the Marriage, which suggests it is a deal or agreement that we will get the Important Revelation about, but that underlying this is the hidden Enemy card, so things are not at all as they appear.
For more information about the two men involved, I pulled the two additional cards. The Dark Haired Young Man appears to be the victor in this situation (Victory) and it is the senior Protector who will end up with losses (Loss of Money). So it appears that whatever is coming is very much in the younger man’s favour and to the detriment of someone senior who is perhaps giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Not only this, but the Thief card overall suggests that this will be a deliberate ploy.
No idea who it’s referring to, but hmm. Intriguing.
There’ll be a big revelation of some kind, due to a reconciliation between two people after an absence. Ahead are the two men involved; a younger, smarter man, and an older, kindlier one, possibly a senior mentor figure. This appears to involve a deal, but there is a hidden enemy at work, and it seems that theft or taking something is the name of the game overall. The younger man will be victorious, and the older man or more senior man will end up having to deal with losses, and what has been taken from him.
Also just wanted to finish by saying that there was sad but, it seemed, inevitable, news yesterday confirming the discovery of the body of actor Julian Sands finally, in the mountain spot where he went missing back in January. As you may remember, I did read on this at the time (What Of Missing Actor Julian Sands?) and all my readings (incl a couple I didn’t post) came to the same conclusion, sadly. Although they all also were very much filled with joy, positivity and the sense of ‘home’, and I got the sense that going doing something he loved would have been very much the best way to go for him. RIP and condolences to his loved ones.