I asked about the immediate aftermath of the Queen’s Death.
At the very centre of the reading is a man (the new King Charles)
And a death/funeral (Coffin)
Corner Cards
You can read these like Lenormand, or I’ve also seen the corner cards read from bottom left around the reading. Which would in this case suggest “A long road to officialdom and position, and a woman in a personal, family capacity.” (Pathway-Official Person-Woman-Family Room).
The Pathway/Long Road is in the ‘House’ of Expectation & Waiting, so he’ll have been waiting for a long time. The Official Person/Military Man is in the Kipper House of the Man, so this is his official, uniformed self. The Woman is in the House of Change, showing changes there. And the Family Room (for private family, the personal) is in the House of Distant Horizons, which indicates ‘the big picture’, rather like the Stars in Lenormand.
So in more detail, a long period of waiting, a long road until a man gains official position, after a big change with regard to the main woman. They are both reflected by the ‘personal, intimate family room’ in the house of the ‘big water’ ie big picture. The private self has a public aspect.
KING CHARLES HIMSELF
Charles, himself is in the ‘Message of Concern/Bad News’ house – interestingly, as initially, the message from the Palace was “a message of concern” about the Queen’s declining health, and he did say to new PM Liz Truss on their first official meeting “This was the day I’d been dreading.”
Above him, we see the older man, either representative of his age or of own his late father, (also in the House of Mature Man/Good Lord, reiterating the patriarchal nature of this) and of a death or funeral below him. We see that the death (Coffin) is a legal or official matter for him in this capacity over the personal, appearing in the House of Courthouse.
Behind him, to the right (he is facing left, so his past is to the right), we see a childhood of privilege and wealth and bits of unexpected income (Unexpected Income-Child-Wealthy Man). If you look a little deeper, it isn’t particularly flattering about this, which would fit with some aspects of UK news of late. Unexpected income in House of Older Woman, naivety perhaps or youthful love, and the Wealthy Man in the House of Thief – suggesting he may have taken money that wasn’t strictly his (for those interested in this, you might like to read republican Lib Dem exMP and former member of the privy council Norman Baker’s admittedly rather dry book And What Do You Do? about the royal finances or some of the more recent reports in the Guardian re: the royals not having been above changing the rules or signing off exemptions to keep some of their private wealth hidden from scrutiny, avoiding having to pay taxes etc). Not to mention suitcases of money from Saudi princes. I suspect that, although not on people’s minds currently, some of this is likely to come back to haunt Charles once the funeral, air of deference and shock and mourning period for the life and service of HMQ is over.
Immediately ahead of Charles, we see him waiting (Expectation) in the House of Courtship (or meeting) which is likely to be about it remaining to be seen about himself about the public, the ‘big picture’ with regard to his wealth and that he will feel trapped and limited , imprisoned (Imprisonment), with regard to his official duties
Above him, unexpected income as an older man which he will wait and see with regard to how the public view it. Now the ‘Child’ has become a big player (Distant Hopes/Big Water) with regard to his position as a wealthy man. And beneath, through the death of the Queen, he moves from being just a wealthy man who may have got some of his money by somewhat underhand means, to a ‘trapped’ official person (Imprisonment).
He is knighted in the past by a House of Great Fortune, the House in the House of Message, for news about, and the Great Fortune in the house of High Honours for essentially, big luck and high position, respect, regard in terms of his “House” (the House of Windsor). Beneath him, by a journey (Journey) connected with a ‘message of concern’ aka the bad news. This could also represent the literal journey the Queen’s coffin took across Scotland and then back to London.
Ahead, Charles is also knighted by a ‘privileged young lady’ (Rich Girl) and Despair with regard to this person. She is in the House of Marriage, so it could either represent Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and likely trouble and despair in the private family sphere (Despair in the House of Living Room, for private family matters) or just as likely, the rehashing, at the worst possible time, of the drama, tragedy and ending of his marriage to the late Princess Diana, via the new series of Netflix’s The Crown, airing in November. Could there be court proceedings as he attempts to minimise the damage? Possibly; a lot of ‘legal’ stuff around this, with the court case and adjudication, but there are several possible legal matters swirling around the royals at this time, not least Harry and his tell-all book.
WHERE CHARLES IS SITTING IN THE READING
Looking at the Column he is in, we see an older Charles (Older Man-Man) or one still very much with his father in mind, dealing with the legal and official ramifications of a death (Coffin in House of Courthouse)and through which he has promises and agreements that he is bonded to, that he feels devastated about (Marriage in House of Despair).
Meanwhile, looking at the row he is in from right to left, we see a Change (in the House of Child) with regard to an Older Woman bestowing (she’s in the House of Gift) Great Wealth to her Child, that is being deeply considered (House of Thought). We also see that his romantic life when he was younger remains a very recent influence (Child in House of Lovers). His immediate future contains a big picture job (Distant Horizons in the House of the Rich Young Man, Occupation/Work in the House of Rich Young Woman) but that he’s likely to get or give a financial Gift of some kind (in the House of Big Wealth) regarding a legal process and judgement (Judication in House of Journey – so it may be in progress already).
Looking at the diagonals around him, he may get Unexpected Income from his mother (House of Mature Woman), but will be feeling Imprisoned & trapped by officialdom (Prison in the House of Official Person) by the Great Honour and title (in the House of Judication). In the other direction, we can see him ‘waiting’ to meet or court people (Expectation in House of Courtship) with regard to his being a Wealthy Man (in House of Thief) and is thinking about his financial status (Thoughts pointing to Wealthy Man) about it in terms of his job (Thoughts in House of Occupation/Work).