One of the things I enjoy the most about cartomancy (not just with the Sibilla. Most decks will do it) is how they tell a story of the querent’s life, either in general or in a particular sector, and we get to experience it as if it were a slide show of someone’s vacation. Here is an example about a querent who asked, generally, about her career (don’t mind the chaotic layout. The cards are essentially to be read in a row. I started with five cards and I had to rearrange the spread to take the picture once the layout had become too unwieldy from drawing additional cards).
The first thing that caught my eye was that Scholar (Seven of Hearts) showing a legal contract, caught between the reversed Sickness card and the Death card. I enquired if the querent had recently lost her job or if she was about to, then the King of Spades (the law) popped into view, next to the Death card which shows unbalanced things, so I added if she considered the termination to be wrongful in some way.
It turned out that the querent had just been fired, a couple of weeks prior, from her job and that she thought they had fired her after wringing her dry of her business contacts.
Notice, though, how the cards immediately clear up as soon as that nasty initial constellation is overcome: we have important contacts (Letter and Messenger) that will put her on the right track (the Peacock). There is still anxiety (Sighs) surrounding her work (Merchant) but she is going to get a temporary job (the Five of Hearts) probably working with people (all the people cards) and that will solve quite a bit of her problems (the Four of Diamonds reversed at the end).
She ended up getting in contact with a smaller business than the one she had worked for, but one with a more positive environment, where the boss offered her a very well-paid temporary position to be a representative of their product to new clients. I also told her that if she was thinking of suing her old employers for wrongful termination, she probably had a leg to stand on. She said she was thinking of suing, but wasn’t sure.
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Hope she sues
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Last time I heard from her she was threatening to sue and they were looking to settle out of court
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I love it.
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thanks for sharing this example.
can you tell us how you know when to stop drawing cards?
for me, since i am still learning all the meanings, i tend to put a certain number and i can’t decide at that moment if i got the final answer.(since it takes time for me to decode the message)
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It is hard to say. The short answer would be “when the cards have given a complete answer” but obviously this is very hard to see at the beginning. The first tip is to not be hard on yourself and realize it’s a journey. Secondly, avoid spreads that are too short (e.g. three cards) as the Sibilla can be diabolically ambiguous with three card spreads at the beginning. Finally, what I am about to tell you is not a 100% hard and fast rule, but in general when you have two or more cards (better three) that point to the same idea, there is no point in going on adding cards. Example: you ask if you have a shot with someone, and the spread ends with Death and Tragedy (or even if it doesn’t end with them, but they are found toward the second half of the spread). There is no point in adding cards, the answer is final (the same would apply if you got, say, the ace of spades and the ten of diamonds). Similarly with positive cards: if you are looking for a job and in the second half you get, say, the six of clubs and king of diamonds, you probably find a job.
Also, some cards rarely end a spread: if you find a person card at the end, for instance, it’s usually best do add. And also if you look at the last three cards and you find that they are: 1) positive positive negative or 2) negative negative positive, it is usually best to add.
A final tip: do not think about your question too narrowly. Try to see the cards as a theater piece unfolding, with people doing thing. If you ask a yes/no question, do not look for the yes or no, look for people doing things or things taking place
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thank you..these are some good suggestions
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