66 THE WIDOW

Widow, grief, mourning, fate's dividing powers, loneliness in relationships, being abandoned, sorrow, sadness, destiny to part.

Libra/Capricorn

Venus/Saturn.

PUER (Couple) + Elder.

The most ancient widow - Isis, possessing powerful magical force, carries danger within her - a connection to the otherworld. On the card we see a widow mourning her deceased husband.

She grieves for departed feelings (a heart is pinned to her dress). She yearns and calls for her dead husband to resurrect to new life, but even the gods cannot accomplish this. The card emanates hopelessness and inevitability - ruins symbolize the destroyed family temple.

Widow - loss, bereavement.

Negative meanings: hopelessness, loss, sorrows.

Today is not an especially favorable day. Affairs planned for today will be postponed, contacts cancelled. Disruption of meetings and agreements. Possibly, disappointment from a close person.

Failed affairs and contacts, regret. Disruption of meetings and agreements. Possibly, disappointment from a close person.

What is gone cannot be returned.

If the heart is heavy, it's better to cry it out, to live through everything to the end.

Today, it's possible that a close person will bring you disappointment. Don't despair - tomorrow will be another day.

Desire to have a good cry, to pity oneself. Concentration on oneself.

Loneliness, sadness, sorrow, feeling of being forgotten and abandoned. Farewell to love, to unfulfilled hopes.

Mourning for someone who has departed from life.

Slow and sorrowful. Internal, connected with heavy losses.

Heavy loss, departure.

Restrictions in communication.

Withdrawal into one's own experiences. Conscious self-isolation. Heavy seclusion.

Cry it out. Be alone. Specifically - remember ancestors, visit ancestral graves.

Loss, bitter bereavement.

Weeping widows are comforted more quickly (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.). Great sorrows are silent: they are not expressed in tears (T. Tasso). However cruel fate may be to a person, however abandoned and alone he may be, there will always be a heart, perhaps unknown to him, but open, ready to respond to the call of his heart (Henry Longfellow).