Cards like Sorrow and Compromise are predominantly in the Cross part of the layout.  That’s from positions one to six or Now to Future Energy.   

If I were reading this for somebody, the beginning of the month shows something external is affecting the Questioner.  The influence is either in the news, family, in the community, is dominating the general mood at work, or it could be all of them.  Sorrow appears again later in the month in the Outcome spot, implying more of the same.   I thought I would peak at the Sorrow card and discovered it was on the “inner” cards or in the Base positions, Hopes & Fears, Feelings, and Others’ Views from midway through the month. 

Suppose we apply the principle that we manifest our destiny from our decisions and feelings, whether we’re aware of them or not.  In that case, Sorrow is perhaps unconsciously becoming a determined Goal awakened by surroundings and influences triggering something in the Distant Past.  The Sorrow loops around to influence upcoming energy in the Future and the Outcome.

Just from typing up Sorrow’s story, I can see the resemblance to COVID’s presence.  The Coronavirus’s presence in New South Wales and the other Eastern states of Australia has weighed me down in July.  This month, we have had: a snap three-day lockdown and to cancel our trip to New Zealand, and my mother’s trip in October was becoming uncertain.

Ice-olation was at the beginning of July and received no appearances after Day 200.  The Ice-olation card that emerged from the Distant Past became an Influence or Block.  It was also how others saw me, sat in Hopes & Fears and became the Outcome on some occasions.