A Week Of Change, A Clean Slate Politically, Luck For A Wealthy Man
Looking back on the UK week ending 30th Oct '22. A clean slate, a power handover womens' rights protests, and buyers' remorse?
So how accurate were my news predictions this week? What did I get right, what did I get wrong, what is still unanswered? Again, I have focused on UK news for the time being.
As a reminder, these were the reading summaries with some of the cards that came up each day. Click on the day’s heading to check back on the actual spreads and read my full analysis for each one.
Monday: Overall Picture Of The Week: News Of A Clean Slate, Luck For A Rich Man
Lots of news about good luck for a rich man, as an atmosphere of wealth washes over the House. Promises, commitments, love and affection, but losses and poverty versus wealth are still in the mix.
A not unexpected result according to my reading (of which the above, btw, is only three cards - check the original reading for the whole spread). A cleansing (Incense Burner), a Wealthy Man (Fish-Man). Other cards were Clover, Ring, Heart, House, Mice, Letter.
The week began, after the drama & posturing of the previous few days, with the final day of the race for the Tory leadership and thus UK premiership, with only two potentials in the running, Rishi Sunak, and Penny Mordaunt, after Boris Johnson sensationally dropped out having made a dramatic and strutting re-entrance. He claimed to have gained the requisite number of supporters among MPs (100 were needed) but after meeting with both Sunak and Mordaunt to try to come to a deal “for the good of the country” (he claimed), presumably involving them standing aside for him, and both of them effectively telling him to eff off, he slunk off and returned to his Caribbean holiday.
As the hour of reckoning approached, and Mordaunt just failing to get the 100 backers, the gig became Sunak’s by default, with a sense of relief (the cleansing of the Incense Burner?) from much of the country, regardless of political persuasion, at the sense we could put the embarrassing dramas behind us, although many Boris supporters will always have knives out for “Dishy Rishi” as the backstabbing former Chancellor whose resignation set off the chain of dominoes that finally toppled their hero.
That Sunak is the UK’s first Prime Minister of colour, a practicing Hindu, and “coincidentally” gained the position on the first day of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light, was quite something. He is also by a considerable amount, the wealthiest man ever in Parliament (House-Fish, Fish-Man) married to the daughter of a multi billionaire, who is India’s 6th richest man. He may have been spoken of affectionately at first (Heart) mainly by virtue of being Not-Boris, but at a time when the country is undergoing a horrendous cost of living crisis (Mice) some of which some blame on him, the issue of wealth disparity is not, as I said in my reading, likely to go away any time soon. A pretty accurate prediction.
Tuesday: A Man Achieves His Ambitions, Political Handover To Position of High Honour
In summary, a man (Rishi Sunak) is thinking about the day he goes through an official process of change, and handover to the powerful position he’s long dreamed of, with the help of an older or senior man, presumably the King.
Again, pretty accurate for the day, in which Liz Truss left the position of PM, the official political handover process occurred, and Rishi Sunak underwent the process of being ‘crowned’ PM, the High Honours of the cards - with the help of the King, who I presume was the older or senior man.
The “ending” (Coffin/Funeral) of the False Person - or rather wrong person, presumably Truss. The Big Luck presiding over the change, the ambitions, the Man, the Good Lord/Older Man, the Change, the Courthouse, for the official process.
Wednesday: Buyer’s Remorse & Promises Made
Someone is looking back and regretting not only lost money but their promises and agreements regarding it.
Within a day, there was outrage and expressions of ‘regret’ (Widower?) over Sunak’s appointment of the recently disgraced Suella Braverman as Home Secretary (which is making me wonder if my mysterious ‘older woman’ from the previous week’s reading was actually Braverman rather than Patel, and some kind of deal (Ring/Marriage) had been struck to give Sunak her support).
Not only that, but Sunak’s role in the furlough scheme as well as other decisions of his as Chancellor of the Exchequer were being blamed in some quarters for some of the country’s financial mess, plus the question of how we were going to fill the even bigger hole created by Truss’s overnight tanking of the economy. Was Sunak going to be able to fulfil the promises made just a day before? Would he look back on his previous decisions with regret? With the appointment of Braverman, the promise about a new era of “integrity” was certainly in question.
Thursday: Raging Women, Protest, Backlash
Raging protest or backlash, counterprotests, around a woman or women when something is thwarted, complicated or delayed.
This had to be the situation around Thursday’s initial passing of Scotland’s Gender Recognition Bill to howls of protest from a number of womens’ groups (Angry Woman), who were as usual ignored, MPs whipped into voting for the bill, several SNP MPs refusing to and at least female MSP resigning from her party as a matter of conscience, so a lot of disgruntlement (Contrariety, Displeasure). It’s unlikely that the matter will be settled and backlash and conflict is likely to continue, regardless of what ‘side’ you’re on.
Friday: Good News vs Despair, Legal Advantage For Wealth & Privilege After Wait
Good and bad news for men and women, depending on wealth, with advantage to the older man and privileged younger woman or women after a legal process, official matter or court case with a lot of money involved.
Really not sure about this one. It could refer to so many things in general; Sunak again, the previous day’s rows, the royals… I don’t really feel that there was enough detail to pinpoint any one thing or one news story, but there certainly seemed to be more general issues in the full reading about the privileged in society winning out over the less privileged, and how that affects perceptions of events.
Saturday: A Healthcare Lottery with the NHS & organisation?
A risk or gamble with regard to healthcare, perhaps a sense of it being a “healthcare lottery”, and a look at the structure and governance of how it is currently provided.
Here, we were back to the lovely Gilded Reverie Lenormand.
Healthcare and organisation issues did indeed appear in the news, with many NHS workers about to strike, new PM Sunak visiting patients (here, he was given a piece of a patients’ mind regarding NHS pay) and Sunak rolling back on his previous idea of fining patients for not showing up to appointments as it had been deemed unworkable. The term “healthcare lottery” not mentioned, of course, but risks to the NHS are high on the priority list for a lot of the public.
So that’s it for the week. How did I do? Not bad - some a little too general, but many pretty accurate in terms of the specifics. Here’s to the upcoming week!