Daily Oracle 2023: What Did I Get Right On News Stories Jan-June?
A look back at some of this year's stories the oracle cards here at the Daily Oracle were pretty spot on about
We’ll be looking back at some of the specific 2023 Year Ahead predictions I made this time last year later in the week to see how they did, but I wanted to start this week by looking back at the particular news stories from the first half of 2023 my readings here on the Daily Oracle picked up on and/or analysed correctly.
As you’ll know if you’ve been here a while, I usually do more “open” readings than targeted ones to see what random energies and stories the cards are picking up, although I do more targeted readings on particular topics as well. Since I’m in the UK, my readings have inevitably ended up focusing more on UK news stories than those internationally, but I’ve aimed in most cases for news stories that international readers are most likely to know about.
January: Harry’s Book & Its Aftermath. Plus British Actor Missing In US Mountains
January was dominated by a certain book, by a certain Royal “spare” which provided a lot of light relief for a public battered by horrendous news about Ukraine and general societal collapse, for instance. A LOT of the Royal shenanigans came up in the Vera Sibilla 2023 predictions.
Meanwhile, here was a reading about missing British actor Julian Sands (Room With A View, Arachnaphobia), who had disappeared after going mountain climbing in treacherous weather. Sadly, every single reading I had done on this (and I only posted this one) involved the relevant deck’s Death or Coffin card or equivalent; as it transpired, he was not to be found alive, and his remains were discovered several months later, in June. Perhaps comfortingly, most of my readings also included a sense of both happiness and home. A very sad loss, nonetheless. RIP, Julian.
February: Start Of Financial Scandal & The Downfall Of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
I should point out here also that, despite me not being either Scottish or necessarily pro-Indy, I used to quite like Nicola Sturgeon, so these readings weren’t coming from a place of political dislike, more surprise that someone who’d made such gains politically would throw things away so stupidly, on a number of counts. But during this period, I did keep turning up readings that were about a woman in power and something very negative or unhealthy rumbling underneath, and no, it wasn’t always Meghan. The Fox (a redheaded deceptive person) did keep showing up during this period too. Sturgeon resigned suddenly and unexpectedly, mid-February, as police investigations into financial irregularities in her ruling party, the SNP, got serious, implicating both herself and her husband, but primarily him. She was even arrested herself at one point, see later April readings, where it all started to emerge.
March: Several Major Male World Leaders & Ex-Leaders In Big Trouble
It was hard to know which “corruption and power” story was being focused on this month, given they were ALL at it, corruption and dramas (“underlying sickness”) from the once-powerful of politics were coming up big time in readings, and many global leaders and ex-leaders were facing a lot of pushback in this month, but the corrupting energy of this was showing up big-time in our March readings. Partygate inquiries reached a peak in the UK, Trump was about to be put on trial in the US, Macron faced rioting in the streets in France. Meanwhile Putin was meeting with China, who had apparently been sending spy balloons over to the US.
April: Coronation Leadup & Press Dramas
Not the biggest news month, really, and much dominated, at least here in the UK, by the will-they-won’t-they saga of the Sussexes and attendance at the Coronation and lots of pundits getting annoyed at Charles not putting his foot down “enough”. Of course, as we saw the following month, Harry did attend (but was artfully and deliberately obscured from all cameras by the giant feather in Princess Anne’s Duke of Wellington hat. Meanwhile, Prince Andrew found himself unceremoniously stuck behind a pillar). This was the month, too, that Meghan (“PR drive for a woman”) was taken on by WMA.
May: The Coronation Happening After All, “The Car Chase”
Despite the doom-laden predictions from many pundits, Charles & Camilla’s coronation, although somewhat strained and beset by family strife, did go ahead as planned, as my monthly Russian Oracle reading had predicted: “We’ll see a promise wedding or agreement, and any doubts or disillusionment will fall away… This is despite arguments and conflict, and the sense that if someone hates you and has it in for you, there is really nothing you can do.”
I’ve had a few readings where Camilla is really not happy with things though, issues around her new position, and a few came up this month also. Plus there was a rumoured spat with Kate over the Middletons not getting invited
Then there was the now-infamous “car chase” story. Yes, the cards were right. There was indeed scrutiny, and the story largely debunked.
June: “Lost & Gone Forever.” The Loss Of The Titan Sub & Aftermath
The week that the submersible Titan was lost, initially announced missing and later in the week confirmed as having imploded, with the losses of its wealthy tourist passengers, I began with an “open” Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards reading which warned that this was a week where we’d be seeing a “random event that will cause considerable grief or disappointment” and that something would be “lost and gone forever”, but that people would be coming together as a result.
The following day, I drew a spread about the fate of the missing vessel. You can read that one here:
There were several related readings I drew that week, some targeted to the situation, some more open, and they turned out to be accurate, sadly. I was particularly struck by one reading I did with the Gypsy Oracle cards in which appeared “the three maidens” at the top, one of them a foe, dominating what, alas, turned out to be a disaster underwater in a search for “treasure” or reward in the attempt to visit the wreck of the doomed Titanic at the bottom of the ocean.
Later in the week, the same but even more angry female energy appeared in relation to the same story, this time with the Sibylle des Salons/Indovina deck, in the immediate aftermath of discovery as to Titan’s fate.
And here’s the overview, with commentary, of the whole week (it included one reading unrelated to this situation)
Tomorrow, we’ll take a look at what the cards said about the second half of the year; and how accurate they’ve been so far.