Saturday: A Reversed Pyramid Spread On UK Politics

Saturday 5th July 2025

A reminder that you don’t HAVE to use Kipper cards or any other deck in “just” the spreads that are specifically designed for them.

So today, I’m using Ciro Marchetti’s Fin de Siecle Kipper cards in a spread called the Reversed Pyramid, which is most often used with La Vera Sibilla cards. The only disadvantage of using it with a deck like Kipper is that you won’t have reversed cards to play with and add nuance.

The Fin de Siecle is a popular and widely available UK Kipper deck, based on life in Victorian England, includes additional cards, and as such specifically has a less “upper middle class European” feel than the traditional Bavarian Kipper cards.

On the other hand, it has been criticised for the renaming of some cards and for failing to be as correctly ‘directional’ as traditional decks (but there are far worse offenders, in my humble opinion). You can check out my review of five of the most popular Kipper decks here:

Meanwhile, the Reversed Pyramid itself is a highly useful ‘general’ spread which looks primarily at past factors leading up to current situations and then gives just a very quick indication of what’s likely to be coming up in the future. As such, it’s good for highlighting what has led up to a current circumstance.

Here’s how to lay and read it:

I’m sticking with UK politics for now (it may comfort my some of my American friends at least to know that it isn’t only you guys who are stuck with what seems like a neverending sh*tshow!)

Anyway, here’s how the cards fell:

How would you interpret them?

Take a look at my analysis below.