This Week: Messenger Of Destruction, Religion, Funding. Soft Targets, Lasting Sorrow Celebrated, Fortunes Stolen

Week commencing 9th October 2023

We’re starting the week this week with a popular Sibilla layout called the Cross Layout, but a sad situation.

Again, this is a layout that can be used with pretty much any deck, and you can vary the number of cards in each section. It’s a general reading that looks at a central issue, past factors, future factors, obstacles and then gives advice—or you can use the final section to mean “Outcome” if you wish instead.

You can find the instructions for this layout on the Daily Oracle website here:

Sorry to do a negative reading, but as it was very much on my mind, I’ve centred this reading on the horrific and shocking events in Gaza over the weekend, and began with the Misfortune card already laid at the very centre.

The cards were drawn as follows:

The Cards

Merchant, Priest, Misfortune, Messenger, Lover; Fidelity, House, Haughtiness, Falseness; Wedding, Soldier, Room, Consolation; Love, Joyfulness, Friend, Wife; Celebration, Sorrow (R); Fortune, Thief

The Reading

The Current Situation

Merchant,…