Upcoming: A Wealthy Senior Gentleman, RIP Pope Francis & A Surprising Victory

Week commencing Monday 21st April 2025

Well, goodness. Clearly having to do any meetings at all or give his Easter address did not agree with Pope Francis at all in his poor state of health. I’m not a Catholic, or indeed religious, but news has just come in of his death. RIP.

Meanwhile, the spread I’m using for this week’s, or rather, “the upcoming” news events (I’m finding at the moment that sometimes they’re occurring slightly late) is one called the Three Faces of Time. You can use it with any deck, and it basically consists of 15 cards, with a particular method of laying them, which show the past on the bottom row, the present in the middle and the future on the top.

All cards are read from right to left, and I also choose to pair them, first to last, as is common with a lot of 19th century spreads.

Of course, with the Sibylle des Salons/Sibilla Indovina, you also get to utilize the playing card references and any multiples that might occur. A reminder of what they mean in this deck here:

Here’s how the cards I pulled ear…