Wednesday: French Riots & A Coming Together After Wife Targeted At Home Proves Beneficial For Restoring Order
Wednesday 5th July 2023
The deck I’m using for today’s reading is the “Gypsy Oracle” deck, the Sibilla della Zingara. You can learn everything you need about this deck and its sister deck, the Italian La Vera Sibilla, here:
Rather than an “open” reading, we’re looking at the French riots today, which are now calming down a little, and what the aftermath is likely to be.
The cards I pulled for this reading were as follows, and I chose the Misfortune card to be the card at the centre:
The Cards
Misfortune, The Lord, Fortune, Celebration, Reunion, Soldier, Enemy, Wife, House
These are probably fairly self-explanatory here, especially as none of them are appearing in reverse, but if you need more guidance, the links to the detailed card meanings can be found below.
The Reading
What we see around the disaster and destruction at the centre, is, perhaps surprisingly, some kind of a celebration for a Lord (presumably Macron, although it may refer to the man concerned) around an Enemy in the House. This could refer to the “enemy within”, but seems to be referencing more directly this weekend’s appalling incident at the home of suburban Parisian Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun where it was set on fire and his fleeing wife and children attacked by rioters firing rockets. As you can see, we have in this spread the Wife card, the House, obviously the destruction of the fiery Misfortune card, and the Enemy.
Hence, it appears to be fortunate or beneficial in some way, (Fortune) even if an extremely frightening incident. Something with a fated quality that turns the tide. It appears to have brought a coming-together in some ways (Reunion),even if just among politicians, of those who can unite with Macron (Lord) against a common Enemy (the rioters). The fact that it was a woman and her children (Wife) being directly targeted is the key issue here, and what has brought people together (Reunion). Too much for most, just as the brutal shooting of the teenager by traffic cops which sparked the riot has been (his grandmother has called for calm).
Ahead, we see this being beneficial for more enforcement of order (Celebration, Soldier), to be positioned as “protecting our homes and families” (Soldier, House, Wife).
So this represents a coming together of order around chaos (Reunion, Misfortune, Military) with the President seemingly getting a sense of relief as a result of this incident (Lord, Fortune, Celebration). But let’s not forget those who it happened to, a woman and her children in their home at the hands of those seemingly quite happy to murder them (Enemy, Wife, House). Ahead, it looks like there’ll be victory for restoring law and order (Celebration, Soldier, House); positive for Macron and his ‘realm’, but sad that the thing to celebrate only arises after a terrible incident. They’ve been fortunate this time, but next time I wonder if he won’t be quite so lucky.
In the mess of the widespread violent riots in France, a senior male figure, doubtless Macron, is able to regain ground after a chance incident during the madness, where a Parisian mayor’s wife and children were attacked by rioters while fleeing their own home, which had been set alight. Fortunately, they survived, and it now provides an opportunity for Macron to be victorious and regain official order in the country after a coming together with other politicians against the common enemy and the destruction and fear caused by the rioting.