Weekly Roundup: A Celebrity Man, A Woman, A Wait For Major Revelations, Recent Disputes, Falseness & Betrayals
Week ending 3rd/4th June 2023
Oracle Card Resources Added This Week
We have now finished looking at the details of the Kipper card meanings, and begun looking at how to read this popular German oracle deck. There’s a LOT more to come!
The News Readings This Week
This Week: Waiting For Major Revelations On An Inconsistent Man, The Trappings Of Success & Recent Quarrels
This week’s news centres around waiting for an important revelation regarding a particular man, things not adding up, and news or a written trap of some kind. Senior protective people are involved, as well as success, or being rewarded with success, as well as conflicts or battles. There are inconsistencies with the man and something to do with waiting and anticipation, and there’s news of being trapped with or by the prospect of success. Our male consultant appears to be cornered, although he has previously been protected by success or is himself a protected figure.
Most of the week’s cards pretty accurately reflected the news dominating the UK , particularly in the tabloids, centred on the ‘abuse of power’ story and its fallout involving the news channel ITV, a certain longterm daytime TV presenter and his sexual relationship with a 40-years-younger and very junior male colleague, whom he had met as a teen (reports on the age at meeting differ) who had become a runner and his personal assistant on the show. The young man appears to have been ‘moved on’ when things went wrong between them and was reported by some fellow presenters as having been in a ‘vulnerable’ state. After a week of increasingly frenzied reporting mostly by the right wing tabloids awaiting “the big scoop” (aka the Important Revelation) however, the embattled now ex-TV presenter himself ended the week garnering sympathy with an interview with the BBC in a damage limitation exercise which appears to have the support (“protected man”?) of many commentators and celebs, many claiming he’s been unfairly treated and this wouldn’t be news if he hadn’t come out as gay a couple of years before. Really? Hmm. Perhaps, although it seems to me that memories are very short in the wake of MeToo, the very many previous scandals involving big celeb names, older powerful men, young girls and institutions, and the policies of pretty much all UK HR departments and workplaces, schools, colleges and universities which have all been in place for many years now. Nonetheless, time will tell if the breathless feeding frenzy style of reporting, social media-fuelled political tribalism and concerns about the style and methods of the UK tabloid press overwhelms repeat underlying issues about institutional power and corruption, which are about far more than one individual or institution, or indeed any one political stance or tribe.
Tuesday: A Couple Apart, A Man's Despair Hidden By Falseness, As She Moves Away With Advice & A Gift
A particular man is in despair, and the reading today looks at what has led up to this. He’s been in a high position and has gained many rewards, but there’s falsehood there, and he’s been hiding whatever it is he is now in despair about. The situation has arisen from a home or family set up where he’d meet or flirt with people with an eye to his ambitions and goals, but also very conscious that there was despair he was hiding. There’ve been connections involving gifts, or connections themselves given as a gift. He and a particular woman are moving away from one another at the moment, she is well in the past for him, where something appears to have been stolen or she is viewed as a thief. There has been professional advice or adjudication involved in that assessment. He despairs that the people he’s met and connections he’s made have been lost or stolen, whereas she has been gifting her thoughts, particularly about him and what it is that he’s hiding.
This, we can assume, was news of his female counterpart on the daytime TV sofa, Holly Willoughby, also in the news offering her thoughts and publicly distancing herself from her former TV partner.
Wednesday: Success, Ambition & Fame Ending For High Ranking Man, With Journey Betrayed
Big ambitions and goals and successful ambitions is at the heart of the reading today, which concerns a high ranking man’s fame or adulation coming to an end, and the arrival of problems or betrayals on the journey. A successful and famous career has been betrayed or revealed to have hidden unpleasantness, and his journey of success has now ended. A creative journey or progressing fame to become a senior man who sweeps in, and the betrayal or problem coming to an end.
Same story, although this reading didn’t appear to reveal or add a great deal more. Nonetheless, it is interesting to note, once again, how different decks on different days can be talking about the same issues and same story, with many similar themes repeating again and again.
Thursday: A Female Helper, Potential Deal, Surprise That Doesn't Happen, & Business Disaster Anticipated
A female servant figure, a helper or assistant, around whom there is a man in mourning for what he has lost, a misfortune and a surprise that won’t come to fruition. A messenger around her has brought a deal or agreement with a particular senior man. This is about the business elements of the man who is in difficult times, and the disaster those in business see ahead. Either the deal collapses, or it will involve mitigating against disaster to ensure they don’t come or affect her. Misfortune would come with any ‘surprise’ he tries to land on her.
This likely refers to the same female individual as above, it being very obvious both who she and the ‘man in mourning’ is, although it’s not clear what the ‘surprise’ that won’t come to fruition is… unless the PR campaign succeeds and means the whole story dies a death. This seems as if it refers to something going on behind the scenes, a deal or agreement perhaps, but whatever it was it was not revealed in the news this week.
Friday: The Man, A Senior Woman, End Of A House Arrangement. Work Conditions, Plus Love Life & Private Rewards
An ending comes for a particular “house” or working environment and its arrangements for this particular man, with unhealthy work environments particularly for those considered the lower orders and high honours and rewards for others. A senior or older woman has met with others and progress or a move has been made, but ahead for the man is more on his love life within this environment regarding the private or more intimate side of things. There could be an ending, too, for a senior woman, the cards show an environment where meetings and interactions happened, there’s a deal or arrangement regarding travel or progression, a very unhealthy romantic situation and issues around working conditions in this particular environment, as well as potential private rewards or benefits.
Here, we had two parallel Kipper deck readings with different decks, but both on the same story centering on the man concerned. As it turned out, these cards were drawn on a day on which a highly sympathetic BBC interview with him on personal impacts of the story was later aired (he was a former longterm BBC presenter), and friendship and support for him became more apparent, from certain quarters at least.
So we will see what eventually emerges, as investigations are ongoing. The story certainly seems to be being ‘spun’ in the opposite direction now to how it was at the start of the week. Will truth win, or will the ‘spin’ and whoever’s narrative or PR gets to be the more powerful rule the day? History’s generally rewritten by those who win the battle, after all… I only hope the young man in question is okay and being well supported by those who care about his welfare.
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See you again for daily news reads on Monday.