Weekly Roundup: Falsehoods, Malign Influencers & Institutional Corruptions, Plus Man Plots Against Woman, and "Corrective" PR
Week ending 17th/18th August 2024
Bit of a “theme” for the week just gone, as I wanted to explore the warnings many of the readings over the last few months have been giving about deceptions afoot, institutional corruptions, malign influencers and so on.
This week, readings have used the Celtic Lenormand deck, the Sibilla della Zingara, the Sibylle des Salons, Alexandre Musruck’s Kipper Cards, and Piatnik’s Traditional Austrian Zigeuner or “Gypsy/Bohemian” Fortune Telling Cards. The week’s spreads have included the Three Faces of Time, The Wheel of Fortune, an extended 9-Card Spread, the Kipper Master Card layout and a simple 7-Card bridging layout.
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PLUS, over the weekend, do look out for a further post from me on the spreads we’ve used so far and which work best for which purpose when you’re performing your own readings at home. This’ll be added to the “Layouts” section on the Daily Oracle website.
Now back to the week’s readings. I was hoping for a “big reveal” of particular situations, corruptions and people, but alas, the cards, doing their thing, won’t always refer to the same situations. In particular, when we looked at “institutional corruption” the cards insisted on focusing on the US, deep-rooted constitutional issues or threats to them, I guess, as one of the “currently worst” in the lead up to the US election, which surprised me, really; I thought they were going to go on about media, but no. So it just goes to show… And Trump v Harris came up in at least one more of the readings also.
We started the week with a reading suggesting that corruption and deceptions were afoot:
This Week: Deceptions Afoot & The Pressure Of An Advantageous Alliance, But Change Is Coming
Deceptions are at the heart of this week’s reading. Someone is NOT telling the truth or is trying to gain advantage by whatever means possible. And it seems that at the core of things this week will be a burden, debt or responsibility associated with that attempt at advantage and an agreement, promise or deal that is connected with it .The burden or pressure of this deceptive agreement, then; perhaps having to align with something through gritted teeth because it’s the smart thing to do, even if it’s the ‘wrong’ thing to do.
What has led up to this? Well, a fortunate or fortuitous alliance, it seems, one that appears to have presented itself as an opportunity at the time. And there have been choices or different paths to move down that result from this alliance, perhaps internationally.
Now, though, the ‘house’, perhaps the domestic or national arena, familiar people, members of a party, perhaps, shows division, a sense of being completely split in two over it all and there are secrets being deliberately kept, lies being told for advantage which are causing strife and conflict.
Coming up, some better news is on its way, it seems, but there is a huge pressure and burden being put on things, a major test to undergo, a sacrifice to be made, even, before real changes and a new beginning can be wrought that will bring success.
There should be some positivity that starts overriding the divisions over the chance taken and there’s likely to be news coming of loyalty to the “house”; so to the country, the party, and so on. A friend arrives, perhaps even riding to the rescue. But there is that pressure because of the deception, as above, and there’ll be a new start in terms of some choices that have been made that may still be hidden. It looks as though any battles will be won overseas or just by pushing through to move things along.
There seems to be an extremely lucky opportunity here involving a change or fresh start in allegiances and loyalty, although the burden of a more formal agreement or obligation will certainly be felt. News is coming of choices to be made, paths to go down, and it should be a positive journey. But there are many painful battles, wars and dangers ongoing, along with secrets in the domestic sphere or home front that are being kept deliberately quiet, or to someone’s advantage. Whoever it is, will have to play it very smart and cunning at this time.
I still don’t know to which exact situation this is referring, but it looks as though a deal someone has made and obligations they’ve signed up to leads to pressure and problems later, which then have to be dealt with, covered up, managed with “deceptions”. Interestingly, Friday’s reading, which was a blind or ‘open’ spread, also referred to a deal being made regarding ‘false’ PR, although that seemed to be about covering up a particular relationship situation, possibly abusive. Looking at this spread here, though, it appears all is not lost and improvements are possible, but only if the focus remains on what’s good on the home front, and loyalty to country or “home” as a whole, overriding more partisan concerns and attempts at division. We’ll see.
For the rest of the week, I was digging a little deeper into where corruption and malign influences may lie. Read on to see what the cards had to say about these issues. Don’t forget you can click on the post titles to go back and read the full posts.