Weekly Roundup: Two August Month Ahead Readings, Kamala's Quest For A Running Mate, & Male Enmity In The Frame
Saturday 3rd August 2024
So! Time to take a look back at our first August readings.
Now, this week’s decks included the Blue Bird Lenormand, Grimaud’s 2022 Sibylle des Salons, La Vera Sibilla, the Salish Kipper, and Piatnik’s Traditional Zigeuner Bohemian Cards.
And spread-wise, we had quite a variety, including 16-Card Witch’s Tableau, a standard 9-Card, the highly useful Six Main Themes spread (another classic using 52 cards) and the Crescent Spread. Check out how to lay and read some of those by clicking on the buttons here:
I was a bit unsure what to expect this week, so did fairly open readings, including two for the month ahead. I do believe that the first one has pretty much already been confirmed by events here in the UK this week though, quite unexpectedly; the second, on Wednesday, contained more variety. Meanwhile, we also took a look at the prospects for Kamala’s and a running mate. She has now, of course, been confirmed as the Democratic candidate.
So! Let’s take a look back at the readings for the week and see how they’ve done so far.
Coming Up For August I: Two Men, One Undermining the Other's Positive Fresh Start, With Power, Force, Complications & An Ending (Death)
The cards tell us there’s recently been a sense of ambition and hopes and plans for more stability that have involved a pleasant or attractive man who has been rewarded. He’s ambitious and has big ideas, and there’s a sense of stability and steadiness, or he is blessed with giving that impression.
Under the surface, it does appear his path was strewn with luck and there was underlying support for change or a fresh start. There was a choice of who to support, and the idea of change had fortune running with it, it was an opportunity for a fresh beginning and the choice was made.
What’s ahead, though, appears to be some kind of undermining or material loss with or involving people, the public, the wider world, even, and there seems to be another, more powerful, forceful, or even wealthy older man looking beyond the pleasantries to this first man.
What’s lurking under the surface here is a lot more unpleasant; we have four highly negative cards. We have trouble and complications brewing and that there’s a burden or pressure associated with them, a kind of test or a sacrifice. We also have darkness and murkiness around an ending or death. Problems may cause gloom, and an ending is burdened or heavy. A complicated ending and a kind of heavy cloud, or pall.
It seems to me that the second man is either deliberately or inadvertently going to undermine the positivity and stability of the first.
So we have are going to see those dreams and plans for stability undermined or nibbled away at in public, by people or the wider world.
There are two men with either pleasantries or gifts between them; either there is current accord and pleasantries or one is observing the gifts of the other, and there appears to be domination and power in the equation. Next, you have lucky choices or positive paths then running into trouble and a major crisis. And the support for change, a fresh start appears to be marred by murk, darkness and an ending.
If you read the cards vertically, we start with an ambitious younger man with dreams and plans and choices that are supported. A sense of hope, stability bringing positivity, luck and a new beginning, change. But then there is undermining or loss involving a second, likely older man where there’ll be major underlying problems and complications which will cause gloom, negativity, darkness. Then we have people or the public, the wider world, strength, force and power, perhaps wealth and assets, underlying which is a test, sacrifice or burden, and an ending or death.
Hopes and dreams are ending, and stability on shaky ground, built on sand, a new start lost will be lost or undermined, and public or worldwide friendships or support come into play.
One man has a test or burden to face, but complications may be covered up by pleasantries, the superficial or gifts, and an older man takes his opportunity on the road to power.
The ambitious man is confronted with a test, a burden or a sacrificial ending. Stability and positivity need to face complications, darkness and murk. The undermining older man gets a chance for a fresh start and people or world power and strength bring a road or choice to friends, allies and supporters.
Is this something to do with Starmer/Putin (there is history there from the time Starmer was the UK’s Director of Public Prosecutions) or Starmer/Trump, which would also fit pretty well? This month, though, for that? Hmm. We will see.
Well, it looks like I was right about the first man being Keir Starmer given what’s been going on in the UK this week. The older man? Farage, perhaps. Maybe English far-right leader Tommy Robinson. And a lot of trouble is indeed being actively stirred up over a death - the horrific, clearly premeditated murders of three little girls at a Taylor Swift dance party in Southport, with several other small girls and the organisers seriously injured. Soon after, after misinformation spread online that the teenage killer was a recent Muslim immigrant (unlikely given his family was originally from Rwanda, not exactly known as a Muslim country and he was born in Cardiff, Wales with no indication he is a convert or clear signs about motivation;I’d think more incel stuff is likely given the Taylor Swift connection and targeting girls). Following on from this there’ve been clearly organised and extremely violent riots by mostly far right white men in multiple UK towns, mainly targeting Muslims, as a “reaction”. which I’m sure will help the families of those children enormously, not. (Especially the ones who are themselves immigrants). But of course, it’s not really to do with the murdered girls or their families; they seem to have been largely forgotten within a matter of days in the frenzy. Instead it’s to do with underlying resentments over immigration, particularly Muslim immigration even though that’s not relevant in this case as far as we know, with the underlying tensions and tribalism rumbling on and being whipped up by the likes of Farage.
So if you look at the reading itself, it does fit the situation pretty closely, which obviously I could have no idea was coming at the start of the week, although I did suspect the first man was Starmer, as I said. The first two columns fitted his recent landslide win and brief stint in “new leader honeymoon period” pretty perfectly, followed by trouble and disruption. As the reading said:
“We have trouble and complications brewing and that there’s a burden or pressure associated with them, a kind of test or a sacrifice. We also have darkness and murkiness around an ending or death. Problems may cause gloom, and an ending (death, as it turned out) is burdened or heavy. A complicated ending (death) and a kind of heavy cloud, or pall.
It seems to me that the second man is either deliberately or inadvertently going to undermine the positivity and stability of the first.”
And he has, although in fairness, this resentment and division has been rumbling under the surface for a long while and is not likely to be magicked or forced away any time soon.
It does come up again later in the week in the second August reading also, particularly, once again, unwise mob behaviour, crowds, although there’s a more positive slant to the rest of the month thereafter, thank goodness.
Read on to remind yourself of the other readings this week: