Weekly Roundup: Two May Predictions, What's About To Collapse, Plus Elections, Choices & The UK Tories
Week ending 4th/5th May 2024
So! The start of a new month already! Everything going so fast…
This week, we used some of our usual decks; The Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards, Sibilla della Zingara, Traditional Zigeuner “Gypsy” Cards, Lenormand and Sibylle des Salons.
You can check out the resource pages on all these decks here, to find out card meanings, layouts, history, quirks, instructions for reading etc.
And layouts this week included 9-Card Box Spreads, an adaptation of a classic Etteilla spread called Jacob’s Ladder, the Mystic Sevens and a positional layout called the “Embrouilles Au Salon” aka “Troubles at the Salon” from the Sibylle des Salons, a good “problem-solving” layout.
We’ll be looking at how to lay and read the Jacob’s Ladder spread over the next couple of days.
Meanwhile, The News: This Week’s Readings
Newswise, it’s all looking a bit dire for politicos all over the place, but in ways that we keep seeing over and over of late. In Scotland, First Minister Humza Yousaf resigned (Generally, the minute a UK politician says “I am not resigning”, as Humza did last Friday, I tend to expect them to be gone by that afternoon, but this time, he actually lasted a whole weekend, and only resigned on the Monday). The Tories got unsurprisingly trounced in UK local elections. Meanwhile in the US, Donald Trump’s trial rumbled on, and there were big student protests at campuses all over the world about Gaza.
Here’s the roundup of all this week’s readings, starting with a couple of May predictions.
Looking Ahead To May: Exploring Globally & Blending Will Be Positive, But Too Much Fire Brings Burned Wings; Plots Will Be Exposed
There could be a sense of “looking outside the norm” this month and we might see more exploration internationally to find treasures or different ways of doing things. Benefits and gains come due to trade or labour; any effort to explore should bring rewards. Someone, however, will receive a blow or hit to their pride or reputation, but they will manage to hide their feelings with dignity and retain stability.
Comfort and safety will be important this month or the desire to re-establish stability, and there may be a change in residence or ‘stance’ for someone. We could see some kind of coming together; ultimately, those who fundamentally have the same desires and wants may blend or merge into one. There could be a realisation about a danger that we’ve come close to but that can be avoided. What these two parties want will be achieved eventually, but it’s going to take hard work and effort. At the same time, any cunning schemes or underhandedness is likely to be exposed.
Good news is on its way, but we still need to watch for over-passionate, irrational displays. Too much fervour will cause wings to be burned, but it’s likely that people will be being passionate at this time, even if it’s unwise. Overindulgence and greed for the material brings sickness and dysfunction but this can eventually turned into prosperity and happiness. However, there’s a warning here for anyone being underhanded. Cunning schemes will be exposed, and currently someone is wanting to act unwisely.
Given the political climate and downfalls all over the place, I’m expecting plenty of embarrassing hits to reputations in the political arena this month, but it would also be good to see people coming together around what they have in common rather than the constant tribalism and division we’ve seen over the last few years. As to whom the will the “coming together” will be between, we’ll just have to see, but for now, society seems as polarised as ever. Not for the first time (or only time in this week’s readings) we’re warned about fervour, passions that may not be entirely rational (some aspects of the student demos perhaps?) and that they can be exploited by those who want to make money and perhaps other gains from doing so. It remains to be seen whose “cunning plots” get exposed this month, but as far as these cards are concerned, they are going to be.
The rest of the week’s readings, for those of you who are paid subscribers, were as follows, and appeared to follow some of the same themes: