Weekly Roundup: Violent Retribution, Tribalism, Falsehoods, Allegiances & A Couple Of Royal Readings
Week ending 28th/29th October 2023
Among this week’s Daily Oracle card readings for news stories, we had the following layouts, the instructions for which are below. There was an additional problem-solving spread, which I will write about separately next week.
The Readings This Week
Unsurprisingly, several of this week’s readings focused on the war in the middle east as the main focus of this week’s news. None suggested much hope for the situation, with tribalism and loyalties undermining truth, violent retributions, and both religion, force and militarism looming large in all readings. No-one is likely to be satisfied with outcomes, which will create desires and tensions for years to come.
The last two readings of the week, however, were closer to home here in the UK, and suggested current disgruntlement between King Charles and his wife Camilla.
Week Ahead: False "Service" Or Deference From A Soldier Yearning For Retribution & Money Expected That Never Comes
The cards suggest we’ll see a “false soldier” figure pretending in some way to serve or be of service, and who should not be trusted. Recently, there’s been a female figure, or perhaps an idealisation of a country as one, who was supposedly healing or in a healing position. She’s been bowing down to or serving claims of despair and desperation with regard to money, resources, or funding, perhaps through charitable enterprise. Unfortunately, right now there is a longing or deep-seated desire for violent, and deliberate revenge, retribution, involving fighters and the military and religion or senior religious figures, the message of whom perhaps won’t dawn on people until it’s too late. Ahead, there may be meetings, gatherings or signs of reconciliation, people coming together, but alas, it looks as though these may be marred by disaster or attack, where there is false news or information involved, that someone is waiting for or anticipating.
There are people gathering together with yearning or desires regarding the idealised figure that brings only violence, the avenging angel and destruction to any sense of healing or things improving. Here we have our false soldier and false service, so watch out for having the wool pulled over your eyes deliberately. This brings a message or news from a priest, a senior or religious figure, about despair and desperation and it seems there will be waiting for action or news that never arrives, and particularly money that’s expected but never shows up or arrives at its intended destination.
This seems pretty accurate from what we’ve seen so far, with the Soldier standing for military action right in the middle. More news of the horrors visited on Israeli citizens by Hamas terrorists, with accusations of minimisation and denial by some, while Gaza has been decimated and even more citizens displaced and dying in in retaliation and now a ground invasion by Israeli forces, with crowds of pro-Palestine and anti war protestors, as well as some Hamas sympathisers with anti-Semitic rhetoric, gathering in major cities across the world. None of this looks good for anyone, certainly not the prospect of peace or resolution anytime soon or any of the citizens of either country, or the rest of the world for that matter. There may also be a degree of naivety and idealism involved from those outside the region and loyalty to either “side” bringing minimisation of uncomfortable facts and disputes on truths that might not fit preferred narratives. What a mess in all senses. Meanwhile, aid struggles to get into Gaza to help the citizens suffering there.
Read on for updates on all the rest of the week’s readings.