Today is Tuesday the 16th of April 2024 and this week, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles into Israel's territory.

@pre@boing.world does a five minute tarot reading to investigate and finds that while relations looked like they were becoming more peaceful, the oppression under the surface made it a tinderbox so even the smallest betrayal can escalate to destroy the precious peace.

Transcript

Welcome friends to the wordcloud tarot show, direct from the Tarotdrome here in cyber-space in front of an audience of tarot cartoons!

Today is Tuesday the 16th of April 2024 and last weekend, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles into Israel's territory.

What's going on with that?

Lets do a tarot reading to find out.

We'll use this, the word cloud tarot happy toast deck. Each card has a drawing by the amazing Happy Toast, plus the meaning of the card is written onto each card itself in a word-cloud.

This makes our reading very transparent, you can see that the cards mean what we say they mean.

Today we'll do the usual five card spread, so lets go!

History - 12 Of Pentacles, Knight

The first card represents history, that is the knight of Pentacles.

The knight is a contemplative conscious diligent educated fellow.

And here he represents the uneasy truce between the nations in recent history.

Opportunistic, sure, accepting in a dutiful equanimous way that even if the countries can't be friends, at least they can find purposeful advantage in not fighting, gather a pious peace dividend.

The realization that even just financial incentives demand more munificence towards each other.

To call it benevolent magnanimous or altruistic would be an exaggeration, but you get the idea, this is a methodological enterprising peace, barely stable.

But at least they weren't blowing each other up all that much.

External - 6 Of Cups, Pleasure

The External card is the six of cups. Pleasure.

Externally, this looked like it was a saccharine mawkish bliss.

I mean we're exaggerating again, clearly, it's not that there's an enthusiasm to be together.

This isn't love passion and delight even from the outside, but it's that sort of direction.

Perhaps a fondness in it's infancy , anticipation of honesty and sincerity at least.

There is some pleasure in peace with your enemy.

Hidden - 10 Of Wands, Oppression

In the Hidden position we have the ten of Wands, Oppression

While it may look like a pleasure, there is in fact much repression, not even that deeply hidden.

colonial subjugation , brutal enslavement, injustice and tyranny and pain

The authoritarian surveillance fascists persecute their victims on both sides of the borders.

Even during the peace, there are protestors in chains , statutory pressure and onerous responsibility confinement, obligation, entrapment, hardship.

These states may project apparent pleasure, an uneasy accord, but government oppression and tension lie under the surface.

Present - 12 Of Trumps, Hangedman

The card for this moment is the 12th Trump, The Hanged man

An interruption and incomprehension , an understanding is renounced and abjured .

The peace is relinquished.

Under attack people cede the peace and suspend their good will, they forego insight and denounce instead of forgive.

Their devotion leads to suspension of law, to disdain in their perception of other's viewpoints . To indifference and detachment .

People feel nonchalance for implications which makes them abdicate reasonableness and abandon peace.

Inevitably, it leads to disaster, catastrophe .

Escalation.

Outcome - 5 Of Cups, Disappoint

The final slot tells us the outcome, and that is the five Of Cups, Disappoint.

When people abandon care for consequences, and seek revenge for oppression instead of furthering the peace, they will be disappointed.

They are heading for calamity .

The cycle of injury and revenge leads to bereavement , sorrow , despair , trauma ,sadness misfortune , heartache , misery , anguish and loss.

Each escalation leads to more frustration, treachery and disappointment and yet more dismay desperation and unhappiness

The outcome of losing sight of your enemy's humanity is deception weariness and regret.

Summary

Relations between the nations was more diligent and opportunistic than friendly, but purposeful peace was being pursued.

It looked like it was going okay, with some anticipation of cooperation in it's infancy.

But really under the surface is lots of unaddressed oppression and suffering.

It's a powder-keg, and even the smallest betrayal or interruption, a single hanged man, can relinquish the hold on peace.

Then the cycle of disappointment, injury and revenge destroys everything.

The key is de-escalation, and addressing the oppression, understanding and reluctance for revenge, only that can give a peace dividend, not an eye for an eye, but maybe just one eye for every two?

I note that the cards don't say who swung the first hanged man, and that every state in the region and beyond is guilty of kinds of oppression.

I don't think the cards here cast more judgement upon either side, unless they fail to de-escalate, fail to seek ways to address oppression, and continue that cycle of revenge.

End

That's what the cards tell me anyway.

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