Bros.
Question
Are the United States and Russia going to war with each other soon?
[Boundary conditions: Month of April.]
This question is inspired by @tarotbyfergus' recent post on the same topic.
From bottom to top, left to right: Queen of Pentacles, Queen of Wands, King of Wands, Knight of Cups, Dagaz.
Short answer: political theater. Putin and Trump appear to really be allies behind closed doors, still.
All court cards. Two Queens (one Earth, the other Fire), and one Fiery King. This suggests to be that they have a fiery synergistic dynamic where they both are pro-active with each other; however there is actually a very slight hierarchy between the two where one is taking more of a role of iniator, the other is slightly more receptive. The one who is more receptive would be the Queen of Wands in relation to the King of Wands (in Qabalistic philosophy the female principle is the receptive one; think yin/yang). Behind the Queen of Wands is the Queen of Pentacles, again reaffirming the receptive nature of this Queen/Female energy I am picking up on.
I cast a Rune for an outcome and got Dagaz- in this context I am picking up 'clarity'... 'awakening'.... 'new beginnings'.... that aspect of the Judgement card, actually.
I suspect they are unified with the aim of revealing certain Truths to the world when the timing is right.
The Knight of Cups above is the slick speech of these strategists having to play political theater and trying to effect people on a soul level.
This is a snapshot of what the energies are like now. Things can change. In the meantime I am not going to lose sleep over this. More psychological warfare. (I would like to clarify, however, the reading did not rule out the possibility of military strikes in Syria.)
Over all I got similar energies that @tarotbyfergus got. Not a precise story, but supporting one from a different angle. We both got the King of Wands which describes the presence of a bold, charismatic, and effective leader.
Follow up Question
Did Assad really chemically attack his own people?
9 of Wands, Judgement, Knight of Wands
No.
In the Judgement card we see an image of toxic fumes polluting a landscape being released from an industrial location. The way animal life is drawn in this image looks as though it is being negatively effected, and the black bird on the top of the image predominates and in this particular reading, it is appearing to me as an 'environmental contaminant' ... an 'other'... 'invader'.... that needs to be neutralized by the immune system of that environment. The Judgement card is a complex card that means multiple things, but for oracular purposes for this question, that is the message my intuition is picking up.
Assad is like how the Knight of Wands is here (peppered by the 9 of Wands that points to Assad's perseverance in the face of adversity)... like Hypatia, who had to struggle with the forces of obscurantism of her day. Likewise, Assad has had to grapple with a similar archetypal ordeal.
Edited note:
April 12 - @in2itiveart did an intuitive sketch on this topic. She posted it here.
