The Devil, you say?!

My friend offered to do a Tarot reading for me tonight, and I’m always amazed by the cards and what they can tell me.

I like to think I have a very healthy skepticism about what many would consider airy-fairy-mystical-bullshit, but when independent parties* convey similar messages, you have to start wondering: what if these cards are right?

I’m not very close with this friend—she’s my mother’s age and that’s how we met, through my mother, but she’s very young at heart and fun-loving, so we get along very well. Anyway, the first reading was bang on about how I’m in the midst of a great deal of sudden change at work and that I’m considering leaving my company—all true, which she wouldn’t have known without me telling her. Spooky.

The really disturbing thing is that of the 78 cards in the deck, similar cards came up again and again—as they did the last time she read the cards for me. In this reading, the common cards were The Devil—which was luckily and thankfully mitigated in every hand by positive cards like The Magician, The Wheel of Fortune and The World—and The Ace of Wands.

I remember when I first saw The Devil I was freaked out—wouldn’t you if you saw such a scary-looking card? But the placement in the reading in relation to the mitigating cards was reassuring to me…so I have much to consider and work out in the next little while, particularly career-wise. And if there is anything to these cards, then next Spring will be a very positive, busy time for me, indeed.

* I went to see a Tarot/palm reader for the first time in Hong Kong just because I was curious, and the things she told me were validated a year later by my friend.