Broke, bedevilled, and coerced

I like every aspect of reading cards, for both the usual and not so usual reasons, but I have to say that I never tire of marvelling when the cards visually corroborate a story to the minute detail. Although quite a common experience, I once performed a reading for a woman who put the following context on my table: ‘My friend is both broke and broken financially and in the body, but at the same time she is constantly coercing, and dominating every aspect of what she imagines is the case. It’s as if she’s full of demons, as not all that she projects is the case. What can I do about her?’

Three cards down and we got these three describing the situation: the Tower, the Emperor, and the Devil. ‘What?’ the woman said. ‘That’s right,’ I said, pulling two more cards in the positions of ‘Do’ and ‘Don’t’ – Death and the Wheel of Fortune respectively. ‘Cut her loose,’ I said, and stop thinking that you have an obligation to stay in the loop for her. Her demons are her own. You don’t have to serve them too.’

Needless to say, when the woman wanted to know how the cards could ever possibly fall like that, I winked and said: ‘this is top secret.’ We both laughed, as neither of us is in the camp that falls for esoteric mysteries and fictions we can all buy and worship to no end.

But if others here want to actually know what I make of the case when the cards mirror literally the very wording of a predicament, and what the ‘top secret’ is all about, I recommend my book, What is Not, as the last chapters there have a lot to say about it.