Family drama

Christmas, Easter, anniversaries. All good until it’s evil. The evil is called family drama. Right now many are gathered for the end of the year festivities. For all people’s good intentions, drama happens at the Christmas table, and occasionally I get booked to read the cards for this question: ‘how do I exact justice in the drama that just happened, without compromising the general family relations?’

I liked the cards I got for one such instance: the Hermit, the Popess, and Death from Baka Tarot above.

I simply said: ‘make your cuts in accordance.’ Why ‘in accordance?’ Because you can’t just cut your family members out of your life, unless they do something unacceptable. 

But as most families have a talent for cornering each other to the point of high confrontation, especially over the Christmas duck, what do you do? Well, first you seek to understand people’s motives, Hermit style, then you take out your book of records, Popess style. You start counting: how many times have they done this? If one time too many, then cut. But still with a measure of discretion, for if you want to continue to have a relationship with the family, then you must make that cut in accordance, with discretion and a great deal of wisdom.

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Baka Tarot

Let’s just call this one ‘a book of many round edges…

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