YouandTheTarot

  Time Magazine is playing it safe. It focuses on consensual non-monogamy in terms of singles. It notes that according to the 2024 report by Match Singles in America, both parties in a number of legally unattached relationships (read that "not married") are going for it. The term for such an arrangement is “polygamy.” We tarot readers are not in such safe territory. We already encounter the issue with the married.  More and more of our married clients come to us to sort out non-monogamy. The usual situation is this: Overall the relationship is good, and the spouse (male or female) remains residing with the married partner. However, one or both had some side action going on. Should that be acceptable behavior? Even if both are engaged in polygamy there can still be the kinds of tensions which can destroy the marriage.  What is emerging even in this nation with a puritanical background is that absolute monogamy in marriage can be an unbearable constraint. If polygamy i...

  Lawyers contact me frequently about outcomes. “Not a clairvoyant,” I respond. Then I add, “But I can focus on the energy surrounding ….” So, I would be unable to give to the poster on Reddit Big Law the answer of would they fare better in a career in corporate in London at law firms Paul, Weiss or Latham. However, the energy I pick up is fierce competition among the law firms for everything from talent to business. In addition to US-players Paul, Weiss and Latham there is Kirkland & Ellis. There are also the UK-based firms such as those from the Magic Circle. Both UK media (including tabloid RollonFriday) and US media will be drawn to this version of the American West’s High Noon. That’s in the cards. Big brandnames will be made. You bet, there will be a force field of great intensity. Partners who know their value – and they didn’t get there by being self-effacing – will feel the raised vibrations. A great time to be a lawyer in London. Already Paul, Weiss and Kirkl...

Steaming on Netflix, "Evelyn," features the struggle of family and friends to even start talking about a young man's suicide. To trigger the conversation they have to put themselves in the oddball situation of walking across the UK. A brother of Evelyn, who was taken over by mental illness at age 18, films the journey. That's a beginning.  In Tarot readings usually those left behind want to talk directly with their loved one who, I call it, has "Walked Away." Unlike Evelyn's family, they don't want to talk about it. For me the Eight of Cups card in the Tarot symbolizes that letting go of life in this dimension. It is usually referred to as the "Walking Away" card.  We look at the card together. If the universe decides that both parties are ready to meet, then there will be a mystical connection.  Usually the "meet-up" is one of mutual apology.  From where I am sitting - that is, in this dimension - the relief is palpable. Finally...

 In Tarot sessions, it could be downright efficient for the reader to introduce personal data.  Actually, my story of professional (and personal) collapse way back in 2003 is turning out to give clients unique hope. Job loss, with skills becoming obsolete, is the new usual. So is the overwhelm of debt acquired in less crazy economic times. Incidentally The Wall Street Journal warns that this year those performance reviews will be brutal. Manpower is expensive and organizations have entered a harsh era of cost-efficiency.  I had chronicled my own catastrophe in an ebook , which has had more than a million downloads. As I share even a few bits of that with The New Blocked Generation what's palpable is the immediate lessening of their tension.  They get it: I not only made it back, including from six-figure debt.  I repeated that kind of professional recovery several times. Most recently was the reckoning with what AI was doing to one of my services.  The ke...

 In loss is liberation.  There is redemption through giving to others.  And forgiveness heals.  Those are some of the key themes from Episode 4 of the Hulu series "Feud: Capote vs. The Swans."  They mirror the messaging of the memes from Tarot readings.  A core experience of a Tarot session is the ability to let go. It may be a rigid mindset, an illusion or an "ought." Be free of that and there is the lightness of spirit. Those stuck, for example, become effortlessly successful. Those addicted to loser relationships stop the pattern. Those who run learn they can endure pain. In the "Feud" episode the characters who have the wisdom and the strength to recognize that the "problem" is not Truman Capote per se - it is their needing to be part of someone else's glam world - are freed up from that tragic flaw. An example is Lee Radziwell. She implores Slim to exit the revenge force field. In contrast, estranged lover Jack is being eaten alive insid...

Sure, the Microsoft CoPilot Super Bowl commercial made the AI app look cool.  But would I pay for it, in addition to my $79.99 Microsoft Office 365 annual licensing,  Best Buy Premium membership  (which I love) and every now and then remote just-in-time software fixes by  BoxAid ( which is there for me when I am on deadline and flipped out)? Fold into that also the wonderful HP laptop I purchased last November that the  Geek Squad at Best Buy in Niles, Ohio  set up for me, including a data transfer. In addition, there are also the expenses of the gee-whiz printer, the cartridges, paper and gas consumed in buying all that. I just completed my taxes and so many of the business expense deductions are for whatever is on the IT continuum.  CoPilot, as Super Bowl viewers know, is targeted at entrepreneurs like myself. It supposedly will pitch in as my assistant with sundry tasks. They range from summarizing email to creating documents. I can plug it into Wor...

  Excess, including material. Feelings of entitlement about maxing pleasure. And the wealthy as royalty. Essentially those are the characteristics of Gilded Ages in America.    Episode 3  of the Hulu series "Feud: Capote vs. The Swans" embodies them as it features the lifestyles of the mid-1960s New York City royalty. That culminates in the November 28th, 1966 Black & White ball put together by author Truman Capote. The guest list designated who was of adequate value - money, talent, network, influence, power and/or more - to celebrate what Capote labeled the "American Success Story." Of course, the tone and content of that "Feud" episode mirrors the ethos of current times - at least in the circles of "real money," along with other stuff. Being very very rich is a necessary attribute. That's billionaire level. Millionaires have become a dime a dozen. Raw genius could also get an invite.  Headlines in establishment media are analogous to b...

  " ... 54-year-old Rhodes Scholar [Bob Sternfels] had  finished a nose ahead  of McKinsey’s sunny digital practice chief Rodney Zemmel, who had taken the election all the way to a run-off." -  Financial Times,  February 5, 2024  You read right. The lightness-of-being Zemmel almost did become the next leader of McKinsey. Admittedly, in addition to his "sunny" disposition, Zemmel's knowledge base and skills are in high demand. As you can see in this  interview,  he is a global leader in the applications and implications of generative AI. However, the added value the Zemmel kinds of "sun stars" bring into an organization - especially those in upheaval such as McKinsey - is not expertise per se. It's optimism.  In contrast are the high-gravitas leaders who have bonded with went very wrong in the past. That is, they are the reverse of the Tarot's Walking Away Card. The message of that card is the commitment to head toward - even given the uncerta...

It is atypical but it does happen often enough for me to analyze the phenomenon: 1) people coming for a Tarot reading when things are going fine, internally and externally and 2) that they are finding the experience useful. About six months ago I began asking those okay clients what they sensed they were getting out of the reading. Here are some of their responses (with identities masked) which explain plenty: "This confirms how blessed I am. I married the right man. He is still alive. Our children are on their own. I hated some of my jobs. But that part of my life is over, forever." "I wasn't always this way. About five years ago I started doing work on myself. I come here to 'make sure' that I haven't slipped back." "I know that most people don't want to hear me talk about myself. I come here for someone to listen. I need that." "I enjoy looking at the cards with you. They tell stories. Bits and pieces are in there about me. Noth...