Pardons - A Business Dating Back to Medieval Times, But It Can Be DIY

When there were still English majors in college, we read Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." The character in that medieval saga who was the most comically wonderful was The Pardoner. He peddled, for a fee, indulgences which guaranteed your sins would be forgiven. Essentially that was getting your ticket punched to enter heaven instead of purgatory or hell. The guy was plenty busy.

The 2025 version of that is the pardon business ramping up during the Trump administration. The fee can be up to a million bucks. Bloomberg Law reports:

"Powerful people in business and finance are rushing pitches and stepping up lobbying, catering their appeals to Trump and hiring lawyers with connections to the administration. These defendants with means are spending big for a chance to clear their names, at least in official records if not in public perception."

Of course, a version of that is what skilled defense lawyers at brandname firms such as Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis do. They create the legal strategies to position and package alleged wrongdoing as not wrong, at least according to the rule of law. Or not so wrong. For that they can be paid up more than $2,000 an hour. 

But there's also the no-cost DIY version of a pardon. 

A major card in the tarot is the Five of Cups or the Spilled Milk one.


It sends this message: An obsessive reflection on your sins, mistakes and missed opportunities isn't only a painful state of being. That is symbolized by the turbulent water. It also can prevent scanning the horizon and picking up on what can unfold in the present. Yes, you're stuck.

The evangelical churches such as Calvery are growing so rapidly because a core meme is self-forgiveness. The services, ranging from the music to the sermons, focus on "turning it over." That is, believing that a higher power - or what they assign to Jesus - can lift the burden of the past that was shameful. Calvery doesn't ask for money. It distributes free bibles. 

The same fundamental of surrendering your flawed humanity to a force bigger than what's in this dimension is embedded in 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. There's no cost.

In my tarot readings, whether they're about careers or romantic relationships, most often the issue is shame. Currently I can recommend clients to see the hit film "Thunderbolts." It depicts how a bunch of self-haters bond together and collectively let go of who they had been in the past. The bondage of shame is depicted as living in one room.

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