YouandTheTarot

  "As long as Jones Day brands itself as MAGA’s chief counsel, those non-partisan books of business are going to suffer." - Joe Patrice,   Abovethelaw,   August 29, 2022. As the world knows, in  The New York Times Magazine , David Enrich published an article on the political influence law firm Jones Day has had on the judicial system. The statistic Enrich provides is this: There have been more than 100 conservative appointments Jones Day helped arrange for federal judgeships. That influence is bound to grow, Enrich predicts.  Patrice's point is now that Jones Day's role in conservative politics has gone quite high-profile, will that freak current clients? They may not want to be associated with a law firm branded as aligned with the far right. In addition, prospects might steer clear. The meltdown which occurred for the Boies Schiller brand/business because of David Boies' representation of Harvey Weinstein and Theranos could overtake Jones Day.  But Enrich...

 There can be situations in which the client information handled by public relations representatives can be treated as "privileged." That can occur when lawyers bring in the PR professional into a case. Here is a discussion of such possibilities on Westlaw. That got me thinking. Could what clients confide to me during a Tarot reading also be assessed as "privileged?" Suppose, for example, they "come clean" with me about a murder they committed. I encourage them to seek out a lawyer. That lawyer loops me into the defense strategy. Does my relationship with the client become privileged? Of course, as almost everything in law, the answer could be: That depends. In myriad ways, we Tarot readers have been the new (and more affordable) psychologists . People reveal to us such confidential material about their lives. So, it's not unthinkable that we will become involved in their legal matters. At that time their lawyers will advise us how we can protect both...

  "The brain, trapped in a black box, slowly, effortfully constructs a model of reality that over time gets better at predicting and explaining the regularities in its environment ..." - In 2022 book HOW MINDS CHANGE," by David McGraney. It's that programming which makes it so difficult to change when we need to. The majority of professionals come to me for a Tarot reading because they are caught up in some kind of disruption in their work. They recognize that they need a fresh game-plan for holding on to what they got or finding a new job if they have been laid off. It is sad to say but if the trauma has been intense it will be easier to shake off the earlier conditioning. McGraney also observes: "Posttraumatic growth is the rapid mind change that comes to a person after a sudden, far-reaching challenge to the accuracy of their assumptive world." One version of that has been the double whammy. There is the law associate who put total trust in extreme hard...

It was a surprise.  So much of my reading of the Tarot on career issues eventually wind up veering into matters of the heart.  A high-powered sales representative in an automotive dealership will put it in business terms - Should she or he continue to "invest" in such and such a relationship? But what is clear is the power of the undertow of romance on all aspects of that life.  The problem as I see it is this: That need for a trusting supportive love relationship can evolve into an obsession. In psychobabble that's called "co-dependency." That is, the hardened belief that one's identity and sense of worth can only be created through others. Therefore, growth is impossible. In addition, the abilty to put into a career what is a prerequisite for success can be eroded.  How to assess if romance is a career-threat? That should be obvious if it involves a compulsive preoccuption with the other. There's not adequate attention on the you and your career goals....

 " I am being asked to leave my firm after just a year at a V30ish due to work slowdown in California. I am a lower tier T14 grad from 2021. I asked where else is hiring and they suggested staff attorney is a viable option for now because other firms may not want to hire right now." - Posting onReddit Big Law, August 26, 2022. Here is the  thread .  " Big Law Will Likely 'Right-Size' Attorney Ranks Through Attrition, Performance Reviews " -  Law.com , August 26, 2022. It's palpable: A slowing down in the law firm sector. Associates should prepare for stealth layoffs and non-equity partners could be nudged out.  Meanwhile, who gets the work has become  the  story. That's why  Law.com  covered that, despite the recent dog days in dealmaking, Paul Weiss did pick up business for its M&A practice. Yeah, it got the work. On Reddit Big Law there is speculation that law firm niches such as M&A will pick up in September. But that could be...

According to  IBIS , the market size for psychic services in the US is about $2 billion, employing almost 91,000. But that’s the tip of the iceberg in the revenue and branding potential for business from what is being called “occultculture.” Essentially, that term indicates a reaching for access to non-rational, non-institutional, non-bureaucratic, individualized ways of consciousness, insight, and experience. Those range from the tarot to astrology to meditation. In April 2021, establishment  The New York Times  published an article on the tarot. It endorsed it as a tool for self-awareness.   Shutterstock’s 2020 Creative Tends Report  “identifies occultculture as a major emerging trend, based on yearly searches by … users … [That includes] a +525% rise in searches for magic and +289% for ‘spiritual.’”   Your just-right professional fit. You can bypass the usual pain points. That includes Tarot readings, both spreads and one-card pulls. Complimentary c...

 In the Three of Pentacles Tarot card three very different kinds come together for a project. They are a monk, sculptor, and an architect. The card signals achievement. So, the message is: Success comes through tapping into and leveraging what might not be a traditional fit among professionals. That meme mirrors the findings of the research of sociologist Mark Granovetter. In the early 1970s Granovetter documented that the power in networking more often comes from those outside our own sphere of influence than from cultivating the usual suspects. That concept has gone down in history as the "Strength of weak ties." For example, Peter the train conductor on the Connecticut Metro North commuter train probably knows a lot more about what goes on in hiring and firings in the advertising sector than most of those actually employed in it. On the train, he overhears conversations, catches what's being keyed in on laptops, observes who no longer is aboard/who has come aboard, and...