By Sarah Taylor
As an inter- and intra-personal, relationship-based tarot reader, I don’t usually go in for purely predictive tarot readings; and I have never done a tarot reading based on political events.
There is a divinatory (predictive) aspect to my readings — but I have tended to place that secondary to the here-and-now-ness of a spread.
This is in part because I am a counsellor, and as such my work focuses on the present. All too often, clients look to the future as a way of avoiding the present and tarot is an effective tool on the path of the assumption of responsibility for one’s life and one’s decisions. In part, though, it is because divinatory tarot asks for two things that my human self finds challenging to surrender to: the first is trust in the face of the absolute unknown; the second is opening myself to being wrong.
Enough of that! Yesterday — inspired by Rachel Pollack’s assertion that divinatory tarot needs to be wrested from the prevailing dominance of psychological tarot — I decided to draw cards to answer the following question:
“What is happening, and what will happen, in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election?”