By Jen Pearson
Card images from The Victorian Romantic Tarot (Gold) by Karen Mahoney and Alex Ukolov published by Magic Realist Press
This is something I normally wouldn't touch but for "fun"
and as a challenging exercise, I decided to accept the prediction
challenge. I used the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot. I chose as
significator cards Justice (11 for November) and the 4 of Wands (for
the day of the election).
I didn't do a spread. Instead, I decided
the Queen of Swords would be Clinton and the King of Pentacles would
be Trump.
I incorporated the date in my shuffling as well with 11
overhand shuffles, a riffle shuffle and then to a count of 4 in an
overhand shuffle. At that point, I just started laying out the cards
from the top one by one. Whoever showed up first was the winner and I
decided that the number of cards between the winner and the loser
would be the percentage margin.
Hillary turned up first (being the
19th card I pulled). Upright or reversed wasn't going to matter but
the Queen of Swords was upright. There were 19 cards between "Hillary"
and "Donald." And the King of Pentacles was reversed. 19
cards are exactly 25% of the total I was using (with the two pulled
out as significators). I think that's an awfully large margin for a
presidential campaign but there it is. Since Hillary turned up after
only 18 cards, I'll stick my neck out further and say that it is
clear fairly early on the 8th that she will win.
I
hope that bit of card chicanery tickles your fancy. It was an
interesting challenge. Another interesting thing that occurred that I
don't know what to make of but feel is significant is that all of the
other kings were on Clinton's side of the draw, as well as the
Emperor. I'm wondering if they could represent major states or
something. But since I didn't start with the intention of analyzing
anything like that, I'll let it be.