tarot

Do you believe in fate? Does luck play a role in your life? Or is it mere coincidence?

Then there's that butterfly effect. You know, that theory wherein a seemingly insignificant flap of an infinitesimal butterfly's wings in the south can cause a change in wind patterns that can snowball into something as huge as a freaking tsunami in the north?

It's unnerving to think that your actions are not simply your own. You'd start to horoscopes, go by your lucky colors, stick to the right numbers. Get into the flow of that prediction. Pretty soon you'll be reading tarots.

You would be so adept at it, your hand would no longer shake with trepidation as you open that first card. Boom! Here comes the High Priestess. Onto the Chariot. And finally, the Fool.

Don't be too impulsive in your love life today! The High Priestess isn't able to rein in the Chariot today, and you're about to rush into a new affair with your eyes tight shut. Caught up in the whirlwind that the Fool and the Chariot have whipped up in your life, you act with the eagerness of a puppy, without really considering the effectiveness of your strategy.*

And that's when you start to make excuses.

*actual tarot reading...guilty of snagging it