Tarot: The Trump Family

 

I have often posted about tarot here but I have rarely posted an actual tarot reading. However in this case the subject is just too fascinating and the cards too interesting to keep it to myself. 

A court in the state of New York has ruled that Donald, Donald Jr and Ivanka Trump must all appear before the attorney general (sorry if I get the terms wrong, I don't understand how things work in the US) and testify in a civil case about, I believe, finance. This is in addition to the criminal case which is also ongoing. To be frank considering that so many of his businesses have been alleged to have money laundering written all over them it's a bit surprising that the orange freak has managed to get to the age he has without getting arrested - there is even a whole Wikipedia page about legal cases involving Donald Senior.

Of course as soon as I saw this, being totally nosey I wanted to know what was going on in the Trump family's world about this. I don't do predictive readings however there is available a much more predictive reading by the legendary Z Budapest if you want a different take. She did it at one of his impeachments and if you don't want to watch the whole thing I can summarize it for you by telling you she says he's going to prison.

So anyway the first card I pulled was for what Donald is thinking and the Death card just leapt out at me!

Obviously Death can refer to an actual death and my gut feeling would be that there is probably some level on which Trump wishes he were dead. Oh the ignominy of having spent your entire life getting away with grift and it finally catching up with you at the age of 75! In fact I think that is the meaning of this card in this situation. In addition to deaths it means natural endings which happen to everyone without fear or favour and are unavoidable. He's thinking that it's over and his life has caught up with him.

Of course I'm not a lawyer and no doubt his lawyers will continue his usual tactics of spinning things out as long as possible. That said his accountant has abandoned him and given that one of the things which led to this is that he directly contradicted in a statement what was said in a statement by his legal team, he must be a total nightmare to represent or advise. He must be paying his legal team huge amounts - that's if he is paying them lol. Anyway the witch's advice (for reasons which will become apparent further down the reading) is just open up your history for a full audit and take the consequences. Being overweight and living on junk food he realistically has ten years of life left but his legacy will certainly carry on to his children.

Which brings me nicely to Donald Jr. He had two cards pop out for his thoughts, although his thoughts were rather confused to say the least.

The 4 of Wands is called The Lord of Perfected Work by the Golden Dawn. That said it is in the fiery wands suit so is much more about the will behind the work rather than the actual work. In this case the natural inference would be that he is thinking about the wealthy show off life which the family have built up over decades. That's what it's all about in his thoughts. The Tower means that he thinks this life they have willed into being could well be ended. The Tower means a quite different ending from the ending of Death, where things have run their natural course. It's exactly the ending depicted in the card - sudden, catastrophic, and painful. 

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

Ivanka had the most bizarre card for what she's thinking. The six of wands is in the same area of fiery will and means definite accomplishment. The Golden Dawn called it the Lord of Victory and Pam's depiction very clearly shows a victory parade. It is tied to the Beauty sephirah of the Qabalistic Tree of Life and I'm going to put a punt on here that she thinks her beauty will prevent anything happening to her, probably by daddy protecting her. By this stage I feel physically sick because the only sensible thing to do if your dad publicly says he would be with you if you weren't his daughter, is take out a restraining order.

I'm honestly surprised that Donald is the most insightful here, but then I suppose the kids have been brought up with the idea that they could just get away with anything.

To be frank surely nobody will be surprised if they turn on each other or throw one of them under the bus (probably Don Jr) - certainly Mary L Trump, who is in a position to know, describes his children's relationship with Donald as entirely transactional and conditional.

Oh alright, I couldn't help myself. I just had to look at what the legal team think about this and to my delight The Fool leapt out!

This is one of the tarot cards which in my opinion has its main meaning slightly misrepresented all the time. There is a lot of emphasis on the innocence or holy fool aspects but little emphasis on the Qabalistic meaning that the Fool is the thing before anything happens. He's like the thought you have before you speak, or possibly the intake of breath at the most. To put it bluntly, the legal team don't have a sensible defense prepared. There is no sensible defense. To put it another way they are walking towards the precipice and the Trumps are refusing even to plan, listen to advice and their legal people don't even think they've got a leg to stand on.

What I find totally bizarre (but then I wouldn't dream of creating a business empire built largely on other people's money and creative accounting) is that this obviously can't carry on forever. Unless you escape to a banana republic sooner or later the powers that be expect to see your books. Who knows, it may not happen in Donald's lifetime but you would think as a father you wouldn't want that hanging over your kids. Wouldn't you?

Hope you've all got lots of popcorn in because it's going to be televised.