Normally when the cards produce a completely contradictory reading it means exactly what you would think and what you would expect in Trump's situation: that his thoughts and emotions are like the cards. I finally pulled these cards which felt like a more stable resolution of his thoughts.
So, contrary to what's happened previously these are all Minor Arcana so he's feeling less out of control and feeling the situation is more within his grasp. I am impressed that two out of three cards are Swords, which represent the element air and thus thoughts. Given that he is notoriously like a toddler with the attention span of a goldfish who can't cope without having his impulses gratified every second this is actually quite strange. I was expecting the cards to be all emotion. Perhaps his new lawyer since all the others are disbarred or in prison, is a calming influence.
1. 4 of Swords. Rest from Strife. This may seem an odd card to get for man facing so much litigation until you know that the 'rest' here is one that is enforced. It can mean a genuine rest, although would be more likely to be a rest in hospital than a holiday, but is a situation where you can't do anything. This continues the feeling of powerlessness in my previous readings about his situation. If it's any consolation, for the ultimate mobster and grifter, the idea that he can't influence this must be driving him wild.
2. 8 of Swords. Shortened Force. I like to think of this as the drama queen card, and there is a great tradition that any problems referred to by this card are usually self inflicted. Of course it always indicates a crisis, and usually indicates conflicting desires (no shit) and the shortened force thing means that you may be expending energy all over the place and focusing on the wrong things. Since Trump is used to other people being loyal to him and taking the rap for him I think he is predominantly furious that he suspects a traitor. I also don't think he knows who it is and won't successfully find out. Personally I think it's pretty sad that he can suspect pretty much anyone in the family because that is the way his family functions. It also means he can't confide in anyone. Shame.
3. 10 of Cups. Perfected Success. This may seem a strange image for a crime family who are quite likely to be grassing each other up to the authorities, but I did say that the cards have been all over the place. I'm going to put it out there and say that I suspect Trump can't believe a family member has likely flipped and still thinks his dynasty is going to be ok. He really is without insight.
As for how this is going to end, I'm not a great one for predictive readings anyway, and in such an unstable, complex situation you would be bound to be disappointed. But given that Trump is 76 and not what you would call thin, there is another way of working out how this will end. Using this calculator and information in the public domain (I counted the golf as a workout and used the weight he gave Dr Oz when he first became president so I've probably been slightly generous) he came out with a life expectancy of 91 and a 75% chance of living to 85. I was quite surprised that this was so good given that he is overweight, so I've used my witch's and nurse's killer instinct to gain an impression.
Against Trump living to absolutely ancient: he's overweight and looks like he's gaining rather than losing, he lives on junk food, he has a stressful life.
For Trump living to be absolutely ancient: his parents lived to be 88 and 93 respectively (that's a biggie, you can't escape those genes), he does take some exercise, he has avoided booze and fags because of his elder brother. His siblings are all alive and well except for Fred Trump Jr, whose death was caused by alcohol, and Robert Trump, and the publicly available reason for his death was brain bleeds after a fall.
So I would conclude that Trump will live to see the conclusion of at least some of the lawsuits he faces, and it depends on prosecutors making a case and finding an unbiased jury. I have read that the reasons his current team are giving out to try to hold prosecutors off don't have a basis in law so it looks like his favourite strategy of spinning things out has run out of ground. Also he's running out of lawyers and let's face it nobody who is any good would take him on.
I think this is actually going to end up in court because his secret service detail is like a tag round his ankle and he won't be able to escape and end his days in Moscow.
How good would that be, if the implications of having been president forced him to face justice.
Now you may quite reasonably point out that I'm not even in the country where all this is going on, and I would be better off reading about our current Fascist government and its ongoing plan to turn this into one of the richest countries of the world where the population live in abject poverty. I will happily admit to a certain element of distraction from our own ills by focusing on events of another country. However the main reason I'm not feeling the need to read for the UK political scene is that I know it has to get much worse before it gets better. There is going to have to be even more hardship to make people realize that the Tories must not get in, and make them realize the only way to do this is vote Labour, whether or not they like Starmer. So in witchy terms sadly it has to stay on the burner.
The only consolation is that in addition to the poor people who will starve or freeze to death this winter and whose deaths will scream for vengeance, every old person who dies will reduce the pool of likely Tory voters.
Grim, I know. But in good news if we ever get this country functioning again, the common law offence of misconduct in public office carries a sentence of life imprisonment.
Get more popcorn in.
