Saturday, January 23, 2021

Who is Joe Biden?

The day after the inauguration, I asked that question, drew a single card -- and got just about the most confusing answer possible:


As I have explained in great detail, this card says Donald Trump loud and clear. I mean, look, it's a guy with orange hair blowing a trumpet with a flag on it. How can we not connect it with a certain orange-haired individual named Trump who was born on Flag Day? It's Trump. Name, birthdate, hair color — it might as well be his damn driver’s license! What can possibly be meant by saying it's Biden?


As I've detailed elsewhere, the Rider-Waite Tarot has accurately predicted the winner of every U. S. presidential election since 2000 -- with the apparent exception of 2020, since the 20th trump is the Judgement, the Trump trump. We can say that Trump was the "real" winner because Biden won through fraud, or we can hold out hope that the election may yet be invalidated and Trump reinstated, but as things stand right now it just looks like the Tarot got it wrong.

Of course, if this card actually represented Biden all along, then the prediction was right, and this is another example of how prophecies can be deceptive without actually lying. Gee, Bert, whatever made you think I was thinking of Trump?

How can it be Biden, though? How? All I can do at this point is explore some possibilities.


1. The point is not the details of the picture but the name of the trump: Judgement. God allowed Biden to "win" as a judgment or punishment, giving the American people exactly what we deserve.

2. The orange-haired guy with the trump and flag is indeed Trump, but note that he is an angel -- i.e., "in heaven," dead. Since the reelection of a sitting president could scarcely be represented by an angel's suddenly appearing from heaven, this angel must be departing to heaven, leaving the scene, to the cheers of the "NPC gray" people below. And where is Biden in all this? Nowhere. He's nothing. Remember how popular it was to write the words "Bye Don" in the style of Biden's campaign logo? Biden's only selling point is that he isn't Donald Trump, and so this image of Trump flying away captures his essence.

3. Biden is in some sense the second coming of Trump, continuing Trump's work. That seems impossible, but what after all was Trump's work? He obviously didn't "make America great again." His main contribution seems to have been making it undeniably obvious that the System is irredeemably corrupt -- a revelation represented by the angel sounding a trumpet, broadcasting what had previously been hidden. Biden, if his first few days in office are any indication, is certainly set to continue that work.

4. Biden is Trump's puppet. Is that any less crazy than it sounds? Someone is obviously pulling the strings, and it makes sense that it would be someone who has absolute proof that Biden stole the election and is using that to blackmail him. Who has that proof? China? The EU? -- or Trump? I'll admit this doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would Trump use that proof to control the president when he could have used it to be the president? Just brainstorming here.

5. Trump is still going to win somehow, and the Tarot is telling me to unask a question that presupposes Biden is of any account. I say Mickey Mouse, and the cards shout Donald Duck!

6. The sync fairies are just messing with me, giving me an obviously bogus answer in the hope that I'll put the cards away, disengage from politics, and get on with my life.

Friday, January 22, 2021

Inauguration Day reading

Hours before the inauguration in Washington, I did a one-card reading with the Rider-Waite deck, asking, "Is Trump really going to pull this off today?" I drew the High Priestess.


The first thing I noticed was Joe Biden's initials on the pillars Jachin and Boaz.

One of my commenters suggested that the woman in the center might represent Kamala Harris, and that fits surprisingly well. The woman is obviously the card's center of attention, with JB off to the side and in the background -- reflecting the disproportionate emphasis placed on the VP ("a Harris administration, with Joe Biden as president") and the general expectation that she will replace Biden in relatively short order.

Note also that on the card we see the woman's left hand touching a Bible (Torah scroll), corresponding rather literally to what happens during a swearing-in ceremony.


The decision to be sworn in on two Bibles was a little strange, but the second trump is all about duality.

Traditional Golden Dawn correspondences even link this particular trump to Harris's given name.


So, the reading pretty unambiguously says: No, Trump is not going to pull this off today. Kamala Harris (with, lest we forget, Joe Biden as president) will be sworn in.

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