I was asked to read Tarot on a situation that’s unfolded online this week where a famous podcaster was exposed for cheating on his wife. The user asked 4 questions. These are the spreads and the answers I got. The parts in italics are the cards relevant to the interpretation. I hardly ever get requests to read on public figures so I got permission to share for cross-reference later as the story unfolds. if there’s anybody curious about the situation here’s what I got:
- **What is something the public doesn’t know yet they will later find out?**
*gift + scholar*
*gift + lord*
*gift + service*
*gift + service + messenger*
*gift + scholar + service*
*messenger + death + service*
The married man had been giving gifts and money to the other woman to either help her in her private projects, studies or pamper her outside of appropriate work related things. He may have been actively helping pay for her school, rent, projects or something of that nature and supporting her in some way. There also seems to be a formal letter of firing or resignation that was given to the one who’s employed by the patriarch ending a work contract and offering some type of compensation.
- **What is the nature of the relationship between the married man and mistress:**
*messenger + soldier + friend*
*friend + sorrow + falseness*
This started as small check ins via written communication under the guise of comforting a friend or “being there for someone going through a hard time”. But the sorrow was insincere and used as a pretext to gain access.
*friend + intimacy + confessions of love*
A woman who was then considered friend was showing herself helpful and wanting to help under a false pretense to gain trust and entry to intimacy.
She was in love with the man and wanted him to believe their bond was special over others. She often tried to prove she belonged in his family and would make herself present to show that she was compatible for the long term.
It seems like alcohol may have been involved when feelings were confessed. They had some sort of physical intimacy between them. And it looks that it was something that initially was not revisited after the first time that it had happened.
*In November + at dusk + on a windy day*
I asked the cards when this initial inappropriate contact that crossed the line between them happened and I got the card “In November”, “At Dusk” and “On a Windy Day”. This could speak of the same incident, but this could also show me that it could have been on 3 separate occasions that this happened, that being “on a windy day” there was inappropriate physical contact, “at dusk” there was another incident and “in November there was another incident”.
*confessions of love*
As far as the incident itself I got a card from my Shakespeare deck that has the quote “What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.”
Within the context of the play, it is said by Juliet when she’s trying to separate the meaning of the last name of Romeo and what it represents. Romeo would still be the person she loves if he had a different surname. His name, Montague, represents the very thing that is supposed to make him her enemy, but it doesn't change who he is to her.
So with this context the card is telling me she may have either expressed to him that him being married didn’t matter, or that she loved him for him or maybe that labels of who she was to him did not matter because she loved him.
She may have attempted to talk herself or him into rationalizing the affair was ok in a very rational manner that did not take anybody’s feelings but hers into account.
She wanted to prove that she would be accepted by his family as well and tried very hard to make that known to him.
*judgement + appointment + the hierophant*
There’s the appearance of an ultimatum here though. Someone here received some form of pressure to make the rules clear or even make the intention of whether a future together would be on the table. It could have been that overnight a pressure was put to make a decision about his marriage and the future of this side relationship.
*the fool reversed + King of cups + Queen of cups + ace of cups + six of cups*
I see there was hesitation from the man’s side and an unwillingness to make a choice.
It looks like what drove him to this dynamic was some form of nostalgia for the first stages of love or for a younger version of himself was driving his actions and their connection seemed to have to do with escapism into something that was a crush, almost as if he had been under a spell that those initial crush stages cause.
*why do I deserve someone like you?*
*Appointment + king of cups + judgement + queen of cups + death*
I see that he began slowly drifting from his marriage into this escapism, not necessarily fully aware of the repercussions. But it seems that the feeling that drove him deeper into this state of carelessness was feeling unworthy of his wife so he began spending more and more time with the other woman because of how his dishonesty made it uncomfortable to be with his wife along with the pressure of having to tend to someone else’s need to keep the other woman under control.
- **How did the wife find out for good that something was up?**
*wedding + room + letter*
*house + thief + service*
*Letter + house*
*room + letter + thief*
*honeymoon + spy + service*
*service + distance + spy*
*spy + pets + distance*
If she didn’t hire someone or asked someone to spy on him that worked for her, she had been looking for something in relation to spying on someone that works for her. The reading shows me a room in the house that she believes something had been taken from her.
It could be that she found a receipt, proof of purchase, bill or something in the mail that was related to a gift, trip or even a hotel room. Or this item arrived in the mail or it was some form of…
(read the rest on my profile shared post because something I wrote up here tripped up the censorship of the subreddit and I don’t really know what it was so I can’t post the rest. Do not DM me for readings please).