I read somewhere that pregnancies cannot be predicted because it is impossible to bring someone into the equation who doesn’t yet exist. The cards (or any other method) supposedly cannot talk about inexistent people, and they may only be used to check on pregnancies that have already started.

I certainly agree that it may not be wise to use divination on health-related issues, especially on such delicate topics, since we diviners are fallible, and should never forget it.

That it *is* possible to use them to this end, though, is confirmed by experience. I believe I even discussed a spread where I predicted that a woman would become pregnant, even though the question wasn’t even about pregnancy.

The idea that the cards cannot talk about people that don’t exist, though, is poppycock. The child may not exist, but the woman’s body certainly does. If we can predict that the woman’s body will betake itself to a job interview, to the mall or to a date, it’s unclear why we shouldn’t be able to predict that an organism will start growing inside of it after a spirited round of nooky.

MQS