This is a super-quick reading I did for a friend of a friend. She doesn’t believe in the cards, which is fine, but decided to try them by asking a silly question. She asked if her ex would come back to her. Here are the cards:

K♣️ 3♣️ 10♥️

On the surface of it, the cards seem positive: they show the man she’s asking about, they show a union (the Three of Clubs) and they show happiness (the Ten of Hearts).

Unfortunately, what the cards seem to be saying is that he has a marriage going on, and he is happy in it. When I told the querent, she confirmed that they haven’t spoken in years and he is married and has children.

This is not the first time someone asks me a fake question, either purposefully or out of self-delusion, and it is not rare for people to ask about old sweethearts who have moved on.

It goes without saying that we, as diviners, must always come to terms with our finitude and fallibility, but the more the querent is deluded or insincere, the harder it becomes to interpret the cards. This time I was doubtlessly lucky that the cards came up very clear.

NOTE: if the querent had told me that the man she was asking about is not married, then I would have asked if they had just broken up. In this case, the spread would have probably meant that their relationship was still going on strong, and that the break-up was something so fleeting the cards didn’t feel the need to describe it.

MQS