I don’t remember talking about it here, but I was asked to teach evening Italian classes at the local school, mostly for adults (in that most students are adult, not because I teach NSFW vocabulary).

I have been having fun using the cards to predict how the classes would go. They are mostly accurate, although obviously their meanings must be toned down a bit to apply to the situation. One glaring example of the cards predicting something major is this spread on yesterday’s class.

I’ll tell you what happened, and then we’ll get into the spread, especially since I didn’t predict anything ahead of time, so this is more of an exercise.

What happened was that one of the students, a man who sould have reached the age of reason some years ago, decided that I wasn’t paying enough attention to him. So when I asked him a question he reacted angrily, throwing a hissy fit and questioning me and my method. I reacted more maturely, yelling back at him that he can either get on with my method or be gone, at which point I invited him to leave.

Now let’s look at the cards I drew that evening before class. The cards are quite clear in this case, probably because what happened was relatively major compared to a boring day reading.

The King of Diamonds is ‘some dude’. He doesn’t come up as a Spade, so he’s not a sworn enemy or anything. The K♦️ dominates the spread from the center, so the situation revolves around him. The Two of Spades can be anger, while the Four of Spades can be an obstacle, but with negative cards it becomes a clean break.

So upheaval is to be expected in the relationship to this man. Since the Five of Spades ends the spread, this upheaval is unlikely to be reconciled. Especially since the Six of Hearts, the card of conciliation, is surrounded by all these spades, so it is as if the cards were saying “the conciliation is not” or, in English, there won’t be conciliation. Paradoxically, therefore, the 6♥️ worsens the spread by its presence.

MQS