Announcements for Saturday:
- 11am-12pm: Yoga
- 12pm-4pm: Store Hours
- 12.30pm-1.30pm: Lightworkers Healing class
- 2pm-3pm: Public Reiki Share and Healing Circle
Happy Saturday, Sault Ste. Marie! If you've got any plans for the weekend, I hope you get them all done before the rain hits. One important announcement for today:
Energy Revived will be closed after 4pm to attend an outside event.
This is only for today, and our regular schedule resumes on Monday!
With that out of the way, let's talk about today's Tarot card reading in which an anonymous seeker asks,
I want to know the exact time and date that my father "John" will die.
Hello, Anonymous Seeker. Normally I would say that I'm thankful you asked me to help you with a question, but in this case, I must refuse to offer any kind of answer whatsoever. I apologize if you're insulted, because that's not my goal, so if you'll give me a moment to explain I think you'll see why I won't help you with this question.
The first reason I won't read for this question is because it's simply morbid. If you were asking about yourself, I might participate in the question through the lens of what you can still do with your life, ways you can improve the time you have left, and important things you should finish with friends and family, but for another person? There's nothing helpful that I can contribute to such a conversation.
The second reason I won't read for this question is because of the metaphysics of divination. Among my favorite books is the Dune saga by Frank Herbert. If you're interested, don't waste your time on any of the screen adaptations - they're a pale shadow of the books - but I bring it up because the subject of prescience plays an integral role in the books. In his books, author Herbert hypothesizes that divination is not an act of seeing what will be, but actually creating what will happen. In other words, the future is blank until you impose your sight upon it. At that point, based on the message you found through whatever divinatory tool or technique you used, you have just created the very thing you see.
This isn't to say that foresight is useless. Indeed, foresight is an integral part of how the Dune universe operates. Without foresight and the gift of prescience, nothing moves. Space navigators can't cross tens of light-years in a moment's transit, and the population of entire planets would collapse. So in that sense, I think there's a lot of room for divination and the application of psychic foresight.
But also in the sense of the second reason I listed I think that some questions are not worth asking. If I predicted your father's death being very near, then I would - according to the metaphysics of divination - be responsible for causing his death. I don't want that on my head...
... but of course, it's also against the law for me to make such a prediction because that falls dangerously close to something a physician ought to be doing for you, and an attorney ought to be planning for you.
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