Some 2023 questions answered!

Sup dudes? I have compiled the most important questions that I felt I could reasonably answer for you. Always remember this is for fun and should be taken with the seriousness of a guy who's source is literally flipping cards and running his mouth. At the very least you are getting an impartial view unlike the fearmongering media outlets who want you rising your cortisol levels while pushing their partisan agenda down your holes, toothy orifices or otherwise.

Before we go through this video's menu I will point out to how the same cards pulled out of the deck kept coming up despite intense shuffling; it is obvious that all these questions are interconnected, though you do not need the Tarot to see that. I will be covering the following issues: World War Three, how the war in Ukraine ends for the contenders and the near democratic future of the USA. The spreads will not be published this time, but later.

Remember, basing your decisions on solely the Tarot is being too trusting, to put it mildly.

Now, onto the closeness, or not, of World War Three. So far the cards speak of a return to Cold War era tactics, diplomacy and concessions. The focus is not only in Ukraine but the possibility that during 2023 China might make advances in its territorial ambitions, thusly forcing the United States of America to split its focus on two fronts. All in all it is just a game of diplomacy and ruining each other's economy but not so much as to push any contender into war. As you surely know, countries find war to be a great solution to a declining bottom line: shares in weapon-producing companies skyrocket and turn a good deal of its citizens into mincemeat. Whoever is left will be broken husk whose vote is easier to sway since you just need promise a tiny bit of security to those who have lost it all.

Gloom and doom aside, the cards' bottom line on World War Three is to sit back and relax. Nothing bad will happen, it is just bravado and games of tension, simply put there is no such thing in a globalized economy. You saw it in the breakdown of the supply lines during 2020 (cough, cough) and saw it again with the effects of sanctions and embargos along the entirety of 2022. The nations are too happy to rebalance and refinance at the tax payer's expense and maybe kick leaders out of power with lousy fabricated scandals (as if the real ones were not enough). For the time being, and that is throughout 2023, I would just focus on the usual: self-improvement, personal finances and contingency plans; namely balancing out my debts, I am not speaking about MRE's and fallout shelters. Yet.

The invasion of Ukraine goes as such. I have had to make separate consultations and compare each, and the results are so that both contenders (that is Ukraine and Russia) will have to make concessions, so much is obvious. For Ukraine it will imply accepting a raw deal or sticking to a personal narrative of events that will not win any more backing that it already has, and as for Russia, said concessions will be done in such shameless way as to appear generous for paying due restitution. It will be a hollow victory either way for Russia, and her weapon of choice will be a return to games of secrecy. In other words, forget the nuke-measuring contest, the real deal will lie in blackmail of leaders and making their democratic support tank. What we will see is Ukraine's support fizzle on the negotiating table, eroded by Zelensky's constat reminder of who the invader is and his demands that, though reasonable at times, are not in his power to demand.

As for America's upcoming elections. There is not much to say other than Trump's rise to power wholly depends on his current legal battles and investigations, being so that if he is cleared in time then his reelection is almost guaranteed. The only way to stop this is to artificially lengthen all processes enough to make the voter's base undecided but, most importantly, all those rich backers who we the people seldom get to know unless you find tinfoil hats fashionable. As for the Democrat party, I dared not ask about president Joe Biden's stay in politics, I stated before he would not complete his term due to declining health and, though it seems not the case, I opted to focus on his whole party's current fortitude. So far there is two outcomes that suggest the Democrat party will remain in power and that Trump, though not elected, will be able to simply retire unbothered by further investigations. His gambit is to become unprosecutable, either through attaining the presidency or by ordinary litigation, whatever comes first. So, as soon as he is in the clear, either he will leave it all behind or be pressured by his colleagues into secure retirement. It is very rare that Trump would, according to the cards, have any other motivation. Either way, the Democrat party will see a change in leadership by succession. If that is not the case, seems like Biden will remain the figurehead as long as he can; and it all depends on whatever fiscal amnesty or welfare they can offer to its voting base. As long as they present the end of their term as the termination of grants and aid, they will remain in power.

I hope to have helped you with my unbridled schizoposting. More to come soon, going to expand into the territory of astrology too because, remember, it is what pushed me into this since late 2019.

Yours truly,

The Trashaman.

Question #1: How the war ends for Ukraine.

I.- Overview: Three cards representing past, present and future.

- Past: Four of Golds, to say Ukraine was on a prosperous path would be to grossly misrepresent its situation. This card represents a solid but incomplete type security (often financial) that would should have been part of a greater project.

- Present: Five of Golds, destitution and dependance.

- Future: Knight of Swords inverted, which is being in cruel hands. Not so much disaster as threats and posturing that precede negotiations, if it can be called that.

II.- Outcome: Twelve cards to describe what you will do most likely.

1.- Significator, the reason to this reading: Page of Golds inverted, stagnation despite receiving help from others. To know if a good start will bear fruit or remain frozen in the ground; also indication that much of the support given is being lost or going improperly used.

2.- Cause: Nine of Wands, a break from conflict to recover your strength. The calm before the storm.

3.- Crown, the visible reasons: Ten of Wands, though overwhelmed by too many problems, the problem is soon to be solved.

4.- Root, the unseen reasons: Knight of Golds inverted, halted support.

5.- Past: Nine of Cups inverted, feelings of success and satisfaction but not necessarily the truth.

6.- Future: Eight of Cups inverted, disappointment due to ruin, seeking meaning, abandoning your religion.

7.- Emotions: Queen of Cups inverted, loss of morale and dirty tricks behind the scenes.

8.- Enviroment: The Devil inverted, a fight against tyranny but also realization.

9.- Hopes and fears: Five of Cups inverted, on one hand expecting good news in the form of help from allies. On the other, fear of not receiving that help.

10, 11 and 12.- Outcome: Six of Cups inverted, Seven of Cups inverted, Two of Wands inverted. Clinging to the past, coming to terms and then a partial success brought by support from allies.

III.- Solutions: Six cards, two mutually-exclusive outcomes, depending on one solution.

1.- Significator card, or the situation you are in: Four of Golds, superficial financial security.

2.- Circumstances card, how you got here: Five of Golds, destitution.

3.- External influences, what keeps you down: Knight of Swords inverted, intimidating enemies.

4.- One ending: The Sun inverted, broken alliance, lying to yourself, chance of losing your home.

5.- Other ending: Queen of Swords inverted, holding to power narrow-mindedly. Meaning that there is a risk of bringing the situation to a standstill because of unreasonable demands.

6.- The pivot, of what depends any of the endings: Justice inverted, the contrary to a just process, meaning both there are no fair solutions to win the war and that concessions must be made to reach an agreement; even if it is unfair to you. A very difficult position because it means either illegalities must be commited or accepted, so no justice, only pacts, for whatever they are worth.

Question #1: How ends the war for Rusia.

I.- Overview: Three cards representing past, present and future.

- Past: Three of Swords inverted, an upheaval. Among rivals, one breaks the stalemate with violence.

- Present: Four of Swords inverted, partial success and respite, or rather a change of strategy.

- Future: Five of Swords inverted, an empty victory and a chance attending a funeral, sometimes your own. Either coming on top but at a cost that warrants its own future problems or proving your effort was all for nothing.

II.- Outcome: Twelve cards to describe what you will do most likely.

1.- Significator, the reason to this reading: Knight of Golds inverted, financial mismanagement and unclean associations that risk bankruptcy.

2.- Cause: Page of Golds inverted, person responsible for ruining a great start.

3.- Crown, the visible reasons: Nine of Wands, a stop in the war.

4.- Root, the unseen reasons: Ten of Wands, overwhelmed but close to solving a problem.

5.- Past: Nine of Cups inverted, misplaced trust. Overconfidence.

6.- Future: Eight of Cups inverted, obssession with success at the cost of morality.

7.- Emotions: Queen of Cups inverted, an intelligent leader but also a perverse person, so often self-sabotages plans by excessive use of force or dishonest dealings.

8.- Enviroment: The Devil inverted, a fight against tyranny/the established order.

9.- Hopes and fears: Five of Cups inverted, hopeful expectations from allies. Afraid of being turned back.

10, 11 and 12.- Outcome: Six of Cups inverted, Seven of Cups inverted, Four of Cups. Clinging to the past or your own justifications despite the facts, intelligent choices that end in a celebration that can turn against you later on. Agreements reached but at what a cost.

III.- Solutions: Six cards, two mutually-exclusive outcomes, depending on one solution.

1.- Significator card, or the situation you are in: The Hanged man inverted, a stagnation brought about lying to yourself. Arrogant attitude.

2.- Circumstances card, how you got here: Page of Swords, geopolitic games and hostile initiatives. Being spurred by rumors and enemy secrets unveiled, or thinking they are.

3.- External influences, what keeps you down: Ten of Swords, the fear of defeat and an indication to give to those in need in order to buy an approval that will be needed soon.

4.- One ending: Nine of Swords, suffering and ruin.

5.- Other ending: The High Priestess, mystery and uncertainty. Hidden deals and imposing an official narrative.

6.- The pivot, of what depends any of the endings: Queen of Golds inverted. Dumb generosity, or rather the appearance. Not so much making concessions as much as selling them for great favors. Dishonest haggling.

Question #1: Will Trump be elected?

I.- Overview: Three cards representing past, present and future.

1.- Past: Seven of Swords, wherever he went he has gathered allies and securities, but it is not enough. It is a partial success that will not necessarily solve the problem.

2.- Present: Six of Swords, a retreat from the public eye to a position of safety.

3.- Future: Five of Wands inverted, obsequiousness from allies. Support. A victory after many obstacles but it does not mean it is the victory he needs. Might simply be that he retires in the end, unscathed by his many legal troubles.

II.- Outcome: Twelve cards to describe what you will do most likely.

1.- Significator, the reason to this reading: Ten of Wands, overwhelmed by troubles the solution is around the corner.

2.- Cause: Nine of Cups inverted, disappointment. Not so much loss of his support base as much as from his allies.

3.- Crown, the visible reasons: Eight of Cups inverted, a play for success whatever the means.

4.- Root, the unseen reasons: Queen of Cups inverted, dishonest allies closing in. Malice and poorly-thought attempts.

5.- Past: The Devil inverted, a fight against authority. He thought he was right not matter what.

6.- Future: Five of Cups inverted, hopeful expectations mostly in the form of old friends.

7.- Emotions: Six of Cups inverted, clinging to the past.

8.- Enviroment: Seven of Cups inverted, many believe he is the only solution.

9.- Hopes and fears: Four of Cups, good one but no cigar. A sucess that falls short in the end.

10, 11 and 12.- Outcome: Two of Golds, Two of Wands inverted, Three of Cups. A moment where financial decisions must be considered, a good start turned to the worse follwed by celebration.

III.- Solutions: Six cards, two mutually-exclusive outcomes, depending on one solution.

1.- Significator card, or the situation you are in: Ten of Golds inverted, ruin looms ahead.

2.- Circumstances card, how you got here: The Tower, loss of faith in public institutions, erosion of trust through catastrophic mismanagement.

3.- External influences, what keeps you down: Judgement, the coming conclussion to his legal battles.

4.- One ending: Seven of Wands, success against the opposition, certain success in public.

5.- Other ending: The Wheel inverted, failure dependant on how much effort is put against it.

6.- The pivot, of what depends any of the endings: Ten of Wands inverted, the card of exile, meaning that the court cases against him are the only real way of stopping his gambit.

Question #: Will Democrats remain in power?

I.- Overview: Three cards representing past, present and future.

1.- Past: Nine of Cups inverted, misplaced trust, thinking you have won.

2.- Present: Eight of Cups inverted, focus on success at the cost of morality.

3.- Future: Queen of Cups inverted, underhanded deals and fake allies.

II.- Outcome: Twelve cards to describe what you will do most likely.

1.- Significator, the reason to this reading: Five of Wands, a fight ahead. The srife of elections.

2.- Cause: Six of Golds inverted, bad decisions and a threat to current prosperity. Loss of position.

3.- Crown, the visible reasons: King of Cups inverted, an otherwise charismatic person is showing a darker side. Possible scandals will be, conveniently, revealed at the right time.

4.- Root, the unseen reasons: Ace of Wands inverted, losing the initiative due to internal strife. There used to be one direction but now everybody thinks they are the only real partisan.

5.- Past: Death inverted, inability to move on from past ways. Incomplete transformation.

6.- Future: Temperance inverted, degeneracy and corruption. Loss of faith.

7.- Emotions: Eight of Cups inverted, feeling that ends justify means.

8.- Enviroment: Queen of Cups inverted, false friends and malice.

9.- Hopes and fears: The Devil inverted, a fight against authority.

10, 11 and 12.- Outcome: Eight of Swords inverted, King of Wands inverted, Nine of Cups inverted. Freedom followed by loss of authority and false victory.

III.- Solutions: Six cards, two mutually-exclusive outcomes, depending on one solution.

1.- Significator card, or the situation you are in: Four of Golds inverted, rapidly losing support, mostly financial. Backers retiring their support.

2.- Circumstances card, how you got here: Knight of Swords, fast changes and opposition. Propensity to accidents.

3.- External influences, what keeps you down: The Sun, the worry of the coming truth.

4.- One ending: Queen of Swords, clarity at a loss. The card of widows, indicating that a successor might substitute the current ruler. Does not necessarily mean victory in the elections, only a transfer of power in the party.

5.- Other ending: Five of Wands, undeniable success.

6.- The pivot, of what depends any of the endings: Six of Golds inverted, the card of bribery though does not mean of the illegal kind. The success of the Democrat party lies in how many financial concessions will make such as welfare, social security and fiscal amnesty. Incredibly enough it would still work despite having wrung the pockets of the nation, maybe by alleging that the past administration was way more prone to mismanagement.

Question #1: WW3 soon?

I.- Overview: Three cards representing past, present and future.

1.- Past: Justice, we come from a time where the belief in a certain world order was strong and clear. In other words, no one would have ever thought possible that an European country would invade another, even if experts have claimed for years that one of the next great conflicts could reasonably spark with Ukraine as pivot.

2.- Present: Six of Cups inverted, stuck in the past and hoping that things go back to how they were.

3.- Future: Seven of Cups inverted, new and realistic efforts will be taken, mostly on diplomacy rather than anything else. Small successes and turns towards the positive.

II.- Outcome: Twelve cards to describe what you will do most likely.

1.- Significator, the reason to this reading: Five of Wands, strife that participants will walk away from, so even if there is a World War it will be one where humanity does not fully erase itself from the map

2.- Cause: Six of Golds inverted, a threat to prosperity, touching someone's source of income and the violent consequences that follow. In other words, the countries involved would rather take arms than allow the situation to keep degrading their financial stability, because it is easier to ignore the growing misery that encroaches around you when you have to deal with bullets flying overhead.

3.- Crown, the visible reasons: King of Cups inverted, powerful man of calm exterior but dangerous methods at his disposal. We can hazard a guess and think this card refers to Putin.

4.- Root, the unseen reasons: Ace of Wands inverted, a sudden stop in initiative or project, meaning that the war has carried for too long due to surrounding sabotages such as economic embargos for Russia, the destruction of Ukrainan infrastructure and the approach of winter.

5.- Past: Death, symbolizing painful transformation. The course of geopolitics going from a lethargic tendency towards globalism and fiscal monopolization to dealing with the risk of atomic annihilation, inflation and famine.

6.- Future: Temperance inverted, degeneration, corruption and the chance of a great calamity. Not necessarily war but how many disasters can you take before it is the same?

7.- Emotions: Eight of Cups, strong disappointment and longing for meaning.

8.- Enviroment: Queen of Cups inverted.

9.- Hopes and fears: The Devil inverted, an intelligent but perverse leader whose quality to lead cannot be trusted because of how easily forms scandals around her, though not necessarily a woman. It refers to the global worry of world leaders taking decisions that sound good on paper but underestimate their rival and leads to nothing but escalation.

10, 11 and 12.- Outcome: Eight of Swords inverted, King of Wands inverted, Justice. This comes to me as an answer to us, the normal people, and not the countries or their leaders. In other words it is not a solution to a possible World War but rather what you and I should be doing. It begins with the realization that we are not really so constrained by what is going on, the fall of a ruler and the restoration of whatever we called “order”. Do not put your hopes in seeing this or that world leader reflected by the King of Wands, it is futile and this conflict is too complicated to pin it solely on a person (and not the many groups and institutions backing and banking them).

All in all it means to stop worrying about it. There will not be a World War and it will be solved before it reaches that point since all the parties involved know their continuation is not financially.

III.- Solutions: Six cards, two mutually-exclusive outcomes, depending on one solution.

1.- Significator card, or the situation you are in: Four of Wands, wishing for things to start going towards prosperity rather than their current course.

2.- Circumstances card, how you got here: Ace of Golds, the worry around our pockets. We got here because of excessive taxation, inflation and so on so pretty obvious.

3.- External influences, what keeps you down: The World inverted, throwing the established order upside down. The circumstances are too strong to not be affected.

4.- One ending: Page of Wands inverted, the begining of real cruelty and tyranny from whoever emerges the victor of the current gambit in Ukraine, but also a chance of a third party menace making its move, possibly China. The creation of two fronts.

5.- Other ending: Nine of Wands, a time to stop and recover but not the end of conflict. In other words, Cold War part 2.

6.- The pivot, of what depends any of the endings: King of Swords inverted, decisive strike by a ruthless leader or the fall of such person. Assassination plots will abound..

Question #: Trashaman viability.

I.- Overview: Three cards representing past, present and future.

- Past: Three of Golds, a past of abundance. A trio, too.

- Present: Ace of Swords inverted, lack of initiative, suffering loss, transformation but hurtful.

- Future: King of Golds inverted, worst of possible outcomes for business. The book said “perverse use of talents” and avoiding association with gamblers. Speaks too of my past.

II.- Outcome: Twelve cards to describe what you will do most likely.

1.- Significator, the reason to this reading: The Fool, new beginings, a personal journey.

2.- Cause: Five of Cups, general disappointment. Regrets over past errors even if I can refloat.

3.- Crown, the visible reasons: Three of Cups inverted, overindulgence.

4.- Root, the unseen reasons: Two of Cups inverted, false love. Dishonest cause.

5.- Past: Ace of Cups inverted, false love again. The true goal was dishonest.

6.- Future: The Hanged Man, not in my hands, wait and see. Stagnation.

7.- Emotions: The Magus, feeling all depends on my actions.

8.- Enviroment: The Tower inverted, “the gain of freedom of body or mind at great cost. False accusations, false imprisonment, oppression.” Also erosion of personal values/institutions.

9.- Hopes and fears: Judgement inverted, fear of failure.

10, 11 and 12.- Outcome: Three of Swords, Four of Swords, Five of Swords. Big fight ahead and slander will be the basis.

III.- Solutions: Six cards, two mutually-exclusive outcomes, depending on one solution.

1.- Significator card, or the situation you are in: King of Swords inverted, personal mistrust.

2.- Circumstances card, how you got here: Temperance inverted, degeneration.

3.- External influences, what keeps you down: Eight of Cups inverted, interest in material success.

4.- One ending: Queen of Cups inverted, perverse and intelligent enemy. Being dishonest.

5.- Other ending: The Devil inverted, a fight against authority or personal restraints. Spiritual awakening.

6.- The pivot, of what depends any of the endings: Eight of Swords inverted. Having no limits.

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