by Jason
This article’s title is quite provocative and no doubt it got your attention. Sadly, I don’t have an insider’s track on predicting when to play the lottery and win, or even the best way to pick lottery numbers. (Although I’ve seen tarot spreads for doing just that!)
Rather, I had responded to a woman’s question regarding her experiments in this area. She played the lottery after using tarot to predict a lottery win along with the circumstances around the winner. She was excited, feeling certain that if she played that day she would be that winner, based on her tarot cards. But the winner was someone else. This woman wondered how to better focus the cards on herself for this kind of prediction.
My working theory is that predicting a lottery — particularly those multi-million-dollar lotteries — is much tougher than other predictions. There are a lot of theories about this, as you’ll see if you search the web. My theory is that it’s tough because so many people have their hopes, dreams, prayers and magical acts pinned to the lottery. It’s an event that so many people are trying to sway in their favor, whether intentionally or unconsciously. I suspect it’s not a matter of “can’t predict,” but a matter of having to be really good and able to disregard the thousands of people involved, who have so much emotion tied up in their hopes and dreams of winning. I don’t even know if that’s possible.
So narrowing the focus of cards in a reading is less an issue than being able to ignore a large portion of humanity’s raw “energy.”
Still, I hope good fortune will smile on those who play with Lady Luck and try to see her next winning hand.
Jason is a tarot enthusiast who started working with the tarot in the early 90’s while studying computers in college. He once created a personal deck (possibly during high school), which is ridiculously thick due to contact paper lamination. His first “real” deck was the Albano-Waite. A modern favorite is the Lo Scarabo Tarot. Jason has explored a variety of cards and other divination systems over the years, including geomancy and Lenormand. He is not afraid of predictive readings and doesn’t mind being called a fortune-teller, which has been something of a loaded word in the tarot community. Jason lives in northeastern Ohio with three cats, a rabbit and a partner who supports his card habits. He works in the IT industry by day, and enjoys exploring the world of divination by night. He is currently exploring approaches to working with cards that involve visualization and hopes to develop skills for locating missing things via tarot readings. More of his writing can be found at his blog.