Today's card is pulled using reversals, because the situation requires that we look at negatives as well as positives. The tarot provides for both, but most modern decks try and put positive spins on the cards, so that non-positive interpretations are ameliorated. This is largely due to the use of the tarot now as an advisory and interpretation-orientated tool, not as direct fortune-telling. However, when reading at arm's length for people who do not listen to bloggers like me, negative cards mean just that - negative outcomes. If tarot is advisory, then negative cards can be taken as warnings. But since the querent - those on whose behalf I am actually reading - is at arm's length, and not taking the advice given, the outcomes represent not just a warning that things could be difficult unless the querent takes the advice, but that this outcome is inevitable given the behaviour of the subject. So in these times, the ability to predict bad as well as good is something that we also need to accept.

From now on, since the Dragon Tarot provides reversed as well as upright meanings, I will use reversed cards much more often in my readings.

Today's card:

Justice reversed.

Loss, particularly in legal matters, injustice, and lack of recognition at work are all threatened by the Justice card reversed. Prepare to ride out a storm as false accusations, prejudice, and bullying may come your way, but try to see this as a test of  character.

It is not difficult to see where this bullying is coming from, given today's call from Vulpes Vulpes for a general election (more on that later). Foxy - with his MPs at least as bent as Gordon's - is trying to rally support for his "bent but not as bent" party, and the other parties could have flocked to his side. Erm, not quite. Without cross-party support, this looks directly cynical and the refusal of Nick Clegg to assist in this and make it into a genuine bi- or even tri-partisan crusade, VV just looks as if he is trying to confuse leadership with cynical posturing. The certain matter of £680-worth of wisteria clearance claimed on his ACA account means that this is going to backfire, quite painfully.