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There was a post on this. If you are interested in being open minded on the fortune telling claim (whether to rule out the possibility or to give it a chance), you could take up this offer, cost free:

Actually, that is exactly what it means. If there is a cost, then it isn't free.

Artists quick to censor and not ostensibly valuing free speech.

Then how do you explain that this Creative Writing professor at Ashland University offering: Literary Life Tarot Readings For $55, I’ll pull tarot cards on your literary quandary or crossroads and send you a write up exploring what this moment is really about— what spiritual invitations you’re receiving, what energies exist in the options you’re facing, and how you might think about the path forward. narrative alchemy — katherine e. standefer (katherinestandefer.com)

I mean it is always a challenge understanding other people. Some people think there is great wisdom in card reading. Some think it is voodoo. One thing we can all agree on. There is a lot of nervousness here over fake results.

eternalwhitenights, consider a more fact/evidence based attempt to reassure. CayceCamus's post is a little more fact based. Everyone knows Shakespeare's poem on this: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

Lazy asses.

Don't waste the next month of your life telling yourself this every day. Iowa is the worst because they don't send out the rejections until well after they sent all the acceptances. You'll cling to hope until the last hour.

I have a new theory. There is a college teacher advertising MFA application help and card reading. (katherinestandefer.com) Now, in any academic discipline but writing, a teacher will be afraid to admit she does card reading. It will end her career. But not in writing. Why? What is card reading? You’re basically writing a story. And it is always in the nature of “your writing life in 2021 will have up’s and down’s.” The story will always have some contradiction to mimic the contradictions of inner thought. This is exactly what all creative writing has. If there is contradiction, everyone can agree with a claim, and even believe it is specific to them: “How could you have known?” Oddly most people believe they are the only human with contradictory thoughts. So the believer will believe. And in a sense, all fiction is creating a fake story that everyone can agree and relate to. Even if it turns out one day that card reading is proved fake, it could be a useful writing exercise. It is speculative fiction, like Shakespeare writing about the witches in Macbeth.