I TEST THE DECK
Trying out a new divination system or tool is always a good idea. It gives you a ‘feel’ for the item before you use it with anyone else, which is desirable, since other people assume you know what you’re doing. Looking over the questions, I came across a good one for me to inquire about. Fatidic Question Number 5: “Will the person whose image is now in my mind, resume friendly relations with myself?”
A person I’d been friends with since I was a freshman in college broke-off our friendship in December 2020. My attempt at humor and simultaneously-obvious political persuasion in my December 2019 Yuletide card greatly-offended her and she let me know, in her inimitable R_______ way, the friendship was over. She told me when we were in college, that when she breaks off a friendship, it’s permanent. Knowing perfectly-well my erstwhile-friend meant what she said, I knew that if An Universal Oracle was at all accurate and honest, then it should not fail to give me a negative reply to the question. This would be a perfect test case.
I took up the Answer pack and shuffled them well, while focusing on the question and my former friend. When I felt I’d shuffled enough, I cut the deck in half with my left hand and turned up the top card on the bottom-half with my right. It was Answer No. 16: “There is scarcely more than one chance in fifty, so there is next to nothing in your favour. The decision is strongly negative.” Now an idiotically-optimistic person, asking the same question, might react to this answer with, ‘so there is a chance, even if it’s one in fifty’ but I am not that idiot optimist. This response confirmed for me that this oracle deck would answer questions honestly. This made me happy—An Universal Oracle had proved its worth. I never intend to deliberately pass on to you any divination system or tool that’s going to turn out to be pure dreck. A pity I had to lose a friend to verify it, but well hey. Sometimes that’s the price you pay in life.