I had misplaced my Enchanted Map Oracle deck and found it again this morning. To celebrate, I promptly asked it about politics: What is going on with Trump? What is going on with the United States?
I am kind of sorry I asked but this result does match much of what I see in the news. For Trump: Magical Map Shifter, and indeed, that is what he loves to do, isn’t it? From simple name changes (like his attempts to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and of Denali) to his intervention in Venezuela to his vision of intervention in Greenland or anywhere else.
By the way, I’m not saying it was wrong to take Maduro out of Venezuela but just noting that doing so, from the very specific point of view of how Trump appears in this spread, is a potential map-changing event, since Trump has never mentioned Maduro’s human rights abuses but instead keeps talking about Venezuela’s oil and about being the new president of Venezuela himself, as if countries were baseball cards and he’s collecting them. Which is also very much what this Magical Map Shifter card looks like.
Note as well that the change maker on the card is blindfolded. It does seem to me that Trump is blind to a lot that’s also going on in the same world he’s playing in. (We’re all blind to plenty of things, sure, but that’s why the president is supposed to have information from government agencies–not just American intelligence agencies but also the agencies that collect statistics about how the country is doing, like the Departments of Labor and Agriculture, and the CDC–and people to brief him. But this president has conducted a war on information that makes a blindfold particularly appropriate for him.)
It might seem like I’m really putting my own cards on the table this morning in terms of what my opinions are about politics. Maybe I am. But what does it say about the nature of power in America that wanting the president to have more information must be showing me up as opposing him? If someone wanted me to have more information, I’d think that person wanted to benefit me.
Anyway, let’s turn to the next card. How does this all affect his country? The United States is the one baseball card he actually has in his collection at the moment. Here we have Spark, showing a woman playing a violin so fiercely that drops of blood fly into the air. You don’t need me to interpret these cards. But just to lay it out and make the connections clear:
The magical map shifter creates a spark. The focus on borders creates a spark. And please notice that military interventions in other countries are a crossing of their borders, which is THEMATICALLY on point with the president’s obsession with immigration in this country, and with his obsession with moving people across invisible lines in the land. Everyone’s in the wrong place with this guy! He thinks he knows where everyone should be! When you push people around like pawns on a chess board, people who don’t conceive of themselves as pawns, but who instead conceive of themselves as sovereign actors, as a free people, get feisty. That’s a spark.
And only you can prevent forest fires.
We do want to prevent forest fires, right? For more clarity, I asked the Enchanted Map for advice. How do we respond to this Spark?
I pulled Flying, showing a psychedelic rainbow winged horse flying through the sky, over a landscape that is covered with a hedge labyrinth, and Storm Fields, which basically shows a tornado bearing down on a house.
To me, an analysis of the elements shown here suggests that you use water to put out a fire (Storm Fields, the rain everyone prays for during forest fire season). Or you don’t be there where the fire is raging (you leave by flying horse or by finding your way through the labyrinth on the ground). Some people might see a psychedelic horse as encouragement to get high, and be my guest, but you know that’s only postponing responding to the moment. You can combine these two cards or find some way to merge them as advice, but I believe you’ll find that merging these two as one piece of advice is as tricky as trying to interpret what the 2026 Saturn Neptune conjunction will mean for our world. Maybe these gods are ganging up on us, how about that for a possibility?
Because when I put all four cards together, the strongest of the four is the Storm Clouds. What is a thunderstorm? It’s water (Neptune) in a system (Saturn). It’s as if we humans think we’re going to fight it out, all our differences, but what’s really coming is bigger than all of that. A lot bigger. What’s really coming is a force of nature. Not metaphorically. Literally. Our little spark is so tiny by comparison.
On my Substack recently, I wrote that no one has absolute immunity but the sun, the wind, and the rain. I could have added other natural forces, like gravity, but you get the idea. I think our best advice is neither to light the spark nor to quench it, but instead to position ourselves wisely to be ready for that which we can anticipate. Be in the right place, at the right time. And, move to the right place while the clouds are gathering–don’t wait until the tornado is already at your house.
Thank you for reading.
Quiet Bonnie 