Lauren Gilbert
Aromatherapist,
Witch, Creative Designer
& Mentor

lauren@blossomwitch.com 

Tarot Files: 2016 – Donald J Trump

Back in 2016, I did a reading on DJT to examine what energies were coming and going around this person and situation. I used the Quareia Magician’s deck and a Mystical Map layout. One of the positions in this spread shows the longer-term path of experience that is being created, and for this I pulled The Foundation Stone. How I interpreted this is that his first election was a moment that a new foundation stone was being laid, for his own life and possibly for America. 


I was a bit taken aback because at the time I thought surely his arrival on the political scene was temporary and that the world would quickly tire of his agenda. Looking back, I see that this Foundation Stone was pretty solidly laid. I also had the thought that it would be a moment that permanently changed the course of America as we know it, though I hoped not. Yet here we are 8 years later and that energy is still playing out.


Now let me tell you another card.


The other card that stuck with me was how this person functions or draws power, and it was The Parasite. Energetically speaking, this is someone who draws their power from the charged emotions of others, because they don’t really have the capacity to generate their own. They need something else to feed off of to stay animated. In return they often funnel a sort of electrical current back, which keeps others triggered/stirred up and creates a self-sustaining cycle.


If you are a practicing magician, Parasites are something you learn to watch out for and clean up your own field to deal with. You take responsibility for your own role in that cycle and unplug from it – hopefully learning something useful about yourself and your own growth along the way. People tend to feel a lot better after removing themselves from the parasitic cycle. You step back from it being good/evil but rather a dynamic unhealthy to stay in.


What does it mean when a parasitic energy is anchored? As a practicing Magician, I don’t know, but I interpret it as a very efficient mechanism to trigger both mass emotional dysfunction & a mass exercise in self-awareness. When you find yourself repeatedly triggered, it’s important to disengage, go within to work on how to step outside of the trigger, and take an appropriate action to restore balance — firstly for yourself. This is a very powerful act that is its own resistance.