Okay, I by no means am an expert in the tarot. But the latest leak in the Montgomery County sniper attacks (by the way, I used to live in "Monkey County," in Rockville, actually) makes me think the killer has no clue what about the tarot.
Death never (in all the stuff I've read and done) means actual physical death when in a tarot reading. It means change...the ending of one way of life and the beginning of another.
The Tower is much more the "bad things" card. That and the 10 of Swords. Those are the rather nastier cards.
So, this shooter (possibly) picked the Death card, because, duh, he's delivering Death to most of those he's picked to shoot (and I use "he" here in the generic sense. It could be a woman for all I know). But that wouldn't be the right card to pick, if you knew the tarot. Is he trying to throw the cops off the trail? Lead them into another direction? Is he a plebe trying to use the tarot, but doesn't really *get* the tarot?
[Aside - I really, REALLY want to know what deck was used.]
I hope they catch this person. I really do. Lou and I have to drive through this area in a few short weeks, and I do *not* want to be driving through there if all this is going on.
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What if he did know what it meant and used it as an ironic twist? What if this was his way of announcing that he was going to change his M.O.? Interesting, in an academic kind of way. I haven't been following the situation too closely.
Posted by secret asIAN man | October 10, 2002 9:07 AM
Posted on October 10, 2002 09:07