Read Like the Devil

Read Like the Devil

A nasty reading

Or how to read cards for the devastating experience

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Camelia Elias
Jul 04, 2026
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When faced with a choice, ‘do I stay or do I go?’ the best is to cast one set of cards for each situation, side by side. While the cards can say, ‘both choices are good,’ or ‘both choices are shitty,’ in my experience it has never been the case that I couldn’t pick the better solution yet, as one of the two sets of cards would always weigh more, or tilt more convincingly towards the better option.

Although I have given numerous examples of such parallel readings, and Choices, one of my latest books, even features a stellar interpretation in case you want to know more, here I want to demonstrate something different via a reading in two parts for my paying subscribers.

This reading starts on a counter premise to the common question to the cards: ‘do I stay or do I go?’ – often in reference to a marriage that doesn’t work anymore, or a job that’s not satisfying anymore – raising a question that the client, or the sitter, never sees coming.

The question is the following –

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