Tarot Reader Predicts Own Eviction With Startling Accuracy

Professional tarot reader and intuitive counselor Luna Veils drew the Three of Swords, the Tower, and the Five of Pentacles during a personal reading on Thursday morning, interpreted the spread as 'a significant disruption involving loss, upheaval, and financial hardship,' and then opened her front door to find an eviction notice taped to it.

'The cards were right,' Veils said, holding the notice in one hand and the Tower card in the other. 'The Tower represents sudden, unavoidable change to structures you believed were stable. My lease was a structure. The landlord is the lightning bolt. The Five of Pentacles is walking through the cold without resources, which is literally what happens when you get evicted in February.'

Veils, who charges $120 per reading and has a six-week waiting list of clients seeking guidance on career, relationships, and housing decisions, acknowledged the irony of being unable to apply her divinatory skills to her own financial planning.

'The tarot shows what is coming,' Veils explained. 'It does not write the rent check. Those are different skill sets. I have one of them.'

Veils' landlord, who requested anonymity, said the eviction was related to three months of unpaid rent. 'She offered to do a reading for me instead of paying,' the landlord said. 'I drew the Ace of Pentacles, which she said meant new financial beginnings. I said it meant she still owed me $4,500.'

Veils has since relocated to a friend's apartment, where she conducted a reading on her housing prospects and drew the Star, which she interprets as 'hope, renewal, and the eventual acquisition of a studio apartment with utilities included.'

She has also drawn the Seven of Pentacles, which she says represents 'patience and long-term investment.' Her friend has interpreted it as 'she's going to be on my couch for a while.'