MGoTarot is a fun prediction tool that I started doing last season. The tarot card readings turned out to be amazingly accurate in revealing the outcomes and energies of each game. This season I thought I would share with you. 

The approach is a standard 3 card spread showing elements of the past, the present, and the future outcome. I do the reading within 24 hours of the game for accuracy. I shuffle the cards while singing the Victors. I then lay out all the cards face down in a line and select 3 with my eyes closed. I like to use the Salvador Dali Deck because it puts a modernist/art history twist on the traditional 78 card Rider-Waite Deck. Plus the cards have an oil-paint smell that is totally groovy.

 

Coming off the Nebraska win we see the return of the Fool. We last saw him wandering around aimlessly in the first half of the Indiana game. The Fool is the Joker/Zero of the deck and is not necessarily good or bad. He is free of commitment and decision and opens a world of possibility. He can also teeter obliviously on the edge of the abyss. In this case, he is the manifestation of the anxiety felt throughout the Michigan collective. Is the offense dynamic enough? Will Harbaugh open up the playbook or just try to cram Blake Corum down Ohio State's throat? Is the defense truly elite or just untested? The season has been on the lighter side so there is a feeling of being in a sensory deprivation tank unable to truly find our bearings. Well, the Fool does not have answers either. He is a weary pilgrim along for the journey. All he knows is that he is shaped like the Lower Peninsula. Go Blue?

 

Going into the Illinois game, we have the 10 of Coins. In a way, this is the answer to the questions raised by the Fool. The main image is The Turkish Bath by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. These women (and their butterflies) have come together nekkidly and are enjoying the ultimate in collective wealth and success. Besides being totally French, the nekkid women also represent trust. Just like they all trust eachother at the bath, this Michigan team has also come together trusting and succeeding. Ten is the number of completion, so it is fitting that we see this card as we near the end of the season.

 

For the outcome we have the Sun card. This is a great sign of putting it all together at the perfect time. It represents the arrival of the outward self on the stage of life. It is the sum total of everything this team has been builing towards. Every recruit, coach, and newly emerged star is now fully lifted, practiced, gamed, and integrated. This team is ready to rock with good fortune, good health, and vitality. Standing tall on the shoulders of 2021, let's hope the momentum carries over and the Sun continues to shine into next week.