What’s in the Cards?

What’s in the Cards? I sat in my friend Adeena’s Harlem apartment last summer, holding a deck of tarot cards. In response to her query about the state of her love life, I pulled the final card and set it in front of her: the Devil. A card that questions a person’s ability to discern whether a risky decision is self-liberating or self-limiting seemed like a generous interpretation of her “situationship” with a man who wore “God Is Dead” T-shirts under silver chain necklaces with crucifixes. Ad...