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The Silicon Valley Tarot - High Priestess (Futurist)
Created & Illustrated by Thomas Scoville
Published by Steve Jackson Games, 1998
ISBN: 1-55634-362-0

What does it look like:
A crystal ball sits on a dark stand. No image can be seen in the ball. Two hands reach around and below the ball. The background is purple and there are dark gray clouds above.

Quoted from the LWB:
Bolstered by a knowledge of the present and past, the futurist consults his crystal ball - or whatever stochastic modeling software passes for same - and tries to divine the future of technology. His rates are high, and he has little to show for his work. Still, he's very entertaining at company parties and staff meetings. Is he a wise man, or only a jester?

Anticipation, vision, foresight, alchemy.
Reversed: Eccentricity, hubris, con-artistry.

End quotes:
Here we are leaving the tarot cards and substituting new ones. Yes there are really people employed by high tech companies whose job it is to predict the future, and they get very highly paid. I take it that the fact that the crystal ball is blank is intended to mean that the future cannot be predicted, implying that any who claim to do so are con-artists. Some more fun being poked at the Silicon Valley culture.

In a reading I would take this card to inidicate the future, or our ones of the future. It also could relate to the act of divination (Tarot, I Ching, Crystal Ball, etc.) with the other cards commenting about what doing so means.

I'm curious what reaction I'll get at work when I take this deck in.

Enjoy,
Tom Granvold