"They don't know," the woman says, implacable. "They are just cards. But if you pick them, then I show you their meaning. You cannot tell me everything about your life. I don't care. But I give you the meaning, you apply it to your life. You see this?"

She taps the first card he picked and turns it over. A hooded man in a dark cloak rides a white horse through a forest.

"This is Death. It shows your past. It does not always mean literal death. It means that you underwent a change, that part of your life ended. You were transformed and now your life begins again."