We’re talking tarot, folks. Humans have been dancing with divination since time immemorial, but the oldest surviving set of tarot cards, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, dates to 16th-century Italy.

“Think of a question, but don’t tell me what it is,” Pamela Love instructs me via Zoom. She’s in Los Angeles, while I’m in New York, and the intention is that we are going to meet on some astral plane ...