In 2022, tarot readers' popularity soared in Ukraine. The war had just begun and people needed answers about their fate. Some fortune-tellers predicted the end of the war, while others looked directly at people's lives, telling whether a missing soldier might be alive or dead.
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#Tarot cards often make people anxious. The popular card game, used for fortune-telling and self-reflection, evokes emotions and hints at futures that are frightening to consider.
When Anastasiia pulled out her first card, she got a lump in her throat. A dark, tragic picture of a tower couldn't mean anything good. She rushed to look up the exact meaning - thankfully, it meant a chance for a new beginning.
Anastasia first became interested in tarot reading to understand her feelings better and test her intuition. But since the war began, it has become, for many Ukrainians, a last straw of hope.
In 2022, tarot readers' popularity soared in Ukraine. The war had just begun and people needed answers about their fate. Some fortune-tellers predicted the end of the war, while others looked directly at people's lives, telling whether a missing soldier might be alive or dead.
#TikTok users have flocked to these readers with hundreds of videos and thousands of comments: "Please, check if my father/brother/son is alive."
On the last day of fall in 2024, Viktoria, who often turns to tarot readers, was texting with her father Viktor. They couldn't talk on the phone, as he was already in a military position in the #Donetsk region.
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There are different ways to do a reading, but Anastasia does it as follows:
She shuffles all the cards and draws three random ones that come into her hands. The first corresponds to the past, the second to the present, and the third to the future.
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