Politicians and world leaders are way too consumed with their self-importance to ever learn the lessons of history.

Historical events repeat themselves, cyclically, though with different casts of characters and different settings. So what guided rulers in the First century to war and world domination pretty much holds true in the 21st Century. Lying, deceit, deal cutting, career trashing and partisan politics is as much in vogue now as it was back in the reign of Augustus Caesar. Regardless, two thousand years later, we continue to err in our set, narrow ways.

Almost belaboring the obvious, philosopher, poet and novelist George Santayana warned of such consequences.

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” he said.

The Tarot cards in the same way teach the valuable lessons of history and illustrate how patterns emerge, re-emerge and how events, guided by those patterns, are quite predictable. Carl Jung in his study of the Tarot as “the deposit of all human experiences” wrote about this phenomenon extensively.

But those swollen with pride, bombast and racked with the fever of ego dismiss these notions as mumbo jumbo either out of ignorance or because they truly believe they posses some divine authority and have their fingers on the button to affect the outcome of events.

Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy were outrageous examples of the God complex, but the story of Cassandra is the classic tale of how ignorance to the obvious also exacts a price.

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