Kelly Predicts the Winner of the 2020 Election UPDATED
Post 2 of 3: How did I predict ‘Democratic Victory’ for the 2020 Election? Or rather, how Kelly justifies three dancing ladies as omens of a Biden win.
But first…if you haven’t read the original post then pause and hop into it here.
Admittedly, this is the trickiest part of my Election prediction. I mean, there isn’t an obvious bridge from 3 wine-swilling ladies to Joe becoming President. So this is where the psychic rubber meets the road, I roll up my sleeves and stick my neck out with a straight-up, no-bullshit prediction of Biden winning the presidency.
Let’s start with the basic meaning of the tarot card. (Not because I think non-tarotists need to know but it’ll be helpful context.) Traditionally Three of Cups indicates joy of fellowship. Happy hour. Backyard bbqs. It’s the fizzy spark when individuals come together. It sits in the realm of emotions and is interpreted as celebration. You can see its positive overtones from the image.
Maybe because it comes from the suit of Cups/emotions. Maybe because it’s three chill ladies dancing together. Maybe it’s intuition, but this card shows my psychic eye the feeling of giddy happiness that comes with relief. When you finally get the good news that your test results are negative. Actually, the immediate hit I got with the card was Democratic victory. I didn’t hear or see “Biden”, rather my psychic hit, the words that popped into my head were “Democrats win”. Which is a curious phrase to hear given it’s a bit off-center from most of the phrasing for the election outcome. Most of us talk about a “Biden win” or “Trump winning”. Nevertheless, it’s what I heard then my conscious mind translated it to a Biden win. When I think of collective happiness and relief, this is the card that comes to mind.
I checked with myself if it could mean Republican victory. I still have doubts that I can correctly divine these types of contests so I imagined what a Republican victory would feel like. Does it look like the jubilant swaying of wine ladies? No. No it does not. What came to mind was the image of Six of Wands, the picture of a clear victor in a triumphant march over the masses. If it were to be a Republican victory this is the card I’d anticipate seeing.
Also important to this interpretation was the third card and final card in the reading. I’ll talk more about that in the last post in this series.
11/11/20 UPDATE
With this update I’m sharing two additional points that convinced me of a Biden election win. The first happened well before I published my post, “Only Fools Predict Elections” on September 19. The second happened on Wednesday, November 4. Both are instances of pre-cognition, aka divination, and I want them included to create a complete picture of how the divination worked with me, especially because these instances happened outside of tarot interpretation and cartomancy.
The First Premonition Biden Would Win
The first premonitions happened several months before the election and began with political yard signs. Allow me to explain.
In the evenings I take walks. I live in a pleasant neighborhood and these walks allow me to appreciate my neighbor’s efforts with their lawns. It’s a break from work and at the time a much needed break from election news coverage. In the weeks and months running up to the election my neighbors posted pro-Trump yard signs on their lawns. Normally I’m all in with political activism and free expression but I was burnt out on the election and groaned when I saw the signs.
On these evenings walks I’d hear the phrase, “These signs won’t get Trump elected.” When I heard this phrase I wasn’t thinking of the election or Trump. The phrases “popped” into my head and, this is very important, my nervous system leveled out. As I understand my psychic experiences I’ve observed that pre-cognition is often accompanies by involuntary physical sensation. This is how I discriminate between a conscious thought, that is the result of my mental efforts to construct ideas, versus clairsentience and clairaudience.
SIDEBAR: Definitions of Clairsentience and Clairaudience and Hazards of “Hearing Voices”
Clairsentience is the term for the psychic phenomena of knowing something without an apparent explanation for why you know that observation.
Clairaudience is “hearing” a phrase in your mind that didn't originate from your mental efforts.
Both clairsentience and clairaudience are extremely difficult to discern because the majority of individuals believe all thoughts originate within our conscious minds. The concept that we might catch a thought or sentence from outside ourselves is not widely accepted and often associated as markers of clinical schizophrenia.
Discriminating between my conscious thoughts and pre-cognition was/is the hardest thing to do as an ethical psychic. It requires enormous quantities of self-awareness, demands detachment from the distortion of emotions, and must start with the hypothesis that you are not experiencing pre-cognition. In other words, I was cynical that I was psychic and refused to believe my pre-cognition was a para-sensory ability. I forced myself to follow through pre-cognitive thoughts and see if they became true. I asked myself if there were other explanations for why I might ‘know’ something? Had I consumed information that may have unconsciously lodged itself in my mind?
There is real hazard with too quickly, and without enough analytical rigor, believing your thoughts are pre-cognitive. See every cult leader that convinced trusting souls they got messages from God. This area of psychic phenomena is ripe for abuse by people who claim to receive messages and abuse the trust of others.
I share my experiences to offer transparency into how I challenge my pre-cognition and decide when it can trusted because building up the confidence to trust my pre-cognition was slow, boring, and required sustained discipline and objectivity. It is the furthest thing from being a glamorous TV psychic or Instagram guru where the pre-cognition just goes flying out of their mouths like they’re reading from a book. (Not to say I distrust glamorous TV psychics, I have my favorites that are the real deal and there’s no reason to distrust them because of their high profiles. They do amazing work to showcase and prove that para-sensory abilities are legitimate.)
END SIDEBAR
Back to hearing the phrase, “These signs won’t get Trump elected.”
When I “hear’ a phrase that arrives from outside my conscious mind it is usually accompanied by a response from my nervous system, i.e. my body involuntarily responds to the thought also. Why does this matter? Because my conscious thoughts, those ideas I intentionally construct, move through my head like they’re on an assembly line and aren’t typically accompanied by a physical, body reaction.
With pre-cognition these physical reactions, that nervous system response, are involuntary and occur because my body is reacting to the information before my conscious mind does. Not every instance of pre-cognition has the nervous system response. In another post I’ll discuss how I decide to trust those messages. I have a theory on why some pre-cognitive thoughts generate a nervous system reaction related to the scope and magnitude of the message. This nervous system response is an indicator it could be pre-cognition.
In this instance of lawn signs I typically felt annoyance seeing them because I’m burnt out on all things political and just want a nice afternoon walk that doesn’t require the emotional exertion of ignoring a political sign. But…in this instances of pre-cognition, instead of feeling annoyance I heard the phrase followed by a leveling out of emotions. It’s a difficult experience to convey because it’s the feeling of absence. I felt an absence of emotions and an absence of tension. I had no reason to think Trump wouldn’t win the election and I knew better than to trust polls.
Also, with each instance my conscious mind wasn’t actually thinking about the election. Normally I’m walking Molly, the chihuahua-terrier mix featured in Instagram posts, and checking if she’s found her spot of bathroom grass, or I’m talking to the delightful neighborhood children, or I’m lost in thought about whatever else preoccupies my mind (you get the gist).
And this is how I realize it’s pre-cognition. I experience an incoming thought sentence that seems really out of place given my headspace and it’s accompanied by a nervous system response. When I first heard the thought I immediately dismissed it because it seemed to run counter to everything I was seeing about support for Trump. I thought, “Kelly, you’re thoughts are running wild and making up scenarios about the election.” Then it happened again with another out-of-context thought, same sentence, “These signs won’t get Trump elected.” Each time I felt a leveling in my body. It wasn’t just a sentence zipping through my mind, but in the midst of Molly pulling on the leash, kids zooming on scooters, cars whizzing by and greeting neighbors, my body released calm when this phrase entered my head. Again, these started happening several months before the election. It didn’t happen with every walk but it happened more than once.
When I worked up the confidence to share this experience with a small circle I didn’t feel hesitant to share, I didn’t have that sensation of being fearful that if you share an idea that it’ll fizzle out. That’s another way I gauge the substance of pre-cognition. Often times I’ll feel confident about pre-cognition when I’ve kept it to myself but as I go to talk about it…it suddenly feels stupid and hollow. Oftentimes those moments reveal to me that the pre-cognition was false.
BUT…this didn’t happen when I shared my belief that Biden would win the election. In fact, I felt a boost of confidence. I remember going on a nature walk and I shared this experience with my friend’s friend. She was strongly skeptical and preparing herself for four more MAGA years. With each protest from her I felt my pre-cognition more strongly. Of course, this could have been stubbornness on my part even though I wasn’t forcing that my premonition be believed. I knew I didn’t have to convince her of my premonition so I don’t think the ‘growing confidence’ was a knee-jerk reaction to her disbelief. I’m always prepared to be wrong with these things and understand the risks of discussing a psychic premonition…yet I did feel confident about this premonition (not because I’m over-confident with my abilities, hardly, but I do think I got this one right and the surging confidence was a nudge to share it with others).
The Second Premonition Biden Would Win
The second instance happened the day after the election. Now, I expect cynicism from skeptics with this example because at this point it’s starting to look like Biden has a path to electoral victory so it can be credibly argued that I’m just guessing. I get it. I accept that criticism.
Still. I’m gonna share my experience. That Wednesday morning after the election I’m lying in bed with that fuzzy morning head where the conscious mind is coming back online but it’s not fully in the driver’s seat yet. I’m still too drowsy to be consciously emotional or cognitive and as I rest in my still relaxed body I hear, “Biden Biden Biden”. I barely catch the significance of this moment because of muddled morning mind but I do note it and say to self, “Wait. I think that was a premonition of a Biden victory.”
Next my mind independently starts to visualize inauguration day and I easily see Biden on stage, hand on Bible, people in the background, pledging his oath to the office. When I gently try to guide a visualization of Trump’s inauguration I have difficulty and the image does not fill in.
The combination of clearly hearing a firm “Biden Biden Biden” paired with the instant visualization of Biden’s inauguration convinced me this was pre-cognition. It’s super important to note that neither my conscious mind nor physical mouth has ever chanted “Biden Biden Biden” and that’s how I recognized the pre-cognition. I don’t speak that way, it’s not typical syntax for me. My pre-cognitive thoughts tend to be very short, unlike my speaking and writing style.
So there you have it. A boring tour through my mental and emotional registers to walk you very lovely visitors to my blog a record of how I experienced the premonition that Biden would in the election. It wasn’t just about tarot cards. It wasn’t just about seemingly random thoughts during a neighborhood walk. It was the totality of all the events. It was the long slog of inventorying my thoughts, noting emotional state, and recognizing the syntax of pre-cognition is very different from my conscious syntax.
Still, it can just as easily be said that I guessed the election outcome. There’s no way to disprove that I luckily guessed Biden’s win. I’m hoping this exhaustively boring blog post lends a tiny bit of credibility that I’m at least telling the truth of this pre-cognition as I lived it.