Magnifying Glass

-20. Magnifying Glass

The Magnifying Glass represents curiosity, spying, and voyeurism. It is the obsession with detail to control an outcome. It is the detective who focuses on the details to the extent that he loses sight of the big picture. It is hyper-controlled supervision, or surveillance, based on distrust. If you have captured the attention of the Magnifying Glass today, consider your relationship with information and control. Do you enjoy catching people in the act of impropriety? Are you unusually curious about the personal behaviors of others? Do you derive pleasure from getting the scoop about someone so you can feel better about yourself? Be alert to how information can be used to manipulate situations. Remember, that which ye seek, ye shall find; self-fulfilling prophecy. So where is your focus in your viewfinder? You may have lost the bigger picture.

If this card was pulled with the intent to provide advice:

Consume yourself with details. Affix your focus to the current people and situations that perplex you. Observe the behaviors of others. Have you missed something? Hidden information will be exposed as you dig deep. Knowledge is power.

Key descriptors:

Curiosity, spying, voyeurism, hyper-controlled supervision, distrust, surveillance, self-fulfilling prophecy, envisioning the worst.

Introspection:

• Am I overwhelming myself with a need to know everything about a person, situation, or project?

• Am I trying to obtain control or manipulate through obsessive observation?

• Am I fulfilling my own prophecy; focusing only on what I believe to be true until it becomes so?

• Conversely, am I being asked to take a magnifying glass to a present relationship or situation?

Advanced play:

Native Dimension: Fruit
Incompatible: -20 <> -7: Magnifying Glass (distrust, intrusion) / Knight (care, compassion)