E-seul sniffed the cards one by one before touching one with her paw.
Her owner, Ryu Su-mi, rescued her some time ago, but ever since she saw her collapse and be attended to by paramedics in her own home, the dog has changed: now she is afraid of people dressed that way. ““I wanted to know what she was thinking”,” Ryu said, trying to understand the fear her dog cannot explain to her in words.
In a shop in Gangnam, tarot reader Hwang Soo-kyung interpreted the card chosen by E-seul: the trauma was still there, but in the process of healing.
For 14 dollars a session, Hwang designed an entire deck for animals, in which a card with swords can point to something as specific as joint pain.
It is not an isolated case: 29,2% of South Korean households now have pets, nearly twice as many as in 2010, in the country with the world’s lowest birth rate. There, amid fewer cradles and more leashes, tarot for dogs no longer sounds so absurd.
