a) Do you see any problems with wearing the red bag amulet almost continuously for an extended period of time while making arrangements to move somewhere less toxic? I currently live with someone who is having a borderline psychotic breakdown over the election, and while I am making plans to get somewhere else, right now I think it will be at least a few months before I can accomplish this.

b) Part of the way I wound up in the nasty situation I’m in right now is an odd one. Any divination done about how to deal with issues which involve my parents will always suggest that I go along with whatever they happen to want, no matter how destructive to my interests and my values. If I listen, then I always lose, while when I ignore the divination, things usually turn out better.

It’s also interesting that this is true whether I do the divination or someone else does it. These effects have also occurred with multiple systems of divination, including ogham, geomancy, tarot, and horary astrology.

These odd results occur even where my parents have not fully explained what they want to me; and in the most recent case where this happened, it involved a reading where neither I nor the person doing the reading realized my parents had a vested interest in a given result. As far as I know, they do not use any kind of magic, but it is reliable enough it’s getting spooky.

Do you have any ideas what might be going on here, and how to protect my divination?