Who taught: Austin

tarot cards (source: http://tarotreadingsdc.com)

About two weeks ago, I went Stella’s baptism event. Stella is my friend Pat’s daughter. She is amazingly adorable. I believe she got all of the best things from her parents. There is no doubt that she will become so smart.

At the event, Jessy and I met Stella’s grand parents. After the official baptism event, we drove to the venue of reception. As we have food, we had a chance to chat with Pat’s parents.

During the conversation, we talked about our work and our passion in software development. Naturally, we mentioned that many of our friends are working together to develop a new web application that is possible to make a big difference in the world. As Austin, Pat’s father, heard that, he said, “Two of you should also do it in addition to your main jobs.” We said, “Yeah, maybe we should. We can make something cool.” And, Austin said, “Great! That is in the cards. Hope to see you something amazing.”

From the context, it was not that hard to understand what Austin meant by saying, “in the cards.” It should mean, “something possible to happen.” That was what I thought. And, as I always do, I tried to think about its etymology. For that, I thought it has to be related with cards in connection with playing card games. What I mean by card games is the ones you can see in Las Vegas. I mean I do not know how many games exist but they all use the same type of cards to play very different games, right? It does not matter what game you are playing because there is always possibility of having bunch of different cards from a set of cards. That is exactly what I thought for this expression’s etymology.

What do you think? Do you think I am correct? The answer is not really. I looked upon its etymology and it says the expression is from a specific type of cards, which is tarot cards. What is tarot cards? Based on what I found, it is:

a set of cards with pictures representing different parts of life and that are believed to be able to show what will happen in the future.

Isn’t it interesting? They are believed to be able to show what will happen in the future and that is why this expression is here with us now.

I would love to see those cards for real. Never seen it so far. Now, do people play games with these tarot cards?

Now, what are the things do you have in your cards? Hope they are all good ones!