I did a tarot card reading for a boy on this past Halloween...
It nearly made me burst into tears. I did a basic celtic cross. I had done a couple for others in the group and it was all basically positive and fun... except this young man. At 17, I threw the most horrible cards about him -- how he felt about himself, he had no confidence in his abilities... but the worst was how his family saw him... is was so negative that I thought "who would think this of this very nice young man" so I pulled the Emperor as the clarifying card... I couldn't believe it... his father?! I saw the Queen of Cups as his foundation... his mother, I knew as soon as I turned it... I almost made him cry when I started describing how his mother was with him... I told him if he continued on this path he would eventually become lost and degrade into what he feared, a failure...I wanted to reach out and hug him!
Later that night I was told by a father of the boy's friend that his father never wanted the four adopted children, that it had been the mother's idea and he had let her in lieu of having children. This child was so talented that at 17 he was running a computer consulting business and modeling for Abercombie and Fitch but that he was, according to this man's son, getting into drugs and the "wrong crowd". This father had felt that since he had no father, he would talk to him and really had hoped that he had gotten to him...
It was so scary because I realized that he really needed something that no one could give him -- the love of his father... the pain of his heart was so big... I could cry right now...