The 8 is the number of power in the deck. Not mastery like a King, not influence like a Queen. Raw power itself, the card of infinity turned on its side. I pulled the four Eights to see what they share. Charles Manson is an Eight of Clubs, the fixed card, mental power that answers to no one. So is Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor who put him away. Same card, same relentless self-certain mind, aimed at opposite ends of the same trial. Then the pattern showed up, and it’s built into the deck itself. Every one of the four Eights carries a Five in its fated hand, and between them they hold all four Fives, one in every suit. The 8 is power. The 5 is change. So the deck is saying something exact. An Eight doesn’t guard power. An Eight uses power to move what won’t move. Look at them. Rosa Parks moved a nation by refusing to move an inch. Michael Jordan bent an entire sport to his will and built an empire on it. John Gotti aimed the same magnetic power at the underworld. Manson turned...