The Mohamed Situation Is Not Just About Mohamed
A tarot reading on Guyana’s trauma, the modern world system, and the inheritance being built beneath the conflict
All politics eventually becomes local.
Even when Washington enters the room.
Even when oil companies are watching.
Even when sanctions are issued.
Even when gold, extradition, political ambition, and national sovereignty all get tangled into one public fight.
The Azruddin Mohamed situation in Guyana is not simply about one man. It is not simply about sanctions. It is not simply about gold. It is not simply about whether Mohamed is a victim, a villain, a political disruptor, or a symbol of something larger.
It is about Guyana itself.
Mohamed and his father, Nazar Mohamed, were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in June 2024 over allegations involving gold exports, tax evasion, bribery, and corruption. Treasury alleged that Mohamed’s Enterprise omitted more than 10,000 kilograms of gold from import and export declarations and avoided more than $50 million in duty taxes to the Government of Guyana. (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Since then, Azruddin Mohamed has moved deeper into politics. His WIN party became a major opposition force, and Mohamed was elected Guyana’s Leader of the Opposition in January 2026 while also facing a U.S. extradition request. (The Guardian)
That is the public-document version.
But tarot lets us look at the symbolic version.
And when I asked what force is attempting to come forward through this conflict, the cards did not tell me this was merely about Mohamed.
They told me Guyana’s past is coming to the surface.
Nine of Swords: The Nation Cannot Sleep
The first card was the Nine of Swords.
This is the card of mental torment. Anxiety. Sleeplessness. Old wounds. The kind of pain that does not scream in public, but sits up in bed at night staring into the dark.
In this reading, I do not see the Nine of Swords as Mohamed’s personal energy.
I see it as Guyana.
This is a nation with unresolved trauma. Colonial trauma. Political trauma. Racial trauma. Economic trauma. Migration trauma. Poverty trauma. The trauma of watching wealth pass through the land while too many people remain outside the gates.
The Mohamed situation is acting like a blade under the floorboard. It is prying something open.
Old wounds are rising through the conflict.
The question is not simply whether Mohamed survives politically or legally. The deeper question is this:
What does Guyana do when its unresolved past is dragged into the light by the arrival of its future?
Knight of Pentacles: The Modern World System Keeps Moving
The clarifier on one side was the Knight of Pentacles.
This is the card of slow, heavy, material advancement.
Infrastructure. Roads. Ports. oil contracts. banks. security agreements. foreign investment. logistics. state-building. The whole machinery of the modern world order.
In this reading, the Knight of Pentacles is not a man on a horse.
It is the system.
The modern world is arriving in Guyana with clipboards, contracts, terminals, pipelines, consultants, military partnerships, hotel rooms, risk reports, and economic forecasts.
And the Knight of Pentacles does not stop because a nation has trauma.
That is the coldness of the card here.
The modern economy comes in and says: build.
It says: expand.
It says: extract.
It says: modernize.
It says: the oil is here, the money is coming, the strategic geography matters, and the world does not wait for emotional healing.
That is why this card matters. It shows the modern world pushing through Guyana’s unresolved past almost as if that past does not matter.
But the past does matter.
Because nations are not machines. They are memory systems.
Three of Cups Reversed: The People Begin to Fracture
The other clarifier was the Three of Cups reversed.
Upright, this card is community. Shared joy. Social trust. People gathering together.
Reversed, it becomes fragmentation.
The cups spill sideways. The circle breaks. The people stop celebrating together and begin clustering into separate emotional camps.
That is what I see happening beneath the Mohamed situation.
Some see him as a champion.
Some see him as a danger.
Some see him as a victim of foreign pressure.
Some see him as proof of corruption.
Some see the United States as necessary.
Some see the United States as overreaching.
Some see the government as protecting Guyana.
Some see the government as using the moment politically.
That is the fracture.
And that fracture is not new.
The Mohamed situation is not creating the wound. It is revealing it.
Wheel of Fortune Reversed: The Global System Is Not Stable Either
When I asked more about the Knight of Pentacles energy, the Wheel of Fortune reversed came out.
That is important.
The modern world system is coming into Guyana, but it is not coming from a place of calm.
The wheel reversed says the system itself is trying to avoid a downturn, avoid disorder, avoid loss of control.
This is not clean development.
This is development under pressure.
The world is unstable. Oil markets are unstable. Great power politics are unstable. The Caribbean is becoming more strategically important. Venezuela sits next door. Guyana is no longer a small country on the edge of the map.
Guyana has become a pressure point.
The reversed Wheel tells me the modern world order is not simply blessing Guyana with development. It is also using Guyana as part of its own attempt to manage instability.
That is a very different thing.
Two of Pentacles: Guyana Is Being Forced to Juggle Worlds
The Two of Pentacles clarified the Knight energy as well.
This is the card of juggling.
Old economy and new economy.
Gold and oil.
Sovereignty and dependency.
Local politics and foreign pressure.
National wealth and household struggle.
Tradition and modernization.
PPP, PNC, WIN, diaspora, Washington, Exxon, Venezuela, China, CARICOM.
Everything is moving.
The figure on the card keeps the coins in motion, but behind him the sea is rough.
That is Guyana.
A country trying to balance the future while standing inside a storm.
Hierophant and Hermit: The People Search for Meaning
Then I asked about the people, the nation, the fragmented Three of Cups reversed energy.
The Hierophant came out.
Then the Hermit.
That is a powerful pair.
The Hierophant is tradition, institutions, religion, inherited order, moral authority, the old teachings.
The Hermit is isolation, introspection, private truth-seeking, the lantern in the dark.
Together, these cards say the people of Guyana are not just reacting politically.
They are searching spiritually.
They are asking what kind of nation they are becoming.
When a people fragments, some run toward institutions. Some run toward religion. Some run toward national identity. Some run inward and begin asking their own questions alone.
That is the Hierophant and the Hermit.
One says: return to structure.
The other says: go into the dark and find truth for yourself.
This is not just a political moment.
This is a national soul-searching moment.
Queen of Cups: The Emotional Nation Comes Forward
Then I asked what energies are coming forward in the near future.
The first card was the Queen of Cups.
That tells me the emotional body of the nation is going to become harder to ignore.
The Queen of Cups is intuition, compassion, emotional truth, memory, and deep feeling. In this spread, she is Guyana’s emotional intelligence attempting to surface.
But she was clarified by the Four of Cups.
That means the emotional truth is present, but the people may be too exhausted, numb, or distrustful to receive it.
The cup is being offered.
But the figure looks away.
That is what happens when people have been disappointed for too long. Even when a new future appears, they do not immediately trust it.
Chariot Reversed: The Country Struggles to Steer
The next future energy was the Chariot reversed.
This is loss of direction.
The horses pull against each other. The vehicle moves, but the driver does not fully control it.
That is dangerous for a nation entering an oil era.
Because money can move faster than wisdom.
Power can move faster than institutions.
Foreign pressure can move faster than public understanding.
And when the Chariot is reversed, the question becomes:
Who is actually steering?
The government?
The opposition?
Washington?
The oil companies?
The courts?
The people?
The market?
The past?
That card was clarified by the Three of Swords.
So this struggle over direction will not be painless.
There will be heartbreak. Betrayal. Public pain. Hard truths. Something will pierce the national heart.
Two of Wands Reversed: The Future Becomes Hard to Choose
The next future card was the Two of Wands reversed.
This is strategic hesitation.
A nation looking outward but unsure which path to take.
Guyana is being asked to choose a future while multiple forces are trying to define that future for it.
That card received two clarifiers.
The Eight of Cups.
And the King of Swords.
The Eight of Cups says Guyana will have to walk away from something emotionally familiar.
Old politics. Old loyalties. Old comforts. Old illusions. Old ways of pretending the wounds are not there.
Then the King of Swords comes in.
Law. Logic. Judgment. Documents. Courts. Strategy. Clear language. Hard truth.
That is where this situation appears to be heading.
The emotional fog gives way to colder clarity.
The question becomes less about who people love, hate, or trust.
It becomes about what can be proven, what can be governed, what can be defended, and what kind of national structure can survive the pressure.
Ten of Pentacles: The Final Energy Is Inheritance
Then I asked what the ultimate energy would be once all is said and done.
The card was the Ten of Pentacles.
That is the ending.
And that is enormous.
The Ten of Pentacles is not quick money. It is generational wealth. Legacy. Institutions. Family systems. Inheritance. Architecture. Continuity.
It is the card of a society that builds something lasting.
So this reading does not end in destruction.
It ends in inheritance.
But the Ten of Pentacles carries one very serious question:
Who gets included in the inheritance?
That is the real ending of the Mohamed situation.
Not whether one man wins or loses.
The real ending is whether Guyana builds a national inheritance that belongs to the people, or whether it builds dynasties that stand behind gates while the people watch from outside.
That is the fork in the road.
Because Guyana is not simply becoming wealthy.
Guyana is deciding what wealth means.
Does wealth become healing?
Or does it become another layer of trauma?
Does oil build a nation?
Or does oil harden old divisions?
Does the modern world system bring infrastructure without memory?
Or can Guyana force the modern world to respect the emotional and historical truth of the people who live there?
That is what this reading shows me.
The Mohamed situation is not the whole story.
It is the pressure point.
It is where gold, oil, sovereignty, trauma, populism, foreign power, and national identity are all meeting at once.
The cards say the past is coming up through the Nine of Swords.
The modern world system is pushing forward through the Knight of Pentacles.
The people are fracturing through the Three of Cups reversed.
The world order itself is unstable through the Wheel reversed.
Guyana is juggling impossible forces through the Two of Pentacles.
The people are searching for moral and spiritual meaning through the Hierophant and the Hermit.
The future brings emotional exhaustion, painful truth, directional struggle, and eventually cold clarity.
And the final card says something lasting will be built.
The question is whether that lasting thing will be shared prosperity or inherited inequality.
That is the Offramp question.
Because the danger is not that Guyana fails to become rich.
The danger is that Guyana becomes rich before it becomes whole.