Illustrations: Shuhua Xiong

Astrology, Tarot, and the Struggle to Make Sense of a Pandemic

When everything falls apart, spirituality becomes medicine

In early May, Tiffany Coffman was talking to me on the phone while sitting on the porch of her new house in North Carolina. I could hear the lilting birdsong of the Pisgah National Forest. Coffman had been offering acupuncture treatments on cruise ships for most…