"Oh." He feels a sudden, impotent desire to provide his sympathies; if he'd realized, he might not have pulled the cards out and gotten his hands all over them. It is obvious, in retrospect. The cards were next to the Super Bowl tape, presumably in a place where important remembrances live.

Scully doesn't seem overly upset by the reminder of her sister being brought out for examination, though, so he reaches forward to pick up the Seven of Rods, then settles back beside her, holding it so they can both see the man and his rods. "Fortunately, I didn't come to them for visions of the future. I've never actually seen any evidence that they have more to say than your average newspaper horoscope."

Tarot cards, naturally, fall in with reiki under the heading of Things Mulder Tentatively Acknowledges Could Be Supernatural (But Doesn't Really Respect).