Hey OP, thanks for laying all this out. I pulled the seven of spades for myself back in October when I was stressing about my business partner.
Kept getting this weird vibe that numbers weren’t adding up, but I kept brushing it off because we had been friends for years. The card showed up three times in a row in my daily draws. Finally sat down with her and asked straight up about some missing invoices. Turns out she had been skimming to cover her own bills.
Hurt like crazy, but once I saw the truth, I could actually fix things instead of walking around paranoid. Your point about the card confirming what you already suspect really hit home. I stopped second-guessing myself after that.