It's All in the Cards

I don’t really buy into palm readings, tarot cards or psychic powers but I’m not about to turn down a learning experience. One of my coworkers is a psychic. She says she has an intuition that lets her see and feel things when she reads tarot cards. She and her mom both have it. They are called “healers” so after the reading is done, they work with the client to work through the reading and decisions to plan out their next move.

So one Thursday at Brickhouse (our regular Thursday happy hour spot) my coworker agreed to do a reading for me. The client (me) is supposed to think of a question and it’s up to the psychic and the client to draw meaning from the cards to answer the question. So armed with my deep dark secret, she handed me the deck to shuffle and cut and she laid out my 10 cards (picture to come).

The first two cards represent my question and the one thing that opposes it, good or bad. The next two are my past and future and the two after that are my family and support systems and the foundation for wanting to ask the question. The final four are my answer, the support to the answer, my mood/feelings right now, and the outcome. When she was finished explaining what each individual card meant, she asked me to look at the cards and point out symbols or anything that stood out to me. She used my own “insights” to provide further clarification to some of the things that she had noticed.

All in all, it was an awesome experience and one I will more than likely repeat. For the most part, I feel like there is a little something to this tarot card concept. I know the idea is to be vague so the clients can draw their own meanings from the cards but there were a few things that related directly to my question that I’m not sure she could have known otherwise.

I don’t need to go into detail about the question, or the reading or the what the “outcome” might be but I’m not going to pick up and move to another country or look for a husband whose last name only starts with a “Q” (which apparently, others have done). If nothing else, it gave me a little insight on things that have very little importance in my life right now and gave me a new respect for the psychic world.