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Another Haunt Trade Show has come up and gone and nosotros all came dorsum abode excited and inspired. Piece of work has already begun on our little chilling house and I'm diving correct in with floorplans, themes, rooms, costumes, set designs and promotional stuff.
Along with being function of the creative force backside our Haunt, and having a personal collection of occult related books, skulls, Dia de los Muertos paraphernalia and other dead things, I accept one other unusual talent I probably haven't told yall virtually.
I read Tarot cards. I've been reading them for over 20 years.
When I was 17 my mother got herself a deck and nosotros were both fascinated with them, doing readings for each other on a near daily basis. Presently afterward I read in 1 of my books that in order to accept Tarot card reading seriously, one should have their ain personal deck and treat it with smashing regard and respect. So I purchased my commencement deck, the famous Rider Waite Deck.
Over the years I have picked up another 5 decks, the most recent buy at the to a higher place-mentioned Haunt Merchandise Show. One of my team alerted me to a booth for Monolith Graphics that had a Tarot deck for sale. Lucky for me they had a whole slew of them for greenbacks-and-acquit. This Gothic Tarot deck is admittedly beautiful and I was thrilled to get my own forth with the compendium book. Whenever I get a new deck, I always get the compenium, read information technology, study it and program it in my head for future reference.
So out of my 6 decks, I take 4 that I like to apply: the Rider Waite, the Alice in Wonderland deck, the Halloween deck and my nearly recent purchase. So whenever I do readings, I bring those four with me and let my 'customers' selection the deck that appeals to them the most.
Yes, I've done readings for private parties... anything from a high school fund-raiser to a corporate Christmas Party. And I've made some decent coin doing it, besides. I also practise free readings for friends.
Now I always tell folks up front that I am Not psychic. I don't foretell the future, I don't 'meet' things and naught I say is set in stone. Anybody is in command of their ain destiny and everything in life is subject to alter. Folks tin can simply take what I accept to say as advice or pure entertainment. It doesn't hurt my feelings if people don't believe in this stuff. But I do think information technology takes some courage to sit down down at my table and shuffle those cards.
And I've had all type of life forms sit down down with me. A few years ago I was doing readings for a fund-raising issue and I had 2 women, a mother and a girl, sit down together at my table. They were kinda rough, loud and bouncy but I took in stride. Until one of them didn't like the 'outcome' of her reading and wanted another 1.
I told her as politely every bit possible that I don't make this upwardly. She is the ane who shuffles the cards. I just lay them out in a blueprint and tell her what the film on each carte du jour means.
But no, that was Not a practiced enough answer. Then I gave her some other reading. Once once more, the 'result' was a rather negative final card.
(Usually, when I get a layout that ends up with a negative result, I remind the person of my earlier argument: nothing is set in stone, we are all in control of our ain lives and if annihilation, take this equally a warning to be on your guard. Now that y'all know what to look out for, hope for the best but set for the worst.)
Well, she was even so non pleased with her reading nor my answer to the negative terminal bill of fare and demanded (yes, DEMANDED) a third reading, saying "I'm gonna do this until I go one I LIKE!"
No, we were stopping at 3 whether Ms. Arrogant Bitch likes it or not. I was doings readings that night for complimentary since information technology was a charity upshot and I was NOT gonna sit down in that location and be her personal Ms. Cleo.
So I did ane more reading. Quick. Blunt. No emotion. Not rude, only not my usual pleasant cocky either. This time nosotros got a positive catastrophe and she was happy and left. But I thought to myself, "You know, you lot just got two negative readings in a row. If I were you I'd consider that a sign."
Needless to say, that forced me to prefer a new dominion: One reading per person. No exceptions.
Besides that 1 rude encounter, I had some other unusual state of affairs a couple of years ago. At a 'Ghostly Sleepover' at the Mansion, I had ane lady sit down downwards for a reading. She was very quiet and somewhat shy. As I began the reading, I noticed she had a nervous twitch and kept rapidly turning her caput to one side.
You have no thought how difficult it was to non just keep a straight confront, but to remain nice, polite and not go distracted while this woman was spazzing out on me. Her twitch occurred nearly every 30 seconds. That was probably the toughest reading I ever had to do. Just I made it to the end and she was happy with her reading.
Ane thing I don't do is ask a lot of questions. If people want to kept their questions or thoughts private, that'southward perfectly fine with me. I allow them decide what or how much they want to tell me.
At one corporate consequence a man sat down at my table with a skeptical and dismissive mental attitude. He was hither on his wife's request. I gave him my usual opening speech and then let him loose on the cards.
I laid them out and started describing the images and what they meant. The ones representing his 'current state of affairs' showed things murky and unpleasant. They connected to show his unhappiness where he was in life, not getting along with someone and his desire to move on to other things. His concluding carte showed him doing only that; leaving something behind and going on to something better.
While I was telling him all this his cocky mental attitude disappeared and his expression softened. At the end of the reading, he lowered the boom: He was unhappy here at this chore, he didn't get forth with his supervisor and was thinking virtually going to another job. So it was pretty obvious what his adjacent move should be.
His demeanor totally inverse. He smiled, shook my mitt and thanked me, leaving my table with a pleasant and somewhat befuddled grinning. I think he even mumbled a couple of "Wows."
It'southward impossible to not go emotionally involved in these readings. Most of the time I don't know these people but I get very sensitive to what the cards pictures tell me. I'm always worried well-nigh how someone volition react when a reading has a bad plow. My most profound reading took identify terminal November at yet another Ghostly Sleepover.
I had a human in his early on 30s sit down at my table and shuffle the deck. This disturbing reading started off with cards that showed something underhanded had just recently taken place. The cards had images of stealing, dirty dealings behind i's back, a loss of trust and a feeling of beingness hurt and betrayed.
Something very bad had merely happened to this human being.
The cards didn't get much ameliorate. I continued, equally best I could, to relate to this poor man that the images were showing something had been taken from him or he had been lied to. The only blink of hope was the final card, which showed that the situation could heal if he and the guilty party came together and worked this problem out.
I looked at him sadly and told him I hoped that he and those involved in this awful mess would be able to heal this situation. He and then told me his question and I nearly fell out of my chair.
He had just recently discovered his wife had had an affair with his friend. She had confessed but they were even so in that early on, raw period of 'oh, hell, what practice we do now.' His hopes were diminishing of any kind of reconciliation. He had tried counseling merely she wasn't making the endeavour.
Stunned, I pulled myself together and reiterated that this state of affairs took Ii people to make things work out and for any healing to occur. He thanked me (he was pretty blown away, too) and I wished him the best as his left.
He and his wife (yep, she was there at the Sleepover, just not in the room where I was giving the reading) ending up leaving early because she started to experience sick. He was the only person I did a reading for that dark. The balance of our Sleepover guests were wandering around the Mansion playing amateur Ghost Hunters.
I went downstairs and sabbatum in the Main Hallway with my Mansion pals and proceeded to tell them what had merely happened. We all sat in that location in some seriously stunned silence for a while. Someone eventully brought lite to the situation by claiming, "Damn, Holly, yous're GOOD." Simply no matter what, THAT reading will ever stay with me.
But don't allow that discourage whatever of you. I beloved doing readings and I have a new deck to play with. Only don't inquire for more than one. I'll smack you.
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