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Tell Me Your Tarot , Astrology, Palmist…Story!

Dear readers,

This post is a little different than my others, because I am hoping for some dialog, or at least personal comments. I am very curious to know how you were introduced to Tarot or Divination? If you aren’t a reader but visit psychic fairs, crystal shops and the like, then was there a specific event that drew you toward Divination, oracles, crystals, astrology or something similar? I am curious because, for me, I feel like I have always been interested in this, but I know that it really started when I was in college. I had three different encounters that were beginnings.

The first was a tarot reading that was close to my 22nd birthday. A woman I worked with wanted to go see a tarot reader and, like so many young women, didn’t want to go alone and asked me to go. Of course I said yes! My first reading delivered an amazing introduction into the world of spirituality. I am of a certain age where I had a life plan of getting married and being a stay-at-home wife and mother. My parents had convinced me to go to college in case I ever had to work. I have another friend that is close to my age who wanted to be an executive secretary. We always laugh about our plans. She was the Director of Sales where I was working as the Director of Marketing. That advice from my parents turned out to be some of the best I ever had. But that first tarot reading captured my attention because she told me I was going to meet the man I would marry soon — and I did. I ran into my future husband within about two months of the reading and we both knew pretty quickly that our relationship was headed for the altar. While that may not seem like a big stretch – after all, I was at the right age for that to happen, the circumstances weren’t aligned. I was dating someone that I had been seeing for most of college and we had talked of getting married on and off. There are some very good reasons that wouldn’t have worked out, but I had to exit that to connect with my then future husband. In the end, it all worked out as the reader had predicted.

My next encounter came a few years later. I was married and working full time (thanks mom & dad), and my mom and I would frequently go to psychic fairs and events just for fun. At one of these events, I saw a palmist. She told me that I would have children, but not until much later in life, around my late 30’s. I remember very little detail, but I do remember the prediction. When I look back, there’s a good chance I was trying to get pregnant at the time. It’s hard to be a stay at home mother when you don’t have any children, and being a mom was the one thing I had always wanted to be. I hung onto that prediction for a very long time. There were probably a half dozen others who said I would have a family, but never got into the part about very late in life. As it turns out, I have one child and he was a surprise baby that I had when I turned 40. The timing of it all was important because I wasn’t married at the time. I did get married before my son was born. My first marriage wasn’t strong enough to make it through infertility. I held on to that prediction and the dream of being a mom for a very long time, but as I was approaching 40 and not married, my mind didn’t see how it would all work out. And yet it all managed to come together.

There was one last reader that had made a difference multiple times. Somewhere in my 20’s, I started seeing an astrologer on the recommendation of a close friend. Her name was Barb, and she was absolutely amazing! She was quite psychic along with being an astrologer. I think I started seeing her before the ending of my first marriage, but it was a situation that happened a couple years after that stands out. I had moved out of state for a job after that marriage ended. I was also dating a guy who lived in the city I moved to, and I was crazy about him, probably because he was my rebound romance….hindsight is always 20/20. Anyway, once I actually moved to the new city he and I broke up, and I developed a set of friends that included a woman I worked with and several people that would be mutual to my ex and I. Everyone was a contact through work since I had moved for work and had no family there. As I was pining away for my ex, I had a reading from Barb and she predicted two things: first that my ex would date another woman in my group and second that my boss would have a big falling out with his boss and be asked to leave. Both of these things seemed nearly impossible at the time. Just a bit prior to the reading, my girlfriend, and the only other woman in the group, had stood in my office and relayed a conversation she had with the man she was dating. She had said ‘I could never date so and so, he’s Candace’s ex and you just don’t do that.’ Barb and I decided I should be prepared for him to bring a new female into our group. The second prediction also seemed equally unlikely. I was working for a holding company and my boss was the CEO and founder. He was also my closest ally in the organization. Because he didn’t have ‘a boss’ to ask him to leave, we couldn’t really work out what the energy was going to be, but time provided the answer. My girlfriend and my ex did indeed start dating and my boss was dismissed through the actions of our board of directors, and specifically by the Chairman. They were investment bankers and good investment bankers tend to be cutthroats, it’s part of the job. My astrologer had an expression, forewarned is forearmed. That truly captures the essence of those experiences. Hearing the predictions well before they happened reduced the shock of both events for me, turning it more towards ‘wow, Barb was right’ rather than ‘oh my God, my world has just collapsed’.

Even so, my world did collapse for a bit, and then there was one more prediction Barb was right about. After my friend and my ex connected, I started another relationship. The situation with my boss happened about six months later. With my boss and best ally now gone, the politics at the office were rampant and I eventually got the boot. Having moved to a new city for a job I no longer had and a man who I was no longer seeing, I needed a change of scenery. I chose to move near my brother who lived in California, who I had always been close to. I will always remember telling the man I was dating that I was going to move to California — he said ‘you told me you would probably be moving, because your astrologer told you that you would.’

Somewhere in all of this, I picked up my first tarot deck and a whole lot of books. I have read for many, many friends and some family and often for myself. When I read, I am simply interpreting the cards as best I can at the moment and I don’t typically remember a lot of what is said. I am always happy to hear that a reading provided insight or hope for someone, and equally happy when it made for a softer landing from a fall, like I experienced. Like the readers in my past, I am inspired to be helpful to others in the same way. I would love to hear what experiences you’ve had or that have inspired you.