tarot class

On Saturday I took a 5 hour tarot reading class for fun. I wasn't sure what to expect but it did end up being a really fun class.

The class was taught by a woman named Rochelle who is a professional tarot card reader. She created a cool mat that can be used to easily do readings. And she taught me how to do a yes no question with the deck and how to predict the amount of time something will take to happen.

I explained to Rochelle how I do readings and she said she'd never heard of anyone doing readings the way I do (I hand the cards to the person I'm doing the reading for and tell them to shuffle the deck until the cards run smoothly while thinking about their question - I then take the cards back and turn over three cards, first one what the present state is, second one, what's required to transition to a future state, and third one, what does the future look like). Also, I never ask what the question is, I do the reading cold and then ask if the makes sense (I don't want the person I'm reading for to think that I'm gaming them). I have a 100% accuracy rate in my readings.

Rochelle didn't believe me and said I can't read friends because I'll influence the deck. I had her repeat a reading I had done on a friend (I had a pic of the reading on my phone so I could prove what cards I got). Rochelle repeated the reading and got the same cards I did.

So then she told me to do a reading on the woman sitting across from me. I did it my way and managed to correctly determine that her question was about starting a business. Then Rochelle told me to do a reading, but using her mat, on the woman sitting next to me. I did it Rochelle's way except that I insisted on not knowing the question until I finished the reading. I got that reading right too (it was about whether the woman should move).

By the end of class I had done a reading on everyone and got them all right (well, I correctly guessed what the question was and what the present state was, not sure how the future will turn out). Rochelle invited me to a fair she's doing next weekend and said I could be a professional psychic.

Yeah, I got a master's in engineering from Johns Hopkins so I could be a professional psychic.

Anyway, tarot is only meant to focus your attention on shit you need to change, not to predict the future. It shows you a potential future. Rochelle and I talked about that a lot in class.

Interestingly, one of the students did a reading on me and I asked about my children's book. She said I would get it published but it would take two years (we were practicing yes / no questions and figuring out how much time would pass before something happened). I hope that future is right...