Psychic Fair

Two weeks ago, I attended our local bi-annual psychic fair.

It was a huge disappointment.

Normally, I walk around the floor a few times, and pick up vibes from the readers. I am usually able to determine which one(s) will be right for me, simply by this walkthrough. This time, however, I didn't pick up any positive vibes from any of the readers.

While I was walking around the floor, one of the guys in my Risting class looked up from his tarot booth and saw me. It was too awkward just to wave and walk by. I felt obligated then to get a reading. For $15 for 15 minutes, he was the cheapest reader there.

I sat down, and he instructed me to shuffle the cards three times while concentrating on my question. I did. He had me cut the cards three times, then pile them back on top of one another. He then dealt the cards out, and proceeded to give me my reading.

It didn't answer my question, which was "What do I do about my cottage?"

Since the reading took WAY less than 15 minutes, he asked me if he had answered my question. I said not really. He asked if I would care to reveal the question, and I did. He then proceeded to associate the cards with my question. I still didn't see much of a connection.

Just when I was about to give up hope on the reading, he actually stopped looking at the cards and just started to give me some magical advice about the cottage. He suggested crystals and a dedication ceremony. He also gave me a few other ideas... all of which I hadn't even thought of.

So, while the reading fell flat (in my opinion), the magical advice he gave me was most welcome.

I walked around some more, hoping to get a good vibe off of someone, but I just didn't. I did, however, find a set of runes that just called out to me at one of the vendor booths. The stones themselves are small, but they are colorful and beautiful and I was drawn to them in an unexplainable way (I really don't do runes), so they are now mine to play with.

The next day, I met my friend Julie there, and we went in together. Apparently, she has the same method as I do... walk around, and "feel" the vibes. She was drawn to a woman who gave me the heebie jeebies. While Julie sat for her 45-minute reading, I again wandered around the hall in hopes of catching some positive vibes that I didn't the day before.

I saw a woman with a sign that read Out Of The Broom Closet. She did tarot readings. I wasn't drawn to her, but as I passed her booth, I saw that next to her tarot deck she had a set of Virtue's Healing With The Angels cards. She caught my eye as I looked at her cards, and spoke to me.

Damn.

I hate it when they talk to me, because then I feel obligated to stop. And I did.

I asked her if she did two different types of readings, or if she incorporated the Healing With The Angels cards into her tarot readings. She explained that she did a regular tarot reading, then after it was done, used the Healing With The Angels cards to give more insight/healing. She was cheaper than most ($20 for a 15-minute reading), so obligated me sat down for a reading.

The card reading again left me feeling as if something was missing. She did pick up on some things, though: She said that I was comfortable in a routine, and as of late my routine had been interrupted. She said that it was important to seize that back, especially with regards to exercise. She said that someone - probably my partner - was making demands on me, but that I needed to ignore them and take the time out to exercise. I found that particularly interesting, since I had just been talking to hunky about it that week. I said that I really needed him to give me the space I need to exercise regularly, because the lack of doing so was really eating at me.

She also picked up on the fact that hunky is younger than me, and that we were having some communication problems. However, other parts of the reading fell flat or felt off-base. However, one thing she kept mentioning (that hunky wasn't feeling committed to me) felt totally wrong, but when I brought it up to hunky later, he said in some ways that was true. (Which eventually lead to more discussions about the state of our relationship, blah, blah, blah...)

When she came to the end of the reading, she had me shuffle the Healing With The Angels deck and pick three cards. This is where the reading got quite corny for me: she actually opened up the book and read the meanings out loud to me. Now... I've got that same deck at home and could've done the same thing.

I felt cheated!

In some ways, the cards did balance out the reading, but in others, they did not. Again... some of this could stem from the fact that I think I really felt at the time that things were a lot better between hunky and I than they actually were.

When my reading concluded, Julie was still at her reading. I walked around some more, feeling a bit let down and praying that someone would just send out the vibe that they were the reader for me. As I passed Miss Terry's booth (she's a local psychic that is often on the radio), I felt drawn to her. Finally! She was reading for someone else, so I perused her booth to see if she had her prices listed.

She didn't.

That's normally a clear sign that she's an expensive reader. And she probably is, as she's been on the radio a lot here.

Still, I wanted to at least ask... at this point, I was willing to hand over some major sheckles to get a good reading. But I never got an opportunity to ask...she was constantly busy, and wasn't free before we left.

The woman that I bought the runes from the day before was giving readings for a donation. I thought I'd check her out, and saw the most BEAUTIFUL cards on her table as I passed by. They were the Russian Fortune Teller Cards, most unusual.

I felt connected to this woman...not in the way that she would give me a good reading, but in a spiritual sense. I just felt that she was someone who could be a friend. So, I sat down and she read for me. Now, she also used the book, but she wasn't charging $20 to do it!

She explained that she had been using this particular set of cards for years and years and that she had the meanings down pat, however in reading for others she liked to use the book to see if anything really jumped out at her. And a few times it did. As she read the meanings for some of the matches that came up in the cards, she would say "It could mean this, but intuitively I feel that this other meaning is the one that applies to you." And sure enough, she was pretty much always right. (I say pretty much, because there was one card that just didn't resonate with me, but then again... I think it was more denial on my part than a problem with the cards.)

Even though I didn't really find any readers that vibed with me, I must say I enjoyed the amount of vendors at the fair. Usually the readers WAY outnumber the vendors, but this time around, it almost seemed like there were more vendors than readers (which might have been some of the problem!). I saw a bunch of stuff I wanted... but I basically just bought the runes and then some candles on sale.

Hopefully the October psychic fair will be better. I'm counting the months...