Tuning Forks and Touching Tarot Cards!
Walt and I have been known
for our "weekend adventures" (in the past). One weekend, following
Rachel Ray's Visiting Orlando and eating for under $40, another visiting
Casselberry's nightclub and seeing Macbeth in the nude.
Over the
last few years, that slowed to a trickle and last year came to a
screeching halt. So many dangers in the forest of our present day lives
had led us to seek refuge in our own cocoon, and there (for the most
part) we have stayed.
Imagine my surprise, when, twice (within two
weeks) we found ourselves venturing to Orlando. Two weeks ago, we were
in Orlando to attend a seance with long-time friend Dikki-jo Mullen.
This weekend, visiting a brand new Tarot friend, Veronica Jude.
Veronica Jude has a Youtube channel which centers around (but not
limited to) modified Tarot decks. It was Veronica (or "V" as she
identifies herself on her videos) who inspired me to make a square deck
of my (spare) Universal Waite Tarot deck. So this week past, I made an
appointment for a reading with Veronica Jude.
To be perfectly
transparent, I wanted to ask her how she "made" her own Tarot deck. I
wanted an "in-person" look at her 8 of coins modified deck. I wanted to
see her do her "Majors on Majors" Tarot spread. Any other insights I
received from the experience, (in my estimation) would be finite
and...quite frankly...gravy.
But I was surprised twice in as many
weekends at the resplendent joy I experienced meeting and receiving a
reading from the kinetic , kinesthetic and compassionate Veronica Jude.
After we arrived, she escorted us upstairs to a loft room, dominated
with a poker table and bins and stacks of Tarot cards. The walls had
much poker-phenalia.
On the poker table (Veronica's husband is a
poker enthusiast) were, I think 8 Tarot decks, as well as her Tarot
Journal (I KNOW that's her Tarot Journal from her youtube channel
videos). After her requisite 100 apologies and explanations about why I
was receiving a reading on the poker table in the loft (none was
necessary--I've had readings in far less friendly circumstances) I was
told where to sit. The poker chip cup where I was to sit was filled with
stones, crystals. I found it heart-warming. I was offered a small
notebook for note-taking on my reading, and found a pen. LOVED
that...and need to fold that into my own reading offerings.
She asked me to choose a deck with which she would conduct my reading.
I chose her (much video'd and slightly notorious) 8 of coins modified Tarot deck.
She explained that this deck had been many places, at the beach, for
example. Holding it in my hand was like holding a musket ball from
Shiloh. It has been through many (internal battles) and obviously, was
well run-in. It was a complete tactile experience, when I
riffle-shuffled the deck and heard,(instead of the well-known crisp
rhythm of new-ish cards) the thuddy sound of cards dropping into a story
of divine destiny.
I was lost in the experience of the feel of the
cards, the sounds of the card placement and the purple haze of Veronica
Jude's Opus de Tarot.
I was dazzled, not only by her Tarot
expertise but her tender insight in the events of my life as she
revealed 7 Major Arcana cards in my spread for my reading.
Although I will not reveal the content of the reading, I will say, that
in my 36 years in the metaphysical industry, it was one of the best
Tarot readings I have received. As Walt and I drove back and were
processing our experience, he was telling me of what HE learned from my
reading. I was expressing that I (now) understand, when I'm finished
with a reading and people say "time went by so fast", as that was my
experience with this reading.
Walt described (as the reading
commenced) that he realized that we were "two tuning forks" vibrating at
the same level. He expressed that she is "very much like you". Touching
the cards, stroking the cards, adjusting the cards as she spoke. Making
hexagrams with her gestures as she was relating Tarot pairs with other
Tarot pairs in the geography of her story.
I found Veronica to be
open in the communication of her own struggles, which in many ways,
mirrored my own Not the least stingy in the opening of her
soul-experiences.
By the time nearing the ending of the reading,
she asked if I wanted to use another deck or where we were going with
the reading. I think this might have been the time she would
(ordinarily) conduct the famed "Majors on Majors" spread that I was
eagerly anticipating (on the trip over) and was but a fading memory in
the rear view mirror of my minds wants. By this time, I willingly put
myself entirely in her hands for the remnant of the reading.
As
long-time mentor Stan Marsh (south park) would intone at this point; "I
learned something today". Unlike Dr. Phil's damning repetitive
gong..."the best predictor of future (behavior) is past behavior". For
me, the experience of future experience, is not always past experiences
(with Tarot readers...et...all).
I had confirmed that I am (still) not too old to learn something new.
and, if you're willing to be "in tune" ...harmony could be just around the corner.
Until Next time,
eat something wonderful
and live a life worth loving.
_Kim
Monday, June 18, 2018
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