Well, yesterday I did the Tarot gig and to say I am satisfied with the outcome is an understatement – it was terrific!
We arrived early (with a Virgo rising, I’m a punctuality maniac 
), and set our mini booth (see two posts below) – and the first consultant arrived almost two hours after the Tea Bar opened. I was supposed to stay there only until 10:00 PM, so I could make my own Saint John’s rituals at home, but I ended up staying until 1:30 AM!
We had set a very, very low price for the readings so everyone could have a try without worrying on the money. Of course, there were some very boring readings for people that just wanted to “try”, like if getting a Tarot reading was a sideshow circus thing, but I’m used to it – I’m not there to put up a show and entertain them, so I know well to keep that readings short and to the point; and though I try to do my best, when someone is not spiritually open the energy flow of the reading is low and I can only rely on my knowledge of the theory of Tarot to construct a useful reading – which is perfectly ok, but no thrills at all.
But of course there were consultations that I can only described as ecstatic. They needed the reading, they came completely open and available for me to read on their souls – and there is nothing like that experience for me. When a consultant is sincere about himself/herself, and is willing to listen, Eleggua speaks through me and gives them exactly the kind of advice they need to push the boundaries of their beliefs and see themselves under a new light. Through the eyes of Eleggua, everyone is a shining light of Divinity – but we are nothing but human, and we constantly forget that.
And when I say Eleggua speaks through me, I’m being literal. I never remember what I say in a reading and I could only describe as something similar to a semi-trance state. I am nobody and I have no powers – it’s the Orishas who use me as a vehicle to communicate with those who really need it, the ones who see the spirits that come with the consultants, the ones that ask that question that leaves the consultant breathless for a second. I have knowledge, not powers, and when I’m not in that state I’m just a regular woman who likes crafting and fears the dentist.
Reading Tarot, or other oracles, is an amazing experience, both for the consultant and the reader. 20 years after I started reading Tarot, I still get a high dose of emotional thrill when I do readings with certain consultants. The consultants laugh, cry, and the look on their eyes when you uncover the veil of their deepest desires is simply priceless. To see a person sighing deeply, relieved that the reader understands them to their deeper core, makes all the work worth for me.
My last reading, made for a couple that I had already met on a previous reading, was specially moving – the new moon and the magickal night of bonfires and wishes really brought up a lot of “dark” issues on all the readings. Since I know this people were very tight financially, I closed the night giving away to them several products from my trunk to help them combat evil magick made against them. Giving something for free after filling my own pocket made it all feel balanced, so I decided to leave. We did not made a scandalous amount of money, but we sold a few charms and powders and everyone commented on our products, and seemed interested in coming back with friends to more readings.
Usually I do not trust people that come to the readings saying that someone is making evil magick on them – 99 out of 100 times, people have made their own luck and the bad luck they talk about is only the karma boomerang coming back to them – but this time the cards were clear and I knew this people, so I knew well they are not alarmists or people that want to blame someone else for their own trouble. 1 out of 100, yes, and they were the 1, so they went home with van-van powders, amulets, road-opening powders and protection spells to help them go back again to normal life. I couldn’t let them go knowing that they had no money to fight evil magick. It was too unfair.
I was so tired I could only crawl back home, get a long cleaning shower, make some purification rites to get away from all the energy I absorbed (attention Tarot readers, this is mandatory for your own good!), and slept ten hours. Today I’m taking the day off – I see some crafting, meditating and gardening in my day to renew my energies and start listing new stuff in the shop tomorrow. Witchville needs a good cleaning too LOL!
What I like about you, even from a distance, is your knowledge and your confidence in what you do. At the same time you are down to earth and humble about it. No ideas above your station or any guru ambitions. No, I know it all and I am oh so powerful. It is good to see that there are genuine witches out there that are in it for the love of what they do and not a quick buck to make.
I have seen some you tube videos (taped documentary) with witches from …. Oh, can’t remember what country and they were making a fortune based on peoples fears. The client came for a card reading and by the end the witch had them convinced they had an evil curse which only she can remove for more money (and a lot more than the tarot reading itself was). They actually live in mansions because people believe and pay.
You show that there is a different an honest way and I hope there are more out there like you.
Mel
Aaaaw thanks so much my friend!!!!
That kind of witch that you are talking about is exactly the kind of people I had to work with for years until I started working on my own. They love to put fear on people and asume a saviour’s position that fills their ego. Binding people over fear is what fascists do.
As you have said, I am a Witch because I love Witchcraft more than anything else in this world, and not for the money – if it was for the money I’d be a lawyer LOL!