Sometimes you just have a unique experience. That happened to me this week. I cashed in Drake's birthday gift. Here's a little background about how this came about. First, we joined Planet Fitness, in Spotsylvania County, VA, and we take advantage of our free Silver Sneakers membership almost everyday. Each day we go exercise, we pass this sign:
I have to admit this sign just kept calling to me. After days and days of driving past this sign, I told Drake I'd like a Tarot reading from Sabrina. Sure enough, as a birthday gift, Drake bought me a Tarot reading. With two cataract surgeries on September 26 AND October 1 notwithstanding all the drops and follow-up appointments, I was finally able to book my Tarot Reading appointment. Ok, Ok, I can see a big number of readers out there rolling your eyes. Drake, the curmudgeonly skeptic, is at the head of that line.
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My mother is about 37 - 1962 |
I, however, believe there are a great many things unseen in this universe, and furthermore, I believe there are human beings who have abilities some others may not have. In other words, do I believe some people have psychic abilities? Yes, I do. I grew up with a person who had a small psychic gift. For as long as I lived with my parents, I watched my mother more times than I can count on all my fingers and toes suddenly just stop what she was doing, look inward, and say something to effect, "I need to call ________; something is going on." She would then pick up the phone, and just inquire. On the other end, I would ALWAYS hear something like, "Oh, Joan, I'm so glad you called! _______ (fill in name here) had just been in a car wreck, had a heart attack, come down with _________(fill in the disease), is in the hospital or occasionally, had DIED. Eventually, people quit asking her how she knew. Her reply was always, "I just had a feeling." I never heard anybody she contacted, say everything was OK. I guess that experience made me more amenable to psychics.
Here's what happened at my Tarot Reading. First, I very carefully didn't give Ms. Sabrina any 'clues'. I wore nothing with a logo on it. My only jewelry was by $8 wedding ring. I wore simple make-up and tidy hair. When I sat down, she first told me about herself. She's been in business for 15 years at this same place - it's her house with the garage converted to her studio. That makes her an institution in greater Fredericksburg. This has always been a major road in Spotsylvania County. Plank Road refers to the planks laid down in the 1850's going eastbound toward Fredericksburg to handle the heavy wagon loads of goods flowing into the town. The unplanked road goes back to before the Revolutionary War. It is now a divided highway, four lanes on each side with turn lanes; every commercial establishment in this part of Spotsylvania County has a presence on Plank Road. The population growth of this county has exploded around Sabrina. Everyone who's lived here any length of time knows who she is.
According to her, she is a third generation psychic with the 'gift' passing from her grandmother to her mother to her. She remembers knowing the future about people from the time she was six years old. She also feels like this is an inborn gift. According to her, you can't read a bunch of books, buy a pack of Tarot cards and declare you are now a psychic. She feels there is a spiritual world which interacts with us. [Not too far off from interacting with the Holy Spirit, but I'm sure that would be considered blasphemy.] I still had told her nothing about myself.
The 'reading' cost $75 (because everybody reading this blog wants to know the price) lasted one hour and was focused on the near future - she called it 'the next 'season' - which is the upcoming Autumn and Winter. Sabrina had two stacks of cards. One stack was the traditional Tarot pack, and the other pack were in the Tarot style, but were not labeled. I asked her about the second stack, and apparently they were cards her personal family has always used. She asked me to think of a question I would like for her to answer.
She shuffled both decks of cards while she talked and several times more before she started laying out cards. {You'll be glad to know the 'death card' didn't pop up. I was certainly relieved.} The cards were dealt out in three groups: About myself. About family. About marriage. She pointed out this was what she 'saw'. For instance, she DIDN'T SAY "On October 29th, you'll find an envelope of money." It was rather a premonition of possibilities. Yes, yes, you can tell anybody anything, but it was more enlightening to hear than I expected.
First: About Myself in the upcoming season. According to Sabrina, it's time to focus on ME. She felt I've been too busy doing many things which I felt were mandatory whether I wanted to do them or not. Duh. Eight months moving cross country, buy house, remodel house, put in all the 'stuff'. So, yes, I'm ready to stop cooking six/seven meals a week because I'm too tired to get cleaned up to go out. I'm ready to start exploring this area. I'm ready to watch fewer sports.
Now, I just have to give myself permission to do these things. I still feel vaguely guilty when I'm not busy all the time. I thought this section of the reading was the 'weakest'. Who wouldn't want to be told: "Do things for yourself which you enjoy." The next two portions of the reading really got to me.
Second group of cards: About my Family: She turned over a card, looked up and said: "Tell your daughter she's going to be offered a good opportunity in her career in the coming season, but she should turn it down since there will be a better one in the next season," (spring/summer). I never told her I had a daughter or that she had a career.
What came next was even more amazing: When she turned the next card, she said: "There's a male child, but I'm seeing ambivalence. He's the child to be concerned about this season since he's anxious about meeting some people on an upcoming trip. She also shared some other impressions she was getting about him. Well, some readers know that we have a young man we consider our pseudo son and have for many years. When I last talked to him, he confided he's going to meet his first serious significant other's family when they come to California for a Nebraska football game. This is a big milestone for the relationship. Sabrina emphasized it was important to simply 'be himself' while meeting these new people, and to not be anxious because they will like him. She also suggested he needs to progress slowly into this important new relationship. (This is something he is already doing, and he has used the exact same words as she did.)
Moving onto the final portion of the reading: About My Marriage - less amazing than the middle portion, but also revealing about what she 'picked up' on. She sees an upcoming trip in this season. She suggested February as the earliest we should take it. We should be working on strengthening our personal bonds with one another because she sees some type of crisis - not necessarily in this season, but further into the future. Well, we ARE taking a trip, and I do think there's an upcoming crisis which I'm not ready to share.
Before we began, she asked me to think of a specific question I would like answered. I said, "Since we've just moved to this area, do you think we will be happy here?" She turned over cards, hesitated, and said, "For about 10 years." Drake and I have said all along, this Fredericksburg house was our '10 year house', so while her answer was spot on, I wish she'd said for a longer time.
Finally, she told me how 'easy' it was to get a reading from me since I was spiritually 'open'. We all know that's not a big surprise since I'm fascinated and always interested in new experiences. What did surprise me is she told me not to return to her before six months or more have passed. My suspicious jaded self expected the 'hard sell' along the lines of "You need to see me every month." That didn't happen.
It was interesting she had a supplementary deck of cards which she said have been used and improved by her family since her grandmother's time. She would turn over a card in this supplementary deck - same type of pictures on the supplementary cards - to expand on the formal Tarot card.
I left feeling refreshed. I was amazed she knew about my children. She didn't offer advice about specific events, other than in pretty general terms. She was adamant Drake and I should not taking a big trip until after February. (We are, in fact planning a big trip.) I do think she's very good at reading people. Mostly, I left with a confirmation of some of the feelings I've been having, and I considered my psychic reading a very positive experience.