Another interesting day at the bookstore.
Today, Aunt Samantha was giving free mini Tarot card readings to the customers who wanted them. Surprisingly enough, quite a few of them did. She offers readings once a month and always ends up with one or two customers who become ‘regulars’ and come back for paid readings.
During an afternoon lull, Aunt Samantha pulled a chair up next to mine at the register, set the Tarot card deck in front of me and told me to shuffle and cut them. I did.
What happened over the course of the next 10 minutes was extremely bizarre to me and to My Aunt I think, even though she tried not to show it.
Taking the cards I’d shuffled and cut, Aunt Samantha laid the first three down from left to right. They were the The Wheel of Fortune, The Tower, and the 10 of swords.
She told me that The Wheel of Fortune meant that in the near future an opportunity would knock at my door and offer me two choices. Two directions to choose from. She said that I needed to consider my choices well because one of them would lead to the Tower Card which represented a total upheaval of things for me. Which, in turn, would lead to the 10 of swords which meant a ton of emotional drama would enter my life.
She said she couldn’t be more specific than that. But she felt like the cards were a warning for me to make very careful choices in the near future. A future which she said could be in 3 weeks or 3 months.
I think she felt uncomfortable with the reading and wanted to leave me with something more light and fun. Something more positive to look forward to. So she had me shuffle and cut the cards again. That’s when the weird part happened.
After I cut the cards I handed them to her and she turned up the first three. Just like before. They were the exact same cards!
Aunt Samantha snatched them up saying that I must not have shuffled them very well. She put the three cards back into the deck in three totally different spots, making sure they were seperated and then had me shuffle and cut again.
The same three cards popped back up, in the same exact order!!
I was shocked, but Aunt Samantha’s face looked absolutely pale. She said that had never happened to her before, then she snatched up the cards and put them back in the box.
She wouldn’t elaborate on what it meant that the same cards showed up three times in a row, but I think she was concerned because several times during the afternoon I caught her looking at me with a funny expression on her face.
She didn’t do any more Tarot readings for the rest of the day and when we closed the store this evening, she sent me home with a ‘Be Careful Sweetie’ instead of her usual ‘Ta Ta Little Jewels’.
I wouldn’t normally put that much store in a Tarot Card Reading, but I find it extremely odd and unlikely that the three cards would fall in the exact same order three times in a row! What are the mathematical chance of that out of 78 cards? Astronomical I’m betting.
I wonder what it means, if anything at all.
I guess I’ll find out in the next three months. In the meantime, I’m going to examine my choices a bit closer than I normally would.
Just in case…
Jewels
4 responses so far ↓
chapewilson // August 2, 2008 at 12:38 pm |
Your aunt uses a forced deck.
Jewels // August 2, 2008 at 4:08 pm |
What’s a forced deck?
chapewilson // August 3, 2008 at 1:04 pm |
It can be when the cards are arranged so that a designated hand will come up; a really good pratitioner can do it so that it even works after shuffling (assuming that the cards are shuffled evenly).
Or it can be a deck consisiting of only one card or a few desired cards. Much easier to arrange hands with fewer cards.
Has Samantha spent a lot of time in Vegas?
Jewels // August 4, 2008 at 6:58 pm |
I hope this is an attempt at humor on your part. Anything else, and I would take offense. My Aunt Samantha is an honest, warm-hearted soul. You sir, on the other hand, project yourself as … something quite the opposite.
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