I am naturally a very skeptical person. This may be surprising since I am also a tarot reader. But the power of denial in a person is a very strong thing, and I used denial in my childhood as a shield for anything I wanted to believe in, but thought I shouldn’t. Words like “that can’t be right” or “I shouldn’t be feeling this way, so I won’t” were normal phrases in my vocabulary.
I suppose there are stories from my childhood that signified a leaning towards psychic tendencies, but I really can’t remember them. Perhaps because I blocked them out. Maybe a few instances of me knowing who was calling before the phone was picked up (we used to have a pink rotary phone… yes, I said rotary). I dismissed them as coincidence.
Every time I pass a “psychic readings” sign, neon a’blazin’, I roll my eyes. Yes, still. I guess I consider myself a Skeptical Tarot Reader that reads for skeptics. I sometimes turn skeptics into believers. Sometimes I don’t. There’s some people whose minds can’t be changed, and ultimately, it’s not my goal to change those people’s minds. Ultimately, I want to help the people that need my help.
Here are a few stories about some skeptics I’ve run into and/or read for:
- My current boyfriend. Yup, you heard it here first. He was my friend first, my client second, and my boyfriend third. And he was a skeptic, until I started reading about a love triangle. Yeah, I had no idea that I was a part of that love triangle. I just read the damn cards. Boom! Poof! My boyfriend is a skeptic no more. (and may I just add, I had no idea he liked me as girlfriend material at the time… some psychic I am, eh?)
- The “does this stuff really work?” type: There’s no one person I can think of individually that comes to mind, but this type is an amalgamation of quite a few people that find out I’m a tarot reader. The second question that follows is the “how?” I still don’t know how it works. All I know is it works!
- The “Challenger” type: The prove-it-to-me type I have no interest in. They’re the ones that piss me off the most. They also tend to be Devil’s Advocates as well, provoking argument for argument’s sake. I’m all for an intellectual conversation, but when you’re testing me for amusement’s sake alone, I’m out, and you won’t be asked back!
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