I had a tarot reading today at one of Salem's many psychic/new age stores. Ordinarily I'd be highly skeptical of tarot readers and self-proclaimed psychics, but there are certain places around town that have been in operation for years. They have good reputations, are active in community events, and are proponents of requiring licenses for anybody who wants to set up shop as a psychic in Salem. If you live in Salem, you have to get a reading at least once. At the very least, "for entertainment purposes only."
The tarot card reader started off by telling me about work. He said there is a new opportunity that will present itself no later than the end of September, and that it will be a positive thing. That's good news. I was beginning to get worried. Then he asked me if I had recently changed things around in my home. I had moved some furniture between the living room and my bedroom a few months ago. He said that was a good thing, that I changed the flow of my home. Okay. Oh yeah, he also said I would be going to Florida. Since I have absolutely no desire to go to Florida, it will be interesting to see if this comes true.
Then he moved on to relationships. He said he sees a strong-willed man (i.e. jerk?) in my future, coming into my life around the same time as my new job and thus, possibly related to the job. He said we really wouldn't be compatible for the long-term. This is kind of scary, because another psychic who did a tarot card reading for me last October as part of the many Halloween festivities in Salem said the same thing - that a man who is all wrong for me will come into my life, and I shouldn't go out with him. Incidentally, the woman who read my cards in October also warned me to get regular checkups for certain cancers that only women get, and one month later a routine mammogram revealed what turned out to be a benign lump. She also told me that I was a writer. How would she know that?! Maybe I should take this as a sign of things to come?
As skeptical as I can be about these things, I know why I got a tarot card reading today. I was anxious to get some sort of validation that a new job will soon be forthcoming. So this reading was quite possibly a temporary panacea to put my mind at ease about being unemployed. Sure, I wasted $20 that would have been better spent on coffee and toilet paper (the two things I most hate to run out of), but if it gives me a little more hope that everything will work out for the best, it was worth it. At least until I run out of toilet paper again.
