5. get my palms read (31 x 31)

After staying up until 5:30am making pierogis for Sunday dinner, I missed the scheduled yoga appointment with my buddy Cara. When I picked her up at her apartment to go to brunch at Tonic, I said, "We're starting to create a pattern: I make it late to yoga, you oversleep and miss yoga, then I oversleep and miss yoga." To which she replied, that she was never actually supposed to go to to yoga with me that week in the middle, so really it was just me missing yoga with her... oh dear.

Perhaps the complete bunk of going to get our palms read would make up for my invisible yogi act. We arrived in Adams Morgan after a lovely brunch in MtP with Joe "RuPaul says you better lip-synch for your LIFE" Hudson. As we ascended the stairs Cara said she was a bit nervous. At the door, we knocked and there was no answer... and then we saw the buzzer. but really, she should have known we were coming. Inside it was dimly lit and the sitting room had a small partitioned area for the reading. There was a cat named "Kitty" and an astrological map on the wall. There was also some sort of reflexology map for the hands taped to the wall.




Because Cara was a mite nervous, she went first. I asked if I could sit in with her, but the palm reader, Mrs. Susan (Consejera y adivihador, ayuda en cualguier problem de la vida), said that it was a very personal situation so I could wait on the other side of the half wall and listen to everything surrepticiously...

Brilliantly enough, Cara and I both have the same fortune! We're going to live longer than 86 years; have travels in our future (Mrs. Susan said to Cara, "You travel a lot for work." Cara, "No, I don't." Mrs. Susan, "Ah, but you will in the future.") and we both have blockages in our love life, which for $90 (minus the $10 coupon I received) we could have removed. Lovely!

Now, four years ago a descendent of Ralph Waldo Emerson told me I would be married within 2 years to an older gentleman and that we'd have two kids. Mrs. Susan reports that I will be married once (and so will Cara) and will have three children (and so will Cara). She also told me that I have an older gentleman in my future. What is it with the painfully obvious Daddy-complex!? After I parted with my tax refund dollars, we laughed all the way home.

UPDATE: January 27, 2012
Today Sada and I went to the Arlington Metaphysical Chapel for Psychic Saturday. I had a tarot card reading. It was very very interesting!

First, Bev asked me how I was doing, and since we came from a) yoga, b) lebanese taverna, I was doing very well. She said I was radiant. That's always nice to hear. She asked if I had anything in particular I wanted answered. At first I said not really, but then, because it felt like a half-truth, I said that I'm always looking for a love dance. She told me to shuffle the deck and I got to look at the picture side of some of the cards, I'm so very curious about the pictures and the symbolism. I returned the deck to her and she directed me to cut it with my non-dominant hand. Then she dragged the deck face down across the table and instructed me to pick out 3 cards, again, with my non-dominant hand. She said that the cards, going left to right, represented what I want, what I really want, and what I need. I drew the 3 Cups, Justice, and the Five Pentagrams.



We interpretted it to mean that I WANT joy and camaraderie, celebration. It reminded me of the Three Sisters Knot, which "is a symbol of sisterhood and the strong, eternal bond we share with our sisters and friends. The intricate Celtic knot heart is an unbroken line symbolic of an everlasting love. The stylized triquetra or triple spiral, woven within the Celtic knot heart symbolizes the three stages of woman. The three stages of woman are maid, mother and wise woman." The awesome part about this card, is that it shows me that I am living in happiness, because I want what I have :)

I REALLY WANT justice. When she asked where I see injustice, I said that sometimes I get caught up in being unemployed; I see other people with jobs and feel that I deserve one too. It faced towards me, with the sword pointing up, meaning I'm looking for a job that actually is substantial, not just a bull-shit job for a paycheck. The scales symbolizing balance, in that I really need a job that will not overwhelm my life, but one that will complete it.

The third card, the Five Pentagrams, I saw as charity. The two poor people who were injured needed assistance. She saw something different. She saw the two people, not looking at the church windows. The windows have anchor symbols, suggesting that there is a spiritual solution to obtaining what I really want. She suggests I read a book called Write it Down Make it Happen. Now that I have my library card, I'll just go check it out! I also wonder if writing down in the 32x32, the Needles to Say is what I am really supposed to be doing?

Time will tell :)