Earth Dragon

This post is the account of a tarot card reading. I went in thinking that tarot cards are the lamest of the lame and I left feeling basically the same way. But the only psychic I ever trusted moved to Hawaii and I wanted to see what a "clairvoyant" thought regarding my decision to go to grad school. And it gave me something to write about.

My reader's name was Logan. He wore a newsie style hat, a flannel shirt, and jeans. He turned his cell phone to silent as the reading began and I'm pretty sure he burped in the middle of it. Not that burping should make a difference. We all get a little gassy from time to time. He asked me what I wanted to know and I said, "Whether or not I should go to grad school." He said, "Go to grad school or do what?" I said, "Do what I am doing now, just keep doing what I'm doing now." He seemed confused; we got started.

He fanned out a deck of cards in front of me. The cards were big, like over-sized playing cards a child might use. He told me to pick one and I drew from the middle.

"Ah, the earth dragon," he said. Yes, he had a goatee but he didn't stroke it or anything. On the card there was a dragon, sitting in front of a cave. It looked more like a bearded dragon, like an actual lizard, than a Rhodesian Ridgeback from Harry Potter. "The earth dragon lives in a dark cave and protects and hoards treasure. What it means metaphorically is that you have a lot of treasure inside you and you hide it from the world."

He then drew cards from another deck and set them up in a pattern of two together. I can't remember what all of them were and what they represented. I think the first two represented where I am now and there was a card that showed "self-reflection," and then there were cards that showed where I was headed and what the energy behind it was. The cards that I remember most were the ones about hiding treasure and the one about being generous and giving the world my "treasure." During most of the reading the lady who runs the shop was on the phone and the walls were thin and you could hear everything she was saying. I could tell Logan was having a hard time coming up with what to say next.

I don't think I got anything thing out of this that I didn't already know. To make this decision, like any decision I need to be reflective, and to not listen to what others want me to do. He also said something about the marriage between my feminine self and my masculine self and becoming whole. It's easier to make decisions when you're whole. It was really just a whole lot of baloney. I don't think I would have felt the same if Eliza would have done my reading--there was something more honest about her, more specific and less vague.

Paterson pointed out that I dropped $20 for a fifteen minute reading yet I'm unwilling to spend $20,000 on an education.