This week was full of amazing adventures for me. I was the tarot card reader at two very different but equally terrific adventures.
First, I had the opportunity to do tarot card readings at the monthly seniors’ breakfast at the Manotick Legion, sponsored by ROSSS, the Rural Ottawa South Support Services agency. Not to be agist, but I was a little anxious to be bringing tarot reading to an older crowd – it’s been my experience that millennials and gen-z are much more open-minded about tarot readings than my parents’ generation. And I was quite happy to be proven wrong!
They were a fun, interested and kindly group who seemed to genuinely appreciate the opportunity to get a tarot reading, many of them for the first time.
We had a little table set up off to one side so I could do short readings, and I even did a bit of roaming through the room for folks who had mobility challenges.
Walking home with my tarot cards and framed tarot sign in hand, I stopped for an impromptu fall photo session at my favourite historic Manotick location, Watson’s Mill.
I was pleased with myself when I came up with the tag line “what’s your story?” for the tarot card reading sign! I am above all things a storyteller, so it felt perfect.
Then, just a few days later, I did my biggest tarot card reading event ever: I was hired to give readings in exchange for donations at Taste of Manotick, our village’s end of summer street festival. It was a blazing hot day for late September, and I was grateful for the loan of a tent canopy (thanks Debra!) to get a little bit of shade on the hot tarmac.
Over the course of five hours, I did around 75 tarot card readings for visitors to Taste of Manotick, and raised over $400 in donations for the Manotick food cupboard. That was way more, maybe two or three TIMES more, than I had been expecting to raise, and I was so pleased with the outcome. Everyone I met was so kind and seemed to genuinely appreciate their readings. Nobody cried, which was a bit of a relief – who wants to cry at a festival? And I had fun engaging some of the more skeptical folks with a bit of playfulness that was returned to me in kindness.
One thing that made the day extra special was that my middle kid, Simon, was working as a bartender on the patio down the block at the Black Dog Bistro.
All day, folks would wander over and say “The bartender at the Black Dog told us to come and visit you for a tarot reading!” And the Taste of Manotick cocktail was pretty dang delicious, I can report in an entirely unbiased way.
Altogether, it was a fabulous week for tarot events and readings!
If you have an event coming up and you’d like to hire me as your tarot reader, I’d love to hear from you! Whether for a big event or an intimate party you can see more about my style, my policies and my pricing on my tarot pages. I’m even happy to wander outside the bounds of my pretty home village of Manotick. 😉