That was the very first time that my half-cooked brain had successfully convinced the skeptic side of me to try tarot reading. I’m talking about last Saturday when I met this group of individuals who are into paranormal stuffs. These people are into things that interest me a lot. Matters and non-matters beyond normal has intrigued me ever since, and it’s really great to meet humans with the same line of interest.

To be honest, that was the very first time I heard of the word “Wiccan”. I checked it out online and found out that this word refers to people who practice herbal healing and benign witchcraft. We all know witchcraft for sure. From all those witches we saw in movies and comic strips(and those stories my great father told me about our witch neighbor). They always belong to the dark side, and if you think of a witch, the common image that would float on your bloody head is definitely of that of a wrinkled old woman, with a long pointed nose, a very long and gray hair, wearing a black robe, black hat and a broomstick and with those menacing blood-red eyes that would surely scare the shit out of you.

Well, the above graphical description is definitely too good for cinematic purposes. Wiccan is a sort of religion as what one told me when I asked her about it. It’s a way of life and it’s more on getting intimate with nature. Others are into feng shui, palm reading, astrology, sorcery, shamanism, ghost hunting, and a lot more paranormal stuffs that are not familiar to me. Madam Dulce, a professor from UP-Tacloban was also with us. She’s a self-confessed witch and she said that her being a witch is hereditary. Her confession made me really curious about her.

Anyways, I tried tarot reading, and the very first tarot reader that I approached really hit it straight. All his readings are very true, but my ever skeptic head doesn’t want to let it go that easy. If all his readings are true then that must be credited to the fact that I try to relate his readings to things that are currently happening in my life. Or maybe, the cards are really saying the truth. But, I guess it really doesn’t matter which is which.

And then, I tried another reading. The results of this one disappointment me a lot. The reading is based on my self-thought questions that are answerable with a yes or no. Of all three questions that I made two had answers of NO and the other one was MAYBE. I felt a little depressed. Maybe is definitely a No. I really don’t understand myself why the reading results affected me so much. I guess I was too consumed with my emotional dilemma that time that I forgot that I should not take the readings seriously.

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