LOL, that article was hilarious.
And funnily enough, I had a card-touching moment today.
I'm in an adult day treatment program to help me with my depression and anxiety. I had mentioned in one of the groups that I read Tarot cards, and doing readings helps ease my anxiety. So, of course, I've started getting questions, and requests for readings. One of the guys asked if he could look at my cards (I have a pocket RWS that lives in my purse, wrapped in a blue bandanna). So, I pull the cards out, and go to hand them to him, and he says, "Can you unfold that?" I said, "What, you can't unfold a bandanna?", unwrapped the deck and again tried to hand him the cards. He wouldn't take them. The Queen of Cups happened to be showing, and he asked what the card meant. I said, "It depends on the question and where it falls in the reading." He asked for a reading,, and I agreed to do one for him during lunch break.
So then I go into the kitchen, trying to re-wrap the cards while I'm walking, and one of the girls notices them and says, "Are those Tarot cards?" "Yes," sez I. "Can I see them?" "Sure" and she reaches out to take the cards from me, and the lady sitting next to her suddenly gasps, "You're not supposed to touch the cards unless she tells you to." So I plunked the cards down in front of the girl and said, "Touch the cards." She gave them a pat, then asked for a reading. I told her she would have to take a number, people were requesting readings, and I didn't have time right then, and she asked if she could just draw one card. Sure, why not do a quick one-carder.
I thought it was funny that the other lady was so protective of someone else's deck
Also, when I did the reading for the guy at lunchtime, I asked him if he was a good shuffler, and he said, "No", so I said, "OK, I'll shuffle the cards then."
"No," sez he, "I have to shuffle them". I let him have his way, but he was just picking huge chunks of cards and sandwiching them back into the deck in such a way that there was no way they were going to be thoroughly mixed. I just had to trust that the cards that would be needed for the reading would turn up. In retrospect, I should have been more firm and shuffled them myself and just had him cut the deck when I was done. But this guy who didn't even want to unwrap the deck from its bandanna earlier was really insistent that he had to be the one to shuffle, and, hey, I'm the reader, don't you think I know what I'm doing?
But really, I don't have a problem with people touching my cards. I mean, unless someone is radiating serious negative energy, I'm fine with it. I enjoy showing my decks off, and a person can't really have a proper look at the cards unless they, you know, touch them.
OK, sorry for the digression, I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
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