blackroseivy
Actually, more like 
So I'm doing my very 1st real craft show. NOT very profitable for what I enjoy calling "real art", if you know what I mean. I'm still $47 in the hole.
But that isn't what I'm here to talk about.
It was a weekend thing - yesterday, the space across from mine next to the outside door was empty; today, there was a booth set up w/all KINDS of lovely lovely Swarovski beading! ("OOOO SPARKLIES!!" I thought...)
The lady & I got talking; she was very nice, older than me by quite some years, & full of friendly advice, which I don't mind at all. She even thought my work was lovely; we bartered, me 3 mini painting-brooches ('40's vintage findings sold as dollhouse frames, but they came & had pin-backs!) for 2 beautiful (& more highly-priced) Swarovski & silver earrings.
Well.
At the very end when I was packing to leave, the lady came over & handed me 1 more thing: a fairy w/another Swarovski dangle, gave me a half-hug & was saying something - I forget what exactly - but she finished by saying, "Oh you'll wish I knew lottery #'s" - or something to that effect - & I responded by casually saying, "Oh I read Tarot cards..."
MISTAKE!
She immediately drew away, looked at me over her glasses, shook her head & said, slowly, "Step awaaaaaaaaay from the Tarot cards!!" (yes I'm serious) & went on in such a vein a bit. She ended by saying something like, "If you have a lot of doo-doo in your life that keeps happening - " at which point I interrupted her: "As a matter of fact I DID have doo-doo [her actual words, btw] in my life, & it's pretty much going away now." Which is so far true, that if it hadn't been, I wouldn't have been standing there talking to her. Told her I'd been studying them since I was 12, am developing my own decks...
She just shook her head slowly & faux-wisely.
I turned away, shaking MY head slightly, & secretly rolling my eyes. Dismissive enough to end the conversation - but we ended on a friendly note.
Being somewhat enlightened, I knew better than to argue, or to say ANYTHING past that point. Except: "Tarot ain't never bit ME!"
She was on about something - "There are gaming cards, all KINDS of cards - but NOT Tarot cards!!" (emphasis hers) Like my friend Aileen said afterward, "Oh YEAH, they're all ok - but Tarot cards AREN'T?!"
I even know that the entire silly superstition regarding this poor little stack of very old pictures undoubtedly stems in the main from the early Papal attempts to have them banned - because of their use for GAMBLING, a VERY great Medieval sin...
I put the crystal in sunlight in an attempt to cleanse them of "ignorance vibes."
All I can add to this story is: Why? Why? Why? (again)
So I'm doing my very 1st real craft show.
NOT very profitable for what I enjoy calling "real art", if you know what I mean. I'm still $47 in the hole.But that isn't what I'm here to talk about.
It was a weekend thing - yesterday, the space across from mine next to the outside door was empty; today, there was a booth set up w/all KINDS of lovely lovely Swarovski beading! ("OOOO SPARKLIES!!"
I thought...)The lady & I got talking; she was very nice, older than me by quite some years, & full of friendly advice, which I don't mind at all. She even thought my work was lovely; we bartered, me 3 mini painting-brooches ('40's vintage findings sold as dollhouse frames, but they came & had pin-backs!) for 2 beautiful (& more highly-priced) Swarovski & silver earrings.
Well.
At the very end when I was packing to leave, the lady came over & handed me 1 more thing: a fairy w/another Swarovski dangle, gave me a half-hug & was saying something - I forget what exactly - but she finished by saying, "Oh you'll wish I knew lottery #'s" - or something to that effect - & I responded by casually saying, "Oh I read Tarot cards..."
MISTAKE!
She immediately drew away, looked at me over her glasses, shook her head & said, slowly, "Step awaaaaaaaaay from the Tarot cards!!" (yes I'm serious) & went on in such a vein a bit. She ended by saying something like, "If you have a lot of doo-doo in your life that keeps happening - " at which point I interrupted her: "As a matter of fact I DID have doo-doo [her actual words, btw] in my life, & it's pretty much going away now." Which is so far true, that if it hadn't been, I wouldn't have been standing there talking to her. Told her I'd been studying them since I was 12, am developing my own decks...
She just shook her head slowly & faux-wisely.
I turned away, shaking MY head slightly, & secretly rolling my eyes. Dismissive enough to end the conversation - but we ended on a friendly note.
Being somewhat enlightened, I knew better than to argue, or to say ANYTHING past that point. Except: "Tarot ain't never bit ME!"
She was on about something - "There are gaming cards, all KINDS of cards - but NOT Tarot cards!!" (emphasis hers) Like my friend Aileen said afterward, "Oh YEAH, they're all ok - but Tarot cards AREN'T?!"
I even know that the entire silly superstition regarding this poor little stack of very old pictures undoubtedly stems in the main from the early Papal attempts to have them banned - because of their use for GAMBLING, a VERY great Medieval sin...
I put the crystal in sunlight in an attempt to cleanse them of "ignorance vibes."
All I can add to this story is: Why? Why? Why?
(again)
My dearest wishes to you.