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Getting a Tarot Reading from a HAUNTED deck - Tarot Topic #1 · Paranormal Lens - A Crossroads Of Curiosities, LLC Production

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you get to unpack that one later oh coming up
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and it has done nothing but terrorize me since
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the deck yes this is a haunted deck of tarot
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cards welcome to our podcast where we take deep
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dives looking at various topics through a paranormal
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lens all right welcome back to uh paranormal
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lens we got a little professional pants on today
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uh because we have a guest uh Our very first
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guest. First guest. Brie, who is this? So for
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our very first guest ever, we have Lindsay. And
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she is a very close friend and practically family
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at this point. And we had a phenomenal idea.
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Do you want to explain the idea before I finish
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introducing Lindsay? Sure. Yeah. So we had this
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idea. Because, you know, we've done 50 of these
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episodes and it was a running joke when we plowed
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through 50 fast topics. So essentially we've
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done 100 topics at this point. Will we run out
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of ideas? And I was like, no, never. So we had
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the idea just to kind of lean into that a little
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bit. What if we came in without a topic? And
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then Angela was like, what do you mean? I mean,
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she never knows a topic, but she was like, what
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do you mean no topic? My idea was, what if we
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let tarot pick a topic? So this is a tarot topic.
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We actually have no idea what we're going to
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talk about. Clean slate. We're going to do a
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quick tarot poll. The idea initially was for
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us to pull it, but we're not like professional.
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We don't really, we have a tarot deck. It's not
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a complete deck though. And, you know, we don't
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really know all the ins and outs of all the symbols.
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I do like using tarot to kind of frame narratives
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and kind of the storytelling aspects, but I couldn't
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tell you every detail on them. So Bree had the
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idea to bring the professional tarot reader to
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do our tarot topic. Professional is a very kind
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word. thank you you know more than us so that's
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and i really like the way that you do tarot so
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i was like you know who would be perfect for
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this and would probably jump at the opportunity
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you know me too well because i did jump at the
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opportunity and i am honored to be your first
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guest we have done phone readings in the past
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um mainly around certain projects like the possession
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tape we did a whole little phone reading that
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was fun um so this isn't our first when you said
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phone reading i was i was thinking like you know
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how people can call and pay over the phone readings
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that's kind of what i thought don't tell me you
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hired an etsy witch for this no hate no hate
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to etsy witches love them side note i did one
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time in college um I was on Fiverr, you know,
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the website Fiverr, where you can, like, just
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digital whatever services. I was on there for
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something else, and I saw a little pop -up for
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a $5 psychic reading from, like, Czechoslovakia
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or something. So I paid for one before going
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on an investigation, asking specific questions
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about the investigation we were about to go on,
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and then, you know, a few days passed, and I
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compared it. Boy, it was so... it wasn't even
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bad to the point it was like the opposite i was
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just like what what is this so no i i haven't
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done that's the closest but i haven't i wouldn't
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pay over the phone well uh lucky for you you
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get my services for free today i'm just here
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have fun well but i i believe that like it's
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the person has a lot to do with it like you gotta
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trust a person you gotta have good energy and
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rapport with the person that's gonna make for
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a better reading so like it's less of a paying
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money thing and more of like a stranger type
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of thing at least for me i don't know yeah have
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you found that like the vibe and energy and the
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the people can affect the the readings oh absolutely
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the thing about tarot that i find really interesting
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is it You can have the same reading for 10 different
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people and every one of those people is going
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to have a different interpretation of what the
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cards mean. You could put somebody in front of
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me that I have never met before. And if I spend
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even like five, 10 minutes with them and just
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kind of like, you know, if you vibe with the
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person, if you feel good with the person, I typically
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find it pretty easy to narrow in on whatever
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it is that, you know, the person is insecure
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about or worried about, or just kind of has at
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the forefront of their mind. And it's easier,
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obviously, for more intuitive people. But the
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different connections with the different people
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will make for a different reading every single
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time. And I think that's, like, my favorite part
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about tarot. Yeah. And one of the reasons why
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I'm also like, hey, we need Lindsay on board
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with this is because, like I said, I love the
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way that you do read tarot because I have had
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other people do it for me or I have seen other
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people do it. I have never had as much of like,
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oh, wow, actually, hey, that makes sense as I
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have with you. I mean, there does, reading for
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somebody you know does tend to, like you tend
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to read with a little bit of a bias. Yeah. In
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a way. But the first time that we read tarot
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together, I really didn't know you. all that
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well and I was very insecure with like my situation
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and where I was living and the things that were
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going on in my own life and those did kind of
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like take precedence in my mind so to be able
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to still read for you I don't want to say essentially
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a stranger because we had spoken and like hung
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out quite a bit at this point but i didn't know
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you as deeply as i know you now and to still
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get that accurate of a reading and like to get
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that deep into things that were personal to you
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kind of gives gives you the chills a little bit
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you know it really makes you makes you want to
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believe yeah so um before we want to get into
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the tarot this is going to be the downfall of
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us just having like our friends and people we
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know on the podcast because did we even like
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introduce like what's your name what's your tarot
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well i introduced lindsey did you did you i can't
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remember it was very much in the beginning so
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the audience knows the audience knows her name
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is yes okay yes just watch you're gonna like
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we're gonna re -listen we're gonna be like wait
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no we never actually did introduce her because
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we you came on the zoom we were just chit -chatting
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you know before we recorded like hey lindsey
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hey lindsey it's just like did we say once we
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clicked record Okay, this is Lindsay. Let's pretend
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I gave no idea. I did get a brief introduction,
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but for the audience's sake, my name is Lindsay.
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I'm not a professional tarot reader, but I do
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hold to a pagan belief system, and a lot of tarot
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and oracle reading does come very naturally to
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me. So I am just very honored to be invited to
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come on Paranormal Lens today. Yay! So exciting.
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So why don't you tell us a little bit about the
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deck you're going to be reading from? So before
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we began recording, I did kind of give us a couple
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of options. I have a few card decks. I have...
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My tried and true, my best girlfriend, my Terra
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Soleil deck. You can actually find this creator
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on Etsy. She's amazing. And her cards are incredible
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and hand -drawn and not made by AI, which I feel
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like is very important in this day and age. I
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have read from this deck for years. This was
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my first deck. It was gifted to me. I love this
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deck very, very much. And I really love the artists
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that made them. This is my nice deck. I do, however,
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have a haunted. deck of tarot cards um this came
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from a pop -up thrift shop in salt lake city
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and for those who aren't familiar with the culture
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surrounding salt lake city it is very very religious
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um it's a very high concentration of mormons
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yes it is the mormon capital of the world um
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it is where all of the legends surrounding joseph
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smith um kind of originate from and like where
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they take a lot of precedence and where a lot
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of those historical events take place. And so
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finding this tarot deck was an experience in
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and of itself because trying to find spiritual
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things in the Mormon capital of the world can
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be a little bit tricky because unfortunately,
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historically, religious people don't really like
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tarot and they don't really like the occult and
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they don't really like divination and things
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like that. But I walked into the most insane
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pop -up thrift shop you have ever seen in your
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entire life. I am talking bits and bobs and trinkets
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and garbage from floor to ceiling. You had to
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wade through. You had to like avoid knocking
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crystal glasses and stuff over. Those are the
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best kinds of thrift shops. It was the best,
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except the vibes were rancid when you walked
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in. I went with my ex's sister. Chelsea, if you're
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watching this, I love you. She will recount this
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story with me. You walk in, it just felt wrong,
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but we were like, you know what? We love a thrift
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store. We're going to check it out anyway. And
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it was one of those stores where you could walk
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all the way around the back and then back up
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to the front. But they had a section in the center
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that was dedicated to all things occult. Oh.
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They had a lot of stuff there that I'm sure many
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cultures would not have appreciated having in
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the store. Like having taken by people not from
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those cultures. It's unfortunate that. happens
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a lot in these types of stores but yeah and especially
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in salt lake city where i feel like there is
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almost the need to like compensate for that kind
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of thing um this i swear to you was sitting on
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the shelf completely by itself it had nothing
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else around it it wasn't sitting up on a bookshelf
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it wasn't like propped up it literally was just
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like sitting out like nothing wanted to be around
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it And I was like, oh, this is a really cool
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tarot card deck. You know, it kind of has very
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similar vibes to like the classic Rider Waite
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set that you see all the time. When you think
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tarot cards, you think of that typical artwork.
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And I carried it with me throughout like the
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rest of our shopping experience. And I didn't
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purchase anything else. I handed it over to the
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cashier when I purchased it. And I looked up
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and there was a giant license plate. The biggest
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license plate in there with the red number 666
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right over the top of his head as I purchased
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this tarot card deck. Interesting. And it has
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done nothing but terrorize me since. The deck?
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Yes. If this is my nice deck, this is my homegirl,
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this is my bestie, this is her evil twin. And
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she deserves jail time. Like the readings you
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do? Yeah, like the readings you do or like the
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deck itself? The deck itself has jumped off of
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my shelf a couple of times and spilled itself
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all over the floor. You can see this doesn't
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like it's not attached really and so this will
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just fall off and cards will fall out of it.
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It has also given me very contradictory readings
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and I will do a reading with my nice deck and
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then get a very similar reading from this mean
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deck except it it like it wants to argue with
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the first deck so it's very contradictory it's
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very blunt it's very like straight to the point
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that's not to say that i haven't gotten some
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good usage out of it and some really good readings
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but she's mean she's really mean so i figured
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we'd break her out today because she doesn't
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get as much screen time as my other and that
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and your other deck said that yes yes and that
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is really important i was shuffling to show the
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artwork before we began and we did get the um
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six of cups in reverse which um kind of leans
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into like gifts and unexpected information and
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things like that and so we kind of gleaned from
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that that um She wants her evil twin sister to
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be read today. So here we are. That's hilarious
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that they have like an ongoing conversation with
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each other. They do. Yeah, that deck's a bitch.
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Yes. Am I? Okay. Maybe they need a bitchy reading
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today. Exactly. And when I do readings for people,
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I do warn them. I'm like, do you want the nice
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card deck or do you want the mean card deck?
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And you'd be surprised at how many people actually
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do pick the mean readings. People like to be
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told what is up. I'd be curious though. Honestly.
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Well, you'll get to see what she has to say today.
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Yeah. Let's dive in. All right. This was your
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idea, Bri. Don't sound... I know. I was being
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sarcastic in like a joking sense, but yeah. Okay.
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Anyways. I don't believe I have read from this
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deck for Brianna. I believe there was somebody
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from your past, though, that I did read from
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this deck. Oh, really? Yes. And we can talk about
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that off camera. Or maybe on camera with codes.
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I think it's probably a conversation for off
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camera, but it is still a very interesting thing.
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I'm not recalling much about the reading itself,
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but we'll go over that. We'll go over that after.
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If we're ready to read, we can see. yes what
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our deck has to say today so yeah what does she
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have to say what does she have to say and the
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thing is i don't know if it's the card or if
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it's the universe that's speaking to us but either
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way i get the feeling she's gonna say something
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so we'll see and the way i like to kind of read
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is a little bit of like a chaotic reading i just
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kind of chuck them into my hands and whatever
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like falls out that's not like half the deck
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is kind of what she wants to say and so sometimes
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it means one card sometimes it means four so
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it's kind of hard to say for sure like you'll
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know if it's just me like being butterfinger
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or if it wants to actually like pop out because
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it will fly oh like that whoa we just got two
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they will fly right out at me okay so today and
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weirdly enough they are both upright So we don't
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have any reverse readings today. I am so sorry
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about that glare. I don't know. It's all good.
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Most people listen anyway. So it's the five people
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on YouTube can deal with a little glare, right?
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You can see 95 % of it. That's more than. Yes.
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And I'm going to read it out anyway. So it's
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fine. It's all good. So the two suits that we
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did end up with, we have cups and swords. And
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I lied. This one is in reverse. I can't read.
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So the first one that we got, we did get the
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Ace of Cups. I think this is my deck making fun
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of me. because I just called her mean, because
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this is typically a card about intentions. And
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with it being upright, it's typically good. So
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like good intentions, a good mood, having like
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a good relationship with somebody. So in the
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matter of like a relationship, it's typically
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someone you're in good standing with or things
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like that. So I think this card is her making
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fun of me. So we're going to, I'm sorry I called
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you mean. You are mean though. and you know what's
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funny is this is also um the ace of cups does
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also um deal a lot in like religion um and so
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for people who have um like religious trauma
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that's a really good card and a really good indication
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for people like that that they're on the right
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path um oh where did brie go i'm here sorry hang
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on okay i don't i don't know what happened well
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she just said like people with religious trauma
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never disappears i accidentally hit my power
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button instead of my volume button i thought
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i was getting too personal already you're like
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stop man bye so next we kind of move into um
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a not so nice card and this is where i think
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um this deck is kind of like holding true to
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the things that i know about her um because we
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look at the three of swords in reverse um and
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it is kind of about like confusion and like grief
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and misunderstanding and uh like like loneliness
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and being lonely so if i had to guess at what
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this What it kind of wants to talk about today,
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if we put the two of these together, is the way,
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and you know, it's so funny that I was just talking
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about the religious Mormon center of Salt Lake
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City. And then we bring up a card that talks
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about religious trauma and one that talks about
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like loneliness and confusion and grief and misunderstanding.
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So I'm going to guess that our tarot deck would
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like to talk a little bit about how being in
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like surrounded by a religion that you are not
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a part of or a religion that maybe is like forced
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upon you, how that can affect the way you view
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the world. And if we want to like bring that
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around into like the way it ties into the paranormal,
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the things that you see and the things you experience
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on a day -to -day basis that a non -religious
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person might see and believe and know like to
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be true for themselves like when we talk about
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like hallucinations or um you know like bad dreams
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or um even like like auditory hallucinations
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or like you know seeing people out of the corner
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of your eye and you want to believe that those
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are like spirits or ghosts the way like a religious
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upbringing or something like that can kind of
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dampen like a paranormal experience and kind
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of lend the person who's experiencing it to ignore
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the paranormal and kind of like use it to wipe
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paranormal away and brush it under the rug yeah
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that's interesting and even relating it back
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to like the deck itself like it was found alone
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even though it was in the occult section maybe
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it was just kind of the people coming by were
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kind of getting the same sense of a vibe and
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instead of leaning in like hey Maybe there's
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an entity wanting to speak. Maybe it's a good,
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I mean, we found with haunted objects we brought
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in, a lot of them have good vibes, good intentions.
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They just, you know, either something about it
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is broken or needs to be repaired and they're
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calling out, not in an aggressive way, but like,
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hey, you know, especially with like the music
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items, like we have some haunted music boxes
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that the actual mechanism is broken. So it'll
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be haunted and just call out like, hey. you know
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listen i'm trying to say something not as an
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aggressive way but everyone's passing me by because
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they feel a vibe i'm just trying to say fix me
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maybe it was calling out in that way and uh um
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you know just kind of got ignored and ignored
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and what does that do to a spirit or an entity
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if they're constantly being ignored because all
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this uh kind of i don't want to say persecution
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but kind of like i understand what you mean though
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almost like the like the pressure and i mean
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i know that People who aren't like of any sort
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of faith who live in like religious centers like
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that kind of do feel that like oppression, that
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like silencing almost. I mean, Brie, you found
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the Hana music box I was talking about. Can you
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think for a second, what if instead of just like
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a random music box in an antique store that just
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so happened to have a vibe and activity around
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it, what if that was put in a box with occult
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symbols on it in the middle of a occult section?
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in the religious store would that only imagine
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would that affect you buying it at all a hundred
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percent but also at the time also at the time
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i wasn't buying the music box for me so maybe
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it wouldn't have i was buying the music box for
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somebody else and then i ended up keeping it
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because i was too invested in fixing it what
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does that say about you as a person Oh, I'm getting
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really into the tarot reading. I'm so sorry.
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We don't have to do therapy right now. I was
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like, ooh, therapy. I'm like, excuse me, ma 'am.
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I slipped. I'm sorry. She just texted me. This
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is the last time Lindsay's on the podcast. That's
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crazy. You can't keep me out. Angela needs more
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therapy than you do. to bring it back to like
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the tarot deck though i do feel like it is worth
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mentioning that though i call this my mean tarot
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deck it's almost like mean the same way regina
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george was mean um she's she's a mean girl she's
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like she's got mean girl energy not that it's
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like an evil spirit or like a bad entity like
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anything like that it's more just like nobody
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wants to hear what she has to say because she's
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right and she's rude about it so i feel like
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it is worth making that distinction because she
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has definitely oh we did get another card from
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her for the record since we're talking about
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her and it is uh cups in reverse uh this is the
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nine of cups in reverse um i'm sorry i called
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you mean i love you she's the one that got hit
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by a bus right the tarot deck didn't but regina
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george did a tarot deck ever get hit by anything
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though i don't know i don't know i just know
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that this she came from a traumatized background
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i guess i it is also worth mentioning that she
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uh was in original packaging when i got it oh
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okay so it had never been open had never been
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used so that mark about loneliness i think you
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might be right on the money with that and this
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also was published in 2008 and i got it in probably
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2019 2020 ish no actually it might have been
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a little bit further than that It would have
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been either 20 or 21. So from 2008 to 2021, it
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had never been used. That's crazy. So the Ten
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of Cups in reverse, the keywords that come with
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this are family quarrel, irritation, and sorrow.
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Well, family quarrel, see if there's religious
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trauma that's going to be within the family.
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Yeah, without a doubt. So definitely wants to
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touch on the heavy stuff today. Like I said,
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it really doesn't cut corners. She really does
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not like to beat around the bush. Wow. I mean,
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sorrow comes from loneliness, too. I'm Captain
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Obvious today. Look at you. Look at you. You're
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on a roll. You did all the hard work. I mean,
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like I said, the beautiful thing about tarot
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is being able to, like, take your own interpretation
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away from it you know and whether that be the
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obvious one or the less obvious one it's personal
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and that's she's this one's very personal right
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to the heart I'll say yeah but um I am I'm I'm
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feeling so I I feel like Angela and I may be
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feeling more in tune with these specific cards
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with our upbringing in being raised in heavily
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religious backgrounds and not exactly having
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parents who like what we're doing yes like you
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see what I mean about tarot is it's vague in
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a way but the more you pull in the more you read
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it does kind of like strike true to like a like
24:17
a on a like a personal note for the for the people
24:22
around it so whereas that doesn't really ring
24:24
true for me um I definitely came into this with
24:27
like okay put I would like to you know put this
24:28
energy out toward the audience or you know like
24:32
anyone who resonates with it or anybody that
24:34
like I'm in direct contact with and being in
24:36
direct contact with you guys I think I don't
24:40
think that one was for me I think that one was
24:42
for you guys so have fun with that you get to
24:48
unpack that one later yeah but i just want to
24:51
say real quick before i move on um in some early
24:55
episode i still remember this brie you were talking
24:58
with angela about how like you know your if not
25:03
your parents you know family members uh people
25:06
within the religious communities you're in say
25:09
that ghost hunting what we do is a sin and then
25:12
i asked you angela i said do you think ghost
25:14
hunting is a sin and you said no and i asked
25:16
you brie brie do you think ghost hunting is a
25:19
sin what we do is a sin and you refuse to answer
25:21
me i so do you technically technically in the
25:30
catholic religion yes it is but do you think
25:34
it is do you think you have to agree with every
25:36
ideology ideology i mean being that i do in fact
25:42
Do ghost hunting. Does that make you less of
25:46
a Catholic? I don't think so. Do you think so?
25:49
I also don't think so. I don't think so either.
25:52
Cause like I still participate and go to mass
25:55
and go to church and do the readings and do the
25:58
like participate, but I don't a hundred percent
26:04
agree with everything. So yeah. And I think it's
26:08
like a really important distinction because many
26:12
religions would also argue that my belief systems
26:14
and the things that I do are not like of God
26:17
and that there is sin. But I also like, I think
26:20
it's really important to note that though my
26:22
partner is also of Catholic belief, we have found
26:29
a lot of common ground with our belief systems
26:32
and paganism does directly. like descend, or
26:38
I guess it like Christian religions are a direct
26:40
descendant of paganism. And like a lot of the
26:44
like modern Christian belief systems are built
26:48
on pagan. Around. Yes, absolutely. And my partner
26:52
and I have found a lot of common ground because
26:55
the things that I am reflecting upon and like
27:00
internalizing that come from like tarot readings
27:02
and like my other practices and things like that
27:04
are the same. beliefs that he has and at the
27:08
end of the day of the relationship that you have
27:10
with your spirituality or your god or your gods
27:13
or you know whatever it is you believe it is
27:15
deeply deeply personal and just because it comes
27:19
in the form of laminated pieces of paper or a
27:24
church pew it doesn't mean that those values
27:26
need to conflict with each other yeah absolutely
27:31
i think this also speaks to it's funny because
27:36
This is our first, you know, we wanted to do
27:37
like, you know, every now and then, like a tarot
27:41
topic. You know, what's the tarot, you know,
27:43
today? If we run out of steam of topic generations
27:46
or, you know, if we just want to, if we just
27:48
have the idea to do it. I'm always available.
27:49
Yeah, we just had the idea to do it this time.
27:51
You know, we're not slowing down or stopping
27:53
or running out of any ideas, so don't panic,
27:55
people. We got a lot more juice in us, but we
27:58
just wanted to do it this time as kind of just
28:00
a proof of concept. I wanted to touch on in this
28:04
first Tarot one, because people, like you even
28:07
alluded to, Lindsay, for some reason, even if,
28:11
like, because I love using Tarot, like I said,
28:14
as, like, storytelling, as, like, narrative arcs.
28:17
Like, if it's a good way, a three -car Tarot
28:20
poll is a great way to frame. a story you know
28:22
you if you want to lean into like some of the
28:24
symbols and metaphors so like i'll sprinkle some
28:26
tarot you know visuals or metaphors you know
28:30
or archetypes throughout films for some reason
28:32
even if it has nothing to do with anything woo
28:34
woo or occult or tarot specific is just a paranormal
28:37
video uh people still think it's it's evil just
28:41
because you put a a photo of like the fool card
28:45
in something yeah even though you're not saying
28:47
anything so I mean, this is kind of tapping in.
28:51
I want to discuss, like, is tarot evil? Do we
28:54
think it's evil? Is us discussing or engaging
28:57
in a tarot reading... We're going to get people
29:01
in the comments saying, like, I didn't need to
29:04
listen to a tarot reading. Why are you engaging
29:05
in evil practices like that? You know what I
29:09
mean? so yeah but anyone who's listening to like
29:11
a paranormal podcast that comes on to comment
29:14
and complain about a tarot reading like you're
29:17
barking up the wrong tree my friend you know
29:20
that even within paranormal people are on board
29:24
with like you can talk to spirits but as soon
29:27
as you pull out a tarot deck That is a cult activity.
29:32
I do have an entire tangent to talk about the
29:36
history of tarot and why it is that way. It would
29:39
push this podcast much, much longer than I think
29:42
we have time for today. But it's definitely something
29:45
that I can like go over with you guys. But I
29:46
mean, the long and short of it is that historically,
29:49
because tarot was something that was done during
29:54
times of like political unrest and it was done.
29:58
like the poor were doing it um women who were
30:01
viewed as quote unquote witches in like 1440s
30:04
italy um it was very prevalent during like the
30:11
formation of a lot of like modern christian religions
30:15
and so there's i could go into a whole deep dive
30:18
about like why but it's it's like in our dna
30:20
to be wary of it because it's an intrinsic fear
30:27
for a lot of people who hold belief systems outside
30:30
of anything regarding tarot. So it's, it's like
30:33
people who are afraid of snakes. It's that intrinsic
30:35
fear, you know, you can't really shake. I've
30:38
definitely had this conversation with you guys
30:41
and Lindsay and like, just about tarot in general
30:45
and be like, because of that, like that stigma
30:48
and everything, but the way that I view tarot
30:51
and how I feel like you guys kind of view tarot
30:54
is it really. isn't it one of the things that
30:58
it makes turns people off and why it's said to
31:01
be sinful and all that is because it's used as
31:05
like a it's a divination deck like that is one
31:09
word that it's used for and that's not something
31:11
that the church wants you to do you shouldn't
31:15
be divining the future anyways but we see it
31:19
or i see it as it's less of a divination tool
31:24
It is more of a psychological awareness for yourself.
31:31
Self -reflection and introspection. The cards
31:34
mean something, but it's like you have said and
31:37
what we've all said, it's our interpretation
31:40
of those cards that puts the meaning into it.
31:44
And it's more of a self -reflection and just
31:46
like, oh, yeah, I guess I didn't realize that
31:49
about myself. Oh. yeah i guess i guess that is
31:53
true maybe i do need to reflect on that and think
31:55
about that more so i mean i don't feel like it
32:00
actually is divining anything no because i have
32:04
predicted the birth of a baby i have predicted
32:07
a pregnancy and the birth of a child using tarot
32:10
cards though so but maybe that's just me being
32:12
an intuitive person i don't know but also there's
32:15
this one time i got tarot reading and it was
32:21
weirdly like the reader was saying things that
32:25
were so connected like so relate that was relating
32:29
to my life i'm like and then this she was saying
32:33
things and then day after these same things were
32:36
happening like and i'm like that that should
32:38
it was crazy like i like i agree with what you're
32:43
saying brie but sometimes i feel like there's
32:45
a little bit more to it too at times yeah That's
32:48
fair. Maybe I just haven't had that experience.
32:52
I go to tarot for the archetypes and the art
32:56
and the symbol that they repeat. Nothing in tarot
32:59
card that you get out of it is exclusive to tarot.
33:02
It's just a really cool way to combine imagery
33:04
and meanings in a way that taps into something
33:10
bigger. I find it funny. I was going to bring
33:13
that up because you know people are going to
33:15
say or think uh not a majority but you know a
33:18
few might think there's quite a few out there
33:21
yeah that we're going down a dark path by integrating
33:23
tarot into the podcast now or be careful with
33:27
the the woo woo you guys are witches but i wanted
33:32
to bring that up you know just in this first
33:34
tarot one but i think the tarot reading today
33:37
kind of was you know alluding to some of that
33:42
as well or kind of and a good introduction a
33:44
good introduction of like it kind of framed i
33:47
didn't have to like force the topic on it like
33:50
it kind of set it up of like hey you know um
33:54
this is a context in which we are doing or we
33:58
like to read tarot um and the more yeah actually
34:02
that kind of perfectly set it up what the heck
34:04
because like again to brie's point i don't i've
34:08
never used tarot as like we're gonna use these
34:11
cards to conjure or do some divination or witchy
34:16
stuff. I'm not painting a mirror black and dripping
34:19
lamb's blood over everything. I mean, we could.
34:24
Do we want to? Whoa, whoa, whoa. The full moon
34:28
already passed. You have to wait at least a month.
34:31
The only mirrors with tarot are the mirrors they
34:35
reveal into your soul. Exactly. I see you clip
34:41
farming over there. Hey, you know. You can't
34:47
fool me. No, I can't. I think maybe she's not
34:53
so mean after all. I think I may have misjudged
34:55
her. She's just lonely. Watch, next time you
34:58
read from her, she's going to call you a bitch.
35:00
I know, she's going to read me to filth. I think
35:04
her name is officially Regina, though. I love
35:08
that. With what we've been doing so far on the
35:15
podcast, she doesn't give the vibe of being mean.
35:17
She's just brutally honest. Very brutally honest.
35:21
She's that friend in your life that tells you
35:23
what you don't want to hear. Yes, ma 'am. The
35:30
next guest we have on the pod should be someone
35:33
actually mean, though. is it i don't have a twin
35:38
sister it's good we gotta have a mix of good
35:41
and evil um well anything else or should we uh
35:45
throw out the uh that was a good intro to yeah
35:48
i feel like that pretty well she understood the
35:53
assignment i'm proud of her yay she did a good
35:56
job thank you regina make her a name tag and
36:00
it's gonna be pink it's like those barbie ouija
36:04
boards you ever see those the barbie oh yes i
36:08
want to get one from um five five below one of
36:12
those pink ouija board ones that'd be funny oh
36:17
that'd be hilarious hanging on your wall with
36:20
your haunted one yeah are hold on haunted aren't
36:25
they all haunted No. Well, that's a good question.
36:29
It's like what you said about the tarot. It's
36:31
like, is it a board or is it just the tool? Is
36:36
it just temporarily the voice to what wants to
36:39
speak? That's a good question, but one for another
36:42
day. Another topic. Write that down. Write that
36:47
down. I mean, I think Regina understood the assignment.
36:56
And I think this was a really good exercise for
37:00
her as well. It's like walking your dog. You
37:02
know, you got to take them out. They start to
37:03
get restless. Please don't jump off my shelf
37:05
tonight. No, she got her exercise. You got her
37:08
walk in today. She's pooped. She's going to sleep.
37:13
I didn't say enough. Oh, my God. And that has
37:17
happened. That really has happened before. It
37:19
is like. I have felt this like insane pull where
37:22
it's like, I will do like a big reading and it's
37:25
literally like the card is just like, just one
37:27
more, just one more. And the deck will literally
37:29
beg. It feels like it begs me to pull another
37:31
one, but yeah, they definitely feel like they
37:36
have a personality of their own. Now she's quiet
37:38
now. She's really quiet now. Well, that's a good
37:44
place. Bree, you, you introduced her. You brought
37:46
her into this pod. Might as well bring her out.
37:50
That came out weird. Yeah, I was going to say,
37:53
I don't know what you mean by that. Thanks for
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