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March 15,2001
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Metaphysical attraction
World of tarot cards magic surfaces in Lawrence
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Which most accurately predicts the future?
Horoscopees 9 percent
Numerology 9 percent
Oulja boards 9 percent
Palm readings 9 percent
Tarot cards 11 percent
Other 11 percent
It's all ridiculous 38 percent
Number of votes 62
Number of votes: 62
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By Eric Taylor
jayplay@kansan.com
Jayplay writer
When Tina Lee first visited Lawrence two years ago while running a metaphysical fair, she noticed something about the Midwest some people might miss.
"I found this area to be full of spiritual-minded people," she said.
When Lee decided to leave her native California to open a metaphysical shop, Lawrence was the obvious choice for her.
Last month, she opened Psychic Palm and Tarot Reading by Tina, 1017 Massachusetts St. Lee, who has worked in the metaphysical practice for 15 years, worked for shops in California and Missouri before coming to Kansas.
In addition, Lee gives discounts to students because she said they might have a hard time paying for guidance while in college.
Her shop specializes in psychic, palm, tarot card and crystal readings. Lee also sells crystals and candles.
Lee is optimistic about her new shop because of its location on Massachusetts Street and because she didn't know of any shops in the area specializing in metaphysical practices. She is the first to own a specialty shop of this type in town, but her店 is not the only place in Lawrence with tarot card and astrological readings.
Lunaria Holistic Health Center, 1103 Massachusetts St., focuses on holistic healing, an approach involving the connections between the mind, body and spirit.
Lunaria specializes in massage therapy and acupuncture, the Chinese healing practice of placing needles into certain points throughout the body. But Anna Lunaria, the health center's owner, also performs tarot card and astrological readings.
"We actually get a lot of requests for readings," said Alexa Marmon, a massage therapist at the health center.
Lunaria usually gives a few readings a day. If she doesn't have time, she directs them to another Lawrence shop, the Good Mother Earth Alchemy Shop. 803 Vermont St.
Kerry Johnson, owner of the year-old store, offers tarot card readings, but she doesn't like to classify her shop as metaphysical.
"The name 'Alchemy shop' is used in that sense to mean magical," she said.
Johnson also said her shop was the only witchcraft and pagan shop in town. It sells magical supplies, alter tools and candles.
Emily Culp, Prairie Village sophomore, believes in psychic readings but said she didn't know of places in Lawrence that offered them.
"I have never actually had one done, but I think it's great that those types of places exist here." she said.
With the options available in town, it may be hard to choose the right one.
Lana Guilfoyle, Lawrence senior, said there were other ways to get readings.
If someone is a good psychic reader, I think they can tell you something," she said. "Personally, I like online tarot readings."
Kacey Carlson, a tarot card reader from the Good Earth Mother Alchemy Shop, 803 Vermont St., explains tarot card readings as a method of counseling for predicting events and to suggest solutions to current problems. The pentacle, a Wiccan symbol commonly mistaken for satanic worship, represents the five elements: earth, air, fire, water and spirit, the realm in which Carlson says that magic is worked. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN
- Card 2 is laid on top of card 1
What's in the deck: 78 cards
22 greater arcane: The Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Last Judgment, Fool and World.
56 lesser arcana: Four suits (wands, swords, cups and pentacles) consisting of a king, queen, knight, page, the numbers two through 10, and an ace.
Each card has a unique meaning and is interpreted differently depending on where it's placed.
How they're laid out:
One of the most popular ways to read tarot cards is by placing them in the Celtic cross.
To begin, a significator card is chosen that best represents the person. The card covering this card represents the person's general environment.
A second card, placed horizontally.
Represent theobald this person.
The third card is placed above, to indicate the person's potential or what he or she is striving for.
The fourth card, placed below, indicates what the person has to work with at the present.
A fifth card is placed on the side the significator is looking away from. This represents the past.
A sixth card, placed on the opposite side, is what the person will encounter in the present or future.
- Four cards are placed vertically on the right side of the cross. The first card signifies the person; the second, his or her house and environment; the third, hopes and fears; and the fourth, what will come.
Source: The Rider Tarot Deck, The Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore by Cynthia Giles, and Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite
Kyle Ramsey/KANSAN
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