Terrific Tarot in Spiritual Sedona

When I embarked upon this insane Spoiled Spinster Soul Sabbatical, I really just wanted to try on some cities that I’d been considering moving to. I thought spending a couple weeks living like a local at my top contenders would help me narrow things down. There wasn’t a whole lot of sightseeing on my wishlist, but Sedona and Antelope Slot Canyon had me religiously checking for house sits in Arizona outside of Monsoon season.

I’m so glad that I landed this fantastic sit in Flagstaff right after my return trip to Taos. I was finally going to see the big red rocks of my dreams. I’d been very retrospective while finishing a project at home in Austin. It was the one year anniversary of my move into madness, and I was reflecting on where I’ve been and where I want to go. People keep asking me when I’m going to settle back down, but the truth is that I’m not ready. I really want to do some international sits and with the time changes, I want a very flexible job so I can make the most of the experience. I would honestly do this indefinitely if money weren’t an issue. I’m not the best at adulting, but I’m pretty responsible. Budgeting is a little hit or miss with this lifestyle, but I do my best. While I’ve been brainstorming on my next chapter career wise, I’ve also been trying to figure out some passive income streams so I can keep this train rolling down the tracks for a long time. I’d rather not dip too far into my savings and I refuse to get into credit card debt for it. It’s been weighing on my mind as I embark upon year 2. I’ll always want to tell you all about the amazing things I see and do on my adventures, and my very favorite hobby is making recommendations for my favorite places. If it

On my last night in Nashville, I made a last minute appointment to get an aura photo taken and perhaps hear what the universe might have in store for me. I was feeling good about my decisions, but a little validation never hurt anybody. It was a mind-blowing experience that I shared here. Sedona is said to have exceptionally supernatural and metaphysical properties, and there are aura readers, fortune tellers, chakra balancers, tarot readers, palm readers, and rock shops all along the main street. I didn’t do much research on it, I just planned to head to Sedona to look at the pretty monuments and take a walk. I knew that I wanted to take a one year follow up Aura photo to see how different it looks after this transformative year of my life.

Imagine my surprise when I saw on IG that a sweet old friend was also in Sedona for the weekend. Bernadette was a sorority sister of one of my roommates and came to live with us for a summer internship in 2008. We were immediately fast friends and she felt like a little sister to us all. We were all so heartbroken when she moved back to Maryland, and I can’t believe we haven’t found time to see each other since. I haven’t made it back to the DC area since the 8th grade, so it’s been on my wishlist to visit on this journey too. We caught up on life and she told me about this very tumultuous and difficult chapter of her life. She wanted to get her cards read and I was game to tag along.

We wandered in and out of shops hoping to find the right energy (and availability) for her very first reading. B allowed me to sit in and watch Alison work at the Chakra Shoppe and I was blown away by what she had to say. I obviously had to hand over my credit card and hear what she had to say about me.

Everything felt spot on and relevant. I was amazed by each and every card flipped and interpreted on my past, present, future, and blocks. It’s a very long video, but I found it fascinating. If you have any interest in tarot card readings, what’s on my mind, and how I want things to move forward- you can see them all here.

My reading, you just cant see The Tower or Exhaustion cards.

I found it a little weird that she never had us touch the deck, but it didn’t seem to hinder the reading at all. I don’t put a lot of faith in these experiences, but they are certainly entertaining, enlightening, fun, and I find it helpful to hear a new perspective on the thoughts that plague my brain. It’s costs about the same as a therapy session, but with a different guide to the discussion about what’s on your mind. Alison does virtual sessions, and since I never touched the deck, I don’t think you’d be at a disadvantage doing a remote session. If that’s something you’re interested in, I’m including her card.

And if my cards moved too fast for you, here’s the gallery of images from the cards that I was drawn. There weren’t any handy descriptors on the secondary Osho Zen deck, but you can read about the Politics, Exhaustion, Sharing, Source, and Ordinariness cards that I was drawn.

I went back to Sedona for an Aura reading with Jamie, aura reader to the stars. She was very interesting but I was pretty bummed out by the experience. She spent about 80% of my $55 15 minutes talking about herself, name dropping her friends and famous clients, and I only got a couple of minutes about what my photo actually meant. I picked Center for the New Age because their aura photos looked like the closest match to my other two, but somehow I didn’t even get a face in the picture.

The whole experience was pretty bizarre, but I felt like the colors and their interpretation were pretty solid for where I am one year into this crazy adventure of mine. Jamie was a trip, and my session WAS pretty entertaining. You can go along on that journey with me below.