The Setup

I was tucked into a corner of the venue and people started finding their way over. Once the first few sat down and word got around, the queue built quickly and never really let up. At one point it stretched back across the stairs. That is always a sign that the room has bought in, that people are genuinely curious rather than just passing time.

I had been booked for two hours and ended up doing two and a half. There was a brief pause while the DJ was setting up but aside from that I was going the whole time. When the energy in the room is right, two hours feels like nothing.

The People

What I love about evenings like this is what happens when someone sits down across from you. They share things. Real things. They open up in a way that does not always happen in ordinary conversation. That is not the tarot doing something mystical. It is just the cards creating the space for it. They give people a way in, a starting point, something to react to. And once they are in, the real conversation begins.

Sitting there listening to people and trying to interpret what comes up for them honestly, that is a privilege. I mean that. The people at this event were so warm and so willing to engage and the feedback throughout the night was genuinely lovely. It was serious at times, but mostly it was just fun. People were laughing, leaning in, asking questions. They understood what tarot is there for at an event like this. It is entertainment with a bit of depth to it. A moment of connection tucked in between the raffle and the dancing.

The Card of the Night: Death

If one card summed up the evening it was the Death card. It came up more than any other across the readings I did that night.

People always react when they see it and I get it. The name does not help. But the Death card is one of the most misunderstood in the whole deck. It is not about endings in a dark sense. It is about transformation. Think of a caterpillar and a butterfly. The caterpillar has to stop being what it was for something new to emerge. That is what this card is pointing at. A chapter closing so that the next one can begin. A job change, a move, a relationship shifting. Something in your life is ready to become something else.

When that card kept coming up across so many different people in the one room, it felt significant. A lot of people in that room were standing at a threshold of some kind. The cards had noticed.