Fortune Teller- Daily Object Writing – Oct 19th
Oct 18th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingA side show tent at the local town show, looks like something from the days of King Arthur and the knights, hooped edges with pointy top and folds of cloth like elelphant hide gathering in toward the door. $20 for a reading the sign says – curiosity’s head rises, its fangs ready to bite at this possible fraud, what will it be? The all seeing clear globe or the painted faces of the cards?
Inside, a there’s a small waiting area, a couple of chairs , incense sways through the air like unseen spirits. A curtain moves aside and a boney gnarled hand beckons me in. It’s dark and gloomy… why? Shouldn’t this all be out in the open, feels claustrophobic, the air close and thick. The clear globe indeed stands at table centre, but she also shuffles cards, makes me think of the witches from Shakespeare, hubble bubble toil and trouble……Somehow I have translated those mis-shapen faces onto hers, but in reality she’s a late middle aged woman with chubby cheeks and a kind persona, maybe she does believe she has some connection with something in another dimension, she can ‘ see’.
The cards tell a story and it’s easy to make the story fit the movie of your life, enough generalities, enough average facts and details could be made to jam with the reality that she perceives. Having studied it myself, I understand it’s all about pictures in the mind and your interpretation. Some part of my skin gets goose bumps when she mentions certain – non general specifics- How could she know? Is it telepathy?
