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SO, You Think You’d Like To Read The Tarot?
by:Anna Burroughs Cook
PART TWO
Well hello, again! I’m as surprised as I am pleased, that you chose to return. Most people today aren’t interested in hearing about “the old days and ways” of reading the Tarot if the story isn’t wrapped in an atmosphere such as “Harry Potter” or “The Lord of the Rings” or even pre-Renaissance France (which, in hindsight really wasn’t a terribly pleasant time) So I wasn’t sure that you’d care to hear the rest of my story. Perhaps my tale won’t sound so strange to your young ears, if I share some personal background with you.
Cays Tearoom –where I started, only employed the best readers (which, by the way do not grow on tress) and no one began to work immediately after their interview –not even in 1979. Whether you read Astrology charts, Numbers (Numerology), Playing Cards, the Crystal Ball, Palms, or Tarot your interview consisted of reading for the boss and your starting date depended upon how soon one of your future predictions came true. Then and only then were you able to begin a three to six months probationary period. The first month was the longest because the boss monitored your readings by steering their fussiest and most difficult clients YOUR way. As long as those clients were satisfied with your reading,(and woe to you if they weren’t!) you could relax--but only a little. Your “place” wasn’t assured until you began to build a solid word-of-mouth clientele of your own
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