Pixie or Scientist?
The soft shuffling of cards breaks the silence as my client imbues her energy into
the deck. When she stops, I have her spread out the cards on my cloth in a chaotic
fashion. Then the magic begins. One by one she picks up the cards from a face-
down position without looking at them. I pick up the twenty cards and we get the
first look at what she has chosen as I lay them out in a pattern of my own creation.
One-by- one I tell her the past, present, and the future with descriptions of people,
places and events that are not only helpful, but are amazing when I stop and think
Tarot readings work. I don’t know how they work, but for the last forty four years
I have seen and experienced the magic of Tarot, mostly, by own hand, but
sometimes by others. The ideas behind the success of Tarot readings are varied
ranging from Quantum Physics to Pixies. Some part of me wants to subscribe to
the Quantum Physics while being afraid it’s really the Pixies. I suspect the truth of
the matter lies somewhere in between. Yesterday there was a report from the
research team from the lab of Professor Nicolas Gisin in the physics department at
the University of Geneva. In March of this year, the team achieved teleportation of
the quantum state of a photon — in this case, it’s known as the photon’s polarization
— to a crystal-encased photon more than 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) away. They are
not quite at a point where they can say, “Beam me up, Scotty,” but they are on the
right track.
Of course, Quantum Physics can’t explain the strange happenings I have lived with
most of my life. Like this last weekend when the thermostat was turned up to 85
degrees and put on hold. My husband swears he didn’t do it, the dog is too short,
and I know I didn’t do it. So, maybe the Pixies are a constant presence in my World.
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Whether Tarot works by science or magic, it stills works. Maybe someday science
will catch up with magic and we will understand exactly how. Look at how we
now understand electricity, when there was a time it too, was magic.