Show II ar t Cards Provide Spiritual Meaning in Daily Life 0 r r 1 Eugenia k i Acting Feature Editor C DEATH A drawing depicts three dead people a aking king a queen and a child In the background E i against against a pale pink sky the grim reaper dressed in inia ia a black cape rides bareback on a white horse In his his boney honey hand he a black flag On the bani banner ban ban- i ner ner is a white rose These figures on the card signify sig sig- sig transition on or physical death I Swords wands pentacles and cups are all found in Annies Annie's card 78 tarot tarol deck These are religious symbols that this tarot card reader willI will I juse use to answer peoples people's questions about their life I When reading tarot cards I look at it as a aI a. a I spiritual endeavor I feel like I have a job ajob to do and andI I that I should try to do the best way I can possibly i because I need to help people she said People I 1 tell itell te me that I am very accurate I emphasize that 1 its it's ts t's just information you already have and I am acI accessing ac ac- ac- ac I it for you A lot of times tunes it helps people I 1 get back on track and it answers questions for forI I them them I help heip people look at themselves and find their own answers Annie a Salt Lake City writer is a mother of I two children She prefers not to use her last name e eI I because she was raised as a the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Latter Saints tarot cards aref are I f frowned upon 1 Annie said that tarot originated in ancient Egypt around 2000 BC B.C. High priests and religious figures used tarot it was their secret since it only was practiced by the elite In Christs Christ's time Christians used it as a secret way way of communicating because it was not socially acceptable to be a follower of Christ Annie said The IThe The classical tarot that is used today was first introduced intro- intro around the century and she believes it was in Italy during the Renaissance People used tarot to divine the future The Inquisition did a lot to wipe out the intel- intel pursuits s she add added f Nostradamus Nostradamus according to Annie was an avid user of tarot cards but he was ostracized by the Christian church because of his powers to determine determine determine deter deter- mine the future He went underground like numerous other people during the Inquisition since believers were being burned tortured and killed The Catholic Church maintained that tarot was an instrument of the devil and part of witchcraft i Some of this still survives today and many other churches believe the same thing I think its it's a residue from the hasn't Inquisition it been researched researched researched re re- re- re searched out Annie said The tarot is just a access access access ac ac- ac- ac cess to your subconscious telling things that you already know I believe that we all have a stream of consciousness that we are not aware of of- of that kind of universal thing and arid tarot taps into it Anything that you want to know about the future if you you want to access that information its it's there for you or anybody Th There re are at least tarot decks on the market today Some decks are classical and they have been around since since the The most popular deck according to Annie is the cards in the mid mid the deck is Developed simple to interpret and it is based on Christianity There also is the Cabala deck which portrays the classical Jewish symbols I I use several decks and the Du Wacky cards are really good for a view of an emotional situation situation situa situa- tion and its it's way different than the tarot with only a few similarities Basically the meanings ar are the same she said Annie said that originally people played with tarot cards before they played with regular playing cards rk i As a youngster Annie recalls being inquisitive about the tarot cards I always was very very curious curious with them because when I was a young girl I had a gypsy lady read my cards and it was fascinating to me that she wasso was wasso wasso so accurate When I left the Church I was in my late teens and that's when I met this Indian woman and I asked her to teach me she said Annie said the Guatemala woman taught her how to access the information spiritually not by memorizing meanings found in instruction books We did not speak the same language We communicated communicated communicated com com- mostly by our emotions telepathy and hands she explained By communicating with the woman she learned to access the voice inter-voice which she uses in tarot tarot For 25 Annie spends an hour using the inter- inter voice to access information for a client She said the majority of questions people ask about are love and money Her customers come from aI all walks of life including lawyers doctors politicians church officials students and homemakers Annie also reads tarot for local corporations about projections on expansion investments and t rj Z j j R 0 co C ttY 0 k 1 4 b ti gyp 0 V L' L I e p 5 t o a as ase v to riY 1 r.- r. iY tV t j jo i w. w e o 0 3 i ii 1 i f h i t 4 x improvements She also spends some of her time reading tarot over the phone to state out-of-state cl clients Although the Church does not approve of tarot cards Annie still remains religious and said that she uses the cards to help people get back on their spiritual paths A lot of the people that profess that tarot is of the devil in church on Sunday come to tome me during the w week ek Usually people come to me when they are desperate and they've exhausted every other avenue she said She said that some people still associate tarot with being a Satan worshipper No I dont don't pray to the devil No I amnot nora a witch I am not a satanist I am a Christian and for many y years ars I denied the talents that I had Because of my upbringing I wasn't OK with with t it I Iwas Iwas Iwas was t told ld that it was was was' wrong it was not good Annie recalled Jesus Christ is my personal savior and he is the one that is my guide I pray be fore I do the cards I know he is the one that helps me do this |