Birthday Present To Self
For my 35th birthday, I gifted myself with a trip to Vancouver, Canada last weekend. To say I had a good time would be an understatement. It was like fun overload. So much so that I’d say a new personality called “Canadian Giyen” has emerged. It’s like regular Giyen, but in Canada! Get it? Get it? Oh nevermind. You had to be there and be intoxicated to understand why this was so funny … because otherwise it’s not even remotely funny.
To write one big long post about all the things that we did would take forever and (a) I don’t have the brain capacity to write it all down and (b) you probably wouldn’t have the patience to read all about it anyway. For now, I’ll let you in on one thing that I did do – I had a palm/numerology/tarot reading done on Grainville Island.
Given that I have never done this before, I had no preconceptions of what to expect. It was an “in the moment” decision and quite fitting as a last hurrah before we had to leave on Sunday. Here’s a general summary of what the divination arts had to tell me, including a few of my own observations:
- I was surprised how accurate she was about my personality. “Tell it like it is” are the words that she used to describe me (these are words that my friends use all of the time). She said I was intuitive about people, burdened with immense responsibility and often get into trouble when I don’t follow my gut instincts about things. So true again.
- Tarot cards were revealing. The three cards I drew were indicative of change, letting go of the past and duality – representing recent past, present and near future, respectively. The last card was of a trapeze artist reaching out and almost grasping the hands of another trapeze artist. She said that if I didn’t let go of the past, I would miss the opportunity to move on to the next stage in life.
- The number 5 haunts me. Apparently, in the numerology world the number 5 represents freedom and change. Two of the tarot cards I drew were number 5s and my name broken down into numbers is replete with fives as well.
- “It’s a shame that I don’t travel more.” She said this 3 or 4 times. It appears that the side of my hand has an abundance of travel lines which makes me especially apt for travel. This makes me very happy.
- “You better make a lot of money … because it runs through your fingers like water. ” Sadly, this is soooo true.
- Explore your spiritual self. I won’t be satisfied if my life doesn’t serve a greater purpose. There needs to be purpose and meaning in the things that I do and I need to actively pursue spirituality in order to find my life’s purpose.
- I like to be in the limelight. Uh, I don’t know about this one. Then again, I am a blogger …
- No love in sight. Remember when I said that I was ready for love? Apparently, being ready is not enough. There’s still a lonely road ahead of me, with no committed relationship in sight. The only thing that she “saw” was someone “off to the side” who is very shy and is watching me from a distance. Normally, she see’s either something definitive or nothing at all. To see someone off to the side was very odd to her. This is odd to me too.
- Go north. She said that I needed to go north because it was calling me. Where north is beyond me. She threw out Greenland and Iceland as possible suspects. I can’t even imagine …
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That is very cool. I had someone read my palm once and his accuracy freaked me out to no end.
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Fun post. Sounds like a good reading to me. It’s hard to tell sometimes whether we’re looking too deeply into vague statements, or what the readers says is actually accurate. Yours sounds closer to the latter. I’m always too cheap to find out. Looking forward to hearing more about Vancouver!
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Welcome to my corner of the world! Glad to hear you had fun
Happy Belated Birthday!
I’ve always wanted to try this, but I’m afraid of what they might say. I really don’t want to know if I’m going to be run over or smushed like a bug someday.
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Don’t mean to burst any bubbles, but the following statement is PURELY my own opinion: those fortune teller types crack me up. Sure … there are some who may be truly gifted … I won’t deny that. I do believe there are those with that extra sense. But for the most part, MANY are just out to gnab your money and feed you a of of mumbo jumbo. I’ve went to a few just for fun or on a dare. And so did my friends. … the funny thing is, what each had to say REALLY DID pertain to my life. HOWEVER, they also pertained to many of my friends also. Generalizations that mask as individual “wowzers.” Criss Angel (a magician who does the most mind-boggling magic) did a stint like that also. He said the EXACT same fortunes to every individual and everyone who came out of his session each said that it was so uncanny how true the things he said were. Of course the purpose of this “magic fortune” trick was to expose the sham it really was.
Still fun to do … for entertainments sake. But I’d be wary to take anything to heart. Like “no love in sight.” Sure that can come true if you absorb it as truth and “live it” so to speak. But don’t bind yourself from what others say. If you are open to love, who knows what can happen.
If luvs a disease den im very ill.but i dont want medicine i wont take no pill.i will suffer dis illness cos it makes me see exactly how much u mean 2 me!
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