Magic Island: What Happens In Venice: Book Three by Cachey Diana

Author:Cachey, Diana [Cachey, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

Fear. The first word that came to mind when Louisa departed the store after the tarot card reading. Fear, it ruled her.

Fear of death, fear of life, fear of money, fear of poverty, fear of commitment in relationships, fear of being alone, fear of heights, fear of not climbing high enough, fear of missing what lies ahead, fear of what lies ahead. Fear, fear, fear, all forms, facets. Fancied and future fears. Behaviors manifested by unconscious fears. Oh the many forms of fear.

But I’m not afraid of ghosts.

Strange.

It began years ago when Louisa learned to read the tarot. She did tarot card readings for friends like a parlor game, which tarot cards were at one time, a game which eventually evolved into ordinary playing cards.

A deck of tarot cards proposes to tell someone’s future and the reading either eases or causes fear of that future. Louisa learned to watch a person’s facial changes, which could divulge as much or more than the cards themselves. It’s easy to fake a fortune telling. If the reader mentions money, career, love, creativity, she can see what lights the person’s face up and it often illuminates their thoughts. Words that cause a shift in body language reveal the object of the subject’s concern at that moment.

Read the face and body while reading the cards and you read the mind, thought Louisa.

An ace often evokes a strong response and the ace symbolizes a beginning. In poker, it trumps all others, in blackjack it helps any face card become a winning hand. An ace can also be used in card games as either a one or an eleven, versatile to the player, thus making it even more valuable because it can change its value to suit the player’s needs.

They called it fortune-telling but it is really future-telling. What does my future hold? What is my future purpose? Specifics are ordinarily not discussed by the reader and subject for that is what the cards are expected to do, to tell the specifics, to detail the unknowable. Therefore, before laying out the cards, while the cards are shuffled and cut, the tarot reader tries to tune into the subject’s fears. Fears control the future.

Fear of future is the number one fear, Louisa thinks, although most people don’t realize it. When they list their fears most people say that their worst fear is of public speaking, but once a person starts speaking, that fear usually vanishes. So it’s really the fear of the future, of the anticipated speech, that debilitates them.

Likewise, Louisa’s fear the next day when she awoke in Venice was of the unknown, her unknown future. In her years of readings tarot cards, this relatively unspecific fear of the future drove many people to seek out readings. Today the fears evoked by the reading were her own. Louisa didn’t fear the supernatural before today. To her it had always been a game. But today her tarot cards were not a game. Today’s reading was extremely revealing.

And Louisa knew the moment she awoke that fear gripped her.

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