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There are 78 cards in a tarot deck.

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22 major Arcana cards.

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And 56 minor Arcana cards.

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Each card carries its own meaning

symbolism, imagery, and narrative.

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Since the mid 15th century, people have

been using taro cards for a variety

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of reasons, primarily rooted in their

fascination with the mystical and the

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desire for insight into their lives.

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Welcome to this special bonus edition of

this shit works hosted by me, Julie Brown.

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And for this special episode,

I have asked my friend and

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previous guest on the podcast.

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Angela Mayer.

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Back to explain taro cards to us.

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And how we can use their meaning to aid

us in networking and business decisions.

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I've had my tarot cards

read numerous times.

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I've asked the deck for answers and

guidance for life, love and business

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during all different stages of my life.

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So when Ann reached out to me

with the idea of bringing taro

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to the podcast, I was intrigued.

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We met and she encouraged me to buy

my own deck of cards, which I did.

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And then immediately became overwhelmed.

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78 cards all with their

own meaning and symbolism.

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Some of the cards like the

death card, the hanged man.

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The devil.

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They look like they have dire warnings.

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And some have no words at all.

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Just symbols, like the 10 of

cups and the two of Pentacles.

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How was I going to be able to decipher

what the cards were trying to tell me?

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Well, I did what everyone

does when they need answers.

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I went straight to the Google machine

and found a guide online that broke

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down each and every card in the deck.

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And what it meant if it

was straight or reversed.

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And I simply started working with them.

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Asking the Decker question, shuffling

the deck, cutting it into three stacks.

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And then picking a card from each stack.

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Choosing three cards to help

me decipher the answer to the

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question I was asking the deck.

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You know, there are a lot of ways you

can ask the deck for answers and they

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get really intricate with their, layouts.

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And I'm not an advanced enough to do that.

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I'm not advanced enough to do

anything beyond three cards.

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So that will come with time.

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Maybe, hopefully.

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What surprised me about this activity?

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Even just this three card activity was

when I focused on one specific question.

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Pick three cards and examine them

to show me what was happening

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or make sense or give direction

to the question I was asking.

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It actually did end up

making a lot of sense.

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You know, if it hadn't made sense.

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And if I hadn't found value in it, I never

would have brought this episode to you.

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But since it was helpful for me, I thought

it might be helpful for you as well.

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And who better than ONJ to teach

us how we can all get started.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: So Ange,

I don't actually know how long it's

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been, but welcome back to the podcast.

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Mm

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

thank you having me back.

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I'm so um, I feel so honored actually

and very excited because , tarot for me

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is a passion it wasn't something, you

know, I didn't think when I was a little

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i'm gonna be a tarot reader one day

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: hmm.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: The way I

became a tarot reader was pretty I would

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say like in like the side, the side,

um, alleys or roads that you take in

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life, I don't think the exact word in

English, but, hit me a bit by surprise.

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And it's funny because I'm writing

my second memoir at the moment,

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which explains how I went from being

a lawyer to being a tarot reader.

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So it's all very relevant.

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But I did the same thing

as you did, um, when I.

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Two years, two days, sorry, um, it's an

intensive training with a tarot local

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established tarot reader where I live.

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And that's where I learned interesting

techniques on how to let go of all the

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actual meaning of the cards because you

can get attached to it, especially if

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you're left brain and if you're logical.

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But I also did, a wonderful

training they go into so much depth.

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The breadth and depth simply mind blowing,

but not everybody wants to have to do

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that in order to use cards for themselves.

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So I've sort of developed a very

simple method that everybody can use.

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And I think we, when we agreed, when

we talked a couple of months back

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about this bonus episode, that my.

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Intention or my, the passion behind

what I want to share today, with you

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and your audience is that I want to

keep people safe with the tarot because

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I consider that the tarot is like a

double edge, sword or like a knife.

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And if, you know, as if any tool, if

you, you can use it, you can cut yourself

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or you can just make a wonderful meal.

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And I want to make sure that people know,

you know, the pitfalls and how to keep,

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on the straight and narrow with the tarot.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yeah,

so that leads me to a question.

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So say there's somebody who's

like, okay, I'm interested.

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I want to buy a deck.

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Do they do what I do, go

to Google and find a guide?

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\ how would you suggest people

start with getting into tarot?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Well, the

first thing is to get a tarot deck and

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I can't remember if I recommended one to

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

You did recommend ones

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

it was a while back,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: yeah,

I ended up buying a different one.

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Um, but you did recommend

a couple of them to me.

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Yeah.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Are

you happy with the one that you have?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yeah.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Good.

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So you need to use your intuition

to choose your own tarot deck.

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That's exactly how you

should choose a tarot deck.

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Intuition is a big part of it.

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Because tarot decks have

energies of their own.

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Now, I know I'm going to stretch

the minds of your listeners

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a little bit around this.

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Uh, however, I am a Reiki master.

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I know a lot about energy.

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And this is how I was able to explain

to myself why the tarot cards worked.

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So I was a healer first before I was

a tarot reader, and that gave me a

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real, understanding that's quite

different from other tarot readers

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on how exactly this stuff works.

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And it kind of links sort of to

the law of attraction, because

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in a way the tarot works as a

mirror from what's inside of you.

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When you shuffle the cards, everybody

will ask you to shuffle the cards,

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you put your energy into the deck,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Mm

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: and

the deck then responds to your energy.

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That's how I can put it the

simplest and the least spooky

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way possible for your audience.

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But the proof is in the pudding,

because for me, that's exactly how I

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prove Grass with all these esoteric,

um, techniques that I embraced, you

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know, I was a lawyer to start with.

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And for me, um, I still, I had a pretty

open mind for a lawyer, but for me,

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if it works, I'll continue to use it.

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If it doesn't, I stop.

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And it looks like you had a good

journey with the tarot since we.

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Last spoke, it was helpful.

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I'm super happy that you had this

first hand experience before we talked

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because then you can feed back to me and

tell me, yeah, I think that's useful.

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That's what happened or whatever.

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Have, have you had any difficult

experiences with the tarot?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I don't

think I've worked with it enough

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to have a difficult experience yet

because I've just, I've just been

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learning it and reading the cards and

saying, Oh, this is what this means.

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And this is what this means.

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I've only asked it that one question

that one time I've been more trying

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to learn the deck, um, which I think

actually is a really good way for

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me to ask, you know, it's easier to.

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What am I trying to say here?

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So like, to not get bad habits, so can

you, I know that you said, and you didn't

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tell me what they were, but you said

there was three most common mistakes

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people make when using the tarot cards.

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So maybe let's start there because

we don't want to get off on the

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wrong foot when we're starting.

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And I don't want to get off on

the wrong foot either, so I don't

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want, I want to make sure that I

haven't made those three mistakes.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Okay.

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So I can remember two.

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I'll try to remember the third one.

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Probably will come as we discuss.

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No, because I remember writing a

blog post and something back then,

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but, a lot of time has passed.

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So I know that the very

first mistake people make.

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Is to ask the wrong question.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

an art to asking questions.

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Uh, and actually, it's more

than just with the tarot.

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Generally coaches or mentors or people

who try to, help you on your path will

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always try to craft the right question

so that you get the right answer.

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You know, there is, and it's from having

had that experience of 17 years of tarot

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readings, where people come to me and I

know they're asking the wrong question.

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Now, I can't always tell them that,

so I kind of suss out the situation.

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Are they ready to actually

ask the right question?

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And I'll give you a very simple example.

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I'd love to have your feedback on the

tarot readings you've had, because I'm

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kind of interested in people's first hand

experiences of tarot readers as well.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: hmm.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

So, someone came to me and said,

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am I going to marry my boyfriend?

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Well, that, that is

not the right question.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yeah,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

That is definitely not the right

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question, but looking back,

insight is such a wonderful thing.

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What you want to ask

is, are we a good fit?

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Are we going to happy together?

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Um, is this going to work out?

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And, and I'm going to give you an example

from what happened to actually me.

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It wasn't a tarot reader.

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It was a psychic medium.

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I went to have my first reading

with American friend, actually,

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who dragged me to see a psychic

in Boston when I visited her.

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And, um, I, I even remember

the name of the guy.

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He was called George.

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And I asked exactly that question.

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That's why I can make fun of myself.

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I'm not making fun of one of my clients.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I think

everybody who's gone to a tarot

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reader has asked that question.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: exactly.

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And the psychic medium said, I hope

you want to marry him because you will.

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Right?

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Well, that was, that was definitely

a message, very subtle message.

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Let me know.

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I might not be as happy as I thought

I would be marrying that man.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Right.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: He was

very subtle and very good because if I was

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ready to hear that, I would have heard it.

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But because I wasn't, I went straight

into the marriage and divorced

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a few years later with quite a

few scars and missing feathers.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Mm

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

You know what I mean?

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So, so asking the right

question is so important.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

So I do like saying it.

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Instead of are we gonna stay

together, are we gonna be

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together, it is, are we a good fit?

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Which you can sort of do in

all of your relationships.

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Like, any relationship you're

in, you're like, why am I

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struggling with this relationship?

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Am I a good fit?

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Am I pushing it?

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Am I like, whatever?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: yeah.

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Or what can I do to make

the relationship work?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Mm

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Do you know what I mean?

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It's not that subtle, but it's a shift.

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Okay.

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So that's the top, the first,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: hmm.

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Asking questions

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

um, mistake people make.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Well,

I wouldn't say incorrectly, but what I

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suggest is that people first write down

their question before they ask the deck.

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Because very often by the

time you get the answer, you

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forgot what question you asked.

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You forgot exactly what wording you used.

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And all that is super important because

from the words that you use, you can

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get a completely different answer.

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So I would say take as long as you can.

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I got the third, um, third tip.

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So that's it.

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I'm complete now.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

First one, ask the right question.

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But don't panic about asking the

wrong one first, just make it a game,

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get the feedback and do it again

until you understand what's going on.

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And it's very often a good idea to ask,

is it the right time to ask this question?

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Am I ready to ask the question?

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Because we're not always ready to hear the

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Mm

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: So

I would say this is my first tip.

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Um, the second one, second biggest

mistake is to ask the same question

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until you get the answer that you want.

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I've done that as well.

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you done any of these Julie?

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Because, you know, you've been

having fun and you wanted to

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know if you made those mistakes.

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So,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: hmm.

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No!

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

tell our audience, your audience,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: know, in

my tarot card reading, I did go when

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a boyfriend and I broke up, and I did

ask that tarot card reader if we were

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gonna get back together, and she was

quite adamant about the fact that,

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that we were not getting back together.

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And then she was also a psychic,

and she went on to say...

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To perfectly describe the man that I ended

up marrying, which was completely crazy.

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Like, she was like, I will tell

you who you're going to marry.

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He looks like this.

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He does this, like

whatever, blah, blah, blah.

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And I was like, okay, this woman's

cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, you know?

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And then, um, fast forward, however

many years later, I mean, it

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was probably, four years later.

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I never thought of those words

that she mentioned until my

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husband asked me to marry him.

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And when he was asking me to

marry him, I was like, Oh, like

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I remembered everything she said.

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I was like, she knew she could see him on.

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But then, you know, when I was

starting my own business, I did.

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I went to, I talked about success and.

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Was this the right, was this the right

time, was this the right business, was I

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ready, um, I've asked about my husband's

business, not so, I don't know, I

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mean, not that the answers would have

changed my mind, but I almost was like,

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looking for positive reinforcement,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: And you

know what, this is a very important and

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there's nothing wrong when we take a risk.

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That is trustworthy and that

you trust, then they can just

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give you that little nudge.

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And for me, for years, whatever

psychics readings they were done

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for me, it was always a confirmation

of something I already knew.

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But when it's your intuition speaking and

you don't trust it just yet, it's nice

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to have that reinforcement, isn't it?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, like I said, it wasn't going

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to change me from, I was still going

to go through with it, I just, I don't

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know, I trusted my own gut, that's what

I was doing, but you always want somebody

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else to say, yeah, this is, or not even

somebody else, like you want the universe

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to say that this is the right decision,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

yeah, yeah, yeah.

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As I said, I think it's,

um, it's human to want that

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reinforcement, that encouragement.

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Um, and I don't think there's

anything wrong with that.

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So, but, um, my question was also directed

as when you did readings for yourself.

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Did you ask the right question?

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Did you ask the same again until you

got the answer you wanted to hear?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I only did

it once, and I, I, I gotta be honest,

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I didn't write down the question

so I don't exactly remember what it

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was, but, um, you know, I've, I've

changed some things in my business.

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Over the past year, I've sort of

dissolved the consultancy part of my

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business and now pretty much speak and

coach full time, and with that came

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some growing pains and some changes

to reoccurring revenue and, just.

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financial, it was a financial thing,

shift that happened in the business.

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And so when you let go a very

lucrative part of the business to grow

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another part that gives you more joy.

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There's some financial

ramifications, um, with that.

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And so, I think I asked something to the

effect of, did I make the right decision?

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Like, even though this is hard,

is this the right decision?

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And I pulled the three cards, and

so, somewhere I had read that, you

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could interpret the three cards

as past, present, and future.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Yes, that's right.

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Yeah, that's a good one.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

it rang complete.

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I wish I had taken notes when I did it.

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but it rang completely true about where

I was, you know, where I have the company

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had been and where it was now financially.

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And then it had a really,

really bright sort of card

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interpretation for the future.

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And it just made me feel really good.

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So

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

That's perfect.

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It's absolutely perfect.

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Yeah.

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So congratulations.

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You avoided at least two, I think

three actually of the top mistakes.

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Do you want me to get

on with the third one?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

I would love that.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Oh yes, we did.

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Yeah.

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So the third one is don't use tarot

cards when you're feeling depressed.

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Okay, and I'm not using that word

lightly, um, but it could also be

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when you're feeling really down or

discouraged or very dark when you, when

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you're feeling dark, dark emotions.

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And the reason is, is the tarot, because

it's a mirror, it reflects back to

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you, um, you would probably interpret

all the cards that you're seeing as

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the worst possible interpretation.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yeah,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: So,

for that reason, I don't encourage

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people to use the tarot cards when

they're feeling down, or when they're

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feeling in a very difficult...

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It's better to ask someone else to

read them for you, because they'll have

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a bit of distance from the problem.

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And also, um, I mean,

there's oracle cards.

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I think they're better for that,

because they don't have the

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death card like you mentioned at

the very start of this episode.

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They don't have the hanged man and all

these things that can really trigger us.

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When we see these cards

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for someone who might do that on their

own, especially if they haven't done

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any therapy, or if they haven't done

any self reflection, or if they don't

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journal, that can be a bit tricky.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: You know,

I think a lot of the times that I've

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had my cards read, the people that

read them were also intuitives, or

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sensitives, or psychics, or mediums,

and So I think that there was a lot more

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going on in that reading, um, because

I've had some, so tarot card readers

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who, reading my cards, they just said

things to me that they could never know,

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the cards would never tell them this.

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And so if somebody's listening, saying,

hey, I would like to use this tool for

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myself for answers, but I'm not intuitive,

I'm not psychic, I don't have a third eye,

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I'm not an, uh, you know, a sensitive,

what is your advice to people who are,

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like, don't have those other abilities.

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Like I don't have the, I don't

have those other abilities.

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is a very, very good question.

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First of all, I'm going

to debunk one myth.

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Everybody's intuitive.

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Not everybody's psychic,

but everybody's intuitive.

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It's built into us as a sort

of protection mechanism.

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It's that gut feeling that you

get, uh, that we all get as kids.

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And the only reason why we don't think

we're intuitive is because it's been

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knocked out of us through schooling.

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So, we're all intuitive.

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You don't need to be psychic to

benefit from the tarot, because

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the tarot is actually going to help

you tune into your own intuition.

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What's really important is to set

an intention for your tarot deck.

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So for me, I asked that my readings with

my tarot deck and I, I sort of, it's not

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consecrate, it's too big a word, but I

always set an intent for each of my decks.

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And it's always that I want the

readings to be helpful, to be, um,

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uplifting and to be inspirational.

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Now you could set your intent to

whatever you might want to set

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your intent that it's accurate.

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Obviously, for me, I want it to

be accurate and it's, it's good

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to play with different words and

maybe I encourage people to actually

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start an intuition journal, right?

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Like this and in it, so you've done

only one reading, but now if you

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want to do more, write down it.

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Your question, what card you're getting,

what do you think it means, and then

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leave a space, I've left space here

for example, so that I can get back

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to it in two, three, four weeks time,

four months, when I actually get the

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confirmation, when the thing actually

happens, and then I can get back and

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say, Oh, what did I read back then?

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Because what you want is to do some

detective work on your own intuition

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so that you trust it more and more.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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I should have done that.

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I should have, um,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Does that make sense?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

yes, I should have done that.

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I

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

But you didn't know,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I didn't,

yeah, I guess that's why you're here.

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Um,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

exactly, that's why I'm here.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I should

have had the journal and I should have

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said this was the question I asked and

these were the cards that I pulled.

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So, um,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: and

that, that's fine, now you know,

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and, and your audience will know.

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This is exactly why I

wanted to come here today.

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Because I don't think there's only so much

you can learn on Google about this stuff.

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And...

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And then there's people who have

the experience, the first lived

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experience, and then I think these

people have, you know, an input.

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And, and of course everybody's different.

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Some people will like

me, some people won't.

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And I'm not taking this personally.

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There's, um, as many flavors of tarot

readers and tarot teachers as there are

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pupils and, and different, affinities.

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But I like to keep it.

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It's super simple.

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Maybe it's because of

my lawyer's background.

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I like to keep it practical and grounded.

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And I will say to you one thing that's

really helped in, um, both training

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that I did with the tarot, is that,

yeah, it's okay to try to learn all the

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meaning, but you'll never remember it all.

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Not in the moment.

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So it's okay to check the little book

that comes with your tarot whilst

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you build your confidence with it.

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But what you want to do, even if you

read the book, is when you open it and

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you read sentences, Check within your

body the ones that resonate with you,

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and that's how you're going to know

what is correct and what doesn't matter.

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By reading it, you will have

a feeling inside your body.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: So, when

it comes to networking and business

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development, what are the kinds of

questions we could ask the deck?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Like,

suppose we met, you and I met in

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a networking event, and you want

to know if I'm a good prospect.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Mm

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Just ask the cards, you see.

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Should I pursue her?

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Should I, you know, try to organize

a one to one meeting with her?

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What kind of synergies

could happen between us?

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All these questions you can ask the card.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: hmm.

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Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: It

can save you wasting your time on

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someone, for example, that is really

not a good match with who you are.

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If you think about someone, but you're

feeling guilty, you're like, I don't know

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this person from, you know, a bar soap.

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Why am I having this

reaction to that person?

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You're feeling bad about it.

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And you want to see, is

there something in it?

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You know, is it because I was having

a bad day or is it really that I need

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to be careful around that person?

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Pull a card and you'll get the answer.

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And I'll teach you a technique.

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And I don't know if you found

that on your Google journey,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: No.

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All right.

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So, should I take out my card?

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Should I take out my deck right now?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

I will show you a technique

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to ask a yes or no question.

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Have you found a technique online to

ask a yes or no question yet or not?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I got my deck.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Okay.

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So what you do first, you knock your deck

because that kind of clears the energy

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really quickly from everything else you

would have done before because the deck

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gets builds energy from all the readings.

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So you want to clear

the, yeah, the energy.

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Then you shuffle it.

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No, actually, then what you

do, you split it in two.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

And then you turn one upside down,

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and you get it back together.

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So you have half the cards, at least

half the cards, especially if it's

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new, that are going to be upside,

um, upright, or, uh, reversed.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yep.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Then

you shuffle, and you ask your question.

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Now you want to focus on your

question whilst you shuffle.

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So you have a question you want to ask

now, that would be a yes or no answer.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Um,

I, I, Of course I'm blanking!

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So let's ask, I'm going to ask my

deck and you can ask your deck,

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is this episode is going to be

useful for you to audience, right?

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Let's have a bit of fun.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

So is this episode going to

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have a good, be beneficial?

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One or two, three times in your mind so

that you really focus your mind on that.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: And then

you pull the card out and it doesn't

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matter how you pull it, where you

pull it and whether you turn it around

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when you do, and then you, thank you.

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Um, and then, right, you have an

upright and I have an upright.

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This is a yes.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: King of Wands.

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card, yeah, the card doesn't matter.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

it doesn't matter!

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: no, what

matters is if it's upright or reversed.

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If it's upright, it's a yes.

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If it's reversed,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

Oh, I actually pulled it up.

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I pulled it this way and then

turned it to show it to you.

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So mine was upside down.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: so

mine is a yes and yours is a no.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

the odds on this one.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Well,

what I would take out of this is

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that not all of your audience is

going to enjoy the episode, but it

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will be relevant for some, right?

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That's useful actually as an information.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Let's say

I had a question about my business.

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For example, I a lot of times have

to go back and forth with potential

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clients and I have to decide, if

they don't have my full fee, is this

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a client that I should still work

with and discount my fee because.

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I like the group or I

like, you know, whatever.

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Um, but that is a business decision

that I have to make over and over

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again with potential clients.

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Like, is that something I could ask the

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: absolutely.

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Yeah, you ask it the way I've shown you,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: So I

have a, I have a potential client

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that I met with this morning.

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There's no way they would have

my fee, but I still, like, I,

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it would be a feel good event.

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But it still does take a day out of

my calendar that I have to travel

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to the event, so I have to decide on

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

how would you phrase the question?

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How would you phrase that?

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We're going to have a bit

of a little play with that.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: okay,

I guess the question would be, One

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of the questions would, if I decide

yes, well, you know, would it be,

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will I regret taking on this client

or should I take on this client?

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Um,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: So I

think the second one is not precise

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enough because you should say, should

I take this client at the rate that, or

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whatever, you add the price behind it.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: So

I think that's a good question.

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Should I take this client at

a 75 percent reduced rate?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Okay.

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Go focus, do what I've just

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Do I

have to tap at the deck because,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: asked

you to do and ask the question.

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Yes, because we asked the question before,

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: you

shuffle them without looking at them.

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Yeah.

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So with your deck It's

difficult to see which one is

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

Oh, I forgot to, um, cut it.

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I forgot to cut it in half.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: That's fine

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Just do it now

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

Okay, so I'll cut

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

cut it in half turn it around

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

and just focus on that question.

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Should I take on?

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Just think of the name

at 75 percent of my rate

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You could add, you could phrase

it slightly differently saying,

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would it be for my highest good?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Mm

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

To da da da.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay,

so I'm now pulling out a card.

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Uh oh.

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It's upside down.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Okay, that means no.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

How do you feel about that no

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I feel

bad about it because I like them.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: Okay,

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So what you could do next is to journal

around that no, how you feel and is

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it just guilt and in which case you

can overcome that guilt and just tune

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into actually how you feel about doing

it or not and you can override the

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cards because I don't think there's

going to be any dire consequences

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if you decided to do it anyway.

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But you could ask another question.

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So, If we wrote down the question that

we just asked, should I do it for 25%?

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Maybe you could ask the question, um,

should I work with this client at 50%?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Okay.

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Yep.

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Okay.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

The bar a little bit.

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Let's see if it's a yes at that.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

So I'm gonna cut

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: That's

why I said don't ask just the one thing.

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Add the price at the back because

that's the defining factor for you.

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There's something in there, right?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: okay.

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It's the same card, but

it's this, it's straight up.

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How weird is that?

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Is this safe?

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I don't know if anybody, this is,

again, this is not a visual medium,

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but to pull the same exact card

out of 78 cards, that's crazy.

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To pull the same exact card.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

you do the maths.

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I don't do the maths anymore,

but it's, I agree with you.

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So by going, see if you hadn't asked that.

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75 or 50, you wouldn't have

actually a precise answer.

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If you had stopped, I, shall I work with

them at 75 percent and it was a no, you

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wouldn't have worked with them at all.

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But you go to the next question and

next, it's an inquisitive process.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yeah, how

weird is it to pull the same exact card

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on the same question and have it be?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: I always

say it's, yeah, it's weird and wonderful.

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Don't forget to add the

wonderful at the end.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yeah, um,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: I love it.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I I'm shocked

by this that it's the same exact cards.

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Um, this is the two of What is it?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: I think

it's the two of wands and there's

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a card about, I'm going to say as

a joke, it's the card of the war.

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It's called domination.

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It's the card of the person

who has success, who's happy.

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So you have that.

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It's not just the card.

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It's also just the upright or not.

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Then if you want, you can

explore the meaning of the card.

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You got a yes, but it was this

card, not the 77 other cards.

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So you can go deeper into

the meaning of the card.

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So this is a, an extremely positive card

to get for your answer, especially at 50%.

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So what you need to do is trust

that client a little bit and

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see if they're going to bite.

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It's going to be good for them.

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Because they need to have more belief

in their, whatever they're doing.

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And it's better for you because

you don't give away 75 percent

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: right.

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Yeah No,

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

how the tarot can help with

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such a simple decision.

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But as we discussed earlier, it's the

art of asking the right question and

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then questioning the answer with more

questions until you get to a point where

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you feel good about whatever is happening.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: is there

a point of like oversaturation where

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you're just asking too many questions

and you're just doing it too much?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Just as you would in any normal

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decision process in your business.

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You can overthink things and you can

exhaust yourself and also You know,

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um, top mistake number two, asking

the same question again and again,

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and then you confuse the cards as

well because the cards are saying,

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I gave you the answer already.

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Why are you asking again?

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I'm fed up with you and they

might mess with you then.

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And I've had that happen to me.

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If I don't trust the answers I'm

getting first and I ask three days

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later the same question, unless I

say to the cards, look, I'm so sorry.

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I'm not confident at the moment.

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I really need that bit of reinforcement.

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Okay.

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But if you mess with the cards, the

cards are going to mess with you.

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It's that mirror thing.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: So, I

mean, I just, I, I found, I, you

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know what, I know we pulled, you

and I both pulled one upside down

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and one right side up about whether

or not this was going to be useful.

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It's been supremely useful for me right

now just in doing this little exercise

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with the cards right this second.

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I want to go back to how we

decided to do this, episode.

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Were you doing something

specifically tarot for networking?

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Can you refresh my memory?

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: I

don't remember precisely, but I

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wanted to make sure that people

had enough, it's becoming popular.

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I see blogs everywhere, but not

everybody knows enough about

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that tarot to do it right.

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And I wanted to make sure that your

audience had that bit of information

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that's useful to get started.

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So I think that's how we got, and

you said, Oh, that sounds like a

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great idea for my Halloween special.

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And I thought, yeah,

let's spook everyone out.

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I've spooked you.

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Your tarot spooked you with this card.

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Perfect!

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

with the same exact.

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Like, I can't, like, statistically,

to shuffle the deck out of 78 cards

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and pull the same exact card is

just statistically unbelievable.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593: so, Julie,

write this in your intuition journal.

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You've learned something, you've

learned lots of interesting things.

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You might want to write them

in your, in your journal as

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well, so you remember them.

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Well, obviously you'll be able to listen

to the, to the recording and then.

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That particular reading,

that was super powerful.

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Even the one where we got reversed,

I had one and you had the other.

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I think it's still very valuable.

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audioJulieBrown21873199593:

Yeah, definitely.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

The interest is not always

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to get the yes or the no.

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It's in interpreting what

does that really mean?

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: I hope

this, just this little thing that we

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did makes people curious enough, if they

weren't already curious enough to say.

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How can I use this?

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This sounds like something really

interesting, and informative.

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And this is another tool.

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It's not the only tool that you're

going to use in your business,

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but this is another tool.

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And I agree.

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I think more and more people are using it.

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I'm super excited that we did this.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

And it's healthy.

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It is healthy to approach that

kind of thing with the skepticism

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because you don't want to be

enrolled into some sort of weird

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cult or, you know, crazy practice.

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But I think it's the experimentation

and keeping an open mind.

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Always use your

discernment as well, right?

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You don't want to decide on a 10

million dollar investment only

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on the basis of the tarot cards.

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You got to use your,

your, you're not here.

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When you do the tarot, you're

not here to put your business

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acumen behind you, right?

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It's supposed to enhance everything else.

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Does that make sense?

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So

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audioJulieBrown21873199593: Yeah.

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Well, thank you so much for being here.

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This was I I enjoyed it.

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I had a lot of fun.

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So I'm so glad that you suggested

this and that we actually ended

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up doing it as a bonus episode.

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audioAngeDeLumiere11873199593:

Thank you for having me.

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It's always such a pleasure.

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Was this episode, a little booboo.

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Yes.

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Am I still totally into it.

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Also, yes.

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I have to tell you that quick

exercise that we did with me asking

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the deck, that question about

taking that gig at a reduced rate.

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And then getting the same

fucking card twice in a row.

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After shuffling, cutting and

shuffling again, like that's uncanny.

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And even though it was the same card.

730

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It was different answers because in

one question it was straight up and

731

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in the other one, it was a reversed.

732

:

Like what.

733

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How's it possible to go through all that

and pick up the same exact fucking card.

734

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The card was the two of wants.

735

:

So I decided to dig a little

further into the card because

736

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it can't just be a coincidence

that it came up twice in a row.

737

:

Right.

738

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You know, the second time I asked

it was, you know, the second

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time I asked it, it was upright.

740

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It meant that I should say yes to the

opportunity at that 50% reduced rate.

741

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Upon further research.

742

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I learned that the upright two of

wands predict success in creative

743

:

ventures, especially those that

involve partnership or cooperation.

744

:

Oh, my gosh, when it comes to

money and progress at work, or as

745

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an entrepreneur, the two of wands

represents financial stability.

746

:

Moreover, it urges you to survey

the situation carefully and

747

:

then create a plan for success.

748

:

This is literally the exact type of

business advice I was, uh, looking for.

749

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When it came to this particular client

and this particular question of whether

750

:

or not to work with this client.

751

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No.

752

:

After this, I think I'm going to be

tuning into this deck a lot in the future.

753

:

What do you think, would you trust the

taro to help you make business decisions?

754

:

Or is this a little too out there for you?

755

:

Anyways, let me know.

756

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I can't wait to hear if you

have your own tarot stories.

757

:

Okay.

758

:

It's that time onto the drink of the

week, which is the fortune teller

759

:

cocktail from the cosmic cocktails book.

760

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Here's what you're going to need.

761

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One and a half ounces of Blanco tequila,

one ounce of Sherry, one ounce of cherry

762

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liqour and a lemon peel for garnish.

763

:

What you're going to do is you're

going to fill a rocks glass with ice.

764

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And then add the liquors and stir

and garnish with a lemon peel.

765

:

That's a strong ass drink, dude.

766

:

I mean, You don't need a

fortune teller to tell you no.

767

:

You're going to be tipsy

after you drink that one.

768

:

Okay.

769

:

All right, friends.

770

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That's all for this week.

771

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today, please leave a review

772

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773

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774

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If you want more, Julie Brown, you

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Or barnes and noble you can find me on

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me know where you found me when you

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