Answers are in the cards. Or in the palm of your hand. Or in the stars. If it isn't crystal-clear, the Mystic Messengers Psychic Fair seeks to help you find those answers, sometimes by the numbers.
On the first Sunday of the month, many of the area's psychic readers gather at the Windmill Suites at St. Philip's Plaza, 4250 N. Campbell Ave. At the fair, the readers say, they seek to unearth answers using tarot, palmistry, numerology or astrology. Sessions with readers are generally limited to $20 per 15 minutes.
Patricia Kirkman, who practices numerology, astrology, intuitive counseling and celestial forecasting, organizes the fair and also personally interviews each reader applying for a table to head off people who would take advantage of those seeking answers, she said.
"There are readers who are as unethical as they come. Our purpose is to help people help themselves," said Kirkman. "Good, honest answers to help them help themselves."
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She sees the fair as giving people an opportunity to have contact with a variety of ethical readers practicing a myriad of disciplines who truly care about making things better.
"It's for the good of all," Kirkman said. "And that's how we work everything. All the modalities work together."
Natural psychic Veronica Phillips, who operates under the name Vee and has been reading at the fair since its start six years ago, said it also provides clients an opportunity to discover a style and a reader that will work best for them.
"It's like a menu, so that you can select from a wide variety — we're a menu of people with different styles," Vee said of herself and the dozen or so others around her reading palms, tarot cards or auras. "It's a chance to try a lot of flavors with not a lot of risk."
Sharon Vasquez got her first dose of the Avesa Balancing Technique, a complicated ritual even in its abbreviated form, involving aromas, tuning forks, chimes, crystals, pyramids, Egyptian healing rods and a CD player.
"It feels great," Vasquez said after the session. "So peaceful and soothing. It's nice to take a moment just to let go of all those things we carry around all the time. I feel great. I'm all tingly."
The next fair is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Windmill Suites. Subsequent fairs, through the end of the year, will also be held the first Sunday of the month.
"It's nice to take a moment just to let go of all those things we carry around all the time. I feel great."
Sharon Vasquez
