Episode 42: Interviews and Stories from Dynamic People: Randy Ouelette

In this episode of Ready To Connect: Interviews and Stories From Dynamic People, we sit down with Randy Ouelette who is a Tarot card reader. Listen to learn about Randy and his business Card Readings by Randy. You can find more about Randy by visiting his website https://cardreadingsbyrandy.com.

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

This podcast is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of their affiliated organizations.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Hey everyone, this is Ryan from Ready to Connect, and uh Yep, it's it's just me, it's just Ryan. So uh basically, uh Heather and Lisa, they were unavailable at the moment. But I just want to let you know that we are airing a uh previously recorded episode that Heather and I recorded with our guest Randy Oulette from Card Readings by Randy, and uh stay tuned. It's a good one. Enjoy. Alright, well, welcome back to uh Ready to Connect. Uh we're are we are so excited to have our guest today. Um he's a tarot card reader, uh, and he has the company uh Card Readings by Randy. So we are so excited to interview Randy Oulette. So, Randy, thank you for joining us today.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

Thank you very much. I'm very happy to be here.

SPEAKER_06 1:12

We are so excited, Randy. This is just fun, and you know, I don't get to see you enough, so we're really excited to kind of be here with you. So we're gonna jump into these questions. And Randy, for those meeting you for the first time, who are you beyond your tarot cards?

SPEAKER_03 1:31

Well, beyond my tarot cards, I am a um a job coach. I work for um Goodwill, and um so my job as a job coach is um um currently I I have seven we call them consumers, and my my job site is the Walling for Goodwill, and so I drive them to the Walling for Goodwill Monday through Friday. Um their work areas are all set up, and what they do is they hang the clothes in the back of the store. And so when you go to Goodwill, most of the clothes you see out on the floor are all hung by my guys, and um it's it's you know, my goodwill and there's other goodwill stores, and there's a bunch of us job coaches, and so um that's um that's my real say real job. Um reading is my side job. Um and uh that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

SPEAKER_06 2:31

That's beautiful. I'm so excited to hear that you work with individuals, um, you know, giving them a place to be in our society, giving them a job, and I'm sure everyone you work with is very proud to have that job. And you know, they don't get the top-notch job, you know, individuals out there in our society don't get the top-notch jobs, but it must make them feel so useful to be a part of something. And you as a coach, oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

They they they they love their job, they love their work. Um, you know, these guys, they're like the best workers because they hardly miss a day, you know. Um and and they're so reliable and dependable. But I I've been with Goodwill for 23 years, but um, beyond that, I mean I'm I'm 63 now, but beyond that, I mean I've been doing this kind of work since my since my twenties.

SPEAKER_06 3:29

So nice.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

Um, you know, it's it's it spans many, many years doing this kind of work.

SPEAKER_06 3:34

So that's fantastic. Great job. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Yeah, absolutely. Um, and regarding your other job, tarot readings, what first pulled you into the world of tarot and intuitive work?

SPEAKER_03 3:51

Well, well, that goes back to my um my grandmother. Um, my grandmother, now she didn't do tarot, she read playing cards. And um, my aunt, her sister, also did playing cards. And so um when me and my brother were growing up, and my parents would go out somewhere, my grandmother would be babysitting us in their one-bedroom apartment, and so there was like a little living room area, a little dinette section, and so she would have she would have people work. Her saying was, I'm gonna read from Massachusetts, she would say, I'm gonna have people over for cards.

SPEAKER_04 4:32

The cads, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:34

I'm gonna I'm gonna be reading CADs.

SPEAKER_04 4:36

It's not over, it's over.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

Yeah. So we're gonna pack the car, yeah, exactly. And I'm gonna do the cads. Um, and so me and my brother had to be quiet. We couldn't watch TV, so we had to play quietly. And so there's my grandmother sitting maybe like 10 feet away, 15 feet away from us, and she's doing cards for people. And um, so you know, you're in elementary school and you think everyone's grandmother does this, and you're telling kids in school about it. Of course, during this time I was in parochial school, and my mother's like, Don't tell anyone about your grandmother what she does, because it was very shunned upon back then. Um and then at one point, my grandmother um she had a tarot deck that she gave me, which she wasn't using anymore, and and then she had a card reading that uh uh that is Villar's book. That was the book that she had that she gave me. And so um, I think she knew there was something in me that said to her, I could do this also. Um and so that's how it all um that's how it all kind of came about for me.

SPEAKER_06 5:55

Yeah, growing up with having with having your grandmother doing you know the tarot readings and the energy work around you. Do you remember as a young as a young man, you know, what it was like to when you got older to understand like what she was doing, what kind of energy that made you feel like, what it made you feel, and um I just I just knew that she had uh there was a system that she used that was her own system.

SPEAKER_03 6:29

Um and you know, for her it was about um like for myself for the tarot, it's like with the playing cards for her, it's like finding the story in there for people. Um but um I I I can't speak for her like energetically wise, like what she was tapping into, because I I I have to say I don't know what she was tapping into. Obviously, she was tapping into something, it was something there. But um as I was learning this and and got more fluent at it, you know, I I learned along the way that um it's it's that gut feeling, it's that it's that intuition you have to go with, and um you know that's that's pretty much it, you know, where where it all comes from.

SPEAKER_06 7:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Do you remember what your very first reading was?

SPEAKER_03 7:29

Yeah, I was reading, so we had this deck she gave me, which was this um again it's that the Zolar, and it was a tarot deck that Zolar put out, and so there was the tarot cards on one side, and there were these other um fortune-telling cards on the other other side. It was like a double printed deck.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

Oh, each other.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

And so, and it had the meanings of the cards written down. So now I am in eighth grade with this deck, bringing it to school. This is still parochial school, and I'm doing little readings from my classmates after class, waiting for the bus, and using the cards that way and doing their cards like that. I you know, I I I wasn't sure what was what I was saying sometimes because I was just reading what the card was saying, and um so that was my first memory of um you know of reading for people, you know, my c some of my classmates, and um they must have liked it because every every couple weeks they would ask me to bring the cards back in. So something must have been going right.

SPEAKER_06 8:42

Totally. So did you always uh accept your gift, or was there a time where you kind of question what kind of gift you you had in comparison with your grandmother or mom?

SPEAKER_03 8:56

Well, I knew I knew that um it was this the kind of like this quest of like really wanting to read the cards like real, real bad, but sometimes not really understanding it or knowing what's supposed to be about. And then um I started um getting some business cards made up. This is this was many years ago, and putting up business cards, and this lady had called me, this young lady, and so um she was renting a room from this late from this older lady, so she had me go to her room to read the cards for her. And um one of the things I that I know I saw in the cards was about her moving, and so um maybe about three win three weeks went by, and she said to me, I moved just like you told me I was going to. And I I felt kind of responsible for that, but then I and I realized that I said, There's I said, I see a move here, there's a move around you, and that's what it ex that's how I said it. And so I turned around and I says, Well, I don't think it's like that you were moving, but you know, I said if that's what you feel uh what what uh what I said, you know, that's okay. And then she says, Can you just flip a couple cards right now and tell them what you see? And I said, No, no, I says, I I I I I don't do that, I'm not sure about that. And so after that, I just kind of shut it off because I wasn't sure what was going on, and I felt kind of weird about it and not right about it because I felt like, geez, did I tell her she was moving or did she hear me wrong and make the assumption you know for for herself what I said, and so I saw for the longest, longest time. And um, it wasn't till it wasn't until uh back in um 2008, this was after my mother had passed, where I decided to get back into doing the cards again. And that's when um it all kind of clicked for me. It all kind of clicked and made sense and was going was going good. And so um that's you know, that's and and moving on from that to what I can do now, um, you know, that's that's been that that's what the journey's been.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

That's beautiful. Um it seems like that that may have stayed stayed with you for a bit, but can you share a moment where a reading really stayed with you?

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Um let me think. So sometimes when I read for people, I tell them that um sometimes I'm shown things and um and it's in a box, and it's on the left of me, like like uh like eye level. And so I was doing a reading for this lady one time, and I'm shuffling the cards, and I see the box come up, and in the and what's very strange is it's a picture that shows up in the box, and it is crystal clear, it is a solid picture. I know it's not like there, but it is a very clear picture, and in the box was it was like almost like a child's crayon drawing, so it was a blue sky, it was um green grass, it was these um tree trunks almost shaped like uh like like a carrot-shaped tree trunk, and then it was green triangular trees, a very like primitive kids' drawing of big tall trees. And I said to the lady, I says, and there was and there was a row of them, and I said to the lady, okay, I'm I'm being shown something that I need to tell you about. I don't know what this is, but maybe it'll make sense for you. I says, I'm being shown these big green tall trees. And right after I said that, she says, Oh my god, I know exactly what that is. She says, A friend of hers had a neighbor who had these beautiful big old pine trees, and they it was like a natural fence. They went from the front of the yard to the back of the yard, and her friend had the neighbor had moved, and the new owners didn't like the big pine trees, so they cut every single one down. Um and so it was about the pine trees, it was the pine trees, yeah, but she knew exactly what that was.

SPEAKER_06 13:41

Wow, that's incredible. Yeah, you know, it's incredible when we can, as intuitives, as tarot readers, psychics, that when we can bring back a vision and a memory and maybe even heal the wound for her, right? Bringing that up. Oh yeah, she can now heal that little piece. You do say that you know, tarot helps people move forward. How do you personally interpret the cards when someone feels stuck? I mean, it sounded like this woman did wasn't consciously thinking about the trees, but it was clearly something her subconscious wanted to heal, right? Yeah. So what do you do? How do you help people? Um, how do you interpret, like personally, when someone really feels stuck?

SPEAKER_03 14:30

Yeah, so it's uh a lot of times it's um uh I'm just trying to is it a prediction, Randy? So it's you know, I what happens so for me, readings are about things that are currently happening for somebody, but there's also the piece where there were things that don't make sense at the time because those are future things. And I've had people, I've had you know, people who I've read for in the past say, you know, I've learned and I always tell people take notes, pad and pen, take notes, and then tell people when this reading's done, I'm not gonna remember the reading. I said, So don't call me up and say from two weeks from now and say, Remember when you said blah blah no, I'm not gonna remember that. Always tell people take notes.

SPEAKER_06 15:17

No, there's the media and guidance, right? Right, and it's not for you to hold on to because it's not yours, right?

SPEAKER_03 15:24

Exactly. And um people have learned from my readings to come back to me, they say, you know, I I've learned from your readings that there are some some things that don't make sense because those are things that have happened to me like six months later, and then they make sense to me.

SPEAKER_06 15:43

And then it becomes something deeper, right?

SPEAKER_03 15:46

Yeah, and again, though, and I always tell them, I said, Well, I don't know what that is, I'm not sure. I said, Well, take a note, take a note, take a note, write it, write it down, take a note. So, um, you know, for me, with the kind of work that I do, it's tarot reading for me, also is it's helping people. It's that same kind of thing for me. Like the work I do is helping my guys, and tarot reading is helping people. And I always tell people for a reading, I says, I don't want to know what's going on before the reading. Don't tell me anything. I like the cards to make tell me the story. And so, more often than not, when I'm doing that first spread, they're like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that. I know what that is, I know what that is. And so they they know where they're headed like in the right path. And then sometimes there are things that come through when they say, I needed to hear that, I was wondering about that, I wasn't sure what was gonna happen, and so it's confirming it's a confirmation for them, it's a verbal confirmation of something that we'd be thinking about or thought of, and knowing that when I say it out loud, it's like, oh, okay, that makes sense now because now I hear you telling me that, and I've been wondering about that. So um, you know, that's uh again, it's that's the moving forward piece because sometimes they're waiting to hear that one piece of information that's gonna help them out and make sense to them.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

That's true, that's true. So, Randy, uh, what would you say makes your readings different from others out there?

SPEAKER_03 17:25

Okay, so I'm gonna be very blunt. So don't mind me.

SPEAKER_06 17:33

Truth is power.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Yes. So I tell people I don't do fluff. And what I mean by that is when I put my cards down, I don't say, Oh, the angels and the and your guides, oh, oh I that that's like fluffy to me. Yeah, I don't do fluff. And I don't waste I don't waste people's time for a reading. So I've gone to fairs where I see what I call um I call a yard seal on the table. Because they have they have like 20,000 crystals, they have all these thing other things around, and this one lady, I don't know what I forget what it's called, those little mini gongs that you ching ching, ching ching, those little mini gongs.

SPEAKER_06 18:31

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

So the the ting tings.

SPEAKER_06 18:35

Yeah, ting shaws.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

I think yeah, the the ching chings.

SPEAKER_06 18:39

So anyway, hey now, some people like the ting shaws, we can't just repeat it.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

Well, this lady wasted like 10 minutes of this lady's time doing ching-ching, ching ching, and then I want you to put the palm of your hands and my hands, and let's close our eyes, and let's take five deep healing breaths together. Ready to go. And I'm like, and this is doing helping because right.

SPEAKER_06 19:17

Well, it's you know, in the figures, Randy, like somebody who's never had a reading with you, they're not gonna get that, right? They're gonna get they're gonna get something more positive, something more direct. But for somebody who's never had a reading, but you know, because Ryan and I have had readings with you, so we know what to get we're gonna get from Randy. Tell tell our listeners, tell these, tell these beautiful people that are listening to you, like besides you're not gonna get any fluff, tell them what you're giving them.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

I'm giving them I'm giving them honesty. I'm giving them what I see down there for them. Yes, how how I how I feel, what the cards are saying for them. Um and my biggest word to use is there's no bullshit. I'm not gonna bullshit you. I don't do that. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 20:15

Um bleep out the swear word, but that's okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

No bull.

SPEAKER_06 20:26

No BS.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

No BS. No B S.

SPEAKER_06 20:29

Oh, we are actually rated PG 13. Well, lucky for you, Randy, we are rated PG 13. We will not have to take that out.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

So I yeah, and and and um like I've had I've had this one young lady, this one lady sat with me, and she said to me, Um, what if my her father was not feeling well, and she knew he was dying. And she said to me, When is he gonna die? And I said, I can't tell you that. I just I have no idea when he's gonna die. And there are these expectations sometimes that people have as as as a as a reader that we know all. We don't know all. I I don't know all. I can only tell you what I see down there.

SPEAKER_06 21:18

And and honestly, if I can interrupt, yeah, even if I have a date of death, who am I to give that to them, right? Who are you to give that to them? Right. I believe there's free choice in this world, and we have free choice, right, Ryan? And so who am I to say, oh, you're gonna die on XYZ, but your soul saying, No, I choose differently. I'm I want to do differently, and you reset your whole world, right, Randy? Like that's not our that as a psychic medium, as a tarot reader, uh knowing you uh that's not for for anybody out there to go and give.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

Right, right. Um and and and sometimes too when I when I read for people, like I know I've hit a nerve. So for an example, the last Astro Fair I was at, um this this guy came and got a reading for me. He was one of the volunteers, and um in the second part of the reading, there was somebody there who calls him, and he isn't like this phone, it's a very aggravating, annoying phone call. And right after I said that, he just sat there and he just sat straight up and he said, He said, That is not my life, that is not my life. And I was like, and I was like, wow, that hit a nerve, and so sometimes I can't help but feel that with this guy, when I said that to him, that was a true thing, because his reaction was a genuine reaction, yeah. And um, I I've learned that uh when people have this uh a visceral reaction, like a physical reaction that way and verbal reaction that way, that something in the air makes sense for that person, right?

SPEAKER_06 23:14

But you know what the reality is that, and and Ryan can contest this, the truth hurts. And sometimes we're not ready to face that truth, right? So instead of saying, No, let's move on from this question, we stand up and they go, No, that's not me, you're lying, no, yeah, no, or that's not my life. Yeah. So I can empathize with that. Um, you know, there are many people that come to psychics, sometimes they are or even tarot readers like yourself who think it's not as serious as it is, and then when you tap into that spot where the truth is really out there, but they're not willing to face that yet, right?

SPEAKER_03 23:52

Exactly. And so I've learned now because I was in um uh I have my degree in in human services, and one of my classes like I was was a counseling class. And so when something like that happens or or somebody reacts that way, I just I and I don't get defensive. You can't get defensive. No, you can't, and I just say, well, I say, you know, I I hear what you're saying, I mean I understand what you're saying, but just keep it in mind, just keep it in mind. That's what I gotta do. That's all I ask you to do.

SPEAKER_06 24:26

Yep, yeah, absolutely. That's the honest way to handle that is just you know, tuck it in the back, and when you're ready to handle it, I'll be here for you. If not, you know, I wish you well, but here's the next thing and move on, right? Right.

SPEAKER_03 24:41

I yeah, I had another lady once having an affair, and there was all the there was something about um two like two men around her. Well, she sat there, same thing, sat straight up, and she said to me, I have no men in my life at all. Okay and so first I thought, first I thought, okay, so you must have been hatched from an egg. I didn't say that, but in my mind that's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_05 25:15

Hatched from an egg, yes. Sometimes I feel that way, no, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

And then I thought, so you have like no male co-workers, you have no male friends.

SPEAKER_06 25:29

Yeah, I think when people do readings, Randy, and you probably agree with this, is when you bring up a opposite sex or a partner or somebody else, they automatically go to it's a partner, it's my husband, it's my wife or whatever, right? Right. Instead of going, oh yeah, I have lots of friends. I'm you know, I'm around all these people, right? Right. Yeah, yeah. It widens the perspective, but I think people oh, sorry, um, you know, I think some people really do get kind of trapped in this oh my god, what are you saying? No, I don't have any men in my life, and you're like, yeah, you do.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

Just ask those eggshells you kept all those years. You know, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 26:14

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

And uh, Randy, speaking of readings and questions, what kinds of questions bring out the most powerful readings?

SPEAKER_03 26:27

Let's see.

SPEAKER_06 26:27

Um, I think I think I I mean for myself, it's you know, we get a lot of the basic questions. Am I gonna fall in love? Am I ever gonna get married? Am I gonna die alone? Um, you know, what do you see for my you know, future career problem? Career, you know, the basic stuff, but like for me as a psychic, there's like some specific things where you're like, wow, you're digging deep in there, you know.

SPEAKER_03 27:03

Well, I just had Olivia I read for last week, and she's one of my um clients who calls me like every six months, and um uh she likes to ask about her sons, and but it's always the same thing, and I don't I don't turn around and say to her, Oh my god, this is the same thing you asked me last time. I don't do that because you have to respect the person too. And if she wants to ask me the same question, and I you know, and it's um are they gonna get she wants her sons to be married? And um are they do you see them getting married soon? And it's like and I and what I say is I say, you know, your one son who's the oldest son, I said he's a very smart guy, and I said, his whole thing for himself right now is about his career and his job and doing really well at his job. And she says, Yes, that's true, that's true, that's true. And I said, So when he's ready to meet somebody, when he feels it's the right time for him, it'll fall into place for him. But I said, you know, my feeling is that it's it's just not right now, maybe a couple years down the road. And I says, I'm not certain about that, but it it could be that, you know.

SPEAKER_06 28:20

It's only to me that you you try to give your clients clarity and transparency. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

So yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:30

What does a life-changing reading look like to you when you're being, you know, giving that clarity and transparency?

SPEAKER_03 28:38

Well, one of one of the things in in the readings, and I was again this it was the main I call it like the bread and butter reading, the the main part of the reading, the beginning piece with the 14 cards they put down, um is uh the interesting cards that show up for me are the um um the tower card and and the death card.

SPEAKER_06 29:04

And so um and so let me stop you for one quick second. Just for somebody listening to this podcast, explain what the tower short explanation of what the tarot uh tower card is and what the death card is. Sure. Because we don't want anybody who's never done tarot to walk away thinking if they pull the death card they're gonna die, right?

SPEAKER_03 29:22

Right, and right, and so anytime I'm putting the cards down, and that card shows up because it you know it just shows like a skeleton on a horse, and I and I understand that can be scary looking.

SPEAKER_06 29:35

And this is which card? The death card?

SPEAKER_03 29:38

This is the the death card. Okay, and um people go, oh my gosh, and I said, No, no, no. I said it's okay. I said, Death, so I jumped right to and say, Death is about change. I said, So it is death in a way, I said, because something is dying, but something is gonna be reborn, also. I said, that's what death talks about. I said, but we'll get more into that, you know, when it comes time to read this card. And then the tower, um, so the tower shows a tower with lightning striking it, and like people like falling off the tower. And um, I tell people that's about chaos. And so I go into about chaos and I say how you know chaos comes into our lives because we're going along, and um I said life decides to throw a wrench in the works and say, I'm gonna put a stumbling block up for you now, and let's see what you do about this. And so I tell people it's getting through the chaos, it's finding your way through it. You know, it's like sometimes you're like you know, in that murky swamp and you can't see ahead of you with the fog, and but you keep on going to find out what's gonna be happening to find your way through. And I always reassure people that the result of chaos, change comes from the chaos. Change is always there at the end result. I said, so chaos is lousy, yes, but I said the end result that's good is change, and so that's what a death covers in the in the play is is about the change. And I tell them that it's very simple change. I say, like, you know, when I say simple change, like walking through a door is simple, uh, a wave on the ocean is simple, it just happens, you know. You don't have to do anything to make it happen, it just it just comes to you and it happens. And I tell people that change can be a big, big thing, or change can be a very small thing, also.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Right?

SPEAKER_03 31:39

And um, and I said, but it's it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be alright. You will get through it just fine.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

And uh speaking of the cards, do you have a favorite card? This is not on the list, but I was curious.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

Let me see, let me see. Favorite card.

SPEAKER_06 31:58

I'd have to say mine's the wheel of fortune. That's a good one. Um the sem card.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

That's a good one. I like I like the um three of wands.

SPEAKER_06 32:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

I like the magician card.

SPEAKER_06 32:10

Yeah, okay, there we go.

SPEAKER_03 32:12

So here's my story with a magician for people. So sometimes my cards have developed different stories along the way. But here's my magician, my magician story card. I say, you know, magician shows up to remind you that you have the means and the power within you to get things done for yourself. And so then I say the following. I say, so I said, I'm going to use the Wizard of Oz as an example. And I say, so it's the end of the movie, and there's Dorothy with Glenda, and there's Dorothy's gang, and the wizard's taken off in the balloon, and Glenda turns around to Dorothy and says, You've always had the power to go home. And Dorothy says, I have. And she says, Yeah, Ruby slippers. So I said, Magician shows up to remind you that you have your own pair of Ruby slippers to click three times and get your stuff done for yourself. Right. And so I like to use I like to use imagery like that sometimes. So they it's a visual for people, so they can see it and they hear it, and it makes sense to them. They can relate, they can relate to it.

SPEAKER_06 33:23

So that sounds like to me, like you're um, you know, the following question we had for you was what do you wish more people understood before getting a reading? And it sounds like you're this is the perfect spot to ask you that question.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

No, um I'm sorry, can you say it again now? I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 33:43

What do you what do you wish more people understood before getting a reading?

SPEAKER_03 33:50

Okay. Um, that's uh like I said earlier, um readers and psychics at all, we do not have all the answers. Um we can only I can only tell somebody what the cards tell me. Um I'm not gonna make stuff up. Um I want to hear this, I want to hear that. People can say, they can, you know, and I say to people, I can't guarantee that's it's gonna come through in the cards. And um it's it's giving it's giving the reader a chance for you to tell them what you're what they see for you. And um, but again, I I think the biggest thing is that um we must know everything there is to know. Um, like people the other things I I I I I don't like to answer is people ask me health questions and I don't like health questions, and I tell people, you know, I I can't tell you that. And I know there are some people they they call themselves um I think um some kind of a psychic medical psychic or intuitive psychic or something like that. But um I don't um I don't feel comfortable with that kind of stuff, you know. You know, my my aunt has cancer, is she gonna be okay? I don't know. I I can't tell you that. I wish I could, you know. Um so I I don't feel comfortable with with those kinds of questions. And um again, it's it's what it's the story that comes through for me in the cards.

SPEAKER_06 35:28

So um so the cards kind of lead you as what you're saying. The intuition kind of leads you.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

Yeah, so so basically is um the first part is I put 14 cards down. So there's seven up top and seven on the bottom, and then um the the cards in the middle, those uh I put I I push those down, those two down from the three and the three, and then I that's what I that's what I call the immediate thing that's currently going on for you. So I read those two cards as the main thing that's going on for them. And um most people I read for, they say, Yeah, that's true, that's true, that's true. And the thing for me too as a reader is that I I'm not a go-by-the-book tarot reader, because there's so many books out there that say, Oh, this tarot card means this, and this tarot card means that. And that's fine. I think that's fine when you're first starting out to learn tarot, but there's that part where um you have to put that aside, and and there's that intuitive piece that has to come through. And so sometimes there's cards that there are there's three up top and three on the bottom, and all those cards may be all connected together, but then there's a feeling where just two of those cards connect, and then the four other connect. So it's it's finding those connections that that make sense with the cards also. Um and it's just it's it's just a knowing of what makes sense with the cards for the person. That's the only way I can describe it.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

That's fantastic. Right. And uh for someone who might be feeling stuck right now, what's one piece of guidance you could offer without even pulling cards?

SPEAKER_03 37:26

I would just say um, if you're feeling stuck right now, find find that one good friend that you can confide in and talk to and tell that person how you feel about how something's going on in your life right now. Or, you know, maybe there's someone around that person that's not making them feel good. You know, so-and-so has not been making me feel real good lately, and I want to know if I can tell you how I feel about what's what's going on about that. And any anyone who was a good friend, and not a gossiper, but a good friend, will take the time to sit down with that person, either on the phone or over their house, or somewhere having coffee or tea or dessert somewhere, and having those conversations and not being afraid to share how they're feeling, because that's the most important thing you can do with someone, even without getting any kind of reading, is something's going on, and I need to talk to somebody how I feel about that. Right.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

And if you then and then you call Randy for a tarot reading, and then you call Heather and Lisa for a psychic reading, and maybe some Ricky healing to clear out all that.

SPEAKER_03 38:52

And what I what I'm also gonna uh throw in there also is if you can't find that person, or there's no person you feel you can talk to about that, then find a counselor, find a therapist you can talk to, because that that can make such a world of difference, because they're gonna be objective and listen to what you're saying, and then give you and give you feedback, and then give you ideas or suggestions, maybe some exercises to do to help you along the way, to help you out. And I I and I've I've done that, I've been there, I I've gone through that, and it has done me a world of good to have someone to talk to like that, where I didn't feel like confide in somebody.

SPEAKER_06 39:44

Well, when we have friends, when we have professionals in our life that we can counsel with, you know, we we can make our we can form our own opinions and our own choices, but and then when you're on that route, right, they call Randy, and Randy can put some clarification around the new path, right? Or they call Heather and Lisa and they get clarity around that new path, right? There's always guidance available. It just depends on what kind of guidance you need.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

Exactly. There's always there's always, you know, the there's always well I'm gonna use a weird example because this just came to me. It's like Clarice, you know, and Rudolph. There's always tomorrow. Exactly. You know, yep, and there is always tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 40:33

And you sing that for us, Raven.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

No, Randy's doing a great job singing it right now.

SPEAKER_03 40:46

But uh he's like, your voice is give me a call sore.

SPEAKER_06 40:51

But um you're awesome.

SPEAKER_03 40:57

But um, yeah, so there's I mean, there's there's uh there's loss to a reading, there's many things about a reading, there's there's different directions a reading can take. Um and I I don't know what's gonna come out with with the reading when I put cards down. I don't know what cards are gonna come down, and I'm doing a reading for a lady one time, and I do the beginning part of the reading, and she said to me, How did you know what cards to pick? I says, What do you mean? She says, All those cards that you just told me about. She says, That's all very correct information you just gave me. And I said, I didn't pick them. I shuffle them and I and I draw them out. And I always say um that it's my guy, I call my guides my gang. It's it's my it's my gang that pulled them out that made those cards come out. And this is what you needed to hear. It's what you needed to hear.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

Exactly. Uh I like to say that too when I'm doing readings, that it's you know, the the person's getting the message that they need to hear, not what they want to hear.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

Exactly. Exactly. And um, it always I you know, as long as I have been doing this, I am always still fascinated reading for people, what they have to say about what I'm telling them. It just I'm I'm always floored by it. Because at the end, sometimes I I put the when the reading's done and and they're done with it, and they walk away, and I sit there and I say, Oh my god, I'm like, that was that was like pretty good.

SPEAKER_06 42:40

So you do still get shock value. I oh yeah, yeah, all the time.

SPEAKER_05 42:46

Isn't it great? Like even after all these years, you're like, wow, yeah, that just happened.

SPEAKER_03 42:54

So I'm gonna give you a really good example of shock value. A really good example, if I may. So I'm at a fair doing a reading for this young lady, and there was this knowing piece that came through, and it wasn't anything to do with the cards. That's and I said to her, There is a singer in your family. No, no, I said, There is a there is someone in your family. This is an older person, and she is a singer. No, no, I I no, I don't sing, I don't know, no, no, and I said to her, just write that down and keep it in mind. I'm gonna go back and tell you again, I'm gonna show this down your throat. There is a I'm being told there is a singer in your family. So the fair was done. I come home, and John said to me, Some lady just called you. About this young girl you read for, about a singer in the family, and she wants you to call her. I'm like, oh, okay. So I call, and here's the lady who was the singer in the family who used to sing as a backup singer for all these 50s and 60s groups. Oh, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_06 44:24

That's so cool.

SPEAKER_03 44:25

And I was like, and and the granddaughter didn't know this because she never talked about it after she was all done doing it. So the granddaughter had no idea. It wasn't until she asked, and she was sitting there, she says, Oh, that was me. I was a singer. So it was what that really meant for me. The message with that was don't lock that away. She locked that away so deep inside of her that she forgot all about it and didn't talk about it. And so here's the guide saying, Talk about it, share this. This is a wonderful gift you had. And it's okay to still talk about it and to reminisce about it. So it was her learning a lesson not to shut that out. It was okay to still talk about it. Right. And I was I was completely, I was stunned. I was like, oh my god. I was stunned. It's so cool.

SPEAKER_06 45:25

What do you think um is unique about having someone pull tarot cards or uh for for you know someone? What or how do I say that? I think I said that wrong. What's that? You better say it right totally up to like a multiverse there.

SPEAKER_03 45:44

You better you better say it right this time, miss.

SPEAKER_06 45:48

We might have to edit this out, Chris. I I mean, there's something about pulling cards for yourself, right? And um, but there's also something very unique about having someone outside do you know read for you. What's your perspective on that? What's the difference between pulling your own cards and maybe having Ryan and I pull your cards or another professional?

SPEAKER_03 46:14

Right. Here's the thing is I I've I've never pulled cards for myself because um you can't really. My opinion is you can't you cannot objectively read for yourself. That's my opinion. I don't pull cards for myself. I know some people do, like they pull like a daily card out to see, oh, how's my day gonna go? Uh things like that. I I I don't I've I've never done that personally, I and I don't do it. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, I just don't do it.

SPEAKER_06 46:47

Um there's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_03 46:49

I will I will say that for me as a reader to get readings from people, um I and I still find that very fascinating. And um I've had some people read for me where I'm like, mmm, I don't know. And then um uh and there are some people I've got some really good readings from, and um yeah, so it's um I think if you can resonate with a lot of what you're being told by the reader, I think that's uh you're headed down the right path there, you know, because things have to resonate. Um and and sometimes there are things you have forgotten about, and you're like, oh geez, yeah, I I forgot about that. Yeah, that's true, that's true. And um so that's um and again, um very simple for me. I I shuffle the cards and I I get the feeling when to stop, and I just deal out the first seven on top and the first seven on the bottom. Um and if someone says, Can I pick the cards up? Yeah, I'll I'll let them pick the cards up if they want to pick the cards up. I'll give them the uh I'll give them the choice, the option. They can do that. I don't have a problem with that.

SPEAKER_06 48:12

You know, I know there's readers out there that say, you know, and then and of course there's you know all kinds of verbiage out there, like you shouldn't let other people touch your deck and whatnot. Um I know for myself, I have my own personal deck that nobody touches, but then I have like 74 other decks where anybody can touch them. Yeah, you know what I mean. Is that is that the same for you, or do you just use one deck for everything?

SPEAKER_03 48:41

I have I have my one, so the one deck that I use is the Rider Wait deck. And um uh now I want to talk about my mother again because she only read playing cards, like my grandmother only read playing cards. Um, one of my mother's clients one time gave her a tarot deck, and I found this deck. This was uh when I was with my mother uh in her apartment, and she was dying from cancer. So I was with her, and I was going through some of her drawers of stuff, and I found this tarot deck. And I realized this was an unopened deck, still sealed in the box, and so um at that time my mother uh mental status-wise, she couldn't really um you know talk or communicate or anything like that. So I said, Oh, I'm gonna keep this deck. So I kept the deck, and then um that deck that was my mother's unused deck, that became my deck. So that's my one deck that I use all the time. Nice, nice so I have that there's that connection with that deck with my mother, right? You know, um, there's a cloth that I I I have aside, a folded up um very old cloth scarf, a polyester scarf, um, that was my grandmother's scarf, and so my mother's cards sit in two piles on my grandmother's scarf. So there's my mother's cards on my grandmother's scarf.

SPEAKER_06 50:18

That's beautiful. Lisa, Lisa, um, I'm sure she won't mind that I share the story, but Lisa has a scarf from her mother, and it's an astrological scarf. It's very pretty silk, and Lisa does keep that with one of her special decks that she has, and uh, we honor her mom every time we pull the out. You know, it's it's really cool. Do you have more than one deck? Do you have something um you know that you do kind of like that?

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Um, I mean I do have a couple decks, but there is one deck in particular that I enjoy using most, and it's a bunch of crows. So yes, I enjoy birds. Um, but I don't have anything that I keep it in. Not yet. But maybe I'll find something.

SPEAKER_02 51:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 51:06

Try to find yourself a nice, a nice wooden box. I see, I I I love wood. I have a I have a this is a box I got at the Astro Fair. Um put on by the Connecticut Astrological Society when it used to be at the Keeny Memorial Building. And this was a handmade wood box with red felt lining, and um wood burned on the box is the butterfly. Wow.

SPEAKER_06 51:33

I feel like you probably had a wood burned box when you were younger. I did. Um do you know where that box is? No, it might still be in your room at all.

SPEAKER_01 51:43

I don't know. Perhaps. Yeah, I'll have to go look. Or it could be downstairs somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 51:48

It's finding something that resonates with you.

SPEAKER_06 51:51

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:52

It's gonna resonate for you.

SPEAKER_06 51:54

Oh, I got I got Ryan's wheel spinning over here. Where's that box?

SPEAKER_01 51:59

Because I used to I actually had speaking of boxes now, okay. So I actually used to do um have like a wood burning kit type of thing, and I used to just like design random stuff on wood and like burn into it. So, yeah, I do have a box somewhere.

SPEAKER_06 52:14

Alright. Mission.

SPEAKER_01 52:17

Yeah, yeah. That's right. I know. Thank you both for making me think of a wooden box.

SPEAKER_03 52:21

Um look in, look in, is there um so um is there an attic? You have an attic? Um, at my parents' house, yes. So somewhere somewhere in the attic. Somewhere in the attic, in a corner area in the attic is what you need to be looking at.

SPEAKER_01 52:43

A box of all your old toys. I can imagine, yes. That's probably where it would be, yeah. They they still have stuff up there, so yeah.

SPEAKER_06 52:51

And you know, even excitingly, like maybe when you find that box, you could probably make some money on your old toys. Oh, that's true. Because that's a big market right now.

SPEAKER_03 52:58

That's true, it's a big point. I know, right?

SPEAKER_06 53:01

Yeah. Boy, if I if I had my old toys when I was a kid, I uh great all our Star Wars, all our He-Man, and She-Ro, like all those toys that we used to, what was it, Buck Rogers doll? And like Yeah, I'm dating myself.

SPEAKER_03 53:17

Sorry. I had a I had the lost and face robot. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 53:24

Yeah. Oh man. So uh speaking of cards, um, if the cards could leave our listeners with one message today, what would it be?

SPEAKER_03 53:35

Let's see. Um message.

SPEAKER_06 53:43

Well, maybe a multi-message, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:46

Sure. Um that um say you know, they that they will they're gonna take a card. Wherever wherever you are in your life, know that um the cards are there just to help you as as a reminder um uh what your path is for yourself, you know, where you where you need to need to be going for yourself. Um and you know, and is there gonna be negative stuff? Yeah, but you know what? Life isn't perfect, and that's okay. And you learn to get around that negative stuff, and you also have the right to say, um, you know, I'm not I'm not gonna listen to this stuff. I don't need to listen. And um it's it's all it's all about where you want to be in your life, where you want to go for yourself, and and the cards, you know, again, you hit that roadblock, and the cards can help you find maybe not the direct pathway. Sometimes the pathway may be like Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, here, there, and there to get there, you know, to the Emerald City, and that's that's life. It's it's finding it's finding your path, it's it's guiding you along the way, and letting you know that um you know you'll get there. And then again, it isn't perfect, but that's okay. Card reach is enough perfect, and that's and that's okay.

SPEAKER_06 55:15

If we didn't have the if we always had perfection, we wouldn't know we wouldn't know the imperfections of how to move forward, right? And make it true.

SPEAKER_03 55:24

And and imperfection is is all part of life, it's all part of what goes on around us, and it's it's how you you can either choose again, it's choices you make, you can choose to ignore um the good stuff going on around you, and you can be in your own shell, you can choose to be depressed, you can choose to just um you know lock your doors, lock your windows. Those are all choices. You you you are choosing that to do that kind of stuff, you know. Um you let a little bit of light in. Oh, it's so nice out here. Look how it looks outside today, and you open the courts more, and you open the blinds more, and now you're choosing to let more light into your life every day. And it's like, gee, this feels really good. I'm glad I did this. And you and you see you see the difference in what's happening around you. People see you changing, people see you changing, and change is is is is the biggest thing there is that anyone can do for themselves. But again, it's choosing making those choices how you want to be in your life, how you want your life to go. People people don't people aren't you don't dictate that to you, you dictate dictate that to yourself.

SPEAKER_01 56:49

Right. Right, absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 56:54

Yeah, speaking of you know, the correlation, right, and whatnot, we actually do uh an affirmation for all our podcasts, or at least we try to. And seeing how we're talking about the tarot cards and giving us aspects and whatnot, we thought maybe we could pull one tonight and read it before we let you go.

SPEAKER_02 57:17

Sure.

SPEAKER_06 57:18

Alright. So give those a little mix around. Go ahead, Ryan. Reach in there. Yeah, reach in, reach in. Get it, get it.

SPEAKER_01 57:28

All right, it's one or two here.

SPEAKER_06 57:29

All right.

SPEAKER_01 57:30

Well, here we go. I am happy, healthy, and complete.

SPEAKER_06 57:34

What a beautiful affirmation. Yeah. I am happy, I am healthy, and I'm complete.

SPEAKER_03 57:40

And and it's and again, it's it's like I said, you you you choose, you choose to have that happen in your life.

SPEAKER_06 57:49

That's right. You can choose to be miserable, unhappy, and incomplete, right? Or you can choose to fight and be happy, be complete, and find a way to succeed.

SPEAKER_03 58:01

Yeah. And and and again, those uh it may not be easy, but you you get there and you you come out a stronger person.

SPEAKER_01 58:11

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 58:12

And and people will see that and they will will respect respect uh respect you because of what you did.

SPEAKER_06 58:18

That's right. Absolutely. And if we don't evolve, then you're kind of stuck in that situation. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03 58:25

Yeah, I mean, like for myself, you know. I mean, last year my husband, my husband died last year in in uh in November, and so I could have chosen to be very depressed and unhappy, and I said, No, I I can't do that. He wouldn't have wanted me to be this way. That's really so was choosing not to do that, and I I I can't tell you how much uh I've gone through a lot, but it's uh has it all been good? No, it's been difficult sometimes, but my life, my life has been so different now, it's changed so much for the better because I uh since that time when he died, I I have I have found uh a new me for myself.

SPEAKER_06 59:12

That's right. And you're incredible, Randy.

SPEAKER_03 59:16

Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_06 59:17

I've known you for a long time. Yes, I think I was looking back at it, and I think I think I've known you for over 16 years at this point.

SPEAKER_03 59:27

I think so. Wow, yeah, and I and I'm gonna tell you this too, Heather. One of my one of my reader friends at the Astrophil there, Bunsey, when she saw us and and I could just see the look in her face, and I'm like, well, how does he know them?

SPEAKER_06 59:45

And from way back old school.

SPEAKER_03 59:51

Yes, yes, that's right.

SPEAKER_06 59:54

Old school of standing in a gymnasium.

SPEAKER_03 59:57

Oh my god. I have to say, those those fears that Rebecca did, those those were fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:02

Yeah, those were the days for sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:05

Those were real fun. Did you know she moved to New Hampshire now?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:11

Yeah. I I I wasn't I'm not sure what that was about for her.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:14

I'm excited for her.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:21

Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:21

Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:24

So cool. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:26

Hey Randy, before we went before we let you uh go here, uh two more questions here. Uh, if are there any upcoming events where listeners can find you? Also, where can our listeners find you and your services? Um online. Sure. Social media.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:44

So I don't have anything upcoming uh as of yet. Uh this past June, I think it was two weekends ago, was the last astrophare. I call it the astrophare. It's put up by the Connecticut Astrological Society. Um, the next the last one for the year, I think, comes up in um, I think it's November. But um, so um I have I have my own website, which is card readings by randy.com. Um, you'll find a little blurb about me on there. There's a picture of my mother and my grandmother. Uh talks about you know my my past with them. Um uh it talks about the readings themselves. Um and I also list my events on there. Um, I am also on Instagram under card readings by Randy. Um, and I usually post different things with my cards on there. If I'm smudging things uh before a reading, if I'm having a reading uh my house here, a phone reading, I'll I'll take a picture sometimes of my uh my reading area and post that. Um but I have a bunch of information on my Instagram also. Um it's card readings by Randy. My Instagram.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:11

Facebook as well?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:13

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:14

And are you on TikTok?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:18

Uh uh I am. But I I don't I don't do much with TikTok though.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:22

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:24

But most mostly it's mostly it's the Instagram page. Um and then like I said, it's it's also my my website. Um and oh and there were there was a store in Walmart called uh Crescent Moon, and I do read from that store, but again, when I am doing readings from that store, I will post that also. Okay, nothing, nothing right now uh with Crescent Moon shop.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:53

Okay, all right. Well, that's all right.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:56

Well, thank you for watching.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:56

All about Randy. Thank you for sharing.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:59

Thank you. Thank you very, very much. This has been really uh really, really nice you guys. Really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:06

This is fantastic. It was great connecting with you.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:09

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:10

Wish you all the best, and uh thank you. We'll see you soon.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:15

Yeah. All right, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:18

Until then, to our listeners, thank you for being in our letting us be in your ears. And we hope you enjoyed Randy, and myself and Ryan thoroughly had a great evening with Randy.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:30

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