Sometimes, we would go to car boot sales and rummage through the cheap stuff sold on tables, cars, or in the dirt. I have found many treasures like that, but now I want to tell you about the time when I found some Tarot cards, quite a few of them actually.
A day like any other until in the ‘cheap part of the market’, this is where the sellers do not have tables or too much organization, I found on a dirty sheet, spread on the ground, a few decks of Tarot cards.
‘How much is this?’, heart almost stopped in expectation, showing off a purple box containing cards and a book.
‘1 euro.’, he did not blink, he did not care what it was I was holding, all he wanted was the coin it would bring.
Dumbfounded by the price, I nod and hold on to it searching for other treasures on the dirty sheet. And soon I find them.
I found in total 3 sets of Tarot cards, 1 set of Oracle cards, all with books and one even has the cloth to do spreads on. I bought them and I was so happy and grateful for having them.
When the adrenaline levels went down a bit I started thinking. As you do! Where had they come from? How did that man, who obviously had no respect or care for them, come to have them and sell them there?
One of the scenarios that seems plausible is that the owner died and their belongings were spread in the wind, as it often happens when we are no longer there. And that made me think at how heart broken the owner must have been when their prized possessions were left behind, alone and sold… at market.
I look at my objects and it saddens me to know that, when I will vanish from this mortal coil they too might be sent off to market.
Well that is a good enough reason for me to become a ghost and mind them.
Or, at least, hope against hope that somebody will take care of them when I am gone or maybe auction them off to people that will care for them and not just throw them away.
In the meantime I will do my best to enjoy them as much as I can every minute I am around.
Maybe the pharaohs had it right…, though, one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.