Growing up in a spiritual household, the concept of magic has always been something that is “off-limits.” It's deemed dangerous despite its intrigue and seen as attractive to spirits of malicious natures. Television shows and movies that even mention “paranormal,” “haunted” or “ghost” in the titles are also viewed as evil to some degree. But being me, I've also held an intense fascination with anything otherworldly, with anything that can't be explained by rational thinking and science. I'm also a firm believer of such things.

Maybe another time I'll delve into my own random experiences with the paranormal, discuss the strange occurrences that have happened in my life and my own home, but right now, that isn't what I wish to talk about. No, I wish to talk about an experience of mine that I actually personally subjected myself to, an experience that I chose to go through. Recently, for the first time and through a dear friend of mine, I have had a successful experience with tarot cards.

It was intense and pretty awesome to go through. It was also super simple, if not a little energy-draining. See, a friend of mine is staying with me over the summer, and she has years of experience with using tarot cards. I will not even try to discuss my parents' reactions when they realized this “magic” was being performed in their house.

Anyway, when she showed me her Victorian Steampunk Tarot, I was definitely interested in doing a reading; I've never had one before, and it's really hard to find someone authentic. Now I know what you must be thinking: how could I possibly know that my friend is authentic? You ever get that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you just know something is real? It's a feeling that's hard to explain, but everything in your body just seems to point to this one thing being absolutely real. This is what I felt in that moment.

With a strange lack of trepidation for what I'm about to do, she hands me the cards to shuffle. With the cards in hand, I feel some sort of heaviness fall over me, and it becomes harder to breathe. I could literally feel the power coming through the cards, and, to be honest, it's a little scary. I continue shuffling the cards, however, as if nothing happened.

Finally, I hand the cards back to her, and she spreads them out for me to pick the ones that attract my attention. What's interesting is that I'm supposed to pick eight cards that will tell me how my week is going to go (or, at least, the rest of my week), and I felt a pull towards eight specific cards.

When all is set and done, she organizes my chosen cards in the proper order and reads them off for me. Let me tell you, it's totally creepy when the cards get every day right. Since I did this on a Wednesday, the cards that represented Monday and Tuesday foretold the past, the card for Wednesday was the present, and every other card was the future for that week. The eighth card just told me the overall feeling.

Monday's card told me I was going to have success financially. That was the day I was called about getting the job I applied for. Tuesday's card told me I was going to have a bad day emotionally. In truth, Tuesday was a horrible day for me that I just wanted to spend in bed. I even made a huge mistake on that day during my first shift on the job, and it made me incredibly depressed.

Wednesday told me I'd have some trouble but everything would be better than Tuesday, and it was! I made another mistake, but it definitely wasn't as bad as the one on Tuesday.

The rest of the week was supposed to be great, and what's awesome was it really was. I finally found some form of happiness in my newly acquired job, made no mistakes, and overall had a pretty great rest of the week.

Everything about the tarot reading was completely accurate, and it freaked me out and excited me at the same time. After that, I did another reading on a relationship between me and some other person that was also one hundred percent accurate. As the reading gave me no hope whatsoever for any improvement in the current position, I do not wish to share the definitive details of the results.

I definitely believe in my friend's ability as well as the power in her cards and so do others. I've learned recently that she's been doing readings for people online, and these people find it awe-inspiring and scary that she's so accurate in her readings. Well, I say check it out for yourself. What do you have to lose?

It's an affordable and incredible experience I think every person should go through at least once. It brings a whole new level to a person's perspective of life that's both confusing and intriguing. If you want to try it out, here's her page. Just choose a reading you'd like to do, and she'll get back to you with your results. And if you'd like, I'd totally love to hear how it all went in the comments below. Was it as accurate as mine?

Take it from someone who has had unwelcome experiences in her life and finally did something completely by choice, there's something more out there than meets the eye.