{"id":114,"date":"2008-05-12T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-05-25T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T22:36:53","slug":"reading-tarot-at-the-pagan-alliance-festival-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Reading Tarot at The Pagan Alliance Festival, Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tarot-To-Go\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tarot-to-go.net\" target=\"_self\">Tarot-To-Go<\/a> continued its tradition of reading at <a title=\"The Pagan Alliance Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaganalliance.org\" target=\"_self\">The Pagan Alliance Festival<\/a> in Berkeley, California on May 10, 2008.  The day dawned bright and early (suddenly, it&#8217;s summer!).  <a title=\"Rose Red\" href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=59\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Red<\/a> and <a title=\"Andrew\" href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=59\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew<\/a> met me at my house very early, we loaded up the tent and furniture, and off to Berkeley we went!<\/p>\n<p>The festival is one of our favorite events, and we look forward to it each year.  The crowd is always friendly and enthusiastic, and the people watching opportunities are unsurpassed &#8211; it <strong>is<\/strong> Berkeley, after all!<\/p>\n<p>We set up in good time, with only a minor hitch (how is it possible to lose a box of 500 safety pins?!), and everyone did their warm ups, physical and otherwise, before the readings started.  The event officially started at 10:00, but of course being in an open park, the public showed up earlier.<\/p>\n<p>I realized I&#8217;d left our flyers at home (the hazards of packing early in the morning before I&#8217;ve had coffee!). Thing were pretty quiet, so I drove home to pick them up.  I returned an hour later, and all the tables were full, there was a line and a waiting list!  Andrew was managing it all quite calmly, and I took my place at the front table to catch up on the scheduling and payment tracking.   A half hour later, it was quiet again.  <a title=\"Artemis J\" href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=59\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis J<\/a> says I&#8217;m making this up, but I swear it&#8217;s what happens at this event &#8211; when I&#8217;m at the booth, there&#8217;s not a client to be found; as soon as I leave, business picks up and the readers are constantly busy &#8211; until I return to the booth, and it dies down again.  So, since it was quiet, I left the booth and wandered around to see who else was there and check out the altars set up for the event.<\/p>\n<p>I returned to the very busy booth a half hour later, and then all was suddenly quiet.  So I went for another walk.   I did finally return to the booth so Andrew could have a break &#8211; holding down the front desk takes a lot of energy!<\/p>\n<p>Things stayed busy as long as I stayed away &#8211; but I don&#8217;t take it personally.  They also stay busy when I&#8217;m reading, which I was able to do a bit as well.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time, everyone read as much as they wished during the day, and we made a lot of new friends &#8211; definitely a day well spent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarot-To-Go continued its tradition of reading at The Pagan Alliance Festival in Berkeley, California on May 10, 2008. The day dawned bright and early (suddenly, it&#8217;s summer!). Rose Red and Andrew met me at my house very early, we loaded up the tent and furniture, and off to Berkeley we went! The festival is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}