DINNER AND A
by Julia Szabo
For many patrons, [the] big
draw is an earnest young man named Kyler James. Clad all in black and seated at
a table near the bar, James offers a special service: For $25, he will spend 15
minutes consulting his deck of Tarot cards to offer guidance on your
future.
“People often try it as a lark
at first,” reported James, who entertains a following of regulars. “But then
they’re astounded by it, and they come back again and again.”
An after-dinner Tarot reading
can be enlightening—like the time James held a woman’s ring in his hand and
said her daughter’s name: Tobi.
“She screamed, so everyone who
heard her wanted to get their cards read because of that,” James recalled.
“Frankly, I don’t think it’s so startling that I got the name; what I had to
say to this woman after that was much more important.”
James takes what he does quite
seriously.
“I’ve been a truth-seeker all
my life,” he said. “I’ve worked hard for years to get to the meaning of the
cards, in order to help people with what’s going on in their lives.”
Banish visions of shawl-swathed
gypsies at the many clairvoyant storefronts that dot the
“It’s not that I’m predicting
the future so much as helping you to create the future that you want,” he
explained. “I combine left-brain intelligence with right-brain intuition: That’s my specialty.”
What’s more, he’s an author.
James recently completed a novel and a non-fiction tome entitled “The Higher
Genius: A Magical Approach to the Self”
(his literary agent is currently shopping both). [This was my previous agent
who came very close to selling the nonfiction book; but she left
As James points out, a Tarot reading
and a fine meal have one very important thing in common: “I don’t want to sound
New Agey, but both are nourishing,” he said.
© 2003
by the