Psychic Entertainment by Barbara G Meyer

09/10/2025

I am now at Malliway Brothers bookstore
1407 W Morse Ave
Chicago, IL

12noon to 7PM every Monday. Come by for a reading!

08/11/2025

New Blog post. I am continuing my How to read Tarot cards series.

A Little History One big Myth about Tarot cards is that they originated in ancient Egypt. They did not. Playing cards have been found in India as early as the 10th Century AD. Playing cards have been mentioned in writings in the West as early as 12th century. And that is what they were: playing... R...

07/28/2025

New Blog post. I am at #2 of the Series on How to Learn to Read Tarot cards. I think it may be a 5-6 part series in all! This part is how are tarot cards structured.

How are tarot cards structured? A standard tarot cards has 78 cards. There are Oracle decks (including one reading system that has gotten very popular called Lenormand) that have anywhere from 35 to 90 cards, but these are not tarot decks. You could say that all tarot decks are oracle decks, but not...

07/12/2025

New Blog post:

I want to explain how I feel tarot cards work.

Introduction to Tarot Cards I have been teaching an Introduction to Tarot Cards class for a couple of years now and I have decided that it is time to write down my approach to beginning to read tarot cards. I have always said that the best introduction to tarot cards is “You, Tarot cards. Tarot......

06/26/2025

I have a new blog post up on how to get a free tarot reading:

https://www.bgmeyer.com/where-can-i-get-a-free-tarot-reading.html

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05/08/2025

New Blog post

Before I was a tarot card reader, I was part of a puppetry guild. One meeting someone presented a talk about being a circus clown. “The Circus always had its first show of the season on the first of May, every year. New performers were called 5th of Mays. Especially the clowns.” Clowning around ...

02/01/2025

I am now on Blue Sky.
Come say hi!
bgmeyer.bsky.social

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01/29/2025

New Blog post: https://www.bgmeyer.com/the-hermit-looking-backward.html

Looking back before looking forward.

So this is ChristmasAnd what have you done?Another year overAnd a new one just begun–John Lennon I should not name drop, but maybe I will a little. I knew the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, when she was just starting out as a children’s librarian in Chicago Public Library. Unlike me, she w...

11/18/2024

I could not let this election pass. This is my new blog post. Please be respectful in any comments.

Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.–Marcus Aureliu...

07/21/2024

New blog post

My favorite Gary Larson cartoon is a picture of two scientists studying a blackboard. The left side is covered in math and so is the right side. The middle is an open gap with one sentence on it, “And then a miracle happened….” One of the scientists is pointing at the gap and saying: “I […...

07/04/2024

https://www.bgmeyer.com/do-you-believe-in-magic.html

Do you believe in magic? “[This country] had rapidly been on its way to banishing magic altogether. And that would have had a very serous effect on the very soul of the country, for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and to dream, and […]

06/20/2024

New blog post. Opinions welcome.

When opportunity knocks, don’t knock the opportunity. Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse comic strip 6/8/24) I like to say there is no one true meaning for any tarot card. I have now an opportunity to prove it: I am going to write THREE blog entries about the 4 of cups. I have done […]