The last time I was at Terra Christa was sometime in 2012. I left VA for the West Coast in 2012; its now 5 years later in 2017. I kept meaning to write a review but my own priorities kept me from saying some very important things until today June 24 2017:
1) mocking accents is tacky when you are white and not from the culture.
i dont care how much kool aid you have drank.
stop doing it. i am talking to a few of the people that worked at the store and gave readings at the store. terra christa has a lot of stuff, books, etc. from places like India and Pakistan and other places considered spiritual and has that cool Indian or Middle eastern vibe. If you aint from the culture & are not a professional comedian, you cannot mock it. NO room for discussion.
2)way too white.
saying it is way too white is a lesser form or lesser potent form of racism but that is pretty much the soul of their readings. Not sure all of it is on purpose but they pretend like we are all one and its all the same...um, no. just way too white. and a lot of them tried to befriend me to have like a cool brown friend. now that I sit to remember it all, yuck. the way i was treated by some of these white ladies. so gross. blatant racism. but all i can say is the things they talk about and the core of their problems are white people problems and it is important to stop pretending like racism is not an influence everywhere and that white people that wanna connect with you that are not exposed to the world, have ignored globalization, and have not seen the world as it is, are draining and just imposing their beliefs onto you. that classic Christian style thinking of " BE LIKE ME!...or else" " I WANNA MANIPULATE YOU". its weird.
3)there was 1 reader there that I liked and seemed to be actually gifted rather than knew how to read cards; her name was Dawn. She was VERY GIFTED. that is the only nice thing i have to say about this place. She was truly one of the few people I have ever met during my obsession(full blown obsession rather than interest in) with tarot readings, that just was so real in a "she is truly genuine" kinda way, would say she did not know things when she did not and did not give me a bs song and dance the way the others did, and didnt do any weird kinda things to get me to "follow" her like a lot of these people do but more so just helped me want to help myself leave unhealthy situations and people while tending to my own best interest so she was truly about being helpful in a supportive way that made me empower myself. This was a vital influence in my life at that time because I was trying to leave traumatic situations and abusive people. no not the kinda abuse like , "OMG so and so is like so mean. like omg." i am talking about hard core abuse and trauma.
so for the help and influence to take the steps needed to leave all the abusive people to deal with their own crap, i say THANK YOU to Dawn.
4) THEY GOSSIP! its so weird to me that i would go to this place to try to find answers to questions so I could live a truly good life--a life that was good on the inside and good on the outside. where it all went together and any of the "bad"stuff of life was just part of life rather than having a influential power over me.yea. i just simplified my view of life but that is it! My issue with these women and young girls that worked in this shop is that they gossiped about readings they gave. so if i told one person one thing in a reading, i'd hear about it from someone that I did not have a reading with and they would being it up in front of other people. but that is a basic tactic used amongst mean white girls. i mean, its their (white women's)most basic form of antagonizing one another. but i ain't down with that kinda culture. i ain't down with racism. i just ain't down. this place just got so tacky because there was a missing baseline of respect for humanity for one another.
let me type this last sentence again cause you all need to read it: this place just got so tacky because there was a missing baseline of respect for humanity for one another.
all that and i just am sick of letting white people get away with pretending to be ignorant. you all know what you are doing when you are doing it. this brown girl aint down with it.
namaste, y'all. & do learn what namaste actually means. its not what you all tout. read more