When Heatherleigh Navarre returned to Michigan to run the family business – the Boston Tea Room in Ferndale – after working as a library aide in Georgia, she stayed true to her library roots.
Navarre offered many adult and teen programs on paranormal, supernatural, and New Age topics in local libraries, including the history of witchcraft, dream interpretation, and meditation.
She will talk about tarot cards – pictorial playing cards used for divination or to predict the future – at Troy’s library on October 22.
“It is offered for entertainment only. It will enter into the mystical aspects. She loves giving presentations at libraries,” said Erin Chapman, Troy’s librarian who coordinates the program.
In the past, other library programs that covered paranormal topics, such as paranormal investigations, UFOs, alien encounters and abductions, have proven popular with patrons.
“We were looking for something entertaining; something for the Halloween season,” Chapman said.
“I think people enjoy programs with a seasonal theme,” said Connie Doherty, librarian for adult information services at the Troy Library.
“The program will be about what it (the tarot) is, what it isn’t and the real story,” Navarre said.
She noted that in some European countries tarot cards are used for games similar to euchre and bridge.
“Twenty years ago they (tarot cards) were a novelty,” she said. “Now there are literally thousands of them on the market. Men and women, young and old, come to buy them for personal use. It’s become mainstream.
Boston Tea Room tarot card readers will be giving free tarot card readings to the first 12 people to sign up for the program.
Navarre will also teach you how to do tarot readings for yourself and others. Participants are encouraged to bring their own deck of tarot cards if they have one.
“Readings of a Different Kind” will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. on October 22 at the Troy Public Library, 510 W. Big Beaver Road.
Registration is mandatory. Call (248) 524-3542 or visit www.troypl.org and click “Calendar”.
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