Charitable tarot: Bliss be on your cards

The clinic provides a multi-functional service to people going through troubling times.

ISLAMABAD:

After getting accredited acclaim for her tarot card readings across Pakistan, Mariam Aftab has moved on to using her talent for a charitable cause. Along with her sister, Aliya Aftab, Mariam has established a pro-bono clinic in Bedian, Lahore. But with an ever blooming practice, the Aftab sisters seek to do more.

In order to raise funds for their project in Lahore and to search for locations to establish similar setups in Islamabad, the sisters have travelled to the capital city and are conducting preliminary sessions at Chaaye Khana in Super Market.

“The clinic provides the less fortunate with the tarot card services that are used to diagnose issues an individual might be facing,” explained Mariam. After the preliminary diagnoses, Aliya, who is a practicing psychologist, helps the patients evolve and disseminate their problems. With the use of Reiki, tarot, personality psychology and isamay azam, the clinic provides a multi-functional service to the less fortunate who are going through troubling times.

Mariam said, “It is not the setup and the logistics of the operation that are hefty on funds, it is rather the lack of medication and the ever rising prices of pharmaceuticals that has made me search for funds.”

With a full throttle of clients pouring in at Chaaye Khana, the tarot card reader proposes her concept of healing through tarot readings to her clients. The primary purpose of holding these sessions on the first Monday and Tuesday of each month is to familiarise the people of Islamabad with the concept of healing through tarot cards and  eventually entice them to donate for the cause.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 10^th, 2011.