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Contributed by: Kevin Hamm/YourHub.com on 2/7/2008

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Roxanne Yslas, her eyes closed, eyelids fluttering slightly, sits across a small, square table from Stephen. Between them lay 10 brightly colored cards arranged in the pattern of a cross. The room is still and quiet, the only noise a gently gurgling fountain. Yslas starts, as if waking from a quick cat nap, and opens her eyes.

"Are you planning a trip?" she asks.

Stephen confirms he is thinking about going to Hawaii.

She looks at the cards again.

"They're saying you need to stay out there for a while," she says.

The cards don't lie.

Yslas is a tarot card reader. She has been ever since she fell in love with the beautiful artwork on a deck of tarot cards in a bookstore 12 years ago when she was 16. At the time she was working through some issues in her life. The tarot cards gave her direction.

"It was a good way for me to be able to connect with God, for him to guide me down the right path," she said.

She continued the pursuit in college, when she would do readings in a booth in a Perkins restaurant. She was studying psychology, but left school before getting a degree.

"I found that tarot helped people more than basic psychology. Besides," she said, "a degree doesn't really help with this field."

Yslas is a ninth-generation Coloradan who grew up in Lakewood; she still lives there with her 17-month-old son, Matthew. She was raised Catholic, but describes herself as spiritual rather than religious.

"If you believe in God or you believe in Buddha, all the information comes from the same place," she said. "I've taken all the love out of all the religions."

From an early age Yslas knew she had a heightened intuition, and she's worked hard to develop it. She said she's more of a "quickie therapist" than a psychic or a fortune teller, and uses tarot as a healing tool for her clients.

"You can help them focus on what their purpose is," Yslas said. "It's really easy to get confused -- the cards help you see a bigger picture."

Tarot cards were first used in northern Italy in the 15th century, but for card games rather than divination -- that became popular in the 19th century.

The tarot cards are merely a tool -- a regular deck of cards could be used as well -- but over time, a tarot card reader does form a relationship with a deck, Yslas said. For most of her readings she uses a deck called the Enchanted Tarot, which features softer, more colorful images than the stark gothic images of some decks.

"It's a more loving deck," she said, and that's important to Yslas, who said she enjoys what she does for a living because she likes helping people.

"I see through my heart," she said, "I don't see through my eyes."

Yslas does her readings at Ix Chel Healing Arts at 7323 W. 38th Ave. in Wheat Ridge. Readings range from 15 minutes for $25 to an hour for $80.

More info

What: Ix Chel Healing Arts
Where: 7323 W. 38th Ave. in Wheat Ridge
Phone: 303-422-1242
E-mail:roxanne@ixchelhealingarts.com
Web site:www.ixchelhealingarts.com

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