by Marcella Ortega
Daily Lobo
UNM student Cori Hoover received her first tarot card reading this week.
"I always wanted to," she said. "I didn't have anything to do, and I thought I would try it out."
Hoover met with a psychic Monday at Crystal Dove Inc., a shop that offers psychic readings, metaphysical gifts, yoga and meditation classes. Hoover said she met with the psychic to ask a question about a friend.
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"You can give questions you want answered," she said. "You have to say it out loud and keep thinking it over in your head. There are 10 cards that represent each element of the question. That guy (the card reader) knows what each card means and how it pertains to you."
Crystal Dove owner Inga Madsen said the shop has been around for 14 years. She said the shop was known as Arts in Transition, but she changed the title in 2000.
"It was a customer's suggestion," she said. "I thought it would fit much better with what I was doing in here."
Madsen grew up in Denmark and came to the United States 20 years ago. She said she never had any intention of opening a shop.
"It was totally guided," she said. "It was not something I ever thought about prior to coming here. It was a lot of coincidence - if you believe in coincidences."
Madsen performs physical and spiritual healings at her shop.
"That's really my primary interest," she said. "The shop is like a great way to hang out between sessions. It is a hands-on healing, and it is totally from source." Madsen described the source as infinite and universal. Madsen said her customers come to her for many different reasons.
"It is not necessarily always problems," she said. "It's more like the curiosity of becoming more independent human beings, more self-aligned. Sometimes there is a reason for them coming, like an ache somewhere, or they have something they would like to eliminate from their system."
Madsen said she hires a variety of different people to accommodate the different needs of her customers.
"Many of them have regular jobs and are fully in touch with the pulsating life that everybody else lives," she said. "I take that as a great asset for people, because they are still in the middle of having the same kind of things going on in their life as the customers that come to see them. I like that interaction with people - that we are not distant from the problems of the person who need the service."
Madsen said she envisions a different picture of what her store may evolve into.
"I think it is very healthy, because I don't think you can be in a place if you don't have dreams of any improvements," she said. "If you don't have anything you desire, I think it goes away from you really fast. It dissolves really fast if you don't have a dream and believe in having a dream and a goal. That is the thing I want to encourage in everyone I meet."
Crystal Dove
525 Central Ave. NE
Monday - Saturday
10 a.m.-6 p.m.
