- Whoa! - Is it money?
- Oh my God!
- I don't know why she put this in!
I have a dear friend to Pero Like, Andrea!
- Hi. - She's going to be reading
our tarot cards.
So, I saw that she did this exact thing for Lady Legs,
so I was like, hey, you should do this for Pero Like.
- So the way that I like to do tarot,
I really like to connect with my ancestors.
And when I do tarot with somebody else,
I like to call on their ancestors to come help, too.
And so the way that I see it,
it's almost like a conversation between
my ancestors and your ancestors talking to us,
through our instincts or the cards that we choose.
I don't like to think of it as
like you're influencing the future,
I like to think more of it as,
you're getting to understand how you're feeling
in the present moment, so that when a situation arises,
or when the next thing comes down the line,
you'll be able to respond to it a lot better.
I like to empower people and give people
the guidance and the tools to be able
to confront whatever they're facing.
So, what's happening in your life, Maya?
- The only place that I don't feel confident in,
that I'm learning, is love.
So, if love comes up, cool, I'll receive that message.
- Besides rich and famous,
what else is gonna happen con Gadiel Del Orbe?
- I wanna do mine about love,
can we focus on my love?
- Ooh, OK! - I just feel like
my love life is always super, like, scattered.
That's my own energy, 'cause I'm so work-focused.
Do you know what I mean?
So, let me know, spirits.
- [Andrea] First one is the past.
- [Gadiel] Hmm...The past.
Dos de lanza. - I'm gonna say
that when you were younger, or especially,
I know that you were in the military,
and I feel like you were always this pillar of strength
that people would come to and seek advice
and solace and peace from.
Maybe your life was a little dramatic, chaotic,
and it wasn't always like you felt
that you yourself had a strong enough ground to stand on,
so you had to find that ground in other people.
So maybe you had like a mentor or like a father figure,
or some type of masculine energy in your life
that really helped you stay strong
and gave you a sense of self, maybe it was your family,
maybe it was like a community member.
- Well, partly my stepdad, yeah,
my stepdad was always like, he was the masculine guy
in the house, and I always looked up to him.
- Yeah. - You know, I always wanted
to be like him, you know what I mean?
I was also the guy that was out of the street,
you know what I mean?
In the block, there's always problems.
I feel bad, 'cause it was younger guys,
that they looked up to me, and I didn't do
good thing in the hood.
Things like, "Oh, when I was gonna get initiated
"I thought about you."
To get initiated to a gang, I thought,
what would Gadiel do?
That's not the guy that I wanna portray to everybody,
you know?
I was like a bad impression to these younger guys
that were coming on up, you know?
Even though I saw myself as somebody
that wanted to study, wanted something great in life.
But now, I make people laugh, you know what I mean?
- And that's a part of your history,
and I don't think that's something
that you need to be ashamed of or push away.
- Yeah. - Like you're showing it now.
It's something that brought you
to the point that you're at today.
Oh!
- What'd that mean, why'd you make that noise?
- Well, I'm doing like a really basic,
bare-bones past, present, future.
- Yeah. - And so, the past
shows a lot of conflict. - Mm.
- If you look at the card, it's literally
somebody lying, deceased, on a battlefield.
- Yep, that's me, that's my love life.
- The swords, they represent air,
intellect, mentality.
And so you can almost think of it
as kind of like a prison made of your own making.
- Hmmm... - Somebody
who's trying to walk in-between a bunch of swords.
So, what I wanna say, is that,
it being inverted, both reflects the idea
that, usually, this is more so internal,
you have to acknowledge that there is
an exchange of energies.
Not that you're, like, the perpetrator per se,
but like there is some accountability
that needs to be taken on your half,
on the relationship-like love spectrum.
- Yeah, well I totally know, I'm the cold person.
I live like, in this, like, cage thing,
I'm like, "You don't wanna come in here."
I'm like, "What are you doing in here?"
I mean, it's fine, and I'm in my cage,
and I'm like, "If you're in here, that's fine,
"that's cool, you can totally stay."
But, you know, you also need to live
out of the cage sometimes.
- Hmmm... So, seven of spears
is a fire card, and it represents a temple.
Maybe growing up you had this very pure idea
of what a relationship looked like,
maybe an idealized form that became a safe place
for you to either escape or fantasize about.
It was almost as if, when times got rough,
there was this connection that you had
with the idea of love, whether it be for yourself
or for another person, or for somebody that didn't exist.
Helped keep you stay hopeful.
Was that correct, Maya?
- Yeah, yeah girl! (laughs)
- You wanna talk about it a little?
- This is about love. (laughs)
There was a person who's definitely a safe spot for me,
that I would come back to when things
are kind of at a low with my love life.
It's never gonna work out with them,
the time has passed, but I do find myself
being comfortable in that space.
- And it's funny because this is a time before war,
so it's almost like a rest stop,
it's a place that people would come to
because they saw it as a safe neutral ground.
Ooh, speaking of today, ooh!
- La muerte, trece la muerte.
First of all, 13 is not a good number, yo.
- 13 is a great number, contrary to popular belief,
it was actually like a female empowerment kind of like,
wiccan, feminine goddess number,
that got tainted across masculinity
and generations who were like, "Screw women taking
"power and medicine, and we're taking this number
"and making it evil."
In the grand scheme of things, La Muerte
isn't that bad of a card.
Because La Muerte represents--
- Why are you saying "that bad of a card", yo?
(Andrea laughs) - So this--
- Present, La Muerte, no! (laughs)
This is done. (both laugh)
- Take all that, what you just said,
and apply it to what you're doing today.
La Muerte is about death, it's about rebirth,
it's about ending the circle.
It's about putting a dot at the end of a sentence.
- Mm-hmm. - It's about closure.
So I feel like, you opening up about these things,
acknowledging them, you knowing that it's part of your past
and not something that you wanna continue
towards your future, is a very accurate
representation of this card.
It's almost saying like, "Thank you for giving me
"the skills and tools that I have today.
"But the practices and actions are something
"that I'm no longer gonna pick up
"and necessarily do."
And so, maybe this is something that's taken
a big presence in your life, thinking about,
"What am I doing with the rest of my career?
"What am I doing with the rest of my life?
"What impression am I leaving on people?
"So that I'm doing something good
"for the world and the universe."
- So it's just like this is gonna be a defining moment,
like the past is dead, this is gonna be a new me.
A rebirth, the renaissance man.
I am the renaissance man.
(Andrea clears throat)
- She just cleared her throat.
- You know like a desert? - Aha! (laughs)
Oh my God. - I mentioned
the story represented in this one is about
somebody who has to make a perilous track between
two kingdoms, one that has kind of been
forgotten and abandoned and is falling apart,
and having to walk through decay and--
- Mm-hmm. - Just, um...
Barren wasteland. - Sounds like
my love life right there.
And I'm, for some reason,
I'm not mad at it, like-- - No.
(laughs)
And that's like, what I also want to get across
with this card-- - Yep.
- It's that there's almost like a journey aspect to it.
- Yeah. - It's not so much
like, this is your final destination.
This moment, too, shall pass.
- So, basically, my current situation is a desert.
- Your current situation is the consequence
of childhood traumas, past relationships
and internal misgivings,
to the point that you have almost been left
with very little internal resources.
And so I feel like that's the moment
that you're in right now,
that you just have to, like, clean house,
and make sure that your own side of the street is clean
and that your own house is in order.
- Can I tell you something so weird?
That is the second time that somebody has said
to make sure your side of the street is clean, to me.
And I've never heard that expression.
- Yeah. - Until, like,
literally, this weekend, and that's the second time.
And that's something that I am doing,
that I have been working on, I think,
for the past three years.
Is like, working and trying to take care
of the land inside of my spirit.
- [Maya] What is it?
- Um... - Oh, no, what is it?
- It's the three of swords,
and this specific story, poor little guy--
- Is that me? - Actually got rejected
from somebody that he was really in love with,
but they're going to marry somebody else.
So, they run out into the middle of the forest,
where nobody can hear them crying.
- Oh, hell yeah. (Andrea laughs)
- Um...Yeah, it also represents
this kind of solitude, quiet moment.
- Mm-hmm. - It represents a time
where, like, you're not too preoccupied
with what's happening outside of yourself,
and you're really focusing on building up
internal fortitude and rebuilding that trust,
and safety and solidarity with yourself and your desires,
in a way that doesn't have you coming back
to that person who's already claimed for.
- Yeah, I feel very...
In like a quiet place right now.
I am rebuilding things with myself,
to make sure the next person isn't...
I guess that I'm strong enough,
and that I realize that I am good enough,
and they're gonna be good enough for me.
Back then, I had zero knowledge of my power,
of like, who I am, the self-love that I have,
and I would go back to this person.
- I was waiting for the million dollars.
When am I getting the million dollars?
- A ver, let's see.
Future card...Money.
Whoa! - Is it money?
- It is money, kind of!
So, diez is always a number of like, the finale,
the ending, the kind of, like, culmination
of all the hard work that you've been
putting in throughout the year,
and it represents celebration, party, abundance.
And so, cups represent water, emotions.
And so, a ten of cups, I would say,
is that you're working on path towards something
that will make you feel really fulfilled,
that will make you feel like you've actually
completed your mission in life.
Maybe it's like a project connected
to helping kids from the hood.
You're on track towards something great.
No matter what it is, when we're thinking
about how you're feeling personally today,
like, imagine that across, like, over ten years.
That same feeling of being able to look back
and have this feeling of, like, joy
and fulfillment and peace,
is what I feel like this card is trying to get across.
So this swords card is The Empress.
So this can mean two things. - Mm-hmm.
- One, it can mean you're a strong, independent lady,
who doesn't need no man. - Mm-hmm.
- Who is really building her empire--
- Mm-hmm! - And working on...
Really that internal garden-- - Mm-hmm!
- Of wealth and resources.
The other interpretation is that
there is an empress and an emperor.
What this is trying to tell you
is that with having done the internal work
and healing the past, and recognizing
what it's done to your present,
you'll start seeing plants bloom,
you'll start seeing things...
This femininity and this fertility--
- Mm-hmm. - And this abundance
of the Earth, kind of starting to show its face to you,
and hug you and embrace you.
And it's reminding you that, like,
you have so much to offer.
So, either way, you need to open up.
- Basically, where he at?
Is what I wanna know.
- What the (beep) is that?
What kind of disaster is this card?
- It is not the worst thing that could happen to you--
- They're dragons attacking a castle!
(Andrea laughs)
- It' dragons attacking each other on a castle.
- Mm, OK. - Slight difference. (laughs)
I, personally, love this card.
The card really closely identifies with the idea
of change is inevitable,
and just because something crumbles,
doesn't necessarily mean that you're destroyed.
It represents a blessing in disguise.
- So does this mean something bad's gonna happen?
- No... Not necessarily.
Uh...(laughs)
No, what this means, is internal conflict.
It means yin and yang battling it out.
It means that you have a pretty complex journey still,
in the languages of love,
for you to figure out what you're leaving behind
and what you're trying to find.
- I just feel like, I'm learning and I'm like,
OK, I'm ready!
And the universe is like, nope!
- But I'm saying is that, like,
maybe something that in the past
you considered to be a terrible thing,
will actually be happening, and it might actually be
something that's really positive for you.
You can't have this doomsday mentality,
is what this card tries to get across,
because you can always find the silver lining,
no matter how tricky the situation.
- That's an intense card. - It's a little tense.
- All of the other love readings that I've gotten,
like in the past, have just been like,
"Just be patient!"
Just be patient, this is like so specific.
It's confirming, too, that I have had
these things in my past, that I have seen,
like, it's a cycle, like, it just keeps going,
and I just have been putting off dealing with it,
so, I don't know, this is great!
Thank you so much.
- Of course, I'm happy too.
- I thought it was dope,
I feel like it's therapeutic in a way.
And Mares is such a person that has this energy
that you feel comfortable in sharing.
And I shared something I never shared before in my life,
like the whole thing happen in New York city.
This is the first time I've shared this with anybody.
And I just, I just remembered this!
But that was great, I feel like
it was so dope and so fun.
- The messages are really great,
I love the cards, they really feel like,
I don't feel like I'm walking away feeling like,
"Aw, man!"
I feel like there is hope.
Thank you, I love you. - I love you too.
That's great, that was beautiful.
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