By Christian Tufino
Tarot cards, feng shui and snails, what’s the commonality? Love. With Valentine’s day around the corner, Late Night for the Planet covers love through nature and spirituality.
Olive Ridley’s hosted the talk show run by students Kaiser Beckford and Taygin Jump. The vintage decorations paired with the subtle orange and pink lighting created a warm and cozy vibe, reflecting the lighthearted and informative talk show. A college student greeted guests at the door and asked if you’d like to enter into the tarot card raffle, where you could potentially get your cards read by a professional tarot card reader.
As a student musician stepped off stage, Beckford and Jump stepped on stage and introduced themselves. They bounce off of each other and the crowd, immediately setting a welcoming and playful tone for the rest of the show.
The first segment involved tarot card reading run by Kim, the owner of Karmic Pharm. The tarot card reading is picked from the raffle at the beginning of the event. Two guests are called up to get their reading done. People laugh and cheer for their friends who get called up, faces turning beet red as they walk up to the stage.
Kim told the guest to pick between two vibrant crystals, one blue and one red, without thinking. She used these crystals to decide the tarot deck she’ll use to read the guest and announce what cards were pulled. After the reading was done, the guests got off the stage grinning like a kid as their futures were prophesied with great love ahead of them.
Kim exited the stage and Beckford reintroduced herself, not as the host but as an entomologist, and called up two guests to demonstrate the strange but intricate reproduction of snails through a guided interpretive dance.
Beckford handed the two guests heart antenna headbands and pompons. She began by narrating how two snails find and interact with each other. The two guests smiled and giggled at the ridiculous scenario they reenacted, as they danced and jumped around while acting out the narration. Beckford on the side of the stage laughed so much you can hear it through the microphone.
The segment ended but the laughter of the crowd could still be felt. Beckford introduces the final guest, 25 year feng shui professional Katina Proveneal. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day Provencal tells us about how we can create positive feng shui in our rooms. Proveneal created a QR code for the guest to play a game where you can see and vote on the feng shui of volunteer guest rooms. Feng shui is all about vibes and Proveneal believes that the state of your room reflects you as a person, and urges us to take a look at how our space defines us.
The night encapsulated the Valentines day spirit. Love and spirituality brought the show together and brought the guests together for a night of games and environmental wisdom.
