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Rima Thundercloud borrows my ballpoint and traces in ink along some lines in the center of my upturned palm.

"See that six-pointed star between your heart line and your head line," she says. "My grandmother called that a gypsy's kiss."

"What's that mean?" I ask. "What is it?"

"It's a fate sign," Thundercloud says. "It's always good luck."

I feel better. I thought it might have been something bad. There has been a cloud over part of my world recently, and so it's good to have a silver lining in hand.

Thundercloud and I are in a small room in the back of the Blue Eagle Book Shoppe, a metaphysical book and gift store at Juan Tabo and Menaul boulevards Northeast.

She is an intuitive reader, a person believed by some to have abilities to see into other people's lives - past, present and future - and to help people see deeper into themselves.

I'm open-minded about these things, because I myself have experienced connections, premonitions that can't be explained logically.

Thundercloud is one of 20 area intuitives who will do readings Saturday and Sunday at a Halloween Psychic Faire sponsored by Blue Eagle and by Moon Dancer, a metaphysical store in Corrales.

Other readers will include Carol Brooks; James Cruz and Viola, author of "How Not To Do a Psychic Reading" (Infinity Books, $9.95).

Readers at the fair will employ a variety of methods - runes, numerology, astrology, chakras, palmistry, tarot cards - to enhance their insights.

Thundercloud, who is half American Indian and half Irish American, reads palms and tarot cards.

"The native elders taught me herbs and medicines," she says, "and my crazy Irish grandmother taught me palms and cards."

Thundercloud finds another line on my hand, a long one, that suggests I've been around the block a few times - or maybe even through a few lives.

"I think you are a lot older than you look," she says.

I just smile. I'm not about to disagree with that. Who would?

In deference to my apparent seniority, she chooses not to use the bright new deck of tarot cards on the table. Instead, she hands me a venerable, limber, faded deck and asks me to shuffle them and cut them three times.

"Oh, the lazy card," she says, smiling.

I'm busted. I knew there was something to this.

There's more, of course. I'm a study in contrasts, drawn to two different worlds but not settled in either.

I'm an alpha dog who stays back in the pack instead of taking the lead.

I love luxury but don't live in it.

I love nature but don't get out into it.

"Why don't you get into the mountains?" Thundercloud asks. "What's stopping you?"

With a turn of the tarot, she answers her own question.

"There's that lazy card again," she says. "That's the third time."