due exactly these types of circumstances. They stayed hidden and solitaire, and going to church every Sunday, until the children were grown. Then we welcomed them back into the group, letting them know how much we had missed them. It was a point in time when people in our small suburb of KC were getting thrown in jail, losing jobs, threats to their family, etc, simply because they held a circle in their home or read Tarot cards. These effected me to the bone. I never forgot the feeling on having it done to me around 1987. It was two pagans who called into my work, identifying me, hoping I'd lose my job. Instead, we had more government contracts than any other contract and the personnel and HR just laughed about it. My direct boss, head of the dept, actually came in and gave me a hug to let me know he accepted me as I was and was just glad I was there. He's Scots, btw... history in his family, I always guessed.
I would love to pick up some extra money reading Tarot, but the discrimination of those days terrifies me still... even tho when I read I only ever charged $20 a reading. We have way too many churches (like on every other corner) in this little town to feel comfy doing something like that.
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