Burning Man 2003
Burning Man 2003 in a lot of ways was my best burn ever. This was my sixth year, but the first when I didn't have a miserable job to have to go back to. Last year I traded a tarot reading for a palm reading in Center Camp with a lovely young woman who told me she saw my true happiness following a convergence of my spirituality with my career lines. I thought about that a lot for several months, and on Christmas day, 2002, I gave myself the best present I've ever gotten by quitting my job as GM of the taxi company I'd worked for twelve long years, and I moved to Ventura and opened up a Tarot reading business which I soon expanded to an all purpose metaphysical store. Now I get to hang out with kindred spirits all year long.
So this year on the playa, I wasn't frantically trying to pack in an entire year's worth of joy and good memories into the one week. I took it easy, I slept in, I took the week at a leisurely pace. My camp was at Paradox and Reality, and I made fast friends with my neighbors; Aryx, Keri, Ron, Tain, Sophia, Brittany - and within a couple of days we had named our "theme camp" Camp Chalupacabra (a goat-sucking burrito). What an awesome week! Despite Mars' influence and Mercury retrograde, I had the time of my life - once again. I gave some readings in Center Camp - less this year than previous burns because it's what I do for a living - I hung out and partied with my friends, and met up with old friends from previous years - I even stumbled across my old UCLA roommate whom I haven't seen in thirteen years. Needless to say, I'm happier than I've been in years.
I'm finally getting around to putting up the 2003 edition of my BM pages. Here's the pics, enjoy!!
