What a tarot reading says is in store for Houston this year

On the scene: Before she unwrapped her African cloth-wrapped tarot deck, she said, "Trump is going to be our president again." With that, she shuffled the cards, drawing out six for Houston — her inaugural reading for a city.

🃏What Houston can expect: Adams said the city is going to come together this year and that "there's going to be a more community feel." On the day new Mayor John Whitmire was sworn in, Adams said whatever he tries to implement, it'll last.

• The city will become "a bit more overpopulated." More people will be visiting Houston and will love what the city has to offer — likely including more sporting events.
• "When they come and visit, they're loving the food that they're eating, they're loving the events that are going on."

💸 Moneywise: She noted artists might struggle financially this year. "You got to hold on to your coins," she said, and she mentioned that she'd light a green candle for them.

• "This city is going to have a very tight grip on its money, on releasing funds…We got to change the energy of starving artists. I don't want our artists to be starved. We need to be crafty with making money in the city."

🌿 Explore nature: Adams said to take advantage of Houston's natural surroundings. "In Houston, you can find beautiful land masses, you can find beautiful water masses, which is a good place to go meditate to ground yourself."

• "We have these beautiful spaces and places for people just to continue to fall in love with Houston."

🗣️ Make your voice heard: Houstonians will have to learn to speak up and learn to fight strategically for what they believe in.

❌ Release negative energies: Adams advised that people "release people that only come to take."

The big picture: "Keep vibrations high," she said.

Get to know Minister Adams

Minister Adams has been practicing spiritual rituals for over 30 years. She grew up Baptist, but it "didn't make sense" to her, especially since she received "messages from within."

• "Even as a young young lady, it just didn't resonate." So at 15 years old, she left home and started learning spiritual practices through the African American traditions of hoodoo — but now her journey has led her to explore and embrace a various range of spiritual traditions.

What she's saying: "I just continued to practice and things that I would touch would manifest, things that I would do would manifest — with working with candles, with going to the graveyard, with working with incense and oils. Just wow, it came natural," Adams said to Axios.

Flashback: When Adams was a surgical technologist, she'd visit The Little Red One Shop, and the shop owner at the time would give her tea and help her decompress.

• After the former shop owner — whom Adams had taken classes from — passed, Adams felt that the community needed the space again, so she opened Our Little Red One Shop in the same location in 2017 at Emancipation Ave. Then in 2022, she opened her second location on Reed Road.

Adams' spiritual work requires her to be present and centered:

• She walks barefoot and keeps her feet on the ground.
• She takes intentional protection baths that are meditative and filled with herbs and minerals, like salts.

The bottom line: Adams wants to help people. "People are hurting. People are needing to know which way they need to go," she says. "I work in love. My favorite thing is helping people."