We were lucky to catch up with Halo Summerlin recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Halo, thanks for joining us today. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

This is a roundabout response to your “Defining Moment” question. One night at a party changed the trajectory of my career. I was an actress booking commercials thinking that I was meant to be a famous actress or artist. I was also making and selling art at the time but everything changed with my name.
Alicia. It’s one of those “hit” or “miss” names. The big “miss” is mispronouncing it A-lee-shuh. It’s A-lee-cee-uh. It’s a name that is easy to mispronounce given that there are a few ways to say it. My mother, living in Los Angeles in her twenties and African American, loved many things about the Mexican culture so she gave me the Spanish name Alicia, after her grandmother, Alice. When there is so much significance in someone’s name, there is a lot of patience and processing involved when someone mispronounces it. I wear my childhood names proudly. My middle name, Robin, is a twist on my paternal grandmother’s name, Robbie. For these reasons, I never thought another name would enter my world especially after a night of festive frolicking.
It was a beautiful fall night in September. LA’s mystical Santa Anas was blowing. I was about to experience Prince’s lyric, “party like it’s 1999” because I was headed to a party in 1999.
I walked into a 2-bedroom apartment wearing a stretchy cream-colored pair of pants with a black body suit. My hair was a kinky buzz cut. The room was full of lawyers, painters, construction workers, actors etc. Some were dressed in sparkly garbs and others were casual like me. Oh and no, not the kind of party of “he-who-must-not-be-named.” You know the one still buzzing in the news. One woman with gorgeous red hair was wearing a beautiful sparkly red floor-length gown. Someone else was in short overalls. Oh, wait, that was me in my second outfit. It didn’t matter what people were wearing. The more important thing was the energy was electric.
While everyone was mingling with introductions, I landed on a large square grey ottoman that overlooked the courtyard. A few more women joined me. We greeted each other then discussed creating new personas with new names for the evening. We wanted to be someone different for the night. I couldn’t think of one. Their names were powerful Greek names. I didn’t know Greek mythology to come up with a cool goddess name but I wanted my name to be as dynamic as theirs. And then I remembered “Devil with a Halo.” My friend, Michael, occasionally called me “Devil with a Halo” after a song he wrote. He was always throwing shade at my jokes which cut a person, ever so slightly, right in the heart. I loved the laughs but not the way I made a person feel. I told the girls about the name’s origins and that I wanted to give it a positive spin. It was decided. I would be “Halo” for the evening.
The party was fun and magical. We ate. We danced. We sang. At times professionals sang and or danced. I cooked something. I don’t remember what it was and I finger-painted. I was a terrible procrastinator and didn’t have time to buy paint brushes before the party. Amazon was not popular yet.
It was a beautiful night into the morning. No one was disappointed with the evenings’ festivities.

Today, many of us from that night are still friends though others have moved to other parts of the world. The ladies kept their original names. No one remembers their “play”names. Me? Legally I’m still Alicia but everyone calls me Halo. “Hey… Lo” or Ha-Ha (pronounced Hey hey) are its new pet names. There is also “Mama Halo” and Miss Halo. Miss Halo makes me feel old. I am a “Miss” and I am old enough to be a Miss Halo so I am slowly surrendering to it.
I can say from experience that it is true that you become your name. Being Halo has taken me on the wildest spiritual journey deep into myself and back again. Shortly afterwards, I did an apprenticeship with an herbalist who introduced me to yoga, herbal medicine, qi gong, and the mystical sciences. We meditated and prayed daily. I had an “Eat, Love, Pray” right here in Los Angeles. A cornerstone of my card science company, TheCardsSpeak™, has a spiritual foundation to it. I’m not sure that I would have gone through such significant spiritual explorations which led to the conception of my company if the name, Halo, hadn’t entered my life. And while I am no angel, the “halo” in me intends every day to be the very best version of myself.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’ve always been drawn to mystical sciences—numerology, tarot videos (though oddly, not tarot cards), astrology, Ayurvedic astrology, and the Chinese zodiacs. When I stumbled upon this card science system, I was intrigued but couldn’t find much information at first. I was drawn to it because I had questions about my communication issues with family, romantic partners, and working in the corporate world. So, I booked a reading from one of the links I found on YouTube, and the heavens opened.
I learned that cardology is a 20,000-year-old mathematical mystical science. It takes a birthdate, an ordinary deck of playing cards and blends it with numerology and astrology to create highly accurate readings. My reading told me that my problems with multiple jobs and romantic partners and a need for boundaries was exactly as it should be . My life is “coded” to experience freedom and that need for freedom travels through my relationships, jobs, family– even my homes. The information was so liberating that it helped ground me. I created TheCardsSpeak™ to potentially help others feel liberated.
Cardology provides a glimpse into a client’s past, present, and future. It has answers to help navigate our gifts and the challenges that show up in our lives by representing people and experiences that reflect our internal world. Clients experience transformation in romantic or business partnership, family, ourselves, our health, and money. It also helps determine legal outcomes and best travel dates. To give real life examples, I expanded my card science brand into the podcast world with my podcast, “TheCardsSpeak™, Are You Ready to Listen?”
The first episode is an introduction to cardology and its history. The second uses cardology to prove that Tiger Woods, ex-wife, Elin Nordegren was always meant to be a millionaire. On Christmas, I am releasing the 1st of a 6-part series on Elizabeth Taylor. The podcasts will playfully show cardology’s influence over particular stages of her life highlighting her relationships and business acumen.
Card science companies like TheCardsSpeak™ exist to decode the answers that exist in the symbolism and numbers of the cards. For more information, go to TheCardsSpeak.com or listen to TheCardsSpeak™, Are you Ready to Listen podcast on Apple and Spotify.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

My story of resilience was when my sister went into heart failure in Vancouver Washington. I had to leave LA to care for her. The doctors wouldn’t help her without someone caring for her 24/7 for 3 months. Of course, I wanted to help her but I wasn’t in a financial position to drop everything and relocate. Thankfully, I had an awesome support system in Los Angeles and in Washington. Though I had to leave my friends, they were ready, willing, and able to help me shut down my life and start again first in Vancouver Washington and then again in Seattle, both unknown cities.
My being there allowed her to get the procedure she needed. However, after 10 difficult months in the hospital with multiple strokes, she passed away. With her insurance no longer covering my housing, I was homeless. Thankfully, Seattle’s programs helped me get back on my feet quickly.
My family and friends’ support helped with my resilience. When people weren’t physically with me or in communication, my faith in my invisible family, the ones that have passed on, give me strength everyday.

Training and knowledge matter of course, but beyond that what do you think matters most in terms of succeeding in your field?

The most helpful thing that I incorporate now is consistency and focus. People might call that discipline. Given my creative nature, I wouldn’t consider myself disciplined. My sheltered childhood led me to a focus on fun most of my adult life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m great at consistency and focus when working for others just not for myself.

For that reason, now that I’m older, I’ve channeled the workaholic in me. Currently, I’m a “one-woman-show” for my new business. My workload is filled with producing podcasts, a website, and social media content. Until my cardology company is generating income, I’m navigating the workload that comes with my recent relocation to Los Angeles from Seattle and working full-time.

Another aspect of focus that my new business teaches, is that while money is important, assisting in others transformations is the true goal. This new conviction is so strong that it gives me a new focus on faith, not in the religious sense. Faith that when obstacles appear, I know to keep pushing through. I need to focus on helping others not the tough times. Everything else will fall into place. To have this kind of faith requires consistency which is not easy but I know that if I lay a solid foundation now, down the line, fun is waiting for me with vegan cake and ice cream that reads “Congratulations, you made it!”

Contact Info:

• Website: https://thecardsspeak.com/
• Instagram: TheCardsSpeak
• Youtube: TheCardsSpeak
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