How I got started
I got my first pack of tarot cards when I was 12 years old. My aunt was a well-known psychic medium with clients who came to see her from all over the world. She had a luxury goods shop in a hotel where she would give tarot readings, often she had a queue of people waiting to see her. I wanted a deck the same as hers but my first experience when I looked at the cards was one of total confusion. I thought God how on earth do I predict people’s futures from looking at these? She made it look so easy. I felt totally deflated.
Undeterred I started to read the book of card meanings and began memorising the meanings but then I realised that there was a story in all these cards. Each suit had its own story and each card was a chapter in that story. The deck was the Mystical Tarot which is based on Ancient Greek mythology. As a child I was familiar with the tales of the ancient Greeks, Jason, and the Argonauts the golden fleece the clashing rocks, Helen of troy Hercules…
It began to occur to me, that these adventure stories have hidden meanings. These cards of the Tarot like the Emperor and the Fool represent life lessons we all have as human beings. During my teenage years the tarot helped me a lot to make sense of my own life – (with a lot of added help and sit-down sessions with my aunt.) I used to read the cards for myself and make comparisons with my own problems to those experiences of the characters in the cards. I finally realised, reading Tarot was NOT about memorising the cards and following the book it was about trusting my intuition and allowing the cards to guide me to the answers I needed.
To be honest I was a bit young to make the psychological connections with these stories and how they were woven into our everyday lives, that came later with life experience.
During my early 20s I began reading about metaphysics, The Law of Attraction, and the art of conscious creation. It was at this point that it occurred to me to start experimenting with the tarot in a different way. Instead of always using the cards as means of predicting what was going to happen and being disappointed if they showed something opposite to what I wanted….
I began to ask questions like:
- what could I do to bring about what I wanted?
- What obstacles did a face? What was holding me back.
- How could I resolve what stood in my way?
- What qualities did I need to develop in myself to improve this or that relationship or situation?
From that point on, the way I read Tarot changed dramatically.
Instead of thinking what a card meant, I felt what it meant to me. It did not matter if I was psychic or not the cards always had the answers. Instead of worrying about the right meaning for a card, I let the imagery and symbolism of the card guide me.
I began to develop a reading style all my own which considered people’s current circumstances in relation to the outcome they were seeking. I began using the cards as point of reference to determine if clients were on track and if not, how could I help that person go about changing things to secure their desired outcome.
Fast forward 30 years. I have conducted 1000s of readings and have helped clients from all over the world. I have worked on some of the top Psychic lines in the world and have an international client base from Australia Europe the UK and the United States.
My reading style is a blend of solution focused coaching combined with my own psychic ability. It is my belief that we are all intuitive but develop that intuition or psychic gift in our own unique way. One thing I know for certain you do NOT have to be psychic to read tarot with confidence but studying the tarot will certainly assist you in developing your own inner wisdom which is psychic ability.
My mission is to make Tarot more accessible to everyone. I believe Tarot cards are a fabulous intuitive tool for purpose-driven individuals who want to create their future rather than just predict it and are ready to live life to their fullest potential.