In the spring and summer of 2017, I went through a particularly tough time. I was still transitioning from a full-time professional social work career to a new role as my own boss. I was also decompressing from a decade of daily exposure to vicarious trauma and didn’t realize how much it had impacted me over time.

During this time, I found myself longing for guidance from a higher power. I’d grown up with a faith tradition as a child, left it as a young adult, and cast about in midlife for practices to put into my toolkit to anchor me in something larger than myself. The practices I was encountering in my new faith tradition helped, but I was missing a text-based source of support, which I’d found tremendously helpful in my childhood and adolescence. As an adult, though, I knew that returning to what had sustained me as a young person would not speak to the person I was at that time (nor, for that matter, to the person I am now). Being into the “woo” and having long studied astrology, I thought, “Well, let’s give this thing a try. Even though I’m not psychic and I don’t really trust my intuition, maybe there will be something here for me.” So I went to my local witchy shop, and looked at all the tarot decks and carefully selected the deck that most spoke to me. I began a daily practice of drawing cards, consulting the book that came with the deck, and teaching myself, through books, podcasts, websites, and trusted teachers, how to “read” a “text” of visual images.

Now, seven years later, I come to my deck more days than not. Usually, it’s a daily check-in to see what I’m invited to pay attention to; sometimes, it’s a self reading about the same kinds of big life challenges that others ask me for help interpreting and understanding, like whether I should pursue an opportunity, or questions about my relationships, or guidance about overall life direction. The tarot has become an invaluable tool in my growth, evolution, and healing, helping me access wisdom that is beyond my limited understanding. And at the same time, is rooted deeply into the very fiber of my deepest knowing. It has strengthened my relationship with my intuition, given me vastly greater confidence in my judgement, and increased my ability to trust myself.

It is a joy to support others in discovering what the tarot has to share with them; I look forward to working with you!