Friendly, person-centred readings by a practitioner with over twenty years experience.
On a family holiday in Blackpool I found a secondhand book on tarot. I wasn't yet twelve years old, but even then I sensed a dark glamour and wisdom in the tarot. Queens and emperors; scenes of infatuation and devastation; demons, angels and grinning skeletons – here was an enigma to be deciphered. Looking back, that first encounter coincided with a growing awareness of the world at large, and all its mysteries.
My first deck was a 1JJ, bought from Woolworths, which I still sometimes use. (Although these days, I prefer the Rider Waite, or Scapini.) At first I performed readings for school-friends – completely adolescent stuff. Yet although my interest waxed and waned, I always kept a tarot pack amongst my belongings.
At university, my cards saw the light of day more than I'd imagined. A degree in English exposed me to the classics. The themes of the tarot were all around me, and I realised how the grand myths of western culture were made of exactly the same stuff.
I also encountered psychoanalysis for the first time. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung seemed to describe how tarot symbolism reaches into the depths of the personality.
Since then I've read and studied, gaining knowledge through paid and unpaid jobs. I've worked in IT. I've worked in the voluntary sector, counselling people from disadvantaged groups. I've been a teacher of teenagers, grown-ups and postgraduate students – all of which has taught me what can't be learnt from books: how to communicate effectively the wisdom of the cards.