About

I have studied and worked with the Tarot, playing cards and runes since 2002, reading professionally since 2006.

I have been a long term contributor on astrology and Tarot sites, including Ask Astrology and Jessica Adams Sun Sign School

Other writing has been published in literary magazines, online digital publications and book anthologies (essays, flash fiction, short fiction and poetry. )

Background

My previous work background has included working in colleges of Further Education, teaching Business Studies, Design Theory, English Language and English Literature. Before this I worked in bookshops and Museums, and in Marketing, Training and Recruitment in both the private sector and the public sector.

Becoming a professional tarot reader

I became increasingly unwell in my late 20’s/early 30’s; a form of autoimmune arthritis. Matters became progressively worse. The pain was acute and unrelenting and I began to lose mobility. The doctors had few answers, nothing seemed to help with the pain, and I had to dig ever deeper in coping, still working, and with children still in school.

Psychic tendencies which I had long been aware of, but had previously resisted or ignored, now began to express themselves more strongly; dreams of precognition for instance. One of these was a medical dream which later checked out accurately by lab report.

One day someone gave me a Tarot deck. I was instantly drawn by the artwork and the stories embedded in it, and started out as readers generally do, reading for myself, and then for family and friends until I began to read at a service level for people I didn’t know, and then one day I was contacted by a journalist, and, with reservations, accepted an invitation to do two cold readings under test conditions as part of a feature with Fate & Fortune magazine. Things developed from there.

Working with the Tarot taps into and directs the reader’s natural psychic abilities. Forecasting or prediction is part of the tradition. But no-one has all the ‘answers.’ Just as modern medical science does not have the solutions, ‘cures’ or answers for every health problem.

What the Tarot can do is shine a light on a blind spot, or give us a sense of the odds, putting us in touch with a human understanding far more ancient than ourselves. Working with the Tarot, I have found that the world has only got wider, weirder at times, sometimes sadder, but always more astonishing.

‘Be thine own palace, or the world is thy prison.’ -John Donne.

The supernatural is natural. We are part of Nature.

But there is more in Nature than we know.

There is more in us.