Why I Started Working With Tarot This Way
I didn't come to tarot looking for a party trick or a way to tell people what's going to happen to them. I came to it the same way I came to energy healing twenty years ago: curious, a little skeptical, and paying closer attention to what actually happened afterward than to what I was told should happen.
I keep a daily practice with the cards. I pull, I write down what I think a spread is telling me, and I check my own read against what the cards are traditionally understood to mean before I trust my interpretation. That habit, testing my own reading against a second opinion instead of just running with the first thing that feels true, is exactly the muscle I bring into a session with a client. I'm not asking the cards to tell me the future. I'm using them to slow a conversation down long enough to actually see what's in it.
"The cards don't know anything about you that you don't already know. What they're good at is making you say it out loud."
What Tarot Actually Is, Historically
Worth saying plainly, since most people's first association with tarot is a fortune teller in a dark room: tarot cards started as a card game. They were invented in northern Italy in the 1440s for a trick-taking game called tarocchi, popular among the same nobility who played chess and bridge. It wasn't until the late 1700s, roughly three hundred years later, that occultists in France began attaching divinatory and esoteric meaning to the deck.
I mention this not to undercut the practice, but because I think it actually clarifies what tarot is good for. A deck of 78 cards, each built around a recognizable human archetype or life situation, the tower falling, two people at a crossroads, someone carrying more than they can hold, is a genuinely well-designed tool for surfacing a situation in symbolic terms. That's a real, useful function whether or not you believe any card carries mystical foresight.
How I Use the Cards in a Session
In a session, tarot isn't a separate product from everything else I do, it's one of the tools available inside the same 45 minutes as energy healing, Thought Field Therapy, and straight coaching conversation. A typical way it shows up:
We start with what's actually bringing you in, the same intake I'd do for any session
If a card pull feels useful for what you're carrying, I'll pull a small spread and we talk through what it's surfacing, together, out loud
Whatever comes up often becomes the actual target for energy work later in the same session, the cards point at something, then we go address it directly
The point isn't the cards themselves. The point is using them to get to the real thing faster than a normal conversation usually does, especially the first time we're talking.
What This Isn't
I want to be straightforward about this, the same way I'm straightforward about energy healing not requiring belief to work. I'm not claiming to predict your future, tell you when you'll meet someone, or diagnose anything. If a card traditionally associated with an ending comes up, that's a prompt to talk about what's actually ending in your life right now, not a prophecy.
If what you're looking for is a psychic reading in the classic sense, someone claiming to see specific future events, that's a different thing than what I offer, and I'd rather tell you that directly than let you book a session expecting something I'm not doing.
What a Combined Session Looks Like
Every session is still 45 minutes, still one price, still booked the same way. Tarot-guided reflection is one of the tools I draw on depending on what you actually need that day, alongside energy healing and direct spiritual coaching (Thought Field Therapy is on the way, certification in progress). You don't need to request tarot specifically. Tell me honestly what's going on, and if the cards are the right tool for getting there, we'll use them.