I offer a range of skills that hopefully bring new perspectives and creative thinking and feeling to one's life. I use the Tarot, Transformational Coaching, Celtic spirituality education and theatrical creations to surface individual and communal wisdom and creative authority.

For nearly 25 years most of my work has been in the Twin Cities, my current home. I was fortunate to be dubbed "one of the best psychics" of the Twin Cities by The Metro Magazine. I have the honor to have taught many an inspiring student thru the Open U and then my own workshops.

I am a member of the American Tarot Association and the Twin Cities Tarot Meetup Group.

My Story

My very first Tarot deck was the Rider-Waite. I was 10 years old. My mother gave me the deck with the condition that she would take them back if they worked. You'd have to know my mom to understand that rule, I did.

My first opportunity to use my cards with others was a Show N Tell at my grade school. My teacher, Mrs. Biganti's curiosity was piqued when she saw my cards and asked for a reading. I laid down about 5 cards and did my best to tell her what each card told me thru their picture. Each card had a very definite message thru their story.

I told her that her new baby would be very healthy except for one little thing (what that one little thing was not revealed). I hadn't known that she already had a number of miscarriages and was quite nervous about this pregnancy, so she seemed very pleased. It was fun and almost forgotten until she gave birth to a child that had one ear malformed. Mom took the cards.

During the great upheaval of my early twenties which I refer to as my Medieval Period…dangerous, lusty, full of restlessness and pain, I met Jeff. He reawakened my love for the Tarot.

One evening, he laid the cards out dutifully in a Celtic spread and then looked up each one's definition in his book. I looked at the pictures as he read aloud from the interpretation book.

At one point, I remember being completely mesmerized by the Magician card. Thoughts and feelings were triggered like small explosions. The cards gradually spoke louder as Jeff's voice became a muted soundtrack. The images told me stories upon stories. I felt like Alice in Wonderland falling down, down, down after the magical rabbit.

Shortly after this reading, I decided to go to Mary, the one professional reader near my hometown in Pennsylvania. After being ushered to her kitchen table, she laid out a well-used playing cards. She started to read her cards marked all over with handwritten definitions.

At some point, she stopped talking, pulled all her cards together and started teaching me. She saw that I would be a great reader so I needed to get started. There is nothing like a calling to stir my Catholic girl's heart. That same evening at a birthday party, Jeff gave me my second Tarot deck, the Morgan Greer.

I would study one card every night by meditating on the images of each card. I would receive volumes of energy and information from some and barely nothing from others. I loved the experience of exploring the inner landscapes that these cards seemed to trigger.

Nearly a year later, I studied classical definitions by Rachel Pollack ("Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom"). Much to my surprise, my own intuitive base was like the heart, blood, and muscles to the bones of the traditional meanings. It was the true beginning of a very genuine foundation that serves me to this day.

Tarot quite literally opened my eyes to the power of Love in my life. I was still young and reckless with mine and others' hearts but my soul was discovering a language, a mirror, a teacher. If this was a labyrinth, I wanted to find it's center. I craved more.

I had read in the cards that my true teacher would be in the Twin Cities. When I arrived, I was disappointed with the rote, traditional ways of teaching that was offered. I didn't want to memorize meanings or use numerology or astrology as a way to understand Tarot. So I started teaching.

I wanted to explore an intuitive approach and figured that I might be a good tour guide for others that didn't want the memorization path. Both the students and I came to new ways of seeing the cards from our own creative authority. I learned how to verbalize my intuitive approach.

Exercises such as seeing each card as if it were a little movie or theater were playful and profound explorations. After years of these kinds of questions and exercises, I realized that I was the teacher that I read about years beforehand.

Then in 1995, my world changed dramatically by a visit to Scotland. My Celtic blood began to pound. I threw myself into research to learn more about the Celtic way of life. I feel as if that philosophy keeps me connected to Earth's cycles. It gave my Tarot way of learning how to be an exceptional human all the seasons and elements needed to stay grounded and real.

Recently I attended the Reader's Studio held every Spring in New York (www.tarotschool.com/ReadersStudio.html). I intend to go every year as my continuing education. My practice, philosophies and perspectives about Tarot have grown tremendously because of my gracious peers.

I am grateful for my work of witnessing the stories of my clients, colleagues and students thru the imagery of Tarot and Earth's seasons

 

 

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