Initially the tarot was for my personal use only. I charted my goals and planned out how I would pursue my ambitions with the aid of tarot. I found that tarot helped me stay on track, stay focused, and achieve exactly what I want to achieve. It also helped console me in times of grief, loss, and confusion. When the words and advice of well-meaning people couldn’t help relieve my pain, I found that the tarot could. For me, tarot has always been about self-empowerment.

Tarot is steeped in history, cultural knowledge, and is a science of the mind. The tarot reader is not a mystic, not a fortuneteller, and not a clairvoyant. The tarot reader could be you or it could be me, but he or she is someone who has taken the time to study tarot, practice tarot, and with that knowledge and experience, is there to help you relate to the tarot cards and find your own meaning. At his or her most effective state, the tarot reader is a conduit, and at most, the tarot reader is an erudite, someone who has taken the time to learn a field and apply that scholarship to help others solve their problems through an analytical process that involves archetypal imagery.