A Warm Hello

I’m so glad you’re here. I mean that. I’m what you’d call an OG Blogger. I started publishing my thoughts on the internet almost twenty years ago. Through my blog, I made friends. I learned content marketing. I connected with people like Becca from Becca Paro Design Co who helped me with my very first website, the website you’re on, and countless others in-between.

While this blog will be mostly Tarot focused, I will also pull back the curtain on my life, share my musings, rituals, and anything else I am led to write about.

For now, let me tell you how I found Tarot…or how Tarot found me.

Growing up in New Orleans, Tarot intrigued me from childhood, but it was considered taboo in my home, which only intensified my desire. It took nearly four decades for the fates to prepare me, but my life changed when I received my first tarot deck. I’ve spent the last 6+ years learning to better understand this practice, honoring its history, and knowing deep in my soul that this is a gift and a calling I get to share with others.

It was my 39th birthday, and I stood in my living room unwrapping my present, a Tarot Deck that I never asked for. Once I processed the words atop the decorative, orange box that read “Easy Tarot” I was captivated.

Despite growing up Evangelical and with a healthy dose of fear around all things mystical, I knew immediately and in the deepest part of me that this was something.

I didn’t know what, I just knew the cards were worthy of my respect and reverence. I examined the cards, knowing I had to explore this connection that I couldn’t fully wrap my mind around, but I felt with every fiber of my being.

Later in the evening, after the birthday festivities, I opened the deck’s accompanying guidebook and one of the first things I read was instructions to place the cards under your pillow to help you connect with them. So I did just that.

Over the coming days, I devoured the guidebook, attempted to “read” the cards without knowing anything about them. I journaled my thoughts about each card, and looking back, I am still surprised by how strong my intuition was right out of the gate.

I dove deep into study and practice, learning all I could about Tarot’s history, meaning, and how I could incorporate it into my life and the lives of those around me. I didn’t set out to start a business, I didn’t even set out to be a reader, but I am grateful every day to be able to do this.

My love affair with Tarot began seven years ago, and I had no idea where it would take me. Since then, so many things in my life have changed, but my respect for the cards, my desire to help others, has remained.