Tarot and Tomorrow

I still find it very strange how a deck of cards can have so much bearing on an individuals life. I started my interest in the Tarot over 25 years ago and have only ever continued looking forward to trying to understand the symbolic meanings that stand before me. Having numerous decks from the famed Rider Waite to a more complicated Thoth deck, with meanings and interpretations all relevant to each other or should I say with the 1 billion different interpretations you can have from the normal 78 cards.

Hope I'm not boring you at this stage! Like I said my first initial interest in Tarot came during the Summer of 1980 when with a group of friends we plagued Blackpool Pleasure Beach looking for the thrill of the rides and the usual things associated with the Blackpool cult. It was then I like so many thousands before me saw the sign Gypsy Rose lee "Fortune Teller". Well with my long standing curiosity of the occult I have always had from an early age (tell you about that in a mo) I took the plunge and paid my money.

Having leapt into the small cabin with very worn curtains, beads and smell of I think rosemary to be met by an elderly woman of perhaps gypsy background and having all types of symbolic trophies about her small abode.

Sit down Sir, she spoke quietly! and politely asked what it was I was looking for, so I told her I would like a card reading. and without volunteering a question as such sat back .........it was at this moment that from out of the blue I felt a shudder or energy rush over me and so wanted to know more........she continued and told me I was very spiritual and would do great things, but had to take the journey of the fool to understand my destiny. As you can imagine I thought what a load of old rubbish until about 5 years later when reading the tarot for others did I realise that I really was the Fool and that my life and every one elses is likened with the tarot or Major Arcana

I still have the memories from that encounter with the fortune teller and the original deck I purchased some 5 years after the reading and to this day use regularly.

So, 25 years on my father and other members of my family, said one day in the Summer of 2009, why don't you do a course on Tarot (out of the blue) as you've always had an interest in it, do something about it, you can't continue being a builder and landscaper when your 70, eh ? where did that come from. He was right, I went home and searched for a reputable tarot teacher with reasonable rates. It was then that I found tarot Professionals in Cumbria and run by a guy called Marcus Katz and Lass called Tali. (now Tarot Professionals Ltd, both directors)

I was impressed with the package they offered and enrolled on the Tarot for beginners and then the intermediate and followed on with the advanced, I gained so much and they helped me piece together Tarot and the symbolic meanings and believe me so much more...............and so now I am a tarot Professional and give about 20% of my life to Tarot and Kabbalah (Please note that I am not a religeous person or practice christianity or even Judaism) I am my own icon or idol.