I am Esme, and I perform Tarot readings in person, online, and by email. I have Tarot Deck Acquisition Syndrome, so the number of decks I have is absolutely obscene!
When I was a teen, I began telling fortunes with playing cards. I tried learning the system from books but soon found that the real insights about the lives of my friends at summer camp were coming from within, not from keywords on a page.
When I was in a period of major transition in my life I rediscovered my intuitive side. I had just moved to another state and was just beginning to realize that I was not living the life I wanted.
I discovered I had a knack for finding objects that had been misplaced by family members while unpacking our moving boxes, and wondered what else I could do with my intuition. I bought a Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck (that whole notion that you need to receive your first Tarot deck as a gift is a bunch of
hooey!) and that was the beginning.
Amazingly, when I admitted to my mother that I’d started reading Tarot, she told me that my great-grandmother, Cecilia, told fortunes with playing cards! She was known for her accuracy within her German community.
As my daughter begins her own journey with Tarot cards, laying down the pictures to see how they tell a story, this pursuit now spans at least five generations.