When I bought my first deck of tarot cards, I’d never had a reading, and had only the foggiest theory of how they might work. I’d fortunately never heard the repressive advice, which I certainly don’t support now, that your first deck of tarot cards should be a gift from someone else. I had reached the end of a twenty year marriage and a point of severe disillusionment with all my former methods of navigating my life. While I’d been very successful as a kid by following all t

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In violation of genre, a former valedictorian becomes a self-published author

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