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About me
I first became intrigued by Tarot at the age of 15, when I received a Marseilles deck and a book on Salvador Dali’s Tarot as a birthday present. My interest in esoteric subjects and comparative religion grew over the next decade, following living and travelling in Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines, and studying in Europe. My equally eclectic professional life developed in multinational corporate roles working in a large London embassy, luxury goods, software, biofuels, and finance. From 1995, I undertook formal studies in Tarot in London, and occasionally read for the public in Covent Garden Market. Over the next ten years or so, while carrying out my corporate work life, I continued to study intensively and gradually became a respected practitioner and acknowledged expert in working with Tarot. In 2008, I was headhunted by Treadwell’s Bookshop of London, renowned for esoteric scholarship, where I worked for several years. I worked full time for nine years as a freelance Tarot consultant and tutor, but am now in another full time post that has me spending time between the UK and France. My mother’s family are from the Philippines, and are hereditary stewards of a holy well attached to a famed Catholic basilica outside Manila, built on a pre-Christian site. For centuries my Filipino family have performed this role, and have worked as healers and teachers. I have inherited this calling to community service as a means of connecting with the divine, which I express through my work in Tarot. |
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My readings bring you clarity about future trends and their influence, and with this, I encourage you to seize your opportunities and embrace a new perspective – to find how to make the most of your life. My job is about helping you understand and work your own magic in your life. I often describe my code for living as 'the path of the practical mystic,' and as such, being involved and engaged with the world is key.
I am a founder member of The International Cultural Society of London, on whose executive committee I currently serve. Charities and NGOs I support and have supported include Oxfam, DEC, the British Red Cross, the UNHCR (for their work in Mongolia, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti), Unicef, Amnesty International, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Kids Company, Operation Smile, and the Philippine Community Fund. I have also been involved with The London Adventure, founded by my husband - an informal society which has organised walking tours around forgotten artistic and literary London.
I have been active in the Tarot community of the UK by co-founding London's Tarot House (now defunct), a monthly group for consultants, students and anyone with any interest in Tarot. I was involved with Tarot Professionals in its early years, and active in building community events and networks among students and practitioners. I also sub-edited the first edition of the prestigious esoteric publication Abraxas Journal, and translated two essays for Abraxas Journal No. 3. I have also served as a Tarot consultant and special artist on a major motion picture, a TV documentary series, and the final show for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and worked on several occasions with the SPILL Festival and Pacitti Company, including performing the first ever reading with the SPILL Tarot deck.
Committed to ongoing professional development, I am in regular contact with international Tarot experts and other professional Tarot practitioners around the world, and have studied and correspond with leading Tarot teachers such as Rachel Pollack, Lon Milo DuQuette, and Amber Jayanti, as well as various established teachers and practitioners of alchemy, divination, light work, and healing from the Western ceremonial magic, druidic, and pagan traditions. I also support many interfaith initiatives and projects.
I have a strong clientele amongst corporate executives and City professionals -- a world I know well from my former professional life, and whose challenges and politics I appreciate. Being frpm Australian and Filipina heritage, and partly educated in France, I have many devoted clients among expatriates and people who negotiate cross-cultural family dynamics and are helped by an international perspective. I speak excellent French and conversational Italian, German, Russian and Japanese, though readings are always in my mother tongue, English.
I am a founder member of The International Cultural Society of London, on whose executive committee I currently serve. Charities and NGOs I support and have supported include Oxfam, DEC, the British Red Cross, the UNHCR (for their work in Mongolia, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti), Unicef, Amnesty International, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Kids Company, Operation Smile, and the Philippine Community Fund. I have also been involved with The London Adventure, founded by my husband - an informal society which has organised walking tours around forgotten artistic and literary London.
I have been active in the Tarot community of the UK by co-founding London's Tarot House (now defunct), a monthly group for consultants, students and anyone with any interest in Tarot. I was involved with Tarot Professionals in its early years, and active in building community events and networks among students and practitioners. I also sub-edited the first edition of the prestigious esoteric publication Abraxas Journal, and translated two essays for Abraxas Journal No. 3. I have also served as a Tarot consultant and special artist on a major motion picture, a TV documentary series, and the final show for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and worked on several occasions with the SPILL Festival and Pacitti Company, including performing the first ever reading with the SPILL Tarot deck.
Committed to ongoing professional development, I am in regular contact with international Tarot experts and other professional Tarot practitioners around the world, and have studied and correspond with leading Tarot teachers such as Rachel Pollack, Lon Milo DuQuette, and Amber Jayanti, as well as various established teachers and practitioners of alchemy, divination, light work, and healing from the Western ceremonial magic, druidic, and pagan traditions. I also support many interfaith initiatives and projects.
I have a strong clientele amongst corporate executives and City professionals -- a world I know well from my former professional life, and whose challenges and politics I appreciate. Being frpm Australian and Filipina heritage, and partly educated in France, I have many devoted clients among expatriates and people who negotiate cross-cultural family dynamics and are helped by an international perspective. I speak excellent French and conversational Italian, German, Russian and Japanese, though readings are always in my mother tongue, English.
