christina larson, seattle
My sojourn into the world of Tarot began one hot June day in Madison, Wisconsin. My friend and I had the same birthday and were just graduating from the University. We both gave each other a deck of Tarot cards as presents. I don't know if she ever touched them again, but by my next birthday, I had become a reader for my entire group of friends and family. For the next 5 years I traveled from Madison to Berlin to San Francisco and finally landed in Seattle, reading for everyone along the way.
Coming from an academic background has not made this path comfortable for me, but I get drawn to it again and again. I feel like what I do is part of the human experience...a person in the tribe that holds space for the inner world and the invisible reality that we swim through like fishes in water.
I come from a long line of spooky artists on my dad's side of the family and have been influenced by old world Catholics from my mom's. I had a great-aunt who, although she wasn't very friendly, used an old card deck from the northern lands and predicted the birth of my baby sister (I don't predict life or death by the way).
Over the years I have owned the (extremely) sensitive and psychic side of myself. And I honor that in my clients. It can be a struggle because this society doesn't really support people who choose to use their sensitive natures rather than suppress them. Intuition is seen as a 'female' thing that is less valuable than cold hard facts. In reality, our intuition is a massive information machine. If all humans were to listen to their gut feelings and tap into the cosmic channel we would be building paradise rather than hell on earth. I use my gifts to help my clients see and hear themselves in the midst of the psychic static in this capitalist, competitive information age.
Coming from an academic background has not made this path comfortable for me, but I get drawn to it again and again. I feel like what I do is part of the human experience...a person in the tribe that holds space for the inner world and the invisible reality that we swim through like fishes in water.
I come from a long line of spooky artists on my dad's side of the family and have been influenced by old world Catholics from my mom's. I had a great-aunt who, although she wasn't very friendly, used an old card deck from the northern lands and predicted the birth of my baby sister (I don't predict life or death by the way).
Over the years I have owned the (extremely) sensitive and psychic side of myself. And I honor that in my clients. It can be a struggle because this society doesn't really support people who choose to use their sensitive natures rather than suppress them. Intuition is seen as a 'female' thing that is less valuable than cold hard facts. In reality, our intuition is a massive information machine. If all humans were to listen to their gut feelings and tap into the cosmic channel we would be building paradise rather than hell on earth. I use my gifts to help my clients see and hear themselves in the midst of the psychic static in this capitalist, competitive information age.