How Tarot Found Me -- My Tarot Story
I first dipped my toes into the world of tarot in 2019, when I was gifted my very first deck and I began to unravel the secrets of the ancient divinatory art. Soon after, the pandemic descended upon us, and the relentless isolation and deep uncertainty made it so that I could no longer avoid unraveling the secrets of my own psyche, as well. I knew that I had always experienced a profound sense of empathy, sometimes to my own detriment. Up until that point I did not know how to set boundaries around other people’s emotions. I felt an anxious responsibility to manage the internal environments of everyone around me, and this led me to develop acute observational skills of people’s body language and micro-expressions. I frequently (and accurately) “read” complete strangers’ emotional states, intentions, hidden secrets, and behavioral patterns, often before the person themself had become aware of them. Those in the metaphysical field call this “claircognizance.” In psychology...