1963 -1973
Standard Playing Card Pack the journey begins
My journey to spiritual gifts started with Cartomancy using standard playing cards. Cartomancy was the most popular form of providing card readings in the 18th through to the 20th centuries.
This may sound odd to many through a standard pack of playing cards I started to read after receiving info from the spirit world while playing adult games with family. I was all of 9 or 10 years of age and was invited to join the adults (Mother, Father and Grandfather. I did not know at that time I was connecting to spirit and referred to the pack as the talking cards and used them for close to ten years
Standard Playing Card Pack the journey begins
My journey to spiritual gifts started with Cartomancy using standard playing cards. Cartomancy was the most popular form of providing card readings in the 18th through to the 20th centuries.
This may sound odd to many through a standard pack of playing cards I started to read after receiving info from the spirit world while playing adult games with family. I was all of 9 or 10 years of age and was invited to join the adults (Mother, Father and Grandfather. I did not know at that time I was connecting to spirit and referred to the pack as the talking cards and used them for close to ten years
1973
My First Tarot Deck
The very popular "Tarot of the Witches" Deck and set, made popular by Jane Seymor in the 007 Movie "Live and Let Die" back in the early 70's was my first tarot pack. It was not until the James Bond film Live and Let Die came to New Zealand that Tarot was even allowed and it was only due to clever marketing by US Games that it happened. US Games had secured the rights to reproduce the witches’ tarot as the James Bond 007 Tarot Deck for the film in which Jane Seymour as Solitaire the tarot reader would use the pack. Introducing the package as a game not a tarot pack allowed it to sneak in to New Zealand a country at that time banning tarot and labeling such as "occult"
My First Tarot Deck
The very popular "Tarot of the Witches" Deck and set, made popular by Jane Seymor in the 007 Movie "Live and Let Die" back in the early 70's was my first tarot pack. It was not until the James Bond film Live and Let Die came to New Zealand that Tarot was even allowed and it was only due to clever marketing by US Games that it happened. US Games had secured the rights to reproduce the witches’ tarot as the James Bond 007 Tarot Deck for the film in which Jane Seymour as Solitaire the tarot reader would use the pack. Introducing the package as a game not a tarot pack allowed it to sneak in to New Zealand a country at that time banning tarot and labeling such as "occult"