About
"In spring, 1998, I was having a day out in Kingston (Surrey/London) with my then partner. We walked into a shop called Past Times (the chain no longer exists), and a box of Tarot cards for sale caught my eye. I knew what Tarot was because I had had two readings before: one when I was about 11 and one the year before in 1997. They were both good and fun readings, but it never once entered my mind to actually read the cards myself or for others. So... I didn't buy the cards, even though I sort of wanted to. But on walking out of the shop, the centre of the palms on both my hands started to itch like crazy. I'd never had such an itch before - I was scratching them red for half an hour until I couldn't take it any more. I said to my partner, 'I HAVE to go back to that shop and buy the cards.' So, I did. My hands stopped itching immediately after the purchase, and I began learning to read the cards that night." — Dianna |
Dianna is a fiction author and visual artist, as well as a qualified herbalist, Tarotist, and a trained healer using shamanistic practices and crystals since 1999. She's been reading the Tarot for others since August, 1998, and also works as an angel medium (non-denominational) having sensed, seen, and spoken to her guides and angels since childhood. She reads Tarot intuitively, but has also studied it hermetically and often incorporates traditional and cartomantic styles into her readings. She has created a deck of angel oracle cards, Messages from The Angelic Realm and is working on her own deck of Tarot cards. Get to know her style of reading on her YouTube channel.
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A love affair with TarotThis esoteric and mysterious system holds a special place in Dianna's heart and she has used the cards often throughout the years to help others find and develop their vision, and make sense of their experiences. They are a fantastic coaching and counselling tool.
She owns and loves to use a wide range of decks from the antiquated Sola Busca and Marseilles, to the acquired taste of Etteilla, to the ever popular Rider-Waite and Crowley's Thoth Tarot, to more obscure decks like the Ibis Tarot, the beautiful dark and gothic decks that push boundaries like Murder of Crows, and the newer additions of vibrant indie decks like The Lightseer's Tarot - they all tell a Querent's unique story in their own unique way. She is an unwitting collector of the cards (it all happened by accident!), but also uses all the ones she owns. Indulging her artistic streak, she created her own deck of Lenormand cards which she also reads with, and she has completed a deck of angel oracle cards (available here). As a Reader, she is intuitive, creative, visionary, and in-depth, taking a therapeutic approach that leans towards counselling and guidance. You may remember her (if you are local to the area) as "the one who read Tarot" at Neal's Yard Remedies, Guildford, back in 2003/2004, or at Psychic and Eco Fairs around the same area from 1998-2004. Tarot is most commonly used for your consult, sometimes with the addition of Lenormand or oracle cards if it will help offer clarity. |
Steering your shipIt's well accepted nowadays that Tarot is, generally speaking, not so much to do with "fortune-telling" as it is to do with spiritual and emotional growth, and helping to guide you into better clarity so you can make sound decisions in your life.
While potential pathways to your future can certainly be divined, the emphasis is on your own truth, your wants and desires, your own willpower, and how you are the captain of your own ship. Nothing about your future needs to be set in stone. So when we pick up on a potential outcome heading your way, know that it is for your guidance and contemplation, and for you to reflect on whether you really want that outcome or not. Because more often than not, it can be changed. |
Spiritual and past life guidance
Dianna's counsel naturally tends towards guidance, with spiritual and life coaching suggestions given if and as needed. She also draws on her experience and knowledge of shamanism and multi-cultural philosophies. One of her skills is past life connection, and it's not unusual for her to pick up on one of your past lives strongly when you walk through the door. Any past life guidance is always meant for the present and for this life, the connection with a past merely being a guiding star to navigate your current life, and usually to try and rebalance karmic situations. If you'd specifically like a past life reading, please state this when you request your session.