Karmic Tarot: A Profound System for Finding and ... - myteacup

I had been reading Tarot cards for myself and those close to me since moving to Houston
from Brussels, Belgium in 1972. With the recession and my architecture practice dead
in the water, I was spending more time in the bookstore and customers began asking me
questions about the books I was selling. To my surprise and pleasure, I found myself able to
answer many of those questions. And, to even greater surprise, many people asked me to
read the Tarot for them.
In the fall of 1985 I accepted an invitation to do Tarot readings at the Renaissance
Festival in Magnolia, Texas. The intensity of that six-week event became a crucible in which
I received countless revelations about the origin and meaning of the Tarot. In reading
after reading, layer after layer of new insights came to me. One of those insights was that
the exchange of knowledge between the reader and the querent/readee is always equal.
The reader also learns in every reading. So my first thanks must go to the people I read for
on those cold weekends in Magnolia.
Thankfully, this book is now moving into its third edition. Rarely is an author given the
opportunity to clarify, much less add to, his original intentions. I was blessed with Kelly
Younger as editor of the first edition. She was the perfect balance of nurturing and discipline
that this overly sensitive, neophyte writer desperately needed.
I will ever be thankful to the editors of the second edition—Ed Buryn and Gina Rene
Gross, and the designer Michele Lance-Altomare. They added a maturity and commercial
consideration missing in the original.
Of special importance to any writer is the environment in which he lives and works. I am
fortunate to live in Austin, Texas where daily experience enriches everything I write about.
Friends and family here are a constant inspiration and support.
Everyone I have ever read the Tarot for is in me somewhere, especially those who have
studied with me. Two students in particular, Pat Morgan and Lee Sabrsula McGroty, have
been indefatigable Karmic Tarot enthusiasts and have woven its lessons into the fabric of
their lives and the lives of their own students.
Now, with this new edition from Career Press/New Page Books, I am able to go even
further in providing the reader with more pragmatic tools for using the Tarot. The editors—Mike
Lewis (Acquistions), Stacey Farkas (Managing), and Nicole DeFelice (Copy)—
have made me a better writer, and Karmic Tarot a better book. Nicole’s immersion into the
minutist details of the original book was extraordinary, enabling me to clarify and hone my
intended message, especially in the more complex philosophical passages. I could not have
asked for more. Thank you, editors.