Thank you so much for being here.
I’m Victoria, the founder of Tarot & Transformation and the original Tarot coach (according to ChatGPT).
I discovered Tarot in 2016, and since then I’ve been integrating it in more and deeper ways into my work. I work with Tarot everyday with executives of multinational organisations, in group coaching settings, with my son and my loved ones, and for my own spiritual practice.
In 2021, I created a popular beginner's Tarot programme that was called Coaching with Tarot - the forerunner of Tarot & Transformation.
I am completing an MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, with my research topic focussed on Tarot as a tool for psychospiritual growth.
Meet Victoria, executive coach and Tarot scholar.
(That's not just hyperbole, I'm actually writing my Masters thesis in Tarot...)*
Tarot & Me
In 2016, a year after quitting my corporate career, I walked into the Strand bookstore in New York on a freezing December day. Wandering the stuffy, maze-like basement, I bumped into a table with a printed sign, ‘Esotericism’. It wasn’t a term I knew; in fact it may well have been the first time I’d ever seen the word. The volumes on the table have all faded from memory now, with the exception of a bright yellow book covered in collage, entitled ‘The Creative Tarot’ (Jessa Crispin, a personal favourite). I picked up that book without thinking, bought it, and read it cover-to-cover on the flight back to London.
That was the start of my relationship with Tarot, and my first step on a path that has brought me here, where I occasionally dress up as my favourite Tarot archetypes and my husband sadly shakes his head…
How I work with Tarot
Today, I use Tarot as a core part of my coaching practice with individuals and groups, alongside other modalities such as systemic coaching and somatic awareness.
Sometimes it’s simply a mirror for peoples’ intuition, sometimes it’s a way of mapping different parts of a situation, and sometimes it’s a bridge to a higher wisdom. It all depends on the client and the context.
I find that Tarot works exceptionally well with cognitively-biased individuals, as it helps us get out of the limited ‘rational’ mind and connect to the deeper parts of our psyche, where myth, symbolism and universal human experience reside.
What I believe about Tarot
My relationship with Tarot is constantly evolving, not least as a result of the role it has played in my studies for the last three years. I believe it is a powerful psychological tool, and increasingly it is also a spiritual practice for me, bringing me into contact with what I experience as a creative, loving higher power.
I do not believe it can tell the future, because our future is created by the choices we make each day. But it can certainly help us make choices that are more aligned with our true nature.
