I have always felt drawn to all matters esoteric and spiritual and especially to the world of tarot. Not long after graduating high school, I applied for admission in a tarot card reader`s study. Luckily the Jungian institute that offered this two-year vocational training was located in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, the city where I was born and raised and still lived at that time. The training was not only focused on learning to read different decks, card spreads, etc., but also on using tarot as an empowering tool to help people with their problems. So not only as a divination means.

For some years I worked off and on as a card reader, ran tarot courses, and even worked in an anti-authoritarian high school for exceptional students as a volunteer tarot teacher for a few years but actually still yearned to learn more.

Because my school grades didn't meet the requirements that were needed to study at a university, I took an entrance examination, passed and went to Nijmegen University for four years to study comparative religion. I received my BA in religious studies and my MA in interreligious spirituality, both with honours. 

After moving to Germany with the love of my life, and creating our furry and feathered family of rescue animals, I worked there as a university lecturer and researcher and received my Ph.D in ritual studies with honours from TU Dortmund University.

Afterwards I continued to work at several universities in Germany as a researcher and lecturer, deepening my knowledge and fascination for religion and spirituality. 

Tarot however played a smaller part in my life while I focused on my work in academia and the two worlds seemed more and more incompatible.

After experiencing a dark night of the soul - which lasted longer than just a night 😉- I knew I had to find my way back to my true self. Somehow throughout the years I had lost the connection to what was most dear to me.

I reconnected with my soul and came to realize that I wanted tarot back into my life. I started building up my collection of new and vintage decks, started showcasing and unboxing them on YouTube, began rescuing incomplete tarot decks 😉and created my own game The Tarot Tiles 

I don't know what the next step will be on my journey but I will always be pleased to share my love for tarot with you!