Contributors

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Adrienne Abeyta

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Adrienne Abeyta combines the symbolic systems of tarot, numerology, and astrology. She offers a contemporary approach as she connects modern psychology and spirituality in her readings. Her specialty is bridging the practical everyday world with the spiritual growth and evolution of each person. She believes in the capacity of individuals to discover their fullest potential and it is her gift to assist in this process. Adrienne is a certified life coach and owner of Five Muses Entertainment. www.Fivemuses.com Adrienne can be reached at 619-917-0998  adrienne@fivemuses.com

Have you checked out Adrienne's new website?  www.AdrienneAbeyta.com

Christina Bjergo, LAc

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Christina Bjergo is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Shiatsu Japanese Massage Therapist and Qigong Instructor. As a practitioner, she incorporates craniosacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, sound therapy, qigong/reiki energy work & earth medicine/shamanic techniques into her healing work. As a teacher, Christina enjoys helping students connect with the healing power of nature for greater vitality, intuition, creativity and joyful/authentic expression.

She is the author of the new book, The Tao of Tarot: "The Way" to Health, Happiness and Spiritual Illumination Through Qigong Dreaming available February 25, 2010.  Purchase or find out more information on her website, http://www.taooftarot.com.

Terri C.

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Terri C. is a featured reader at many local events in the greater Puget Sound area.  She has been reading since the age of thirteen.  She also works with Faerie Energy for reading and healing.  She specializes in Behavior Kinesiology and has guested on Seattle area radio stations. 

She is one of 111 featured authors in One Page Wisdom: Inspirational One-Page Writings from 111 People Worldwide published by Life Skills Australia and available as of December 1, 2009 from fine booksellers online and elsewhere.

She can be reached at terri.clement@gmail.com

Jeanne Fiorini

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Jeanne Fiorini has had a life long interest in the symbolic and the unseen.  She has studied transpersonal psychology at The Synthesis Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History, and has extensive experience with the symbols of the Tarot and archetypal psychology.

Originally from Upstate New York, Jeanne settled in South Portland, Maine in 1978, where she founded her business "TarotWorks" in 1991.

Now in her second decade as a Tarot practitioner and teacher, Jeanne blends the art of Tarot reading with practical guidance and useful information.

Her readings, classes and workshops all serve as reminders that the authentic life is the one worth living and that the world is, as John Keats said, "the veil for soulmaking."

Visit Jeanne at her website:  http://www.tarotworks.com or email her at tarotworks@tarotworks.com.

Leann Lester

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Leean Lester, a.k.a. “The Palmistry Lady”, has accumulated over 16 years of experience working in the fields of spiritual consultation and psychic readings, and specializes in both Eastern and Western interpretations of palmistry, tarot, and numerology.  Leean is an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church and Seattle’s Spiritual Healers & Earth Stewards.  

Leean is a regular guest on internet radio blogtalk.com, and was recently interviewed on local radio station KLAY.  Leean has lectured at both The Psychic Spectrum and The Body, Mind, & Spirit Expo.  She also makes personal appearances at numerous festivals and psychic fairs in the Puget Sound area.

Leean’s website can be found at: www.ThePalmistryLady.com.  She can be emailed at thepalmistrylady@yahoo.com, or reached by telephone at:  253-592-7497. 

Melanie Marquis

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Freelance writer and folk artist Melanie Marquis has been practicing and studying magic since childhood.  She has worked with Tarot cards for over twenty years, and she is the Assistant Editor of Tarot Reflections. She authors a column for the ATA Quarterly, and she has written for the Llewellyn JournalTarot PathwaysPentacle Magazine, and Circle Magazine. To subscribe to her new, free monthly e-mail newsletter, "Tarot Magic News," send an email to injoyart@yahoo.com

Melanie would also like to invite you to join United Witches, a global coven for Pagans and magical practitioners of all paths.  Check it out at www.unitedwitches.org!

Gary Meister, CTM

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Gary has been a proud member of the American Tarot Association for quite some time. He holds the title of Certified Tarot Master (CTM) from both The Associated Readers Of Tarot (T.A.R.O.T.) (now defunct) and the Tarot Certification Board of America. He is a lifetime member of the Magical Golden Dawn (MGD), an initiatic order descended from the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, established in 1888, and belongs to the Modern Essene Fellowship, a healing, teaching order.

He has studied Spiritual Tarot through correspondence courses from Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), a modern mystery school, and many other sources over the years. He holds certificates in Practical Metaphysics, Metaphysical Healing and Comparative Religion from the Gabriel Society (now also defunct), and he holds a certificate of Outstanding Achievement in "Intuitive Tarot" from UniversalClass.com.

He has made a lifetime study of all things spiritual and metaphysical, and has studied and read Tarot and Numerology for over twenty-five years.


Visit him at his website:  http://www.tarotmeister.com/

Emily A. Smith, PhD

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Emily A. Smith has a degree in Exercise Science and Wellness with a Minor in Nutrition and a Masters and PhD in Philosophy specializing in Comparative Religion from the University of Sedona. She went to the Atlanta School of Massage and completed the Clinical and Neuromuscular program there and attended the Dr.Vodder School International for Manual Lymph Drainage and Combined Decongestive Therapy and received very specialized training to work with people post surgery, post cancer or primary lymphedema and venious insufficiencies. She would love to open up a healing center for people to come and stay.

She is also a Usui and Karuna Ki Reiki Master and a Sivananda Yoga Instructor.

Over the past three years Emily began writing and exploring her creative side. She had a long, horrible bout with anxiety and wrote her way through a lot of it.

Emily is thrilled to have just released the book ANXIETY SUCKS! and has also written the book Awaken to Expanded Consciousness and another beautiful, funny book called Thank You MR. WRONG coming out in June 2009 and will be available for purchase on her website, http://www.spiritwavehealing.com.

Emily believes it is her mission to share with others the support that they are not alone in their anxiety, or their quest to finding greater awareness and consciousness.

Sheri Harshberger

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Sheri Harshberger has been working with the Tarot for many years and is thrilled to share her love of the American Tarot Association, Tarot and oracles with the world community as Editor of Tarot Reflections and as the Vice President of Outreach. Along with Terri C., she is also a featured author in One Page Wisdom. When not working on features and the Tarot Reflections website, or reading at a fair, she can be found on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum using the member name Sheri. 

She can be reached at reflections@ata-tarot.com or sheriharshberger@mac.com

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