![]() ![]() ![]() On Twitter, more than 130,000 people (along with 52,000 on Instagram) follow Dore’s daily draw of a card, which she then connects to psychological concepts, legends, myths and miscellanea as a prompt for introspection. ![]() These two strands – barriers to self-help, and tarot as a path to it – travelled together in Dore’s mind, culminating in a “strange and unlikely marriage”: she became a licensed social worker and full-time tarot reader. Tarot, she thought, could be a similar conduit to awareness and introspection. She had been struck by how the research she encountered through her job could help people to gain new insight into their thoughts, feelings and behaviours – if only they knew to seek it out. ‘You’re not predicting the future – you’re really just exploring.’ Photograph: Caroline Gutman/The GuardianĪt the time Dore was in her early 20s, a poet with a communications degree working as a publicist at a publisher of self-help and psychology textbooks. Jessica Dore holds tarot cards at her home in Pennsylvania. ![]()
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