Why My Approach to Tarot Is Different I don't know how you found your way here, but I believe everything happens for a reason. It may not be the reason we first expected, but I believe there is a reason our paths have crossed. You probably don't know much about me—the person behind The Tarot Academy—so let me tell you a little about myself. I was born in Sweden and moved to Spain the day before my 60th birthday. Back in Sweden, I spent many years working with Tarot and spirituality. During the 1990s I appeared in newspapers, magazines, and on television. In 1994, together with two friends, I founded The Swedish Tarot Association. My Swedish website is still called Tarotakademin, and today The Tarot Academy is its English sister. In 1993, I published my very first Tarot book, Tarot Step by Step. It was the first Tarot book ever written in Swedish. Since then, I've written sixteen books about Tarot and several more on other spiritual subjects. So, what makes my way of teaching different? To me, Tarot isn't simply a deck of cards. Tarot is a language. Or perhaps even more than that! I often compare it to the Akashic Records—a symbolic book containing the stories, experiences, and possibilities of life itself. The cards are simply the pages we learn to read. Every card is a symbol, and every symbol can tell many different stories. Just like a picture of a tree could represent an oak, a pine, a birch, or an apple tree, a Tarot card can have many different meanings depending on the question, the situation, and the person sitting in front of it. I probably read Tarot much like many other readers do. The difference isn't in the cards. The difference is in what I've discovered behind them. Over the years I've found a pattern—a system that connects Tarot with many other spiritual traditions. Once I understood that system, everything suddenly made sense. Today I naturally connect Tarot with runes, astrology, numerology, colors, crystals, spirit animals, trees, herbs, flowers, and much more. Not because they're separate subjects, but because they all speak the same energetic language. That's the part I love sharing. Because once you begin to understand the foundation beneath the symbols, Tarot becomes so much easier to read.