T E S T I M O N I A L S
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I wanted to thank you so much for a wonderful work, and a great book. I know why i found you now. Thank you, god bless you for the goodness and light that you bring to this world.
Danielle

Danielle
USA
Dear Josie,

I have had my own tarot cards for years but I could not master them. I knew what was good and not so good, but that was it. Then, I read your book and I am so glad I did! My technique and knowledge has sky-rocketed, following your guidance. Thank you!

Amanda

Amanda
USA
Dear Josie,
I m happy finally that I found your site and I can write you a few words. I bought your book throu Internet. As you also write, I've been purchasing a lot of different decks, but yours was and is, very powerful in my hands. After two years reading I feel that the deck speaks to me more than I could expected and whatever I SEE comes true very quickly. You use a very nice language and I am really enjoing the book. I hope that everything is fine and I wish you the best.
Eleni!

Eleni
Greece
I have just finished reading your wonderfull book on How to read the cards and now I am béginning to really learn what you teach us. Thank you, at my age it is a wonderfull thing to be able to guide myself at the lat stage of my life, and beleive me I am not ready to go, this will be so much of a guidance. Thank you again

Roch

Roch
Canada
I have just picked up the Easy Tarot Handbook here in Canada and I just love it. I took a course last summer using the rider-waite deck and have purchased a number of books, but was finding it all bogging down. I am just starting all over again with your book. Today when I did the two of wands, I actually "got" it. Thank you so much. I really wanted to use the tarot for my own personal development rather than doing readings for someone else . Your book is helping me much more than any other that I have picked up. Maybe they will add more layers later on. But for now, this is just perfect. And I must say that I love the cards. The Gilded deck is beautiful.

Ida Gardiner
Canada
Namaste!
Good Morning and Happy February ! I can't even express how much the Tarot Trends has helped me develop my reading skills and I am also amazed at the accuracy of the readings I have started a "scrapbook" of these and refer to them to hon my skills, again Thank You Josie !

Mike
USA
Thank you!

Josie, I received the Easy Tarot kit for Yule and I am blown away!! The book you've written is easy to read, concise and really makes it easy for someone to take up the Tarot. I've always had problems retaining information about the cards in the past, but your techniques have helped me retain more information than ever!

Marchetti's illustrations on the cards are astounding! This is a very gifted artist and I'm happy he found is own path to the Tarot.

Christopher

Christopher
USA
Hello! I have been using your deck for nearly one year now. Its the third deck I came into in trying to learn how to use the cards. The first thing I noticed is how beautiful they are. Now that I have been using them, I find they are so far they only deck that actually "speaks" to me. Thank you so much for the deck and your "Easy Tarot Handbook". I've learned so much journaling daily spreads. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your gift with others! Namaste, Jennifer

Jennifer Cummings
USA
Creating Easy Tarot with Josephine was a joy. I was lucky enough to be involved with this project from the beginning and had the special vantage point of seeing this product emerge from proposal to completed kit.

I liked her manuscript immediately because the greatest gift a beginning tarot book can give is to bring practical information to the next generation of tarot readers, and at the same time, offer new insights to seasoned professionals.

Josephine’s talents as an author are many. Her ability to maintain a beginner’s mind while being true to her expertise is impressive; her commitment to readers is unwavering. We picked The Gilded Tarot because it was the deck she loved. Josephine created Easy Tarot for you.

Watching her project materialize in front of my eyes was thrilling. Working with Josephine was a gift. To be some small part of the process was and is an honor.

Lisa Finander - Developmental Editor, Author, & Consultant Specializing in Mind Body Spirit Tools for Growth
USA
I bought this box set of the Gilded Tarot cards with this book, as I am interested in the tarot, and have struggled to read my Thoth deck for years. So I decided to buy a self help book on the tarot and a new deck. The cards are beautiful, but most importantly the book is fantastic! It has helped me so much, and finally I have learned the basis of each card and now feel relaxed using them.

Josephine teaches you to work through each card slowly starting with the Minor cards, then the Court and lastly the Major. She then takes you onto the spreads. One thing that really helped me to learn the cards, is when you draw a card she asks you to write down a situation that you remember happened in your life, it's something what each card reminds you of and it helps when drawing the card. It was really good and really does help.

The book feels like good quality, the pictures are black and white, and it would have been nice to see them in colour. But the information in this book made up for it.
If you're a beginner to tarot, this box set will be invaluable to you. It is so worth it and I highly recommend it. To top it off, the cards are stunning and are worth having in your Tarot collection.

Margo
UK
After struggling with my first tarot deck for years, I put them away and have been learning tarot with this box set. Which includes the stunning Gilded tarot deck, and a very helpful easy to understand book on the gilded tarot. I wish I had found this ages ago, I would be an experienced reader by now if I had. If you're like me, someone who has wanted to learn the tarot but has struggled for a long time. Then this deck is for you.

I highly recommend it.

Maggie
UK
Review
I would recommend the set to any beginner who is looking for a straightforward and logical way to study the tarot.' The Tarot Reader: The Quarterly e-zine from TABI (The Tarot Association of the British Isles) Issue number 24: Mid-Summer 2007 --TABI (The Tarot Association of the British Isles, Issue #24, Mid-Summer 2007

The Tarot Association of the British Isles
Hello Josie,

I have just read my first amazingly insightful reading. You touched upon so much considering the scant information I gave you. At a very low ebb I was looking for some hope...........so thankyou.
I am currently working my way through your book and enjoying the process very much, so thank you for that too.

Best wishes, Val

Val
UK
Hi Josie,
I have your book and have found your teaching of the Tarot just what I was looking for! I have wanted to learn for quite some time and have probably tried to work with 4 or 5 different decks and teaching tools but was not able to grasp the concept until I found your book with the Gilded deck. Thank-you again.
Kimberly

Kimberly
USA
Hi Josie
I just wanted to let you know I enjoyed reading your Book very much, I purchased the tarot and book last week, I was very much drawn to the tarot deck, I do have several other tarot deck, none which have I feel tuned into as much as I do with this new deck.

I have read the book from front to back. I'm sure every time I read the book and practice the tarot I will read something new. Thank you for the wonderful and easy ways you teach in this book. The cards are absolutely beautiful.
Love and light
Patricia

Patricia
Texas, USA
Hi Josie,

I just wanted to thank you very much for your easy to read guide on doing the tarot. Ive done a few readings for myself to start with and they have been very accurate.

The tarot has made me realise that I need to focus on myself and not try and please other people.
thank you again
emma-jane

Emma-Jane
I just want to say thank you for the one card reading. I was waking up each morning with a tension headache with worry over all of the horoscopes I have been reading for the winds of change coming for September for Gemini's. They kept saying that a big shake-up was coming in the household. You have given me an awesome piece of mind. I have purchased your book set and have read the book (as I really love to read) and am now re-reading it and following all of your advice and reccomendations to a T. Since I have not gotten it all the way finished, I of course was not able to do an actual reading for myself, hence the worry I was feeling as well as my husband was feeling. You are the only person I would have trusted to do any sort of reading for me at all and I will definitely have you do another for me in the next coming weeks. You are awesome! Thanks! Kathy

Kathy
Josie my name is Ivy, i have been going through alot in my life over the past two years, i have found it comforting reading your weekly readings..keep it up you do a great service...Ivy

Ivy
Hi Josie
I have been receiving your newsletters/readings for just over a year now. Thank you for taking the time to do this. It means a lot to (I'm sure) a lot of people. We all need a little guidance once in a while!

D. Chalut
Ontario, Canada.
Hello Josie,
My reading with you was absolutely awesome and informative. I really appreciated your patience in answering all my questions, and advising me not to give up, when I was definitely going to, because of my feeling of hoplessness. I also appreciated your going the extra mile in putting my situation out for your other clients to join with me in turning it out into the universe for help. Because of your positive influence, I am now much stronger and determined to keep pushing on. God bless you always.

Cora
Canada
Dear Josie,

Every saturday I am opening MY PAGE from learn-tarot-cards.com website to read my weekly predictions. It is inspiring, accurate and enjoyable. I have given your website address to some of my professional engineer friends. I don't know, how do you choose these cards. It is a kind of miracle. God bless you.

Greetings from Calgary, Canada

Md. Rabiul Islam
Calgary, Canada
What a wonderful site Josie. I bet the hard work was all worth it. I have ordered your book already, and I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the weekly readings that you have provided me with since I joined. For most of the time they have been absolutely true! They have really helped me especially when I went through difficult times. I so much enjoy them every single week. I sincerely hope that all your wishes come true.
Best Regards

.......got married last dec...

Dolores (Dear) Goodey
Hi Josephine,

I wanted to thank you for you free weekly tarot readings. I must say that at first I did not think that any of the readings would mean anything to me because their are so many other sites that offer free readings and usually the comments do not even apply to anything that is going on in my life, but I still believed that one day I would find a site that would help me with issues that were going on in my life that I wished someone could help me understand. Then the week of February 19th you sent me my reading and I couldn't believe how much you helped me understand where my relationship was going with my boyfriend. I am truly grateful for your readings because I have never been happier with my boyfriend, we recently got back together and the love is just growing more and more everyday.

I sent you an email that day, thanking you for the advice, and I was even more suprised to get a reply from you. That was when I really realized that you were very serious about your service and that you take out the time to listen to everyone. That makes your site even more comforting. To know that you are a real person and your service is done from your heart is very comforting.

Thanks again.

Natalia Holguin
Bronx, NY USA
HI Josie,

I just wanted to say thank you for sending me the Tarot Trends. I print them and read them and then keep them all together in a special file.I really appreciate them,as they definitely increase my Tarot knowledge. I can't wait for your book to come out in May.I have been studying Tarot now for two years and have now begun to give readings(still practice readings,as this is what I need now). Anyway, thanks again Josie and please keep up this "labour of love" for us.We all love you for it.Best wishes and love.

Irene Griffiths
UK
Hi Josie,

I just wanted to say thank you for the tarot reading I love it! Everything is always right on the mark. Sincerely

Michelle
Josie,

I have been reading with interest every week the Tarot cards and I have to say you really are spot on, I have made great progress with my boyfriend by knowing when the time seemed right to make certain moves and would just like to say a very big thank you as it now seems to be paying off.

Thank you for all your help

Pam
Hello,

just to let you know that the tarot trends you gave me last week were correct. After an argument with my partner and some misunderstandings he has decided to commit and move in with me, and the engagement ring is ready.

ML
Josie, my cards have been right on. I have been working hard towards getting into a new career and was just accepted into my program. "If you've been considering a career move or change, further study or a new learning course then now would be an opportune time to take some definite steps and do something about it.

Thank you so much for the encouragement. Sharon Lloyd"

Sharon Lloyd
Hi Josie,

I absolutely have enjoyed your tarot trends for many weeks now and always look forward to them. I am always in awe at the accuracy they tend to reveal.

Regards

Vicki Toohey
Thank you for your readings, they always inspire me every week.

Much Love

Sultana Bamidis
thanks a lot josie im so gratefull to you for saying words like this. my life was in a turmoil.i lost love and without a job with loads of talent. i thought i was worth nothing

thanks again
love, jaishri

Jaishri
Hello josie

thank you. i just wait for your tarto reading every week it make me feel very happy and gives me the courage and brings back asmile on my face. How are you keeping.

take care

rasila kapoor
India
I allways look forward 2 your tarots 2 days are spot on in both areas of my life;and it gives me the extra encouragement 2 keep moving forword and around the little bumps that pop up now and then.many thanks.

take care god bless

tess osler
Dear Josie

... thank you for your readings ... this last one really light up the way for a much positive thinking ... lately I have been very stressed out due to the lack of employment among some other issues that are part of my life at the present moment, but God is watching us from a distance, and I'm sure that he's putting me trough the test... may God bless you dear... attentiously ...

Joaquim... ( JACK )
josie i would just like to say thank you so much for my weekly updates i relly look foeward to them and your sincerity overwhelms me i would like you to send me the form for a full reading please if thats possible and keep up the good work i feel your like a little angel on my shoulder kind regards june xx

June H
Scotland
hey josie
read ur mail
thank u mam...... realy inspiring reading, atleast it is 4 me as i have completed my graduation and i am now going 2 delhi ( the capital state on india) 2 persue my mba( masters of bussiness administration) so i was a little nervous, but i am a lil more motivated... hope u'll keep sending me such beautifull inspiring eveluations. n even i am following football so even i wish that the best team wins. well thats all i had 2 say. hope all is well with u. hv a nice time god bless u 2
bye

sandhya
Hi,Josie

My best wishes are for you.Let GOD fulfill your talent to serve mankind.

your's lovingly

Bijay Kumar Acharya
India
Once again Josie,

You are a legend. Thank you so much for my reading. It is so much appreciated. You may never know just how much so.

Love and light.

June
Thank you for my weekly tarot readings. It is amazing how accurate they have been. 3 weeks ago you said I would be signing contracts and we were moving house. I am also looking for a new job which you have picked up on and would like to change my career but have been thinking of the difficulties involved. You make me realise that anything is possible if you put your mind to it. Thank you again

kind Regards

Jane Gardler
GB
Jossie
I just wanted to let you know that everything you mentioned worked out. I have chosen my "path" and hopefully my road will lead me to where I belong. I truly appreciate everything you have said to me and helping me with my Tarot readings. They really help me through my week when I am not understanding that the world I am living.. is not about to fall apart. Thank you so much for answering me so promptly. You are a wonderful woman!!

Always

Jordan Campbell
Hi Josie,
I have been receiving your Tarot readings for the last two months and i have to say how accurate they have been. I work off shore - at the moment i am working in the Red Sea Eygpt my work rotation is six weeks on six weeks of on my departure for my last leave i spent some time in Dubai UAE i had been dating a Women there with no intention of getting serious but your predictions for that week became dangerously true i fell head over heals in love with this women your Tarot reading had no influence on this happening to me i never suspected it would but how close and accurate you have been in my lifes fortunes in closing i would like to thank you.

Your Friend

Paul
Canada
Hello JOsie
i must thank you for the tarot readins i am recieving from you i can't tell you how much they hit things right on the head , keep up the good work thank you so much again.

with sincere thanks

annamaria adams
Josie - I've had many readings, but honestly, you are the best. I have dealt in the past with 'Lady Brenda' who at first was really good, but you, are fantastic! Thanks so much

Sharon
Thank you for your reading last week, it was so true of my week, thank you so much for your help,

suem
UK
Thank u so much... i have no idea how u do this but it's always so accurate. It restores my faith and helps me keep going, the "love bit" always seems to describe what i'm going through... i also feel that u r indeed talking to me and that makes it so nurturing to my spirit... well, i won't take more of your time and again thanks a lot ... and many blessings 2 u.

Sandra Scarborough
USA
I can't thank you enough Josie, for your readings. I mean i've visited many Tarot sites..but none as ACCURATE as your Tarot Trends. Don said they are simply mind blowing and i couldn't agree more!!! THANK YOU and bless you and your family.

Sunshine
Malaysia
Josie,

I guess this is what you might call a testimonial. One that involves your readings and how they have indirectly affected my life. I am not the one who has been receiving readings from you, but rather a very sweet lady I recently met on a website where I had just begun to exhibit my artworks. She was looking for an outlet for her own artworks and somehow stumbled upon this site and saw my works. She contacted me having no knowledge of who I was or what I looked like, because I was new to the site and had not input my biography or picture yet.

A short email complementing my works and simply signed "Sunshine" was sent to me via the site. Well, I was flattered (who isn't?) quite frankly, and wrote back thanking her and asking a few probing questions. Well as you may have already guessed, this has blossomed into a beautiful relationship which is on the verge of becoming real instead of virtual. She it turns out, is 13 hours ahead of me in time zones. In other words, on the opposite side of the planet!

My friends whom I have confided wanted to know why i couldn't find someone nearer home. But of course, that was never a consideration. In fact, I hold to the notion that I was not looking for any one in my life at all. I am in my late 50's, recently laid off from a teaching job at the college level, and divorced 3 times. I was, in a word, depressed. I hated to go over my sad mental state at the time. Worrying about money and survival in general, having quite frankly thoughts of my own demise. Never remembered being so hopelessly lost before.

One evening in my most darkest hour, i prayed a simple prayer for someone to come into my life and save me from myself. I can't hold back the tears relating this to you Josie as I am so touched by it. On Valentine's Day, the email from "Sunshine" appeared in my inbox, bringing me joy right from the start with her encouraging comments. As we became more closer over the past three weeks, she shared with me some of your readings and how they seemed to somehow relate to our relationship. I have to say, I was stunned by the accuracy of your Tarot Trends.Your first Tarot Trend to her (before we even met!) predicted my 'arrival' and personality! She was advised to seek out this King of Cups..."with something simple such as a passing comment.." Another reading told her of a 'someone, somewhere' who will be most helpful in her career. At the same time i also kept hearing a song entitled "I know you are out there somewhere" which seemed to speak directly to my soul!

Since then, Sunshine has not only become a part of my life, but my main focus in life. Only four days after starting correspondence I realized she was my foremost, and most important interest. I would check her emails eagerly first and answer them before doing anything else. She only realized today that I am supposedly this 'King of Cups' based upon my birthdate! (Your reading also stated "For men who fit this description...they should expect to hear some positive news now) Wow! It is as if we are predestined to meet!

My job, career and financial problems have diminished in importance. They are still there and have not changed much, but they don't seem so insurmountable now. I felt that my little prayer has been answered. No question about that. I was raised Catholic though not the religious type, but I find myself praying at times when I am really desperate. If anyone deserves to have a prayer answered I think I would be at the end of the list.

I look forward to more of your readings and will 'monitor' them with great interest. I hope "Sunshine" will tell her side of our lovestory because I really want to share our testimonial with people who may not believe in the power of fate, kismet, destiny..the Tarot, Higher Power or God...? But something is definitely going on here that is outside the power of man and our ability to control it. I, the sceptic is simply blown away!

Thanks

Don
USA
HI josie just wanted to say wot a good idea the tarot tremds are such an excellent way of showing hoe the cards link with eachother,they certainly help me develop my card reading skill, many thanks.

Edwina Ward
UK
Dear Josie,

I haven't written to you yet but I just want you to know grateful I am that you are providing this service, it always seems to be in tune with what's going on in my life so it's great and an uplifting thing to look forward to each week. I'm hoping in particular this week's predictions will manifest for me. So many positive blessings to you Josie. Have a great day. xxxx .

Charlene
UK
Thank you Josie

You cannot imagine how you inspire me with Your weekly Tarot card readings. I am truly greatful for them. This weeks is so timely, in that in my spirit/intuition i sense that I am in a great place in my life for many GREAT things. Love, career change and financial overflow. I feel that manifestation of these things are within reach. Thank you for your wonderful gift. You are realling blessing my life and so many others.

My wish is that the abundance returns to you doubly.

Valarie Minus
Bahamas
Spot on once again, each week that goes by, your tarot readings have become very significant in my life. They are on the button every time. I have started to trust all the advice I recieve from them now because it works! I don't know how you do it Josie, but Thank You because right now your guidance is very much needed.

in love and light.....

Dolores
Hi Josie,

I just want to say thank you so much for taking time to send me these tarot readings every week, I really look forward to getting them, good new, bad new, or indifferent.. I know I am the master of my destiny, but it really helps to know if it is a good time to take chances, risks, or whatever..
love and light be with you

Paulia
USA
I look forward to your tarot readings every week. Each time they arrive in my email box I am thrilled. So much of what is told to me in your readings are very, very true to the things happening in my life right now. To start with, I've finally got that Marriage Proposal that was predicted. Although it was on the cards anyway, I never thought it would be so soon. But there you have it. Your guidance through the tarot are actually inspiring me to move forward in all areas of my life. For instance, I'm going through some negative stuff in my work at the present moment, your tarot readings are helping me to move forward without being frightened to act when I should. Thank You! I much appreciate your advice.

bye for now

Dolores
Dear Josie,

I would like to thank you for your free personalised newsletter which is E mailed each week. I was randomly surfing the net and was meant to find your sight. I have had a lot to think about recently in both work and my relationship. I have only received two newsletters to date, but am truly overwhelmed by how accurate the predictions have been in my current situation. The guiding advice given is also warm and sincere. I find myself impatienly waiting for the next newsletter! The additional healings are a thoughtful process too.

Wishing you every success and luck.
Bright Blessings and love

Marcella
Turkey
Dear Josie,

I write this letter to acknowledge what an excellent web site you have. The weekly tarot trends to date have been accurate and inspirational! Your care, support and kindness have been appreciated. I feel we are great friends contacting each other from the other side of the world. I always look forward to reading your weekly tarot trends for the upcoming week and additional tips or actions relating to the moon phases to guide me to a positive outlook on life! I know we will always been in touch! You provide a personalised service free of charge informing me of what to look out for and what I may expect in areas of love and relationships, career and business and the overall outcome of the cards. I also appreciated your gift on Valentine's Day showing a lovely power point presentation which made my day! It made me feel special and worthy, to think positive and realise that we all have special qualities and attributes. You are a special person and I thank you immensely from the bottom of my heart. Until next time!

God Bless!
Kind regards

Frances
Sydney, Australia
I wanted to thank you so much for a wonderful work, and a great book. I know why i found you now. Thank you, god bless you for the goodness and light that you bring to this world.
Danielle

Danielle
USA
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