Thank you for checking out my web page! Dragonfly Soul Tarot has become a labor of Love for me in the past few years, and it means a lot to me that you’ve sought to find out more.
My name is Danielle and I go by “Dot” online, so many layers of meaning in one little word – one day I’ll get into that, but this is just a brief overview of how I got started doing Tarot Card Readings and what I hope to bring to my audience in terms of being a place to look for some Guidance as well as Entertainment.
I’ve always been a very creative person, all the graphics, music and artwork you come across on my site and videos, it’s all a one-person band, but I digress.
Having always been a highly creative soul, I came across a website which literally had me engrossed for days on end, I mean I would wake up and browse the site, and be on that site the entire day, reading the posts on the forum, taking in all the images of a comprehensive database of Tarot Cards, each deck more fascinating that the next, and this went on for months. Yes, I know, when I get into something, I get INTO something…lol.
That website was http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/ (no affiliation).
This was around 16 years ago, and for a long while, completely immersed myself in the world of Tarot, and I have to admit, I did go down the Occult Rabbit Hole a bit too deeply – but that’s a story for another time.
I started doing readings for family and friends, and was well- received, but then I noticed that things were getting very difficult for me. Looking back in hindsight, it is clear to me now that I didn’t know how to protect myself from the energies affecting the reading process and I was leaving myself open to psychic attacks. The attacks became worse and I tried all sorts of spells, rituals etc – occult-ish solutions, which inevitable made things worse.
To survive, I had to re-enter the corporate world and get a “real” job to support myself as whenever I would try to assert my independence, I would be shot down by these attacks, and would no longer be able to continue. Back then I did read the cards less intuitively, and more literally, and there came a point where I had had enough and just gave up reading the Tarot entirely.
So fast forward to 2014, I found myself out of work again through no fault of my own, and I was looking for a new direction to take – I still craved the independence of being a freelancer of sorts, but web and graphic designers were a dime a dozen and I wasn’t keen on the competition and headache of trying to please picky clients in those areas. I wanted to HELP people, I wanted to work one on one with people to assist them in solving their problems!
On some level, I believe it was also a desire to heal myself, as I had incurred many psychic and emotional wounds that are still there to this day – At this point, I dug out my collection of Tarot Cards, savoring the delicious imagery and symbolism that I had been engrossed with years earlier and had made me purchase so many decks.
Around this time, YouTube was becoming a popular hub for online video sharing and I decided to start doing YouTube videos. Since then, it has become ever present in the back on my mind, the question being – how can I use my Tarot Readings to help as many people as possible and steer around the Occult underpinnings of the Tarot Reputation?
It hasn’t been easy. I come under psychic attack constantly, but the difference now is – I can see it coming, and I have strategies – non occult, or rather more psychologically based as opposed to spells/rituals (although a good Sage Smudge is always a go-to) and I am working towards a Psychology based approach to Tarot Card readings, meant to help navigate the choppy waters of incoming/outgoing energies, as opposed to simply using the traditional “prediction” model.
So that’s the story of my path towards a Tarot Reader, from Enthusiast to working towards being an accomplished Psychology Inspired Tarot type of reading. Of course, Tarot Readings should also be fun as well!
I keep going because I go over my readings and see that there is definitely something there, and many times I’ve been astonished at how the readings have actually played themselves out in my life, as well as in the lives of my clients.
I’m having fun with YouTube, but there’s so many more directions I would like to take with this craft, I’ve always been an Astrology enthusiast as well, and hope to incorporate that into the readings at some point in the future.
I have been researching and experimenting with different talismans and hand made jewelry, so at some point in the future, you will see those come about.
But for now, I am still walking the path of my Journey – and reaching out to those who wish to join me on this path. Kindred souls discovering their own paths and interested in being part of the Dragonfly Soul Family.