Mary K. Greer is a revolutionary, breaking all the rules regarding methods of learning and using tarot cards. She has forty years tarot experience and, as an author and teacher, emphasizes personal insight and creativity. As a tarot reader, she works as a ‘midwife of the soul,’ using techniques that are interactive, transformational and empowering.

Mary is a member of numerous tarot organizations and is featured at tarot conferences and symposia around the world. She is the proud recipient of the 2007 International Tarot Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2006 Mercury Award from the Mary Redman Foundation for “excellence in communication in the metaphysical field.”

The author of eight books on tarot and a biography of four female magicians, her latest book is Mary K. Greer’s 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card (Llewellyn, 2006), which won the COVR award for best divination book. Three of her books placed in the “Top Five Tarot books” survey by the American Tarot Association, which polled members of the major tarot discussion lists, while two of her books are in the top five of Aeclectic Tarot’s 2005 poll.

A two-time Ph.D. drop-out, Mary has an M.A. in English literature and was a faculty member and administrator of a college in San Francisco for eleven years. She is an Arch-Priestess/Hierophant in the Fellowship of Isis. As a world traveler, she has lived in Japan, Germany, England, Mexico, six states in the U.S., and currently resides in Northern California.

Contact me here.

Tarot Data by Mary K. Greer on other websites

• A Tarot Timeline of the Occult and Divinatory Tarot – here.

• Golden Dawn Glossary (with Chic and Tabatha Cicero) – here.

Text Interviews with Mary K. Greer

• 2009 interviewed by Malcolm Muckle at Students-of-Tarot.com – here.

• Interviewed by Arwen at her “Musings on the Tarot” blog – here.

• “Discussion with Mary K. Greer: Taking on Tarot’s Top Controversies” by Melanie Harris for the American Tarot Association’s May 2008 issue of Tarot Reflections - here.

• Interviewed (with Rachel Pollack) at Gateway to Tarot by Bonnie Cehovet – here.

• Interviewed at Tarot Reflections by Valerie Sim – here.

• Newspaper article: ‘Midwife of the Soul’ helps using tarot cards in The Union by Suzie Daggett – here.

• Interviewed at TarotPassages by Diane Wilkes – here.

• Interviewed by Greyhound in The Seeker’s Journey – here.

• Interviewed at Aeclectic.com by Bonnie Cehovet – here.

• “Behind the Scenes” interviewed by Stephen D. Winick in Tarot World Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 1)

Podcasts & Radio with Mary K. Greer

• Blog Talk Radio – Beyond Worlds with Dawn and Donnaleigh – here.

• Interview by Paul O’Brien for Pathways Radio – here.

• Tarot-to-Go, Episode 8 – here.

• The Tarot Connection, Episode 98: “Cold Reading with Mary Greer” – here.

Excerpts from Women of the Golden Dawn—

at Boudicca’s Bard – here.

Was digging through some old boxes and found a few more old photos:

This was my great-grandmother, Alice Southers Strehle, in Gretna, Louisiana in 1912. She had the “sight,” knew some voodoo, and read cards and tea leaves for whoever needed her help. On the right is my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother in 1919 in front of my grandparent’s house across from the Davy Crockett Firehouse in Gretna (oldest volunteer fire department in the U.S.):

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Following_is_the_same house in 1976 (left) and again in 2009 (right).

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From an article on my tarot classes at the University of Central Florida (then FTU), in the Orlando Sentinel Sunday Magazine, 1974 (photo by Tom Kennedy):

On Hampstead Heath in 1970 when I lived in London and researched tarot at the British Museum: