About Me
Hello all,
I am Teresa Michelsen and this is my blog. In its pages you will find many different aspects of my life, all the different hats I wear - environmental consultant, mediator, tarot author, gamer, nature-lover, food enthusiast :) You probably came to my site from one of these worlds, but this is where all of them intersect.
I live in a suburb outside of Puyallup, WA with a home office looking out onto the forest. Most of my day is spent doing the scientific consulting which I probably will talk the least about here. At other times I wear other hats - my tarot website Tarot Moon and my gaming websites, dedicated to the old Avalon Hill game of Magic Realm, are included in the weblinks. In addition, I am doing more and more community mediation, which will appear from time to time, as it requires a lot of thought :)
I’m 43, recently out on my own after a 16-yr marriage, and looking at life with new eyes. I have no idea where I’ll be in five years, what I’ll be working at, or what kind of world I want to create for myself, but I have a lot of ideas! So it should be an interesting journey - join me along the way. - Teresa
November 8, 2006 at 12:25 am
I have just bought and begun reading your book on Tarot reading and was wondering if you do any tarot teaching (and if so what is the cost)? I have been learning on my own, on and off for a few years, but have recently decided to make a more concerted effort in that direction. Do you help with ATA certification as well? I see that you live reasonably close (suburb of Puyallup). I too own a copy of Magic Realm, though I haven’t played in years.
November 8, 2006 at 5:14 pm
I do teach tarot, mostly online though I give workshops locally now and again. Any classes I am teaching you can find on my website, at http://www.tarotmoon.com/articles/articles.html - I will be starting a new class after the first of the year.
The ATA no longer does certification - I would suggest the Canadian Tarot Network as the best North American certification organization. You can find them at: http://www.tarotcanada.com/.
Good luck with your tarot studies!
November 28, 2006 at 8:07 am
Hi, Teresa. You sound about as together (to use an 80s word, or was it 70s?) as just about anyone I have encountered in your position/stage of life. I have recently gone out on my own, as they say, consulting and working from a home office here in Portland. I think I like it, but I have yet to develop a rhythm (if that’s the word) for making daily transitions from “home” to “office.” Maybe I don’t need to — after all nobody knows I am sitting here sending business emails in my PJs!
November 29, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Ha! I only look like I have it all together :) And really, doing work in your PJs is perfectly fine!! Since I work late and sleep late, I often find myself answering phone calls from early-bird colleagues at ungodly hours of the morning - while I’m still in bed! Hopefully, video-phones will never become popular
December 14, 2006 at 10:37 am
What a woman of depth you are! I,too, just came out of a long term marriage. My dreams would be to find woman with enough depth to always be discovering new things about her and to have enough depth to have her constantly learning new things about me. Your amazing! Thank you for putting yourself out there, now I know that there are women out there for me to aspire to have a nurturing, loving, fulfilling relationship with.
December 30, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Just wanted o say what an interesting web site and very well done. I suprised we haven’t met before because I work for the Dept. of Ecology and have been there for the last 8 years. I’m in the process of finding out life after marriage myself. It is a change and I to wonder where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing. For some reason Montana and Alaska keep coming into that new picture. Take care and I would like to hear more when you have time.
December 30, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I’m sorry. Got to check my spelling next time. Take care.
December 30, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Hi Dale - well I left Ecology about 8 years ago to start my own business, so that may explain why we haven’t met - I do some contracting for TCP, mostly in the sediment unit - or Aquatic Lands Management as I understand it’s now called :) I was at NWRO in the mid-90s getting the sediment cleanup program started, but now I work mostly with people at HQ. Good luck on the life changes … for some reason Costa Rica keeps coming up in my radar but I really don’t know where I’ll be in 5 years either…
February 17, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Hi Teresa,
What a great blog you have! It’s nice to finally “see” and learn about the person behind all those insightful Tarot readings I’ve ordered throughout the years. I’m glad I am able to learn more about you through this blog. Environmental consulting sounds very interesting. I have considered practicing environmental law when I graduate from law school, but I have heard that it is a difficult area of law to get into. I will definitely be following your blog from now on. Take care!
November 3, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Hi Teresa, Ive been a member of this group for sometime but havent really had time to interact too much. I have just read your travel notes. Your trip to Puerto Vallarta sounded so interesting and a beautiful. That area is on my list of places to visit. Im a Tarot Reader/Palmist/Numerologist in Australia. I love travel and am always trying to find ways to do more of it. It is quite difficult to find out about doing readings in other countries without actually visiting on the off chance that it can happen. Your pictures and info was facinating. I have an attraction to the spanish speaking countries and would love to work as a Professional Reading in Spain if it were at all possible. Do you know anything about Spain in terms of doing readings. I dont speak spanish but am willing to learn….but know there are a lot of english speaking new comers to Spain. Ive got quite a collection of Tarot cards and books. which includes The complete Tarot by you…..I came across your entry on the Comparative Tarot site first, and found your story about Mexico, so thought Id send you a message. Im always looking (having Sag as an ascendent) for new and exciting places to visit and ways to support my passion. I travel in Australia doing readings which satisfies that need for movement but would love to do more work overseas. Thanks again Teresa for your interesting site. Ive still got more to read. Never seems to be enough time to do what I enjoy most. Take care Pauline Donohoe
November 3, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Hi Pauline! I really don’t know anything about tarot reading in Spain, other than that my grandmother came from Spain and she said her grandmother did readings with a regular playing deck. Someday when my Spanish is better I plan to visit a tarot reader in Mexico and see what the style is like :) I would very much like to get one of my books translated into Spanish, but so far the publisher is resisting. I may have to bug them for the rights if they don’t want to do it ;) - Teresa
December 18, 2007 at 11:46 am
Dear Teresa:
Let me introduce myself.
My name is Marcos (mark in english I guess….) and I live in south america (chile). I’m 35 years ago, married (5 kids, two girls three boys).
I have been studied Rider Waite’s Tarot since two year but I didn’t feel a deep-rigth connection with the cards.
I gave a lot of readings to other people with good results. But I almost fail in the area of giving future proyections about specific events.
I work with computers so I don’t plan to work like a full-time tarot reader so I’m now in the contraction about how time I must to invest to get better readings ?….. Do I must to stop completly if I can’t make a good connection with the deck?
Thanks in advance
Write me to my mail everytime you want , I love to share everything I can with people in other places. (marcosverayanez@gmail.com).