Sean Hoade ("Aden Oshea")

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Apt. 1123

Henderson NV 89014

702-***-****

adh1pm@r.postjobfree.com

I'm glad to provide a conventional resume should you like to see it, but it shows my publishing, professional copywriting, and academic teaching experience over the past 30 years. I thought it might be more helpful to include here my background, experience, and philosophy regarding reading Tarot for clients.

ABOUT ME

I am Sean Hoade, and I read Tarot under the less mundane appellation of Aden Oshea, come now to divine Tarot's wisdom about clients' past, present, and future; their loves, finances, hopes, fears, possibilities, directions, endings and new beginnings. Let my maturity, experience, and warm empathy give them confidence to move forward on their lives' journeys.

I was a teacher and writer for more than 30 years. I'm the author of 18 books, both fiction and nonfiction, under my given name and a publisher's pseudonym, and have taught at colleges and universities large and small. I've also read Tarot since high school (much longer ago than I care to think about!), but turned to it professionally only fairly recently, once I saw how much I can help people with it, in ways that writing books and teaching in classrooms just never can. My cartomancy skills have climbed to new heights as I have developed my empathic intuition as well.

MY TAROT JOURNEY

In the beginning, I was just a teenager who read Tarot cards just for fun with friends. I left that side of myself behind for a decade while I pursued more traditional goals such as an academic career and becoming a writer. But as life progressed, my intuitive side cried out for more, and I returned to the wisdom of the Tarot and started studying it in earnest, never planning to for even thinking I would pursue it as a career.

Later, my wife's cousin, who is a gifted psychic who uses many tools such as reiki and angel guides as well as a bit of Tarot, asked me for a Tarot reading and told me he was “blown away” by what I laid out and interpreted for him. He knew that I had become dissatisfied by how little I felt I was able to do for others within my career at that point, so he recommended strongly that I think about becoming a professional Tarot reader and counselor.

I thought about the good that I might be able to do, and how I always listen to the cards and the querents instead of trying to force my opinion on them, and how I actually do help people by making readings about them and the cards, never about me and how “brilliant” I am at cartomancy. (The cards and the universe are brilliant, not I.) This is my passion and my mission now. I am 51 years old, and only now do I truly see that I can finally make a living at making a lasting difference in people's lives.

HOW I APPROACH READING THE CARDS

I know this may sound strange on a directory for psychics, but I don't actually claim to be psychic. I believe it is the cards (or I Ching coins or sticks, or runes, etc.) that are psychic. What I mean by that is that I shuffle the cards 7 times, which mathematically makes the deck completely randomized. Then I or the client cuts the deck at a random point and I take the top card off and put it at the bottom. At this point the universe and the client have created the distribution of the cards which will provide the "raw" answer to the question. I then lay out the cards in a pattern appropriate for whatever kind of question is being asked.

Then comes my role, doing only what a true cartomancer can do: I weave together the threads of the cards that have been chosen, weaving them to tell the story that answers the question in its full depth and breadth. This is where my experience, deep empathy, and decades of growth in the art of the Tarot work together to solve the mysteries my clients most seek to understand. It is a blessed thing to be a part of, and I can't claim to understand how all of it works myself. Indeed, it is possible I *am* psychic; but that is for the universe and the all-knowing, all-revealing Tarot to decide, I suppose. As ever, I shall always follow my own advice and listen closely to what it has to say.

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