Tarot Divination Is Not Fortune Telling

“The practice of fortune-telling is based on the false notion that human life is governed by luck, chance, fate, or obscure powers at work outside the personality…

True divination rests upon the occult truth that the causes of all events in human life are really internal, proceding from the Cause of Causes, the Universal Intelligent Energy or Life-power which is the source, Mover and knower behind all the phenomena of the universe.”

~Ann Davies

Who is Ann Davies?

Ann Davies (October 28, 1912 – June 9 1975) was an American occultist.

An aspiring dancer left crippled by a tragic illness, Ann Davies was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Perhaps as a result of this early disappointment, Davies explored atheism and an agnosticism before discovering Hindu philosophy and practicing Buddhism.

In 1944 she met Paul Foster Case, who inspired a lifelong devotion to Hermetic Qabalah and B.O.T.A. Tarot. Davies trained extensively with Case for a decade, until his death in 1954.