Tarot Readings can be experienced in person by appointment at Maria Rowan's dining room table in Carrboro, at Unity Books and Stuff in Pittsboro or an agreed upon location.

Tarot Readings can also be experienced as an MP3 recording created in Maria's home and sent to yours via the wonders of the Internet. Delivered by file service, these recordings are available for download and can be played at your leisure and enjoyed over time with repeat listening.

Please contact Maria at tarot@rowandell.com for rates.

Each season is a threshold. Our bodies - and in connection, our minds - respond to the changes in sounds and smells, in temperature and light. Seasons are powerful markers on our journey through the year.

Seasonal Tarot Consults take advantage of this natural attunement as an ideal time for pause and evaluation. These readings - using the classic Gypsy spread - will examine your current circumstance, questions and meditations to explore, relationships with others and your self and finally actions and activities to entertain.

A Seasonal Consult is an excellent choice for a first reading, opening the door on what can be learned from Tarot, and the preferred approach of experienced clients using Tarot as a tool for meditation and growth.

The seasonal hinges take place at the two Equinoxes in March and September and two Solstices in December and June. However, these intensive readings are available at any time.

On birthdays the year ends and begins again on the great wheel of life. For a birthday reading, you can choose the traditional Gypsy spread as a meditation on how you are evolving on this important cusp. Or you can choose an adapted Gypsy spread that looks at the potentials and challenges of each season within the next year.

A traditional Past Life reading creates a narrative of an influential past life and looks for its effects in this lifetime. This approach serves those who are exploring Past Lives for the first time.

Maria's innovative approach to Past Life work with Tarot starts with a situation in this lifetime and works backwards and forwards, asking what life is effecting that situation, what was learned there, what can be learned now and how life would look after resolution. This approach serves those who have specific questions about Past Lives and their interaction with the present.

While Seasonal Consults examine many aspects of life over a three month time span, Directed Readings allow for a narrower focus.

Directed Readings can include a traditional spread known as The Spiral that explores two different options or paths, but most Directed Readings are designed on the spot as a collaboration between the client and the reader. These readings can tale place in person or be recorded for distant clients When the reading with be recorded, first emails are exchanged to define the matters at hand and the best questions for consideration. Directed Readings can also explore specific time spans, for instance a course of weeks or months.

For couples' readings, both parties consent and participate in a reading. The design of the reading looks at what each person wants, what they bring to the relationship at that time and where commonalities and creative potential dwells between them.

Maria provides short readings at parties and events; hen nights, birthdays, office parties, anniversaries, New Year's - even near Halloween (though never on Halloween, it's her wedding anniversary).

She is also available for for festivals, fairs, fundraisers, expos and promotional events.

Maria is open to donating her services to charity events.

For more information and rates, please contact her at tarot@rowandell.com