About Emily Sandstrom

Telling how I created Tarot Verbatim in 1980

It all starts with Lectures by a professor of statistics on Consistent Violators of the Laws of Random Distribution. I was a court reporter. Tarot is one of five known (then) consistent violators. The Laws of Random Distribution are the foundation of several industries that use actuaries: prediction of any kind, risk management, insurance, pensions, gambling, and more. Didn't know what Tarot was. It was 1980. Tarot was the only experiment one could do at home. Bought a deck to reproduce Professor's experiment. Did that. Ended up with Tarot as a hobby.

When I went on to get the cards to talk (my perspective of Tarot reading), the books were useless. Sat in on pros doing readings. They didn't read the cards, they said they were listening to spirits and presumed I did. Nope: Not so! Back to the drawing board.

I ended up creating a Tarot system by asking questions I knew the answers to (algebra's principle that you cannot solve an unknown with an unknown), writing all the meanings down on index cards, filing them in card sequence to make a data dictionary. Ended up with 80+ foot-and-a-half-long Rubbermaid card files. I tested Tarot's accuracy on the jury trials I court-reported.

Since I was a court reporter, my meanings were verbatim. Tarot talks word for word when you base it on language, and making the pictures directly into words eliminates all other factors: It's just you, the pictures, and what those mean to you.

I now sell access to my data dictionary, and have learned those meanings work for everybody who reports back to me on their use of it. You can do what I did, especially if you are a beginner in Tarot, and you can do it with any deck. The result will be a system that works for a lot of people, not just you. Ask me how I know ....

About Emily Sandstrom

Emily is long-established as a Tarot expert reader and trainer, an authority. She begins telephone reading daily for long hours in 1991.