Valerie Sim
shamnaar@aol.com

Valerie received her first deck of tarot cards 32 years ago and began studying astrology in 1973. Both have continued to be passions for her over the years and have led to the authorship of her own tarot and astrological teaching materials, with which she has been an online teacher for the past year and a half. Valerie is the Listowner of a popular tarot email list, Comparative Tarot, populated by tarot students, readers, teachers, authors and artists.

Valerie's book about the Comparative Tarot method and ways to keep tarot fun and exciting, Tarot Outside the Box, was published by Llewellyn in November, 2004. (Don't miss the sample chapter, now online!)

She also wrote the pamphlet, or "little white book," for the recently published Lo Scarabeo Comparative Tarot Deck, is the Editor for both Tarot Reflections and The ATA Quarterly, and is a frequent reviewer for Tarot Passages.

On the shamanic path and active in animal rescue, Valerie has many favorite decks including Animal Wise, Vision Quest and Shining Tribe.