Ms. Valente said her mother was a spiritual healer and a tarot-card reader, work that often involved the burning of candles and incense.

I recently got back in touch with an old friend named Melanie Stepto, who sent me to a tarot-card reader called Tony LeRoy.

Ms. Hamer reviews her memorabilia, which she stores in several enormous boxes, the way other people consult tarot-card readers or therapists.

She moved in with her mother, a turbaned lady and skilled tarot-card reader, who accurately predicted that her daughter's ship would come in someday.

The Chilean director, tarot-card reader and mime artist yes, really - explains why he is high on life at 78.

In the most Thai of Thai hotels, space is devoted to this important business service, which includes two English speakers (a palmist and tarot-card reader).

Catie Marron, a features editor at Vogue, sat for a tarot-card reader at a table set up for the street fair.

The Chilean director and tarot-card reader explains why he's high on life at 78.

A tarot-card reader once told me that the rape enabled me to break away from my family.

These are not queries from the local tarot-card reader, but the kinds of questions job applicants nationwide increasingly face in the process of being hired.