About Shira.

I am a mixed SWANA femme, who is a queer, disabled, former (mostly) sex worker living with complex PTSD. I believe that magic and witchcraft, first and foremost, was created and used to support our collective wellbeing, resistance, growth, safety & protection.

Tarot is one of my Spiritual Partners and it has guided and anchored me throughout my life. I have used Tarot as a technology for transformation, activism, healing and magical practice since the 1980's when I was a teenager. I was drawn to my first deck as though I was Colbalt and Tarot was magnet. I ate, breathed and slept with the cards. I felt my entire world shift with the portal that the cards created. I recently learned that Tarot's Minor Arcana suites were based on the Mamluk deck that was created by Southwest Asian and North African people. Now I understand that pull to the Tarot was the cards calling me back to a part of my own story and tradition of magic. 

I have been reading professionally since 2008, including as a shop witch at Psychic Sister in Olympia, Washington. I primarily work with pendulums, tarot, candles and numerology. I come from three generations of witches and mediums from Eastern Europe who divine through dreams and spirit communications on my mother's side. My father's side has practiced numerology rooted in our mixed SWANA heritage.