With a blend of hyperfocus, talent and unhealthy work ethics, I landed in the world’s top agencies on global brands like Coca-Cola, Hilton, Sony, Toshiba, Audi, Siemens and hundred others, creating and leading strategies worth millions. I lived in Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Auckland and Berlin. I won awards. Huzza!

Kierkegaard said you can only understand life backwards, while it has to be lived forwards. My career was a success, but to me, it was a clusterfuck. I just wanted to live in peace, draw, and also understand psychology, behavioural profiling, neurology and Jungian unconsciousness, just to unravel the mystery of why my mother was always so mean to me. I did.

And then, somewhere along the way, the Tarot appeared and saved me.

This was met with fierce rejection from my side, initially. Being a science nerd with a lifelong preference for evidence and a frequent allergy to unsupported claims about the universe. I used the scientific method to conduct many, many Tarot tests. And I am happy to report that Tarot does work after all. Just not the way you think it does.

It is a tool that heals people only when used in combination with psychology, neuroscience, CPTSD trauma pattern recognition and behavioural profiling. Let me repeat the important bit. Tarot is a tool that heals people.

If they want to be healed.

When in Tarot mode, my name spontaneously changes from Petra Quilitz to Mme Axis. She has established a small, mildly dubious government department for the investigation of reality in a small town in the south of France.

Luckily, it has internet access.