Mary K. Greer is a renowned tarot expert with over 40 years of experience, known for creating inspired teaching methods and as the author of 11 books on tarot and magic. She has received several awards, including the International Tarot Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work has always been focused on personal insight and creativity in her tarot practice.

Mary Greer’s 1984 book Tarot for Yourself changed the field of tarot reading. It was the first to offer in-depth techniques for reading tarot as a practice of personal inquiry, not by memorizing someone else’s meanings, but by discovering your own relationship with each card. The approach was so influential that it reshaped how an entire generation learned to read. For 11 years, Mary taught on the faculty of New College of California in San Francisco, where she developed tarot as an interdisciplinary subject weaving together art, literature, history, and depth psychology. During those years, she also studied witchcraft, astrology, Kabbalah, and Native American traditions, and founded T.A.R.O.T. (Tools and Rites of Transformation), an educational center for divination and transformative arts.

Mary holds an M.A. in English Literature and has also authored or co-authored the COVR Award-winning 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card and the scholarly biography Women of the Golden Dawn. She has lived in Japan, Germany, England, Mexico, and across the United States, and currently resides in Northern California. Widely regarded as one of the most important tarot teachers alive today, she continues to write, teach, and explore new frontiers of symbolic consciousness. marykgreer.com