Valentina Garozzo
Oracle and Tarot cards are Valentina’s passion and the tool she uses to help herself in her inner quest since 2014. Currently residing in Auroville, she offers one-to-one and group reading sessions and teaches Tarot reading. Her approach to Tarot is based on Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa's teachings. Valentina integrates the yogic with the shamanic in her approach. She loves to work with the energies of the spirit animals through shamanic practices and her decks of medicine cards.
Her path of inner discovery started with Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan in 2007 and was later deepened through the healing technique of Sat Nam Rasayan which helped her recognise and value her innate perceptiveness and intuitiveness. Her daily yoga practice led her to discovering Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother in 2015 which changed her life. It gave her the faith and courage to truly be herself. She felt her path to herself accelerated and soon found herself shifting her base to Auroville, India.
Introduced to a deck of animal cards through a yoga teacher in 2014, she felt immediately drawn to them. Exploring them further, her world soon opened up to Tarot cards as well and she immediately perceived the value of integrating the different decks in a reading. For Valentina, cards are a narrative tool that helps her communicate with people at many levels. She doesn't believe in predictions, as the future is co-created step-by-step in the here and now. Therefore, what Valentina reads in the cards is the present moment and its multi-faceted aspects and the gifts, strengths, blocks, resistances, and possibilities which can help those who consult to formulate new visions, and possibly, new stories. That is how she likes to conduct her reading sessions and pass Tarot knowledge to her students. In 2021, she learned with Emma Palladino how to access the Akashic Records for herself and others. She now uses this tool to enrich her Tarot reading sessions.
Valentina posts content daily on her IG page on Tarot, Oracle cards, and Akashic Records in English and Italian: @thepumasgaze, Valentina is also a writer, sharing her reflections and insights on the inner quest gleaned through her personal practice. Her work is available here: https://larottaversotestesso.wixsite.com/website
PUBLICATIONS:
24 Giorni in India. Diario di un viaggio interiore, 2016;
La rotta verso te stesso. La saggezza del Cammino di Santiago, 2018 and the English translation The path toward yourself. The wisdom of the Camino de Santiago, 2019;
Una nuova storia. La rivoluzione interiore necessaria, 2020;
La voce liberata. Nove ritratti di femminilità negata, Chipiuneart Edizioni, 2021 curated by Ilaria Franciotti and wrote in collaboration with 10 other female authors.
EDUCATION:
1998 - Art High School, Verona, Italy
2004 - University of Bologna, Degree in art, music, and entertainment, Bologna, Italy
2006 - European Social Fund course on Museum Education, Padova, Italy
PAST EXPERIENCE:
2003-2007 - Art Education for children and adults in galleries and cultural venues, Merano & Verona, Italy
2007-2017 - Librarian, Verona, Italy
2018-2021 - Social Media Manager, Auroville Art Service, Auroville, India