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It was a good time to be in the technology sector. There was a lot of money sloshing about. My daily rate was very healthy but my mind wasn’t. My life completely lacked creativity.
In late August 1999 I went to New York to visit a friend. Via my friend’s massage therapist I came across a tarot master who, like me, had a musical background and had also worked in the technology sector. He understood how I felt, trapped by the lack of creativity in my life.
I practice Buddhism and usually don’t dabble in other traditions but I was on holiday and thought, what the heck, I’ll have a reading.
The tarot man began analysing the numerology and astrological features of myself. I gave him my date of birth and the time I was born. He said lots of stuff that I didn’t really understand. Then he said, “Ah. You have Gemini in your mid-heaven. This suggests you might be good at writing.”
This was my light bulb moment. The only job I had ever enjoyed in my working life up to that point was when I wrote the training manuals and on-line help for an IT system at an investment bank. Unlike most of banking, the work was tangible. I had something to show for it.
