I started reading with a set of playing cards–a deck of playing cards appeared where usually there are none. I opened the deck and suddenly felt this odd sensation running across my body. As I flipped the cards over I felt meanings come across me, very much like a light bulb came on over my head in an ‘ah-ha’ moment.

Hovik says:

When I was younger I didn’t spend much time playing with tarot or divination. My great grandmother was an excellent card reader and she predicted a lot of things over the years. My grandmother, my mom and her sister would always beg her to teach her the ways of card reading. She always would look at them and say, “No, this is not for you, this is the devils work and you aren’t supposed to play here.” I grew up talking to spirits and so my method of early divination was having conversations with my childhood spirit guides. I didn’t pick up an actual tarot until much later when I began to realize the cards made it a little easier and also people related better and connected to them more than just me sitting and chatting with them about things while I looked around the room talking to my spirits as well. So no, I personally didn’t grow up with a tarot deck in my hand, I walked into that later. Surprisingly enough, when I picked up playing cards to start I connected with my great grandmother who had passed away early in my life and she and I had spirit conversations and she taught me the meaning of the cards. I was the one she was waiting for to teach and as tradition held, I learned from my elder and not with a deck in hand.