Denise Jarvie

Denise Jarvie was born near Stonehenge in the south of England on November 11 and immigrated with her family to Melbourne, Australia at age three, later settling in Sydney, where she still lives. She trained as a Reiki master teacher, meditation teacher and holistic counsellor, and is a member of the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, describing fifteen years of work guiding clients through readings, meditation and Reiki before founding The Mystical Tree, a healing space in Sydney where she conducts consultations and teaches courses in tarot reading, Reiki and holistic counselling.

Her best known deck, the Flower Of Life oracle, references a geometric pattern found across multiple historical decorative traditions and used within various New Age systems as a symbol of interconnection, and was published by Blue Angel Publishing in 2015 as a fifty two card set.

She has gone on to create a series of further decks and books under related titles, including the Secret Language Of Light and Secret Language Of Darkness oracles, the Mandala Healing Oracle and the Tarot Of Light. Jarvie's claims to Reiki practice and card reading ability rest on training and certification within specific complementary therapy bodies rather than on scientific demonstration, and her decks are marketed and reviewed within the specialist tarot and oracle press, including sites such as Aeclectic Tarot, rather than through mainstream literary or art criticism.

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Denise Jarvie's own account of how she came to Reiki, meditation and tarot work begins earlier than her professional biography usually states: she has described emotional difficulty stored since childhood that had developed, by her late twenties, into anxiety and depression, and says it was around age thirty that she turned toward meditation and a spiritual path in direct response to that difficulty, a personal turning point that precedes The Mystical Tree, her Reiki training and every deck she has since published under her own name.

That account reframes her professional credentials, Reiki master teacher, meditation teacher, holistic counsellor and tarot master, and her membership in the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, as a path built out of personal necessity rather than career planning from the outset. Her own bibliography also carries a title her main biography does not name specifically, The Flower of Life: Wisdom of Astar Oracle, alongside the better known Secret Language of Light and Darkness oracles and the Mandala Healing Oracle.

Jarvie's own telling treats the anxiety and depression as the origin point her later practice grew from, not a separate detail alongside her professional credentials; the spiritual path she now teaches through The Mystical Tree, and the tarot master title she now holds alongside her Reiki and counselling credentials, are presented in her own author materials as continuous with, rather than separate from, the personal difficulty that preceded them by roughly a decade.