When Kelly O’Hearn first stepped off the train in Florence, Italy, as a 20-year-old, she had the overwhelming instinct that she had been there before. In a place famous for its maze of medieval streets, O’Hearn navigated the city as if she had lived there for a lifetime.
Born in New York City, O’Hearn first put her intuitive skills to work as a professional wine taster, instructor and sommelier in New York, Portugal and Aspen. After raising her two children and enduring a personal health crisis in 2012, she was drawn to begin reading the tarot cards, an ancient practice which does not presume to “predict the future” but offers a collection of stories, perspectives and self-reflections that can guide one to become one’s most authentic self.
O’Hearn is in high demand for her readings, with clients on every continent but Antarctica. While most people were baking sourdough or riding their Pelotons during the COVID-19 pandemic, O’Hearn used the tarot cards to channel her own past lives. Weeks of readings, all captured on video, yielded six storylines of herself as several powerful women over the millennia and around the globe: the same one soul, over time, persevering against all odds in the quest for happiness and the love of a soul mate. This time-bending saga inspired O’Hearn to conceive of a series of novels titled Arcanum. kellyoh.life; arcanumtheseries.com