The unabridged version would take me all day to tell, so here is the very very condensed version.
I have been noticing things "starting to happen" on a number of levels - dreams, premonitions, astrological portents, stories I've written coming true etc etc etc. - since I was about 17 or so though looking back I can see it's been happening most of my life. Tarot is just an expression that I have accepted and want to channel these "talents" - though I believe everyone has them to some degree - into purposeful divination techniques rather than just being thrilled at what happens in hindsight. E.g. Chernobyl occured just after Halley's Comet - a predictor of disaster - had passed its perihelion. I thought about that in retrospect and was intrigued that the dates fitted very neatly. But I was thrilled to read in a book published about ten years earlier (ie late 1970s) that "the return of Halley's Comet will put an end to Russia's plans for world domination". The Chernobyl disaster, by precipitating glasnost and perestroika, hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union. I too would like to be able to "see" the future like this and put two and two together - my sig is a take-off of a quote of Hegel's: "The owl of Minerva flaps her wings at dusk", suggesting it was only possible to be wise after the event. I would like the owl of Minerva to flap her wings at dawn for me!
As for Christianity, I am a practising, confirmed Anglican (episcopalian) and want the Church to accept and absorb these kind of practices rather than denouncing them (or us denouncing Christianity). I find in my rural English village that we seem to have more people here that openly admit to things like "God speaking to me through my dreams", though the local powers-that-be are two middle-aged, sceptical men who seem to be rationalists to the core, even where miracles are concerned (although we were in church once, and one of them was giving a sermon denouncing the idea of ghosts: suddenly someone's mobile phone went off at the back of the church and although it had been a gloomy, overcast day, the sun suddenly broke through the clouds - suggesting that God/dess was not particularly pleased with this upstart vicar!). I think God is at work to show us that He wants us to use our gifts, not just ignore them and hope they'll go away, or indeed confine them to the hands of those who would use them for ill purposes.
) and of course that was the day of my first reading too. I've ignored my Haindl too for a while lately. Always ordering new decks and trying them out. Just this week though I felt moved to use my Haindl again. And I was so moved by the deck. I'd forgotten how much I love it. Fantastic reading too. The deck still feels like home, as it is the one I learnt on. And it was almost 6 months before I branched out. 
