Hi! I'm Emily

Hi! I’m Emily McGill a multi-disciplinary artist, psychologist, and a recovering Broadway publicist turned Ivy League Witch.

For much of my life, the theatre and working on Broadway were the only things that mattered to me. A lot of doors slammed in my face. Rejection and refrains of “no” became my rituals and rhapsodies. It was exhausting and demoralizing. And I still gave my life to it for decades.

With time to reconsider my choices during the pandemic pause, I leaned in to the self-actualization I began during my Saturn return. Grad school was calling; it was weird. I kept hearing ‘religious studies’, but as a lapsed Catholic I was perplexed AF.

Thankfully my therapist (the one who introduced me to healing, tarot, my magic, and spirituality) suggested I check out Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College. BINGO!

I’ve gone from pulling a tarot card every day and tracking the astrological weather to graduate psychology classes studying Spiritual Psychotherapy, Psychology at the United Nations, Archetypal Symbolism, Positive Psychology, and Ceramics!

My thesis centered tarot as an effective tool for self-reflection and proved that 100% of seekers reported high clarity after one 30 minute tarot reading. I even got to present this research at Princeton Theological Seminary for the American Psychological Association’s Spirituality and Religion Division conference!

(And I still pull that daily card and track the sun and moon astrology. My Virgo moon can’t help it. With a Cancer sun and Scorpio rising, it’s really helpful to notice the cycles.)

It’s so much fun to discover what a wide world is out there, and I want to share the view with you! Your possibilities are endless when you zoom out. Tarot cards helped me with that, and I want to help you.

One way is through my first tarot deck, The Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot - bringing pre-existing passions together as I discover new ones. Another is to grab a seat at my table.

I’ve done lots of cool stuff in my life, and so much more that hasn’t revealed itself to me. I can’t wait to see what is in store. What about you?

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