Epiphany Jordan started down the tarot path as a big old cliche: she bought her first tarot deck, Tarot of the Cat People, on Halloween Day 1987 from Uma’s Tools of Magick in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district. She designed her own triangular 10-card layout based on the Ten of Pentacles from the deck, and spent years teaching herself how to read. Epiphany would ask a question and lay out the reading. She then drew the layout in her tarot notebook, and went through a stack of tarot books to gather interpretations for each card, writing those in the notebook as well. After five years, she felt confident enough to begin reading reverse cards when they came up, and after 10 years, she started reading for other people. In 2001, she began collecting tarot decks, and many find their way to her doorstep. Epiphany reads fluently with 11 different decks, and would be hard-pressed to choose a favorite.
In 2006, a professional reader friend of Epiphany’s was leaving Austin. The friend introduced Epiphany to her booking agent, and she began reading at parties and events in Central Texas. In 2011, she opened the Blue Star Temple in Austin and began seeing clients there for private readings. The Temple’s physical space closed in 2020 during the pandemic. She also served as a consultant for the Bitch Medicine tarot deck, helping artist Eliza Bundledee create sexually-related exercises, or Sexplanations, for each card in the deck.
Epiphany’s name kind of says it all: her readings have been described as illuminating, down-to-earth, fun, enlightening, intriguing, perceptive, and insightful. She loves a good metaphor, and her straightforward interpretations often include a fuckton of swearing. She walks the line between compassion and accountability, and treats the enormous trust of guiding clients with the highest level of confidentiality, ethics and integrity.
As is fitting for the progeny of Muslim/Jewish/Catholic college professors, her spiritual studies have been varied and eclectic. She was the first clairvoyant graduate of the Reno Psychic Institute in 1997, did ritual with a crew of Texas Dianic Wiccans for 10 years, studied the qadishtu path of sacred sexuality at the Temple of the Red Lotus in Atlanta, and is fascinated with Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory. She currently studies power, shadows and archetypes with Dena Crowder, recently became a devotee of Transcendental Meditation, and has done ancestral healing work on Daniel Foor’s Ancestral Medicine path. Science and spirituality co-exist peacefully in her worldview, and in 2023 she completed a Master’s in Public Health with a concentration in Social Marketing from the University of South Florida.
Epiphany Jordan has done many things to pay the bills over the years, including legal assistant, advice columnist, cigarette girl (in the sizzle hot pants), bartender, cashier, journalist, gig-economy serf and keno runner. Her life goal is to make platonic touch more widely accepted. From 2013-2020, she ran a ritualized human touch business. In 2019 she published Somebody Hold Me: The Single Person’s Guide to Nurturing Human Touch, and also spoke about solving loneliness with human touch that same year at South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin. She pursued her MPH to look at the topic of touch from a population-level perspective, and created a framework for rebranding human touch as her capstone project. Learn more at her website devoted to all things nurturing human touch.
Epiphany currently resides in Reno, Nevada with her two floor dragons, Stormy and Hoover.