A reborn tarot reader

TRISTAN CLEARY: MEDITATION LEADER'S GUIDES POINT TO PREVIOUS LIFE

- Hein Kaiser

When settling into a consultation with a spiritualist, tarot card reader, or medium, you'd be forgiven for expecting a kaftan-clad someone that looks the part. But 21-year-old Tristan Cleary breaks the mould.

This young, gorgeous woman looks as if she has just stepped off the pages of a glamour magazine. Cleary's not what you'd expect someone narrating a spiritual path would look or be like. And it all came as a surprise to her, too.

Because by now she thought that she'd be in medical school. Instead, she's shuffling up Celtic Crosses and taking spirituality and divination into the age of Instagram and TikTok. She's the new It-girl, the Kendall Jenner of the New Age.

Cleary's introduction to tarot was almost as if it was predestined. Her curiosity was sparked by an encounter during a meditation circle. Encouraged to reconnect with something she was told she had practised in a previous spiritual life, she was drawn to the cards.