Jade Ashcroft

Jade Ashcroft is an Author, Esoteric Artist and Designer, Reiki Master, and Tarot Consultant.

Surgery for the Soul is her main website, created in 2006 after she graduated from the University of Cumbria with a BA Hons in Media and Communications. She designed the Initiates Way Tarot deck while at University and is currently writing a study manual for the Initiates Way system which is due for publication with Schiffer. As well as designing the Initiates Way Tarot Cards, she also programmed an Interactive learning CD, for serious students of the Tarot and the Qabalah.

Jade writes spiritual oriented fiction and occult non-fiction, and some of her previous work is published on the Enlightening Times Community and on Lightworkers.org.

She is the Facilitator and Editor of the Enlightening Times Magazine, which is a quarterly subscription Magazine featuring Artists, Poets, Visionaries, and Spiritual Authors from all over the world. Jade reviews Books, Tarot Cards and Spiritual Events for the Magazine and assists other Artists and Authors to promote their work through the Magazine.

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In her work Jade also carries out investigations and extensive research into hauntings, UFO sightings and unnatural phenomena, and teaches the Usui method of Reiki Healing.

She is currently studying for an MA in Western Esotericism and plans to lecture on this subject upon graduation.

• In her work Jade facilitates workshops to help others to open up to the benefits of Spirituality and Enlightenment through promotion of introspection, meditation and psycho-spiritual development. She also paints commissions of Spirit Guides and SoulScapes to help others to connect with their own spiritual guides, and enable progression with their own Spiritual Development.