Tarot Reader and Actor: Nicholas De Phares

Nicholas de Phares is a tarot reader and actor living in New York City. Under the name “Tarot Vista” he has read for A-list celebrities, Fortune-500 company CEOs, and been the featured reader at major NYC tarot events. He grew up in the northernmost reaches of New York State in the small city of Watertown, in a region known as the “North Country.” His family were some of the original settlers of the North Country 200 years ago, and it is here, in this land of snow, ice, and forests that he first learned to read the cards. Nicholas’s great-great-grandmother got her start reading tea leaves and fortunes early in the last century, and the women in Nicholas’s family have passed down the art of divining the future for over a hundred years. His mother gave him his first deck of tarot cards in the Adirondack Mountains when he was 10, and it was from his grandmother, great-grandmother, and older cousins that he learned the arts of tea leaf reading, dream interpretation, and seeing spirits. However, it wasn’t until Nicholas moved away from home that he even realized peering beyond the veil was something unusual. Studying directly under Rachel Pollack, author of 78 Degrees of Wisdom (1980) and Mary K. Greer, author of Tarot For Yourself (1984), Nicholas combined the raw, folk magic of his ancestors with the leading tarot practices of the age. Today, Nicholas has taught classes on palm reading, tea leaf reading, and divination, and offers tarot reading to believers and skeptics alike. With a Masters Degree in creative writing, Nicholas believes every reading is an opportunity to uncover where you are in your life’s story, and decide how you want to next chapters to unfold. Deeply rooted in the ancestral memories of his tutors, Nicholas draws upon a love of the past, a touch of humor, and folksy know-how. Tarot Vista is a unique combination of timelessness, style, wit, and divine insight. Find Nicholas on Instagram: @tarotvista