Julia Turk

Julia was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. Her father Ernest Taylor was educated at Heidelberg University in Germany and her mother Delia came from Cork in Ireland. Julia went to boarding school in Switzerland and speaks French fluently.

She studied fine art at Ruskin College of Art - Oxford University, St. Martins School of Art and the Leighton Portrait Studio in San Francisco, and later went on to photography at the London School of Printing. Julia went into the charter yachting industry in the Mediterranean and passed her British Yachtmasters Coastal in 1970. She went on to skipper several yachts and owned three boats of her own. Julia worked as a charter yacht cook and went on to become a Chef and Saucier in the restaurant trade in Park City Utah. She is a skier and ice skater.

In 1993 Julia started her own yacht maintenance business in Washington State and has been very successful over the last 15 years. In her spare time, she began studying the Cabala and undertook the task of creating the Navigators Tarot, which took seven years to complete. It was published by U.S. Games Systems.

Julia has now reprinted this deck and holds the copyright to this tarot and the rights to all reproductions of her art work. Her web site is www.navigatorstarot.com. Julia is now planning to devote her time to teaching the Hermetic Cabala in workshops and spending more time on her art work and in writing the remaining volumes of her trilogy “The Navigators Dream”, which contains the three books “Riverlog” “Gulftide” and “Seatime”. Julia has two daughters and three grandchildren.