"I liked it. I liked the market," he describes. "I liked the numbers."

He landed a position as a financial advisor with a local Morgan Stanley office and went to the World Trade Center for training on the worst possible day.

Dan was outside on a smoke break when the first plane crashed into the twin towers. "You could just see the debris hitting the ground and coming towards me like this grey curtain," he described on the one-year anniversary of 9/11.

At that time he described himself as "edgy." And soon after, his dream job lost its luster.

"My brain wasn't wrapping itself around that any longer. I'd go to work and I'd think of death," Dan says now.

He knew he needed a change. A major change.

And examples of his new passion to KOMO 4 to explain how he found peace. He laid out Tarot cards describing artwork by Enzo Viviani, showing decks of cards from Prague and explaining the long history of Tarot.

Tarot cards depict vices and virtues and are commonly used for fortune telling.

There is more to it than that for Dan. "I don't think of it as fortune telling. I think of it more as part of the meditative process," he said.

Dan's passion is clear as he talks about the history, the artwork, and the spirituality. He says he consulted his cards before 9/11.

They told him he would come home from New York a changed man. He now co-owns a business that sells rare and collectible tarot decks.

"I get to travel and sell tarot and talk about it," he said.

Tarot helped Dan Pelletier sort out his feelings about 9/11. It helped him with post traumatic stress.

And it helped him do something he thought he'd do working in the stock market -- it helped him make sense out of chaos.

You can learn more about Tarot and Dan Pelletier's business at www.tarotgarden.com.