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Greetings! Gift-giving season is approaching and, as always, I have tarot gift ideas for you. The Buddha Tarot: Robert Place has created a stunning deck that illuminates the fascinating underlying archetypal similarities between the life of Buddha and the tarot. Victoria Regina Tarot: One of my personal favorites, this makes a very lovely gift, made even more decadent by the addition of a satin-lined velvet bag. Sarah Ovenall has captured the beauty and the humor of the Victorian age with her collages of nineteenth-century period illustrations. The Quest Tarot: Artist Joseph Martin brings us a beautifully designed deck with special built-in functions to spell out words and phrases ...
The thought of memorizing the significance of seventy-eight different tarot cards is enough to turn away all but the most determined student. Even those of us adept at reading the cards could use a break every now and then. Fortunately, there are many other ways to use the symbols of the tarot in addition to learning their individual meanings. It can be enjoyable and a much needed vacation for those of us who spend far too much time living in our head. Christine Jette sums it up very well in Tarot for the Healing Heart: On a very basic level, playing with tarot stimulates right-brain activity, and right-brain competence encourages psychic/soul development. I like to think of awareness ...
My daughter Julia has a deck of tarot cards. She looks through it when we're watching television in the living room. She pulls cards for her sisters, and the study the images together. Sometimes she even takes the deck to play with at her grandmother's house. Unfortunately, some of the cards are missing, and some of them are bent. But that's understandable—Julia is only a year old.http://www.llewellyn.comGranted, she's a little young for the complexities of the tarot. Before long, however, I fully expect that she'll want me to give her "real" tarot readings—almost as often as she'll want me to read to her from her favorite volume of Dr. Seuss. While the tarot is usually used ...
Reversed Tarot cards offer a way to see through to the "Other Side." They allow us to go beyond the limits of the known. In offering possibilities and insights that are not immediately apparent, they take us into the realm of potentials and underlying causes where everything is connected and Magic happens. We are invited to look beyond the obvious to places of richer meaning. Sometimes they even "remedy" the difficulties of an upright interpretation. Reversed Does Not Equal Bad I began The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals with the intention of rectifying the idea that reversed cards represent an opposite, mostly negative aspect of the upright meaning of a card. While confronting and ...
