Tarot Inspired Life by Jaymi Elford Jaymi Elford doesn’t just love tarot, she lives it and, in her new book Tarot Inspired Life, she teaches you how to weave tarot through your life and your life through tarot. This has two huge benefits. First, it helps you learn the cards, or to learn them more deeply, and, second, it enriches your life through practical application and experiential techniques. From every aspect of reading to arts and crafts to magical activities to spiritual practices, Jaymi covers all the bases. Any tarot lover will find tons of inspiration. One of my favorite activities she teaches is how to make a tarot pocket shrine. But the instructions are lengthy,

Tarot Correspondences by T. Susan Chang This is a book we’ve been looking for for quite a while now. It is far more than a collection of tables of correspondences. It is also a guide to getting the most out of using them. Chang explains in the introduction: Correspondences are friend to the imagination, not its enemy I believe correspondences don’t just reveal why we see the images we do in each card—they are also a fertile place to plant the seed of our own interpretations. ey are a language which blossoms in the presence of a rich and exible imagination. As tarot readers, we are the caretakers of a living language of pictures, one we use every day to help ourselves

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by T. Susan Chang, author of the new Tarot Correspondences. A lot of tarot readers draw a Card of the Day. It's a great practice, whether you do it for prediction, advice, encouragement, warning, learning, or simply for fun. But what if you thought of your Card of the Day not just as divination (where you get information about the future), but as magic (where you act to change future outcomes)? A few years ago, I started writing a spell based on my cards each morning. It was fun, like writing the tiniest poem ever. But as I grew into the practice I began to realize that the spell was more than entertaining—it was powerful. Drawing a

Complete Book of Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot by Sasha Graham Recently we posted about Stuart Kaplan’s generous foreword to this remarkable work. Keeping with the theme of beginnings, let’s look at how Sasha’s investigations into the creators of this deck shaped her ideas about the Fool. This book isn’t just a triple biography (Waite, Smith, and Kaplan) but also a close examination of the creation and meaning of the deck itself and an in-depth study of the symbols in each card. The Fool "Stories can be sung, some painted, some written in poetry or prose. But all stories can be told, and told so that every human being can understand them." ~ PCS The Evening