Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth
Jan 2015 · North Atlantic Books
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The best-selling guide to the tarot from celebrated occultist and scholar Benebell Wen—history, practice, and 500+ illustrations and spreads
Designed for beginning as well as experienced tarot readers, Holistic Tarot offers a fresh and easy-to-follow approach to the tarot for divination, self-knowledge, and tapping into your creativity and subconscious self.
The power of the tarot lies in the cards'—and the reader’s—ability to channel a clear path for deep wisdom and intuition to shine through. Consulting the tarot can help clear creative blockages, clarify ambitions, work through complex decisions, discover what fulfills you, and make sense of your emotions and relationships. Whether for simple decision-making or to understand your life's purpose, learning the tarot is an indispensable tool for being more mindful of the factors that can assist or weaken your efforts toward success.
In this modern classic, Benebell Wen provides a complete guide to using the tarot, offering a comprehensive overview of:
Advanced practitioners will enjoy nuanced theoretical discussions of the tarot as well as practical advice about reading others' tarot cards and setting up a practice. Featuring more than 500 illustrations and detailed information on each card—as well as numerous spreads—Holistic Tarot is a complete compendium of tarot study that every practitioner should have in their library.
Designed for beginning as well as experienced tarot readers, Holistic Tarot offers a fresh and easy-to-follow approach to the tarot for divination, self-knowledge, and tapping into your creativity and subconscious self.
The power of the tarot lies in the cards'—and the reader’s—ability to channel a clear path for deep wisdom and intuition to shine through. Consulting the tarot can help clear creative blockages, clarify ambitions, work through complex decisions, discover what fulfills you, and make sense of your emotions and relationships. Whether for simple decision-making or to understand your life's purpose, learning the tarot is an indispensable tool for being more mindful of the factors that can assist or weaken your efforts toward success.
In this modern classic, Benebell Wen provides a complete guide to using the tarot, offering a comprehensive overview of:
- The history of the tarot: its evolution, uses, and relationships to Chinese divination practices, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Jungian archetypal psychology, and Egyptian mythology
- How to choose and care for your tarot deck
- A detailed anatomy of the Rider-Waite-Smith system
- Learning and practice methods: techniques for shuffling, cutting, and drawing cards; interpreting Court Cards; and reading spreads
- Applications of tarot to key life areas: tarot and love; tarot and professional development; the 5 Components of Circumstance; and more
- Appendices with quick-reference guides for spreads, astrological symbols, elements, numerology (including Life Path numbers and Decisive Age) and journal templates
Advanced practitioners will enjoy nuanced theoretical discussions of the tarot as well as practical advice about reading others' tarot cards and setting up a practice. Featuring more than 500 illustrations and detailed information on each card—as well as numerous spreads—Holistic Tarot is a complete compendium of tarot study that every practitioner should have in their library.
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Fosdick Fong
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May 6, 2022
Very comprehensive. However, in the Synchronicity section of Chapter 3, the Chinese term for "I Ching" (易經) is ridiculously printed as "乖乖" (obedient/good boy). Not sure if the physical book has the same terrible typo and also not sure what other Chinese terms in this ebook are wrong, but this lack of proofreading is definitely discouraging.
Chris Bruder
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December 10, 2015
I have been reading Tarot cards for a long time, and so I have gotten my hands on a lot of great books on Tarot, but I can honestly say at this point that nothing beats out Holistic Tarot. Not only is it a perfect beginning manual to begin reading the cards, but it's really a perfect guide for even the most advanced practitioner to sharpen and hone their reading abilities. You will discover in the cards new things that you didn't think about before, and you will see the Tarot in a whole new light.
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Lyn-May Damalerio
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December 3, 2019
At last i have been able to buy this book yesterday... a very detailed book about the things i want to learn about tarot... highly recommend it ★★★★★
About the author
BENEBEL WEN has studied tarot for over fifteen years and is a certified tarot master with the Tarot Certification Board of America. She has published articles on tarot in the ATA Quarterly and Tarot Reflections. Originally from upstate New York, Wen now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her website is www.benebellwen.com.
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