The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

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The guide helps you find exactly what you need and provides the ancient interpretations and Crispin's new modern take. For things like relationship troubles, or money troubles, or Why-do-I-want-to-stab-my-coworker-with-a-screwdriver-every-time-I-see-him? I liked Crispin's description of Temperance: "Temperance is an easily misunderstood card, as it has become associated mostly with abstention.

The concepts are explained in artsy means but I think anyone with a creative mind will find the book useful. For instance, for The Hermit, she suggests Walden, by Henry David Thoreau; Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil; and “the photography of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. That’s both for readers’ familiarity with the tarot and for how advanced they are in their creative expression. But others of us use it simply as a way to draw our attention to certain parts of our lives and expand our understanding of what’s happening to us and with us. I'm the author of A Guide to Tarot Card Reading, A Guide to Tarot Card Meanings, and eight other Tarot books.I had a woman in the American South read my cards, but she used a deck of playing cards rather than the tarot. If you see the Lovers card and decide to paint a wedding interrupted by a fiery angel of vengeance, that could be an excellent painting with little resemblance to the Lovers card as we know it.

The author gets you thinking about the cards with different perspectives, comparing them to things we can understand. Creative Tarot is also a great tarot book for those who are more on the intellectual end of the “woo spectrum.I guess at all just strikes me as a Nine of Swords approach "try to turn off your brain as much as possible" (page 204). Note to our Chicago readers: Jessa Crispin will join Irvine Welsh in conversation on stage at the Chicago Humanities Festival on March 8. At the time I worked mostly as a book critic, and I was intrigued by the way the cards could be used as a tool for storytelling. This book is also focused on the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, so for those looking to study another system look elsewhere. Even three of my decks (the Life Line Lenoracle, the Color Outside the Line edition of the Life Line Tarot, and the Seaborn Kipper) all include reflective questions in the guidebook that can serve as writing prompts to help you make the most of your decks when you aren’t trying to divine the future.

Ultimately, though, what makes The Creative Tarot remarkable is its trajectory in the publishing world. I got into the Golden Dawn history through Maud Gonne, who I wrote about in The Dead Ladies Project.

The Golden Dawn itself I find a little too much, as Maud did herself, she had no time for those people.

First, the Queen goes out and gets what she wants (“If she wants something, she draws it into her life. Then my cup was inverted on its saucer, and the shape the grounds made was interpreted to tell me my future.The Major Arcana is made up of what you can consider archetypes: the Hermit, Death, the High Priestess, and so on. The overview is done well, suitable even for novices to the tarot, and her approach will likely appeal to people who are interested but dislike excessive mysticism.