“A magnificent, intelligent, comprehensive overview and innerview of the Rider Waite Smith system of tarot! This is the only guide you need to have. “A tarot classic.”-Sasha Graham, author of Tarot Diva “Will become one of the jewels in the crown of tarot literature.” -Anthony Louis, MD, author of Tarot Beyond the Basics “A modern alchemical achievement.”-Barbara Moore, author of Tarot Spreads Containing over 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 his or her library. More advanced practitioners will appreciate nuanced theoretical discussions of the tarot as well as practical advice about reading others' tarot cards and setting up a practice. In Holistic Tarot, author Benebell Wen provides a complete guide to using the tarot to foster personal development. Wen gives a comprehensive overview of the history of the tarot and a wide array of theories on its use (including its relationship to Jungian archetypal psychology and traditional Chinese divination practices) before digging deeply into one of the best-known tarot systems, the Rider-Waite-Smith. Beginners will find a complete guide to working with the tarot, including choosing and caring for a deck, how best to learn and remember the attributes of the major and minor arcana, the interpretation of cards and spreads, the role of meditation in a tarot practice, and how to use the tarot for improving relationships, professional development, and personal resilience. Whether used for simple decision-making or an understanding of your life's purpose, learning tarot can be an indispensible tool for being more mindful of the factors that can assist or weaken your efforts toward success. Consulting the tarot can help clear creativity blockages, clarify ambitions, work through complex decisions, and make sense of emotions and relationships. The tarot deck has been used as a divination tool for more than two centuries while the tarot is still most commonly thought of as "fortune telling," the true power of the tarot lies in its ability to channel a clear path for our deep intuition to shine through. I'm contemplating getting them but I'm also looking for other potential decks.Designed for beginning as well as experienced tarot readers, Holistic Tarot offers a fresh and easy-to-follow approach to the use of the tarot deck for tapping into subconscious knowledge and creativity. I found it eventually in Budge's translation of the Papyrus of Ani (found here: control f and search "adultery" to find the section in question). I had to do a little digging to find out more about the "42 laws of ma'at" that the Amenti deck utilizes, because I was skeptical that it actually came from "ancient Egyptian wisdom". I find both quite visually striking and really like the meanings of the cards. The Amenti deck ( ) and the Dark Mirror deck ( ). UPDATE: I have found a few decks on amazon (after scrolling through several pages of Doreen Virtue angel decks and some others that just didn't speak to me or weren't what I was looking for). TLDR: I want to buy an oracle deck that has a mix of negative and positive cards, rather than just positive ones like most of them seem to have. (I'm also looking into different tarot decks, I just haven't found one that speaks to me yet.) Does anyone here know of any oracle decks like this? Like, to the point that there's nothing even remotely negative in them? And I get that cards and their meanings aren't necessarily "bad" or "negative", but I just don't connect with decks that are like "everything is happy and magical and you just need to self affirm" like no, if I need to get smacked in the face with some hard truths, then I want the ability to be able to read that. My main thing is most oracle decks are very.positive. I love my oracle deck and it's great to work with, and I'd love to work with more. It's from Emilie Autumn, and while I love her and all of her work I got this deck primarily because I felt drawn to it very specifically in a way that I hadn't to other decks. I became part of the Wonderlust coven not too long after :) One of the things I've always found myself really drawn to tarot and oracle decks, and I recently bought my first one: the asylum oracle deck. Once that was taken care of, I picked back up where I'd left off immediately and it's been freeing and invigorating and wonderful in so many ways. I had several half-starts over the years, but I realized pretty recently that I needed to clear up some bitterness and negative energy in my life in order to move forward. Hi, I recently became reinvigorated on my witchy path.
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