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A review by emiare
The Book of Tarot: A Guide for Modern Mystics by Danielle Noel
4.0
This isn’t comprehensive enough to be the ONLY tarot book you’ll need, but it’s a worthy addition to your collection and a good place to start if you’d like to use tarot for self reflection and insight.
This book’s format is simple—it has a brief intro on tarot and gets right into meanings. The meanings are less focused on predicting the future and more on self-reflection and self-care. Each card has keywords, a description of the imagery (based on the writer’s starchild tarot, which you don’t need to use this book) and what the card is calling you to do in upright and reversed. The book ends with some options for spreads.
The Book of Tarot is refreshingly positive and non-traditional. You can get a sense of who Danielle Noel is from the fact she chose to rename some cards in her deck (Death=Transformation and Hanged Man=Perspective). This would be a great place to dip your toe into reading card reversals if they scare you—they’re less about the terrible thing about to happen and more about blocked energy in your life and what you can do about it.
My favorite thing about the book is that every card has 2-3 questions to ask yourself (or your querent) for self exploration. This makes it a great place to dive into those one card draws and a good meditative tool.
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This book’s format is simple—it has a brief intro on tarot and gets right into meanings. The meanings are less focused on predicting the future and more on self-reflection and self-care. Each card has keywords, a description of the imagery (based on the writer’s starchild tarot, which you don’t need to use this book) and what the card is calling you to do in upright and reversed. The book ends with some options for spreads.
The Book of Tarot is refreshingly positive and non-traditional. You can get a sense of who Danielle Noel is from the fact she chose to rename some cards in her deck (Death=Transformation and Hanged Man=Perspective). This would be a great place to dip your toe into reading card reversals if they scare you—they’re less about the terrible thing about to happen and more about blocked energy in your life and what you can do about it.
My favorite thing about the book is that every card has 2-3 questions to ask yourself (or your querent) for self exploration. This makes it a great place to dive into those one card draws and a good meditative tool.
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