Temperance is about finding the middle way, not skirting along the edges from one extreme to another. A hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of The Secret Language of Birthdays and Steal Like an Artist. I started this post with “one of the reasons that I love using tarot as a creative tool,” but that second reason is ultimately the more important.

The book opens up with some background on the author’s interest in the cards and how they can be used, even dispelling some myths (like the myth that you have to be given your first deck of cards). Until recently, I’d never understood that a tarot deck is, more or less, a way to interpret personal stories – a hero’s journey told in cycles and represented through universal archetypes. To me, this implies heavily that for the sake of her art, Mann couldn’t/shouldn't worry about pedophiles seeing and reacting to pictures of her children. I also liked this blurb about the Tower: "Remember that scene in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, where Amy throws Jo's stories into the fire? Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.Could the suits become icons in a brick-breaking game you’re coding or the basis for a series of logos you’re designing? this book provides card interpretations and spreads to help you when you’re stuck (or reassure you when you’re doing well and just worrying. So far, I haven't seen any tarot spreads at all (I was hoping for a few at least) and she included pictures of her cards in the book which was a bit odd.

If you’re an artist with a curiosity about Tarot as a tool for creatives, you could do far worse than this book. I can see myself gifting this book to my smart and creative friends who are curious about using tarot as a tool for inspiration and guidance in their projects. I'm the author of A Guide to Tarot Card Reading, A Guide to Tarot Card Meanings, and eight other Tarot books.I understand that we’re dealing with 50 plus cards and they can’t all receive extremely detailed treatment, otherwise we’d get the George R. But mostly the meaning comes from centuries of people writing, thinking, and using the tarot, and sharing their experiences.

So while I love using tarot for inspiring characters and stories, you can use tarot for more than writing. 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. Putting the Tarot to Work offered meanings and spreads keyed to the distinctive challenges of business people.The final chapters discuss reading the cards, various 'spreads'--how to lay the cards out--and how to interpret them.

I have several different decks—including the Spolia deck I made with the artist Jen May—and I switch them out, depending on mood. 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. Have you only been thinking of the Magician as a manifesting your own destiny rather than, simply, “knock it off and go do the thing”? Although supposedly rational, I consult my tarot cards nearly every day, along with this book, in the manner that Crispin recommends here, as a route into the unconscious and as a way of thinking about creativity. The pieces are meant to show how the card’s meaning is embodied by a certain artist, or in a certain medium.News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else. The author gets you thinking about the cards with different perspectives, comparing them to things we can understand. The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life is an excellent tarot card reading manual for beginners to the more experienced card reader.