Tarot is a powerful tool for divination. Its magick, however, goes far beyond fortune-telling and prediction. Tarot cards represent situations we experience as we progress through the journey of life, with each card holding specific messages of perspective and guidance. Each individual tarot card holds rich symbolism that is imbued with energy and vibration. That energy can be applied to nearly all forms of manifestation, thus making your tarot deck a powerful magickal tool you can use to invoke specific outcomes in spells and ritual work.
With Magickal Tarot, you’ll learn the specific manifestation focus of each Major Arcana card as well as spells and rituals that align with each card:
Use the Magician for confidence and glamour magick
Use the High Priestess to assist in dreamwork and divination
Use the Empress to support fertility and grounding of your creative projects
Use the Emperor to aid in receiving a promotion or professional success
One of my favourite things about Tarot is how many different things it can mean to different people. There are never ending materials to study and learn and use to build your own understanding. This book does a great job of boiling down a lot of the correspondances and symbols into a simple little read.
It focuses mostly on the Major arcana, the signposts of life. My book was a little jumbled, with sections appearing before or after they should have, but that's usually an artifact of the proofing process and not an indicator of what the final book will look like. I did have one other issue; the symbolism and descriptions are drawn from the original RWS, which is fair; that's the deck most Tarot readers start with and the one they're likely to be most familiar with. However, all the illustrations are custom drawn, and they don't always match what's being described (although they are lovely! I really like them as card designs. They just don't quite work with the descriptions.) There were several times when the description referred to one gender, but the card we were being shown had the other gender. This could be confusing for beginners who aren't familiar with different versions of the cards.
That aside, I enjoyed this very much, and I really do like the illustrations of the cards - I wish we'd seen the Minors as well as the Majors! Stasia Burrington is listed as the illustrator; I don't know if she did the cards or the general book design, but if she did create these cards, I'd love to see her produce a complete deck. I'm going be coming back to this book for a while to check on symbols and marks and get some ideas to work this. I enjoyed this and I'll be watching out for more by Robyn.
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