The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

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Her first book, The Dead Ladies Project: Exile, Expats and Ex-Countries is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. And if you don’t know how to read tarot with those kinds of layers, you should take my self-paced intensive fundamentals, Read Tarot like a Nerd.

The rest of the book is the author's interpretations of the cards and how it could relate to a question about a creative project. The inspiration for creativity may come from some stimulus in the outer world, but the act of creation comes from within you. The content moves quickly so you can read through the book on a Sunday afternoon or study it intently, looking up every work of art mentioned to get a better grasp of what’s being said. I found this section of the book the weakest; though there are illustrations for each card in the card review, there aren't any in this section.

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. I was hoping for a book that would talk about using tarot to help with creative projects and only really got 10 or so pages of that. That’s what I would’ve said two weeks ago, in ignorance, before reading Jessa Crispin‘s new book, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life. Black Women’s Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement Have You Got Good Religion? 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.

Her spreads are concise, useful, and include helpful example readings to give us a sense of how they play out in real life. The feminist outlook of the author was also evident, and it added a certain je ne sais quoi to the writing. She sums up the history of the cards by showing how the cards’ development and art mirrored artistic movements of different times, and she uses examples (including literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts) to help explain the meaning of the cards.It’s an engaging and accessible read that also challenges us to seek out the artists embodied in the cards and make our own associations. The author gets you thinking about the cards with different perspectives, comparing them to things we can understand.