The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

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Second, tarot and other forms of divination can help you connect with that brilliance inside of you that allows you to trust in your own creativity as an extension of your soul. Plus I really enjoy making people uncomfortable, and I find that talking about the gods makes people really uncomfortable these days.

The Minor Arcana comes in four suits that correspond with the four elements: Cups (water), Wands (fire), Swords (air), and Coins or Pentacles (earth). The cards depict the whole realm of human experience, from love to death, from joy to sorrow, from loneliness to friendship. I liked Crispin’s description of Temperance: “Temperance is an easily misunderstood card, as it has become associated mostly with abstention. In my defense, because there is no one in my life who practices in believing or even reading these cards, I had never heard the word pronounced correctly. Dona un’interpretazione innovativa in quanto specificamente legata a progetti creativi (anche se poi l’interpretazione può essere generalizzata a più aspetti di vita).We give things meaning by paying attention to them, and so moving your attention from one thing to another can absolutely change your future. That is one of those mystical mumbo-jumbo things designed to make beginners feel inadequate and unwelcome. At the end of every chapter Crispin lists “Recommended Materials” that are selected to give the reader a different way to think about the card.

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. Just because we may have different takes on a card doesn’t mean that I can’t learn from your interpretations, and I hope you can learn something from mine. Maybe the beloved left you in torment, led you to financial or emotional ruin, maybe he drove you to drink.

I fin And if you’re really tapped in as a creative diviner, your Muses and spirit guides are probably related, if not one and the same. Scott Fitzgerald to steal his wife Zelda’s stuff because, “without her husband, many of her thoughts, ideas, and witty lines would have been lost to us.