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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Fortune-telling & divination
Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance and have become
increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence
in popular culture. While Tarot means many different things to many
different people, the cards somehow strike universal chords that
can resonate through popular culture in the contexts of art,
television, movies, even comic books. The symbolism within the
cards, and the cards as symbols themselves, make Tarot an excellent
device for the media of popular culture in numerous ways. They make
horror movies scarier. They make paintings more provocative. They
provide illustrative structure to comics and can establish the
traits of television characters. The Cards: The Evolution and Power
of Tarot begins with an extensive review of the history of Tarot
from its roots as a game to its supposed connection to ancient
Egyptian magic, through its place in secret societies, and to its
current use in meditation and psychology. This section ends with an
examination of the people who make up today's tarot community.
Then, specific areas of popular culture-art, television, movies,
and comics-are each given a chapter in which to survey the use of
Tarot. In this section, author Patrick Maille analyzes such works
as Deadpool, Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, Disney's Haunted
Mansion, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, The Andy Griffith Show,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and King of the Hill. The cards are
evocative images in their own right, but the mystical fascination
they inspire makes them a fantastic tool to be used in our favorite
shows and stories.
A beautifully designed guided journal, with thoughtful prompts to
track your tarot readings, complete with a history of tarot,
guidance on how to use the cards, and a handy overview of each
card's meanings and interpretations Once you discover the joy and
power of working with the tarot, you'll find the cards invaluable
in guiding you through life's ups and downs. From enhancing your
self-care practices to revealing what the future may hold, they are
a powerful tool for reflection as well as divination. The Tarot
Journal is full of thoughtful prompts to explain different types of
reading, with over a hundred journal pages for you to keep a record
of which cards come up and the messages they're trying to tell you.
With a handy reminder of each card's meanings and interpretations,
and a brief history of the tarot, this book contains everything you
need to start interpreting the cards and to create a keepsake of
your journey towards self-discovery. This journey belongs to you.
May it bring you wisdom, guidance and well-being!
A comprehensive (but fun and easy-to-use) guide to accessing spirit
guides, from an accomplished medium. Having a relationship with
your spirit guides is common in spiritual circles--whether those
are your ancestors, power animals, or just entities from the
beyond. These could be the voices of the departed, but they could
also be earth spirits or just an entity from a place you haven't
been yet. Whatever the source, veteran medium Catharine Allan
guides readers through the question of what it means to speak to
spirits, how to do it, and how to honor and protect your
relationship with their powerful energies.
The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of
the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more
than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the
text's origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze
Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou
dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics. The book provides
an in-depth survey of the theory and practice of divination to
demonstrate how the hexagram and line statements of the text were
produced and how they were understood at the time.
We all have questions about our lives, our souls, and loved ones
who have passed on. Now we can find the answers.
In "Heaven and Earth," world-renowned spiritual medium and
bestselling author James Van Praagh reveals the techniques that
anyone can use to contact "the other side." Combining his own
experiences with the testimony of others who have been touched by
their spirit guides, Van Praagh encourages us to embark on our own
journey of discovery, teaching us to
" recognize and listen to our own inner voices
alter our awareness to make contact with the
spirits of the departed
interpret our dreams as messages from beyond
use our inherent psychic gifts to help and heal others "
Most of us go through life without developing the wonderful,
natural, God-given abilities inherent in all of us. In "Heaven and
Earth," James Van Praagh gives us the tools to bring them to
life.
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