Tarot of Transformation
RedWheel/Weiser, 2002
ISBN1-57863-239-0
$39.95
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The Tarot of Transformation can help you spin straw into gold. It shows you how to deal with hardships and life challenges in such a way that they strengthen you, bringing out your wisdom and maturity. Created by two psychotherapists with broad and extensive spiritual backgrounds, one a visionary artist and the other the author of several books on spiritual life, its overriding tone is one of compassion. With brilliant colors and powerfully evocative imagery, Willow Arlenea paints entirely new images for a modern tarot that is at once cross-cultural, cosmic, and visionary.
Based on an integrated and embodied spirituality that can be lived in the world
Provides tools for working with emotional process
Includes many different spiritual viewpoints
Reframes old paradigm concepts in ways that help lead us into the coming age
Earth-centered; respects intelligence of nature
Strong presence of female figures and of feminine energies and viewpoints
Provides positive masculine images while challenging aspects of the masculine that have become a hindrance and might better be replaced
Takes a compassionate approach to dealing with life's hardships
Provides valuable insights on how to skillfully flow with change
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What the reviewers say:
In The Tarot of Transformation, author and artist have created a beautiful collaboration of mystical cards and insightful writing to compliment the use of a contemporary Tarot with respect to time honored tradition. The colorful, mystical, flowing images are excellent for meditation and journaling and may be easier to relate to, on a personal level, than some traditional versions. The book is consistent and concise in a user-friendly format, acknowledging traditional associations, then taking each card's possibilities to a higher level of consideration and potential, with concrete suggestions for further exploration. A great choice for personal process and transformational work, individually or in a group.
Morgan McBride, Tarot Consultant & Instructor in WA
To me, the cards have a shamanic feel. You would think that this might produce artwork that is overly eclectic and too great a mixture of too many styles, but I don't find this to be the case. The cards do contain a lot of symbols but I find them nicely integrated, pleasing, easy to interpret....The nicest thing about the artwork is that palpable feeling of movement, of an energy that moves not only within each card but connects them all to each other....Many books in a deck/book set appear to be hastily prepared. This one is very good. In an in-depth but easy to read format, Ms. Cori presents the multidimensional meanings of this deck and its multifaceted symbols clearly and succinctly....I heartily recommend this tarot package.
Valerie Sim-Behi, The American Tarot Association
This
deck is far more than "just a pretty face" (or 78 pretty faces).
It's a deck that I have found to be a powerful and evocative tool for
deep self-discovery work....Every time I have read with this deck I have
marveled at is wisely-articulated messages, both in the images themselves
and the companion book's questions....Ideally, the deck could be a little
edgier, a little more shadow and a little less light, but Tarot of Transformation
is beautiful, powerful, and reads like a dream. It's unique but not so
different that it doesn't deserve the title of tarot. Because of its gentle
messages, it's an ideal deck for reading for inexperienced and/or nervous
querents. This could well become one of my favorite reading decks, and
that's serious praise (and affection) indeed.
Diane
Wilkes, Tarot Passages
