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Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards Paperback – Illustrated, June 13, 2017
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Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a new generation in this guide to using the Tarot as a twenty-first-century tool for connecting with our higher selves.
Long before Michelle Tea was winning awards for her poignant memoirs, she was a scrappy misfit on the streets of San Francisco, supporting herself by giving eerily prescient tarot readings. As her reputation as a writer grew, she stopped publicly reading the Tarot, though she never stopped doing it privately. Based on over twenty-five years of experience and a deep and abiding love of the cards, Modern Tarot brings the full force of Tea’s unique insight, inviting pop sensibility, and wicked humor to bear on the tradition of the Tarot in a fascinating journey through the cards that teaches us how to use this tradition for radical self-growth.
Whether you’re a dyed-in-the-wool seeker or a digital-age skeptic—or a little of both—the power of tarot is open to you. Modern Tarot doesn’t require you to believe in the supernatural or to focus narrowly on using the tarot as a divination tool. Instead, it offers fiercely insightful descriptions of each of the seventy-eight cards in the tarot system (each one fully illustrated by Amanda Verwey) and specially designed rituals to guide readers on a path toward transformative personal growth.
Grounded in Tea’s decades of tarot wisdom and personal experience, this is a guide that beginners will fall in love with and experienced readers will learn from anew. With her trademark one-of-a-kind insight and wit, Tea shows how tarot offers moments of deep, authentic connection during a time when “connection” is ubiquitous but rarely delves beneath the surface—and how the affirming and personal nature of the Tarot offers a spiritual experience that is gentle, individual, and aspirational.
- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperOne
- Publication dateJune 13, 2017
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100062682407
- ISBN-13978-0062682406
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Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a new generation in this guide to using the Tarot as a twenty-first-century tool for connecting with our higher selves.
Long before Michelle Tea was winning awards for her poignant memoirs, she was a scrappy misfit on the streets of San Francisco, supporting herself by giving eerily prescient tarot readings. As her reputation as a writer grew, she stopped publicly reading the Tarot, though she never stopped doing it privately. Based on over twenty-five years of experience and a deep and abiding love of the cards, Modern Tarot brings the full force of Tea’s unique insight, inviting pop sensibility, and wicked humor to bear on the tradition of the Tarot in a fascinating journey through the cards that teaches how to use this tradition for radical self-growth.
Whether you’re a dyed-in-the-wool seeker or a digital-age skeptic—or a little of both—the power of tarot is open to you. Modern Tarot doesn’t require you to believe in the supernatural or to focus narrowly on using tarot as a divination tool. Instead, it offers fiercely insightful descriptions of each of the seventy-eight cards in the tarot system (each one fully illustrated by Amanda Verwey) and specially designed rituals to guide readers on a path toward transformative personal growth.
Grounded in Tea’s decades of tarot wisdom and personal experience, this is a guide that beginners will fall in love with and experienced readers will learn from anew. With her trademark one-of-a-kind insight and wit, Tea shows how tarot offers moments of deep, authentic connection during a time when “connection” is ubiquitous but rarely delves beneath the surface—and how the affirming and personal nature of the Tarot offers a spiritual experience that is gentle, individual, and aspirational.
About the Author
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including the cult-classic Valencia, the essay collection Against Memoir, and the speculative memoir Black Wave. She is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim, Lambda Literary, and Rona Jaffe Foundations, PEN/America, and other institutions. Knocking Myself Up is her latest memoir.
Tea's cultural interventions include brainstorming the international phenomenon Drag Queen Story Hour, co-creating the Sister Spit queer literary performance tours, and occupying the role of Founding Director at RADAR Productions, a Bay Area literary organization, for over a decade. She also helmed the imprints Sister Spit Books at City Lights Publishers, and Amethyst Editions at The Feminist Press. She produces and hosts the Your Magic podcast, wherein which she reads tarot cards for Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Phoebe Bridgers and other artists, as well as the live tarot show Ask the Tarot on Spotify Greenroom.
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- Publisher : HarperOne; Illustrated edition (June 13, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062682407
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062682406
- Item Weight : 12.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #202,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #374 in New Age Mysticism (Books)
- #656 in Tarot
- #4,818 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
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MICHELLE TEA is the author of ten books, the founder of literary non-profit RADAR Productions, the co-creator of Sister Spit, and the curator of Amethyst Editions, a collaboration with the Feminist Press.
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What I love:
Each card is described in multiple ways. It can be a symbol of events, of a person, of your emotional life, and so on - Michelle covers it all. The thing I love the most is how she gives a little anecdote from her life about every card. She tells a story when she was too eagerly and passionately into her progressive thinking and was a complete jerk to other people, playing fast and loose with what it meant to be a feminist - she said this is when she embodied the knight of swords card. Each story she tells puts the card into a context that I can remember and understand.
She also makes it clear that the cards are meant to enhance your intuition and be a tool for reflection - while she does think magically, she doesn't impose magical thinking on the reader if that is not their intent.
What I don't love:
This book only covers the meaning of upright cards. I am a novice in tarot and I don't know if having upright and reverse cards is always necessary or if it complicates things. I would have liked her to describe the reversed meanings of the cards as well, however I can use this book as a guide in my daily practice and intuit my own meanings.
Would I recommend this to a friend interested in tarot? Oh yeah! I think this is a great tool and really enjoy the author!
I'll quote an early description that convinced me "Ah, I can remember these!" Michelle Tea writes, "The swords are brainy, mental, quick, tactless, painful and are ruled by the element Air. They're like that brilliant professor you had in grad school, the very one you hoped to be critiqued by, who stepped into your studio wearing an impeccable, avant-garde outfit only he could carry off and proceeded to rip your work to shreds. The worst part - he was right."
The descriptions can be used with any deck, but she uses the illustrations on the Rider-Waite, which most other decks start from. There are no lay-outs, just the meaning of each card and encouragement to come up with your own story as you study what comes together, intuition often giving surprisingly true results. Tea often assumes you might choose one card from the deck for work on yourself.
She works within the symbolism and art of the standard Rider Waite deck, but with a keen eye towards queer identities: rather than ascribing conservative / traditional meanings to all the cards - historically quite gendered - she is open about the fluidity of cards' meanings, and acknowledges the shortcomings of traditional interpretations.
She does not cover reverse / inverted meanings, but that's no big deal. Nor are different spreads covered (3, 5, etc). Overall, this is an excellent, thoughtful, sensitive, and nuanced guide to reading the cards and is well suited for beginner and advanced tarot reader looking for a thoughtful guide to the deck. I would recommend it in conjunction with the Biddy Guide to the Tarot for a complete walk through of the symbolism and meaning behind different cards
Meg // @3am.tarot
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Die Autorin streut auch viele eigene Erfahrungen mit den Kräften der entsprechenden Karte. Also ich finde das Buch richtig gut.
The aspect I enjoy most is how relatable she makes each card. When I read the description and (often) the anecdote that accompanies each card, I very often felt like I *got* the energy and themes of the card in a way I'd never managed before ... particularly those slippery court cards!
A great book. It will be one I return to again and again, for years, I am quite sure!