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Reviews: Tarot Decks
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by Bonnie Cehovet, TE
Tarot Master
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Pictures From the Heart –
A Tarot Dictionary
reviewed by Bonnie Cehovet, TE
Sandra Thomson is someone that I have always greatly admired. In “Pictures From the Heart – A Tarot Dictionary”, Thomson does so much more than provide a dictionary for the Tarot world – she has created a workable template for understanding all that Tarot is and can be.
In Part One, she addresses something that she terms a Tarot Renaissance – the renewal of interest in Tarot readings as a basis for stimulating self-awareness, personal growth, and inner transformation. She also discusses how the Tarot appears in our daily lives, and using the Tarot as a “map” of our lives – revealing both our interior and exterior selves.
Thomson discusses the basics of what the Tarot cards are, and touches on their history (something that to this day shows up in many different versions – most palpably untrue). She also touches on the Tarot as a symbolic quest – the Fool’s Journey, or the Hero’s Journey, depending on how the reader chooses to view it.
It is generally understood that the 22 cards of the Major Arcana constitute the archetypes of the Tarot. Thomson refers to them as “flashcards of the Self”, indicating that the journey through the Major Arcana is very much Jung’s journey towards what he terms “individuation”.
Different aspects of card interpretation are touched on, such as having the Seeker describe the action within a card, working with numbers, colors, astrology, religious and alchemical symbols, as well as mythological associations.
The nitty gritty of beginning the study of Tarot is presented, from choosing a deck (covering Rider-Waite and Rider-Waite influenced decks, the Thoth deck and Thoth influenced decks, mythic themed decks, classical and neo-classical decks, collage-type decks, multicultural decks, feminist and eco-feminist decks, esoteric decks, and fantasy based decks), to creating and using spreads (presenting the template for one card through five card spreads, and beyond five card spreads).
Part Two is the Tarot Dictionary itself, alphabetically arranged, covering everything from images from the cards (such as a feather), to processes (such as alchemy), to the elements (Fire, Water, Air, and Earth), to Jungian terms (such as animus), each specific Tarot card, individual numbers (zero through twenty-one), concepts (such as reduction, and reversals, and individual people frmt he Tarot world (such as Oswald Wirth)).
Examples from the book:
“comfort deck(s) – It refers to the deck(s) that one reads with easily and comfortably. It’s your warm, fuzzy, trusted-friend deck.”
“castle – When a castle appears in a card, consider whether it is large or small, where it is located on the card, whether or not it dominates the background or the foreground, and on what it is situated (green hills, rocky promontories). As a man-made structure, a castle can suggest future fruition, or manifestation, a place of refuge and safety, and the source of, or protection for, a hidden treasure (note how they are often set apart).
Castles are symbols of security and protection. Situated on the left side of the card, the castle may suggest that the message of the card is influenced by one’s past family of origin. Castles may also represent fantasies that can protect or nourish, but that ultimately must be transformed into a new image, as on the RWS Eight of Cups. In fairy tales the castle is often a feminine symbol, sometimes of the anima, representing the collective maternal image.”
“Twenty-one – Related to the twenty-one attributes of wisdom in the Old Testament, the number is considered a symbol of developmental cycles (7 X 3 – 21)and subsequent maturity. It is, of course, the number of trumps, excluding The Fool, in most Tarot decks.
See: Major Arcana; numbers.”
At the end of the book are references from each chapter, references, Internet resources, and an extensive bibliography. I found this material to be easy to follow, easy to comprehend, and a must have resource for anyone wanting to study the Tarot in-depth. It is an invaluable resources for symbols and concepts used within the Tarot world.
Copyright April 2008
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Bonnie Cehovet,
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Bonnie Cehovet is a Tarot Educator, a professional Tarot reader with over ten years experience, a Reiki Master/Teacher and a writer. Bonnie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus, and is certified as a Tarot Educator with the American Board For Tarot Certification.
She has served in various capacities with the American Tarot Association, to include Secretary on the ATA Board. She is co-founder of the World Tarot Network, and Vice President (as well as Director of Certification) for the American Board For Tarot Certification.
Her articles and reviews currently appear in the World Tarot Network newsletter (www.worldtarot.com),
The Meta Arts Magazine (www.themetaarts.com),
the Aeclectic Tarot site (www.aeclectic.
net/tarot),
and on her own site,
www.tarot.
thecrystalgate.com.
For the past three years she has edited her own monthly Tarot newsletter - Gateway to Tarot. She also has articles appearing in the 2004 and 2005 "Llewellyn Tarot Reader".
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