Download or read book Tarot for Writers written by Corrine Kenner and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2009 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once reserved for mystics and seers, the tarot is one of the best tools for boosting your creativity and shifting your imagination into high gear. Famous authors such as John Steinbeck and Stephen King have used the tarot deck to tap into deep wells of inspiration, and you can enliven your own writing the same way--whether you craft short stories, novels, poetry, nonfiction, or even business proposals. This book on reading tarot cards and applying them to your writing will guide you through each stage of the creative process, from fleshing out a premise to promoting a finished work. Enhance your storytelling technique through over 500 enjoyable writing prompts, exploratory games for groups and individuals, tarot journaling, and other idea-stimulating activities that call upon the archetypal imagery and multi-layered symbolism in the tarot. Infuse flair and originality into your work as you learn to: Interpret symbols, myths, and learn to read all seventy-eight cards in the tarot card deck Use classic tarot layouts and spreads to structure your story Brainstorm story ideas and develop dialogue and plot Create detailed settings, powerful scenes, and dynamic characters Overcome writer's block and breathe new life into existing projects As a writer, you hold the power of creation in your hands. By exploring the tarot and incorporating it into your writing practice, you will set your creative potential soaring to new heights.
Download or read book Tarot for the Fiction Writer written by Paula Scardamalia and published by Red Feather. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a novel is a wild, unpredictable--and oftentimes stormy--adventure. And sometimes you need a compass to guide you. Because story is inherent in Tarot's structure, it is an effective map and storytelling tool--whether you're writing a novel in progress or starting out on a brand-new endeavor. Now you can use Tarot myths, symbols, characters, settings, and innumerable combinations as a powerful, portable, and imaginative tool for story development, editing and revisions, publication, and promotion! Each card has a story to tell you and can help you map out your book. Discover how to hook your readers. Figure out what happens next. Find a unique twist in a scene. Deepen your characters' backgrounds. Create meaningful settings. Identify that "Black Moment." Is your novel going in the right direction? Grab your Tarot compass! The path to publication is just around the corner!
Download or read book The Creative Tarot written by Jessa Crispin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration. Written for novices and seasoned readers alike, "The Creative Tarot" is a unique guidebook that reimagines tarot cards and the ways they can boost the creative process.
Download or read book Tarot for the Fiction Writer written by Paula Chaffee Scardamalia and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tool using Tarot to assist writers with their fiction manuscripts Use visual, symbolic, metaphorical, and literal aspects of Tarot for understanding the personal creative process Complete resource section, including books, software, websites, and organizations
Download or read book Story Arcana written by Caroline Donahue and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, despite all our dreaming, outlining, and drive to write, the story grinds to a halt. Thankfully, there is another way to beat the critic and get back to writing progress in no time. By working with the tarot as the key to your unconscious, this guide will help you to break through to the deeper levels of your story.
Download or read book Tarot for Magical Times written by Rachel Pollack and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can reliably guide us in times of rapid change? Tarot experts Rachel Pollack and Johannes Fiebig focus on the daily Tarot card and simple magical practices and offer interpretations for each of the 78 Tarot cards which can easily be put into practice. In addition, they discuss perspectives reaching until 2024 the current crucial period of transformation with 'Pluto in Capricorn'. It has become common practice, since the time of the renowned Order of the Golden Dawn, to assign the Tarot cards to individual sections of the yearly cycle (the decans). This quality of time, which the Tarot cards also express (which, however, is largely unknown) is skilfully used by the authors.
Download or read book The Castle of Crossed Destinies written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their tales. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness."--Goodreads
Download or read book Mapping the Hero s Journey With Tarot written by Arwen Lynch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TELL YOUR STORY Starting is easy. But finishing it? There is no one way to "the end" other than writing. Arwen Lynch will show you how you can use a pack of cards to get your story line arced and sparked! When she applied her knowledge of Tarot to the craft of writing, things took off. This book takes you through mapping your hero's journey in a down-to-earth way. There's no need for crystal balls and neon signs. FINISH YOUR BOOK The Hero's Journey is a tried-and-true method of building your story. Because the goal here is to activate your voice and to use your imagination, there is no need to memorize anything. The Tarot is your tool because you are your own boss. Let this book give you a secret weapon disguised as 78 cards. Vision boards can be created. Outlines defeated. Your own creative voice comes out loud and clear. - Learn How Mapping The Hero's Journey Works - Use Tarot In A Completely New Way - Finish Your Book
Download or read book The Writer s Block Tarot written by Vivian Caethe and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarot tells a story. Create stronger plots, more complex characters, and dynamic conflicts. The Writer's Block Tarot provides a writer-specific guide to the Tarot and using it as a tool in writing.
Download or read book Rachel Pollack s Tarot Wisdom written by Rachel Pollack and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved by nearly half a million Tarot enthusiasts, Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom forever transformed the study of Tarot. This much-anticipated follow-up to Pollack's classic guidebook will inspire Tarot aficionados and inform a new generation of Tarot students. Enhanced by the author's personal stories and insights gained over the past three decades, this book on tarot invites you on a fascinating and fun adventure. Offering an abundant array of new ideas mixed in with enlightening discussions about Tarot's checkered past, this tarot guidebook features innovative ways to interpret and use Tarot, and a wealth of original spreads to try for yourself—including spreads for predictive, psychological, magical, and spiritual readings. All seventy-eight cards are explored from fresh angles: history, art, psychology, and a variety of spiritual and occult traditions, using cards from seven diverse decks so you can easily contrast and compare. No matter where your starting point on the path of personal discovery, this tarot book will prove a trusted companion for your journey.
Download or read book The Book of Tarot written by Alice Grist and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what the cards hold with this clear, inspiring guide to tarot. The Book of Tarot will help the modern tarot reader understand the spiritual and intuitive power of the cards, no matter their experience level. With this book, you will deepen your intuition, understand the deck and symbols, interpret the cards and, most importantly, learn how to use the cards as a means of self-discovery, manifestation and personal growth. Alice Grist has over twenty-five years of experience with reading the cards and in this book she shares her vast knowledge and secrets. This gentle and enlightening book brings the tarot fully into the twenty-first century, while allowing you to gain some serious tarot wisdom. The Book of Tarot offers an easy and entertaining manifesto to an empowering everyday tarot practice.
Download or read book The Book of Tarot written by Danielle Noel and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a guidebook, The Book of Tarot offers a space in which to set goals and intentions with clarity and purpose. With both clarity and warmth, seasoned practitioner Danielle Noel instructs readers in using the Tarot as a tool for self-understanding, meditation, and soulful introspection.
Download or read book Get Out of Your Own Way written by Mariëlle S. Smith and published by M.S. Wordsmith. This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get out of your own way and (re)connect to your intuition! Get Out of Your Own Way: A 31-Day Tarot Challenge for Writers and Other Creatives is the perfect tool to understand your creative process, and to help you tune in to your soul’s calling. Get Out of Your Own Way walks you through thirty-one days of questions that will help you unravel: * Your fears and desires around creativity * Your creative strengths * Your creative weaknesses, and how to transform these into strengths * How to become more accountable * Your limiting beliefs on creativity, and how to let them go Mariëlle S. Smith is a writer, editor, and writing coach. Together with photographer Andri Hadjipoly, she has created a beautiful journey that brings you all the insight you need. If you’re ready to become the creative you’ve always wanted to be, pick up your copy of Get Out of Your Own Way: A 31-Day Tarot Challenge for Writers and Other Creatives today. The Get Out of Your Own Way challenge can be done using any kind of divination system, whether tarot, oracle, or angel cards, crystals, runes, and so on.
Download or read book Tarot Tales written by Rachel Pollack and published by . This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of medieval parodies, fantasy adventures, and new age satires includes "Hanging the Fool" by Michael Moorcock, "The Lovers" by Gwyneth Jones, and "The Horse of Iron. . ." by M. John Harrison. Original.
Download or read book Tarot Revealed written by Paul Fenton-Smith and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tarot Revealed has sold over 100,000 copies and is regarded as 'the' book for beginners. This completely revised and updated edition is presented in a simple, straightforward style offering an easy formula for remembering the meanings of the cards both upright and reversed. While its origins are swathed in mystery, the remarkable accuracy of the ancient Tarot has won many followers, because it helps us interpret what is going on in life physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. By explaining the wisdom contained in the cards, The Tarot Revealed helps you understand more of yourself and your world. The Tarot Revealed shows you how to: * unlock the Tarot's many secrets * clearly interpret each card alone and in combination * learn the many layers of meaning attached to each card * give simple and advanced readings * choose the appropriate layout for each specific situation * understand the deeper significance of the Major and Minor Arcana. Written in a clear and accessible style, and with 32 bonus charts, The Tarot Revealed is a valuable guide for beginners and experienced readers. Using anecdotes to further clarify each card's meaning, Paul Fenton-Smith helps you apply these interpretations to real-life situations. Within a short time, The Tarot Revealed will enable you to penetrate the mystery of the cards by becoming an accomplished Tarot reader. 'Thank you for making the Tarot easy to understand.' K. Black 'Thank you for such an interesting, well-written and easy to follow guide to the Tarot.' A. Asmus 'I am a professional Tarot reader who travels internationally, and this book comes with me everywhere.' Sheena T
Download or read book The Fool Card written by Bevan Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fool Card is the first in a series of mysteries linked to the tarot deck. Xana Bard has chosen a quiet life-drinking tea, reading, conferring with the Pacific Ocean beyond her picture window-until Thorne Ardall, chasing his boss's murderer, crashes into her house. Xana patches Thorne up and they go after the killer.
Download or read book Major Detours written by Zachary Sergi and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Lambda Literary's Most Anticipated Books of the Month One of PopSugar's Best New YA Books Released in September Choose your path forward in this mystical interactive YA about the powers of friendship, self-discovery, and tarot. It's the summer before college and four best friends—Amelia, Chase, Cleo, and Logan—are on the first leg of their road trip inspired by the unique tarot deck that Amelia inherited from her grandmother. However, their trip full of visiting occult shops, bonding and sightseeing, takes a major detour as the friends discover that their tarot deck is more valuable—and coveted—than they could've ever imagined. As the friends race to finish this mystical scavenger-hunt across the West coast and uncover the mysteries of their tarot deck, it is you who will decide where to go next and how the story will end. With four possible final and romantic endings, you will get to make actual choices to further the friends’ road trip adventure in this unique interactive novel. Will you uncover the mysteries of the tarot deck and the legacy left behind? Will you help Amelia and Chase learn and grow? And will you unravel the secrets these friends keep from each other—and from themselves?
